I was worried after ‘Reaper’ that I’d have to DNF this series all together but, I decided to read ‘Boomer’ and was glad I did.

Boomer, the brother of Sarah from ‘Reaper’ who is 21yo and also lives with the Ruthless Kings Motorcycle Club. He’s always been around the club but never knew if he could devote his life to it, especially after his baby sister - who he had no idea existed - came into the picture a few years back. Now, she’s Reaper’s ol’lady and Boomer feels like he doesn’t belong. He decides to head out on his own for a while to get his head on straight about everything.

When he pulls into a run down motel in Atlantic City, the last thing Boomer expects is to find a place he can start over. Especially when he sees a few RKMC riders from the local chapter. He wants to keep a low profile. If they find out he’s from the founding Vegas chapter, he’ll have no choice but to hang with them. But he may have no choice when he and the motel owner stumble across a severely injured and dying woman in the shadows of the motel. Boomer finds out this RKMC chapter is sex trafficking women and decides to bring them down, especially when he meets Scarlet.

The MMC and FMC in this book are close in age, which I was thankful for. In the first book, that age gap was gross and there wasn’t any clarification to Sarah’s backstory at all; the reader was given some vague things here and there but nothing to really say why or how. In this book, the reader is given the same vague indication of why Boomer is the way he is. What is actually great is the fact that the Vegas guys are behind Boomer seeking help for his mental health; they’re aware and supportive.

Scarlet realizes that Boomer has some sort of issue and wants to help but isn’t trying to change him or fix him per se, she tells him she wants to be there for him and do what she can, what he’ll let her do to help him. Too often in romance when a protagonist is ‘broken’ the other will be the savior and try to fix every little problem with the other and that’s not reality.

This was better than I’d expected. I read this with my Kindle Unlimited subscription and all opinions are my own. ( )