5 BILLION STARS for Anne Malcom's Best Writing Yet!!

Anne Malcom's best piece of writing I've ever been honored to read, it is a hard read. One I was scared to start, but as always with Anne by the end, she build us up, and gives us the freedom to fly again.

"You're giving yourself a harder life than you deserve," she said quietly, shaking her head. "That club is going to poison what you have. It's going to ruin your life. And it will take him from you. One way or another."

Lizzie was always the smooth one, the softer one, the one who gave the other Old Ladies a soft place to land after the harsh reality that is Evie. She is no longer that way after Ranger is lost to her. Of course she tries to show that falsity to the other Old Ladies, lovingly gives all that softness to her children, her Mother in Law, Olive, but every other bit of her is tired, bitter, rotting with Ranger, angry. She doesn't know where to go from here, and just as she's struggling the most, another man in a cut appears. 

A man nothing like Ranger, a man with light in his eyes, Kace is willing to give Lizzie whatever she needs just so he can be the one she turns to when she comes to he end of her rope.

"My cup runneth the **** over with all of that, baby."

Kace just wants to be Lizzie's person, the one she knows she can lean into when it gets hard again, because nothing stays easy with the Sons of Templar.

But this isn't Ranger's book, and it surely isn't Kaces book. This is Lizzie's book. This is Anne's dedication piece to the Women and Old Ladies of The Sons of Templar. This is her Opus for them, her song showing you that as Evie says, they're a different kind of Outlaw.

They may not patch in, wear a cut, but these women get their own kind of bloody. They spend their nights alone, washing the blood off their men's clothes, waiting for them to come home, waiting for them to reaffirm that vow of forever. And the only way out is the same step their Old Men take, through death, whether it's peaceful or violent, there's no other path.

Watching all the women coming together again and again, especially Evie and Laura May, in this book, not to create havoc and mayhem, but to watch over their friend. To take her back, and do whatever they can to show the strength of the Women of The Sons is a beautiful, endearing thing, and should definitely not be missed in your race to get to the next page.

Lizzie's life with Kace is nothing like her life with Ranger, she knows who she is now, an entirely different being from Ranger's Old Lady, more like Evie than any of the other Old Ladies, except maybe Amy and Bex who've survived their own heartbreak (Amy) and their own version of hell no one has ever seen (Bex.)

Kace will always know that Ranger is back there, and may be waiting for her again on the other side, but he is smart enough to know that he needs to enjoy whichever version of Lizzie he gets on whichever day. And he is truly in love with both sides of this Lizzie.

I am honored to have been able to read this journey with Lizzie, from her fierce girlhood, to her soft and kind journey as a young woman and mother, to her fierce, sensual, often raging side as a woman who has seen things most us will never imagine. 

This book is my favourite for 2020, it is strong, hard and a brilliant love story for women and the tribulations we all go through daily. You definitely don't want to miss it.