Maggie Blackbird

Today, I’m hosting author A.K. Nevermore’s latest release Katherine, book four in the May of Mayhem MC series, a paranormal romance. Check out the freebie alert. Read my review. And don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway.

“Here Comes the Queen…”

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Title: Katherine
Series: Maw of Mayhem MC, Book 4
Author: AK Nevermore
Genre: Paranormal MC Erotic Romance
Length: 224 pages
Release Date: August 30, 2024
Publisher: Changeling Press

Blurb: Voted in as prez and back at the clubhouse, Grimdarke James has won back the Maw of Mayhem MC, but his problems are far from over, and his migraine isn’t helping. Neither is the arrival of a rival MC, a wolf pack, or the crime lord en route.

And Reaper’s still on the loose.

Grim definitely can’t seem to catch a break, and neither can Kit. Now that she’s been officially introduced to the club as Grim’s ol’ lady, it’s up to her to get a handle on the mollys. Will she be able to keep them in line and prove she’s the rightful queen of Mayhem, or will someone else try to usurp her throne?

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Kit stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around herself. Clay’s bathroom was definitely nicer than the one in Grim’s room. Or it had the potential to be, once all the filth from Nikki’s infestation was expunged. Woman was a pig. Kit frowned at the drifts of body glitter, smears of self-tanner, and spattered toothpaste around the sink. She rubbed at it with the corner of her towel. Maybe that’s what she would do today. A dedicated session of rage cleaning sounded pretty damned good…after she sorted things out with Mr. Asorav and Chanté.

—Ain’t nothin’ to sort— Kat chuffed. —They got our back as queen. It’s the rest of them that are gonna have to fall in line.—

Um, no, just because we’re queen doesn’t mean they get to disrespect Grim.

—How is answering to the queen disrespecting him? They’re not a part of Mayhem.—

Kit toweled off her hair, teeth dimpling her lip. No, but he’s right. This is his MC, and they’re his guests. While they’re here, they have to follow his rules.

—So where does that leave us?—

I dunno yet, and I don’t think he does, either. Kit was pretty sure that her being with him meant she was the alpha female for the club and in charge of the ol’ ladies and the mollys. But since Clay had never officially taken Kit’s mother as a mate, Kit hadn’t actually seen what that looked like. She vaguely remembered a woman with shoulder-length hair that seemed like she was in charge of the kitchen, but Kit had been so young when they moved out of the clubhouse…

She shook her hair out and scrubbed at it with the towel. Do you remember?

—No. I wasn’t awake then.—

Right. And it’d been so long since there had been a shifter queen, no one knew what that looked like, either. Well, Mr. Asorav probably did, but Kit was pretty sure she shouldn’t take everything he said as gospel. Not after the last shifter queen had partially succeeded in turning the current vampire queen into a fox. Aryanna had killed her for it, but she was still rocking whiskers. Their sects weren’t on great terms.

Kit sighed. God, how was she going to do this?

Whatever. Clothes would help. Dress for the job you want, right? Except she didn’t. Not really. Well, to be Grim’s queen, yeah, but the rest of it?

—Girl, you’ll see. Once they accept that we’re it, the rest is gonna be gravy.—

If you say so, but what about until then?

Kat paused like she wasn’t sure either. —Um, until then—

Ahem.

Kit froze at the decidedly masculine interruption in her brain. Her mouth went dry. M-Mr. Asorav?

Yes, my dear. Pardon me for the intrusion, but I couldn’t help but note your angst and feel compelled to relieve you of it. After Ms. Yewling’s reel of your confrontation last night and the resulting transformation of Ms. Hale, there is little doubt that you are the true shifter queen and the sects are responding in accordance. Mr. James’s motorcycle club has accepted you as such and is thoroughly apprised of your status as his, ah, old lady.

Oh. Um, thank you?

My pleasure. I look forward to seeing you at brunch. Do come down as you are able.

Kit stood in the bathroom gripping her towel and listening to the silence in her head, afraid to think. Is he gone? she thought-whispered.

—Son of a bitch had better be.— Kat spat, her proverbial tail thrashing. —Vamp is creepy as fuck.—

Shh! What if he’s listening?

—Then he can listen to this! YOU’RE CREEPY AS FUCK!—

Oh my God, you need to stop.

—No, only thing I need to stop is him from climbing into our head.—

Good luck with that. Kit sighed, going back into the bedroom. It looked like Nikki had just opened all of Kit’s suitcases and shaken them out into one big pile before strewing things around the room. She stepped around the slick of nasty still coating the floor in front of the vanity to the largest pile of clothes, her anxiety ticking up. The bar downstairs sounded packed with brothers, and as soon as she walked into that room, all eyes were gonna be on her.

What the heck did a queen wear?

—Aside from being banned from bedsheets, whatever the hell she wants to— Kat murmured distractedly. —What if I—

Something twanged in Kit’s head. She winced, but the static that’d been buzzing in the back of her brain since she’d changed abruptly cut off. A weird visual of Kat in coveralls messing around in her psyche with a wrench flitted through Kit’s mind’s eye. Great, just what she needed; a mind mechanic.

—Take that, motherfucker.—

You do it?

[SHRUGGING]

—I dunno, but it did something.—

You are not helpful.

—Oh please, like you need help. Bring your A game and all of ‘em will be eating out the palm of your hand, including that man of yours. Remember Timmons, in Acquisitions? Absolute prick on the phone, tongue dragging in person. Once you get all dolled up and walk into the room, ain’t nobody gonna remember who was waiting on whose say-so about what.—

Kit tapped her teeth. As much as she hated skating by on her looks, that would definitely make things easier. My A game, huh? Her A game was what Chanté referred to as boardroom boudoir. A smile tipped up Kit’s lips as she knelt, sorting through the mess of clothes.

DON’T MISS THE REST OF THE SERIES

Grimdarke
Maw of Mayhem MC Book 1
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Darker
Maw of Mayhem MC Book 2
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Kit-Kat
Maw of Mayhem MC Book 3
Amazon | Books2Read

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Katherine, the fourth book in the series, starts where Kit-Kat left off.  A wedding occurs between Kat and Grim, but many don’t want it to happen.

This book holds the key to the answers that popped up during the first three books.  The author does a great job of bringing back the characters and revealing many secrets that had eluded Kat and Grim.

As always, the author gives us plenty of spice to go with the action.  Kat has also come into her own.  She is standing strong and tall, ready to take her place as queen.  As for Grim, he’s battling a constant migraine throughout the book, a migraine that will reveal a lot.

I must say I have a fondness for Darke, Grim’s alter ego.  He’s so nonchalant about everything from killing to eating to sleeping LOL.  Chaos is brewing, and Darke is shrugging his shoulders through it all, but ready to act on Grim’s behalf, and of course protect Kit, his mate.

Then there’s Triss and Deuce.  Will these two ever get together?  We’ll have to wait and see since the novel ends on a bit of a cliffhanger.

The author has dreamt up a great series that keeps opening doors to new worlds.  And she excels at world-building, offering realistic explanations for everything that’s happening.  Because the backstory is woven in through answers, one could say this book is a standalone but you’d be doing yourself a big disfavour by only reading this novel and not starting at the beginning of the series with the prequel Maw of Mayhem.

The series has it all:  romance, drama, action and adventure, and likeable characters and very dislikable but believable antagonists.  Do yourself a favour and get a copy.

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AK Nevermore enjoys operating heavy machinery, freebases coffee, and gives up sarcasm for Lent every year. A Jane-of-all-trades, she’s a certified chef, restores antiques, and dabbles in beekeeping when she’s not reading voraciously or running down the dream in her beat-up camo Chucks.

Unable to ignore the voices in her head, and unwilling to become medicated, she writes Science Fiction and Fantasy full time.

She pays the bills editing, wielding a wicked hot pink pen and writing a column on SFF. She also belongs to the Authors Guild, is a chapter treasurer for the RWA, teaches creative writing, and on the rare occasion, sleeps.

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