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    Shafted (Book 1): Midnight Riders MC, #1
    Shafted (Book 1): Midnight Riders MC, #1
    Shafted (Book 1): Midnight Riders MC, #1
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    Shafted (Book 1): Midnight Riders MC, #1

    By Sophia Gray

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    This is book 1 of the Midnight Riders MC series! Books 2 and 3 are available everywhere now!

    Ever been shafted 'til the sun came up?

    I have.

    I can't say I didn't deserve it.

    After all, Cole warned me to stay away.

    He said it over and over again:

    That he was a dangerous man.

    That I was poking my nose where it didn't belong.

    That, if I kept coming back to his clubhouse, he was going to do something to me.

    Something I might not like.

    He was right about everything…

    Except for that last part.

    Because when he took me…

    When he shoved me against the wall, ripped away my clothes, and claimed me with one hard, throbbing kiss…

    I didn't just like it… I loved it.

    But falling for a biker is the worst thing I could do right now.

    And no matter how good it feels, sleeping with Cole won't make my sister reappear.

    I'm the only one left who still cares enough to keep searching for her.

    Without me, she's gone forever.

    Maybe I can convince Cole to take up my cause.

    Maybe he knows something about where she went, or why.

    So when he said he'd help me, I thought I'd finally found an ally.

    But I was dead wrong.

    Because what I'm about to learn is this:

    Cole isn't a good man at all.

    As a matter of fact… he was the last one to see my sister alive.

    ***

    It's the hottest story of the year! SHAFTED is a dark romantic thriller suspense with more twists and turns than a roller coaster! You're going to love this story of a powerful alpha male biker with a dark past and a filthy mouth. His chemistry with this innocent girl is off-the-charts, but in this motorcycle club series, nothing is what it seems. You've been warned – now it's time to get started! Enjoy getting SHAFTED!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSopris Page Press
    Release dateOct 15, 2019
    ISBN9781393595465
    Shafted (Book 1): Midnight Riders MC, #1

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      Shafted (Book 1) - Sophia Gray

      Shafted: A Motorcycle Club Romance (Midnight Riders MC Book 1)

      By Sophia Gray

      Ever been shafted ‘til the sun came up?

      I HAVE.

      I can’t say I didn’t deserve it.

      After all, Cole warned me to stay away.

      He said it over and over again:

      That he was a dangerous man.

      That I was poking my nose where it didn’t belong.

      That, if I kept coming back to his clubhouse, he was going to do something to me.

      Something I might not like.

      He was right about everything...

      Except for that last part.

      Because when he took me...

      When he shoved me against the wall, ripped away my clothes, and claimed me with one hard, throbbing kiss...

      I didn’t just like it... I loved it.

      But falling for a biker is the worst thing I could do right now.

      And no matter how good it feels, sleeping with Cole won’t make my sister reappear.

      I’m the only one left who still cares enough to keep searching for her.

      Without me, she’s gone forever.

      Maybe I can convince Cole to take up my cause.

      Maybe he knows something about where she went, or why.

      So when he said he’d help me, I thought I’d finally found an ally.

      But I was dead wrong.

      Because what I’m about to learn is this:

      Cole isn’t a good man at all.

      As a matter of fact... he was the last one to see my sister alive.

      IT’S THE HOTTEST STORY of the year! SHAFTED is a dark romantic thriller suspense with more twists and turns than a roller coaster! You’re going to love this story of a powerful alpha male biker with a dark past and a filthy mouth. His chemistry with this innocent girl is off-the-charts, but in this motorcycle club series, nothing is what it seems. You’ve been warned – now it’s time to get started! Enjoy getting SHAFTED!

      Chapter 1

      Alena

      H ow was that, Miss DeGrom?

      What? I shook myself. Great, I zoned out on another lesson. Carol, one of my violin students, was looking at me expectantly. She was so eager to please.

      How was it? I practiced really hard this week. Sweet little Carol was looking at me with big, round eyes. I knew how hard her parents pushed her, even requiring weekly progress reports from me. She was so earnest, only wanting to make me and everyone around her happy.

      You did great. I can tell how hard you’ve been working. I patted her on the back, watching as she packed up her violin. She reminded me so much of Sara at that age. Working hard, wanting to make me proud of her. We both gave up on our parents at an early age, knowing there was no pleasing them. One was gone, and the other was too tired to care.

      Do me a favor this week, I whispered conspiratorially to Carol after writing up another glowing progress report. Take a little bit of time to go outside and play.

      Play my violin outside?

      No, I said with a smile. Play outside. Have fun. Playing music is supposed to make us happy. It’s a beautiful part of life, but it isn’t all of life. Do you understand what I mean?

      She nodded, but of course she didn’t get it. She was nine years old. She only wanted to make me happy by agreeing. I hoped she had a little fun sometimes.

      I waved to her mom, who waited in her car outside my house during every lesson. Why did I care so much about Carol? I cared about all of my students, but Carol especially. Maybe it was the way she reminded me of my sister.

      Sara. I’d been thinking about her during Carol’s playing, just like I’d been thinking about her for weeks. Every day, she sat in the back of my mind, pulling at my thoughts. It had been five weeks, three days and two hours since the last time I spoke with her. She’d disappeared off the face of the Earth sometime after that. It had to be later that day, since we made it a point to speak every day and she didn’t call me the next afternoon. When she didn’t call, right on time as always, I knew something was wrong.

      I closed my eyes, still standing in the front doorway. I pictured her in front of me. Blonde hair, like mine, but with a natural wave that I’d always envied. Eyes a shade bluer than mine. A little shorter, more petite. She looked like a little china doll, with her porcelain skin. Always smiling, always happy.

      Not so much recently, I reminded myself. In the last six months, Sara had been caught up in things I didn’t understand. Why a beautiful, sweet girl like my sister would want to be hooked up with some of the people she’d been running around with I couldn’t understand.

      With every passing day, I’d become more desperate. The police didn’t seem to care very much, not after the first week or two. I knew they assumed she was dead, her body in a ditch or a lake somewhere. Once they found out who she’d been dating, or sleeping with or whatever they’d been doing, the police chalked my sister’s disappearance up to just another piece of club activity. They were satisfied leaving it at that and moving on with their lives, shaking their heads in sadness at the loss of another bright young person at the hands of that wretched club.

      I was not.

      If anyone was going to find my sister, it would have to be me.

      I had visited the sheriff at least ten times before he sat me down and

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