First cover I like in this series, and the cover model looks just like my idea of Slate Solis! A hulking big man and a pint-size young woman are the characters on this book and they are fantastic. Slate is an ex-con and she’s a professional napper. She took over the hammock on Slate’s garden, he turned on the lawn sprinklers on her and we have a match made in heaven.

When Slate first saw Harleigh, she was visiting Trey, who was supposed to be her brother-in-law. Trey’s brother, Dre, is Harleigh’s brother and very gay. What she was doing was passing along information for her father’s company, an underground system to spirit away abused wives and children. Trey was just learning his role, to take over for when Slate got out of prison.

Slate was in jail for killing the man who killed his fiancee, while they were on duty as cops. He spent ten years in prison, and he’s out now, living next doors to Harleigh Tremaine. I just love how all the characters in this series are interwoven. Slate is Izzy’s brother, and Izzy is Rome’s wife. Harleigh is Max Tremaine’s daughter, the guy with the underground system. Half the Bear Bottom MC work in the company. When Slate was inside, he cooperated with Max to relieve the boredom and mindlessness of prison life; once he was out, he was commandeered to work with Max in the company and was convinced to join the MC.

In this book we also get to meet again with Rome, Hoax, Linc, and Bayou, with their wives and children. We even get to see a scene in this book where Tara is killed in the hospital, which we saw in a previous book. All these connections make the book all the more enjoyable for me to read.

So Slate feels broken, unliked, like something is missing inside him. Being out on parole is an adjustment, and he craves to be alone and private. Harleigh’s invasion of his hammock is not welcome, but when he learns the reason, he stops harassing her. Furthermore, as they meet again and again in town, the initial fascination he felt for her from when he was in jail, is strengthened. He wasn’t acting on it, but she did. For such a tiny woman, she was fierce, and as soon as Slate knew she wasn’t married, he cooperated in being seduced. Their story is a lovely tale of a man who felt out of the group, into a man included and appreciated. He was termed a “respected felon” because the cops in town would have done the same as him. In the MC group, they also appreciated him but he insisted on being a loner until the fated Disney trip where they all connected during a violent incident. So ultimately, this is a tale of redemption and love, and a very lovely and enjoyable one indeed. There’s a little plot twist and surprise and a little bit of mystery to make it even more fun. I was intrigued about the reason for this book’s title, and found it hilarious that it’s Harleigh the one that drops the f-bomb a lot. She’s little but fierce and a total sweetheart.