Title: It Aint me, Babe by Tillie Cole

Page count: 466

Genre: NA

Rating: 4/5 stars

Published: April 2014

Summary:

Sinning never felt so good… A fortuitous encounter. A meeting that should never have happened.

Many years ago, two children from completely different worlds forged a connection, a fateful connection, an unbreakable bond that would change their lives forever…

Salome knows only one way to live—under Prophet David’s rule. In the commune she calls home, Salome knows nothing of life beyond her strict faith, nor of life beyond the Fence—the fence that cages her, keeps her trapped in an endless cycle of misery. A life she believes she is destined to always lead, until a horrific event sets her free.

Fleeing the absolute safety of all she has ever known, Salome is thrust into the world outside, a frightening world full of uncertainty and sin; into the protective arms of a person she believed she would never see again.

River ‘Styx’ Nash knows one thing for certain in life—he was born and bred to wear a cut. Raised in a turbulent world of sex, Harleys, and drugs, Styx, unexpectedly has the heavy burden of the Hades Hangmen gavel thrust upon him, and all at the ripe old age of twenty-six—much to his rivals’ delight.

Haunted by a crushing speech impediment, Styx quickly learns to deal with his haters. Powerful fists, an iron jaw and the skillful use of his treasured German blade has earned him a fearsome reputation as a man not to be messed with in the shadowy world of outlaw MC’s. A reputation that successfully keeps most people far, far away.

Styx has one rule in life—never let anyone get too close. It’s a plan that he has stuck to for years, that is, until a young woman is found injured on his lot… a woman who looks uncannily familiar, a woman who clearly does not belong in his world, yet a woman he feels reluctant to let go…

My Thoughts:

Holy cow, I never thought that I would enjoy a book about bikers and a cult. I thought that it was going to be the last thing that I would enjoy reading. I am so glad that I did though. I loved Styx and Mae relationship. They are from opposite sides of the world. Styx is from a biker gang and Mae’s in a cult.

When Styx and Mae were little they had met when Styx’s dad as doing a “drop off”. They had met through a fence and Styx was never able to forget the girl that he had met through the fence that had the blue wolf eyes. The image of her eyes he was never able to forget. He knew one day that he was going to meet her, and she was going to be his wife one day. Styx also has a severe Studer, so he is known as the Hades Hangman Mute, so he does sign language an only a few people in the biker gang what are closest to him know what he’s saying. Ky his VP also his best friend they both grew up together an translates for Styx when they have meetings because Styx is the Prez after his dad passed. Styx also talks but its only to a select few.

Mae is known as “Salmoe” with her being one of the most beautiful woman there it is a curse for her and her sisters. The things that Mae had gone though were just unthinkable. (I wouldn’t wish it on anyone) when Mae was able to break free from the hell that she was in she ended up at the Hades Hangman Compound where she’s barley alive and she meets Styx.

Styx and Mae’s relationship starts off rocky because he’s the Prez and she thinks that he is going to harm her because of her upbringing. While Styx is away on business she makes a friend named Ryder who is also the doctor. While Mae talks to Ryder he helps her make sense of it all.

Styx and Mae’s relationship was love at first sight an they both knew it. Even though their relationship was heartbreaking and action packed you were still able to know they were going to be okie. There was nothing that was going to tear them apart now that they had gotten together after all these years