The Touch We Seek by Scarlett Cole is live!

The sixth book in the Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado series, this is an exciting, close proximity, forbidden romance that is sweet, sexy and super functional, and I really enjoyed this one!

 

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Blurb

From USA Today best selling author, Scarlett Cole, writing as S. Cole, comes a grumpy sunshine, forced proximity, hands off clause, electrifying small town MC romance.

Wren
It was supposed to be a quick job—slip into a criminal network, steal the money, vanish before anyone noticed.
Except now, I’m wedged between a furious cartel and an unrelenting FBI agent.
There’s nowhere left to run… except straight into the arms of the last people I should trust: the Iron Outlaws MC.
Yet Catfish—the biker assigned to shadow my every move—gives me attitude and quiet understanding in equal measure.
I’ve spent my life surviving systems built to erase me.
I didn’t expect a rough-edged biker with too many scars and not enough patience to be the one who sees me clearly.

Catfish
The club got hacked on my watch. Money gone.
Now I’m stuck protecting the outsider they brought in to fix it.
Wren—a hacker with no last name, no respect, and a mouth that drives me wild.
They’re off-limits. President’s orders.
And I’m already one mistake away from getting benched for good.
But when Wren is threatened, the rules go out of the window.
They become the line I’ll cross.
Because there isn’t anything I won’t do, to keep us safe.

 

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Review

4 stars

The sixth book in the Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado series, this is an exciting, close proximity, forbidden romance that is sweet, sexy and super functional, and I really enjoyed this one!

As a favour to the OG Iron Outlaws, the Colorado chapter has taken in Wren, a black hat hacker and friend of the club who is in hiding and needs to lay low. Catfish, Colorado MC treasurer and the man on watch when the club was hacked and money was stolen, is put in charge of protecting Wren, and they are moved into an apartment together with only one rule – Catfish is to keep his hands off. The problem is, he’s been smitten from the moment he laid eyes on them.

It’s a great set-up, I loved how Catfish is immediately all in with Wren. There is an added complexity to the story because Wren is non-binary. It was a first for me, and the author, and though I know little about non-binary representation in literature, I thought Cole did a fantastic job with respectfully and meaningfully telling Wren’s story. I have not really been exposed to the intricacies of gender and sexuality before, and I found their perspectives fascinating as we learned who they were and how they chose to live their life.

Safe is finding someone to trust with your whole heart. Safe is a place, a home, that carries mostly good memories. Safe is feeling affirmed by friends as you are, with space held for who you need to become.

It’s an important part of their story, as Catfish works earnestly to understand Wren and what they need, but it’s not a source of drama or conflict, as he accepts Wren without blinking an eye, he loves them as a person, and to him their gender is not even an issue, which I loved. And though important, and there is attention paid, Wren’s gender doesn’t overshadow the love story, which is easy and natural, steamy, heartfelt and swoony. And with Catfish wanting to understand and respect Wren’s boundaries, there’s a lot of openness and honesty, which I love in a romance book, as they figure out how to be together and what their future might look like.

“I know who I see. And I’m just a guy trying to figure out if I’m capable of being the man who deserves you, exactly as you are. How I need to change.”

I fell for both of these characters and loved watching them fall so madly in love. The fact that it’s forbidden brings a sense of ‘us against the world’ and shows just how much Catfish is willing to fight for Wren and their happy ending, and I loved that for both of them.

“You’re mine, Wren. I want to take you apart like this every night. Want to spend every goddamn day building a life with you. Not what the world expects, but what we want to build. Just you and me.”

While this is going on, they are still work to find out what happened to the club’s money, who is after Wren, and avoid the persistent FBI who are searching for Wren and are getting closer and closer. It’s intriguing (and tech-heavy because of Wren’s skillset) and leads to an exciting ending.

This is another great addition to the series. I loved seeing so much of all of the characters that we have come to know and love. The club is still learning how to come together after changes to their structure. But they’re a fun group and there’s no doubting that they have Catfish and Wren’s backs through it all.

The book ends well, and I really enjoyed this story.

4 stars.

An Advanced Reader Copy was generously provided by the author for an honest review.

 

Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado

 

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Meet the Author

Scarlett Cole is a contemporary romance and romantic suspense author who calls both Toronto, Canada and Manchester, England home. A born city dweller, she periodically quashes the urge to live in the country by hiking up a mountain to remind herself that living away from people would terrify the pants off her.

She believes everybody deserves their love story to be told and loves her heroes on the rough and rugged side…and usually tall (because she married one of those 6ft 6” men you read about in romance!). She’s an A-type personality and Scorpio star sign, so good luck getting her to do anything she doesn’t want to.

When she isn’t writing, she’s happy to talk hot men and expensive shoes while drinking a cold gin and tonic. Don’t bring up olives. As far as Scarlett is concerned, they are the devil’s food. As long as you don’t bring up olives, she’s happy to hear from any time.

 

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