Blaine Wicked can spot trouble from a mile away. As the eldest of five and the product of a Dark Knights biker family, he has always been the protector, so pulling a leggy blonde out of a bad situation at a bachelor party is second nature, no matter how much lip she gives him for it. Forensic scientist Reese Wilder never pictured herself as the entertainment at that party, but she will do anything to keep food on the table for her teenage sister. With their mother in rehab and a dealer's debt hanging over them, Reese is barely holding things together. She strikes Blaine as far too innocent to bend to his commanding, wicked ways, yet the more he learns about her, the harder she becomes to walk away from. Set on the sandy shores of Cape Cod, where the Wickeds are fiercely loyal and family is everything, this standalone pairs an alpha protector with a sharp, slightly awkward woman carrying more than her share. Insanely sexy, deeply emotional, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it follows two guarded people discovering that surrender and strength can look surprisingly alike.
A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author, Melissa Foster has written more than 100 novels and sold millions of copies worldwide. She is best known for Love in Bloom, a sprawling contemporary romance universe built from interconnected sub-series (the Snow Sisters, the Bradens, the Remingtons, the Ryders, the Seaside and Bayside Summers casts, and the biker-family Whiskeys and Wickeds among them) in which characters reappear across one another's stories. Her romances...
Can I read His Wicked Ways as a standalone, or do I need to read the series in order?
You can read His Wicked Ways on its own. It is book 5 of The Wickeds: Dark Knights at Bayside, one of the interconnected sub-series in Melissa Foster's Love in Bloom collection, and every Love in Bloom book is written as a standalone with its own complete romance and a guaranteed happily ever after. Reading the series in order simply lets you follow the extended family as familiar characters reappear across the books.
Who are the main characters in His Wicked Ways?
His Wicked Ways follows Blaine Wicked and Reese Wilder. Their romance is the heart of the book, set among the big, close-knit families Melissa Foster's readers return for.
How steamy is His Wicked Ways?
His Wicked Ways is an open-door contemporary romance, so it pairs its emotional story with on-page love scenes. Readers who prefer sweeter, closed-door versions can look for Melissa Foster's clean-language editions published under her pen name, Addison Cole.