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REAPERS AND BASTARDS
An Anthology
Joanna Wylde
Released Sept 24th, 2015
From the New York Times bestselling author of the
Reapers Motorcycle Club and Silver Valley series comes an anthology
of extras and never-before-released material, including a new short story
featuring fan favorites Horse and Marie.
Charming Bastard: A Novella
I first
met Riley Boone when I was four years old. We moved to Callup, Idaho after my
dad blew out his back and had to go on disability. Boonie’s family lived next
to ours. Every afternoon he’d swagger off the school bus after kindergarten
like a conquering king. For the first week he ignored me, until I impressed him
by climbing nearly thirty feet up in the tree behind his trailer. They had to
call the fire department to get me down, but it was worth it to see the respect
in his five-year-old eyes. He gave me a worm in honor of my accomplishment. I
fell in love. The next day he made me eat the worm and our relationship has
been complicated ever since.
(Until
now, this novella has been exclusively available in the paperback edition of Silver Bastard.)
Sticky Sweet: A Short Story
Horse and
Marie met for the first time in Reaper’s
Property. Now experience this moment through his eyes. (Originally
available on the author’s website.)
NEW Skunked: A Short Story
Marie has
some BIG news to share with Horse—news that will change both their lives
forever….
NEW Sugar and Spice: A Short
Story
A prequel
to Reaper’s Fall, this story features
Painter and Melanie’s first meeting.
PLUS:
Becca’s Huckleberry Pie recipe, Marie’s Bread recipe and Emergency Skunk
Cleaning recipe.
“Marie?”
Nothing.
I passed through the living room and started down the hallway toward the kitchen.
“Babe, you in here?”
“In the back,” she replied, her voice faint. Entering the kitchen, I knew something was wrong as soon as I saw her face. Her eyes were red and puffy, and she seemed out of it—almost dazed.
“What the fuck’s going on?” I asked. She jumped, looking toward me with something like fear in her expression. Jesus, had someone hurt her? A burst of adrenaline rushed through me—nobody touched my woman. I’d fucking kill them. She didn’t say anything, though. “Marie?”
She shook herself, almost as if she needed to wake up.
“Sorry, I was sort of lost in my thoughts.”
“What’s going on?”
She stared at me for several seconds, her mouth tight.
“We need to talk.”
Great—words every man loves to hear. So much for my “welcome home” blow job.
“About what?” I asked warily.
“Sit down,” she murmured, glancing away from me. “You want a beer?”
Up to that point, a beer had been damned high on my list of priorities. Now? Not so much. I pulled out a chair at the big wooden block that served as our kitchen table and sat down with a thump, leaning back. Then I crossed my arms over my chest.
“So let’s talk,” I told her, forcing myself to stay patient. Marie swallowed, then reached for the cup of tea sitting on the block in front of her, taking a nervous sip.
“Okay, so here goes,” she said quietly, refusing to look at me. “We’ve got some big changes ahead of us. You need to remember that it just happened, babe. It’s not like I did it on purpose. Please remember that.”
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Joanna
Wylde is a New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Reapers
Motorcycle Club series. She currently lives in Idaho.
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