This book was pretty good. It definitely held my attention and I’ll be checking out the author’s other books.

She was his everything until it was ripped all away. Promises made then broken. Secrets that were hidden and being immersed into a world that slowly ate away at your soul was enough to drive them apart. Coming back together and pushing everything else away may not seem possible but the heart will find a way to make it happen.

for the buildup, i felt a little disappointed with how quickly everything resolved. Kane and Mandy had a good bit of slow burn before they finally got together, and I'm glad that the miscommunication wasn't a factor for too long.

A tension-filled second chance…

Kane and Amanda’s second chance was a complicated walk down memory lane and a soul-searching look at what was important. Family and love should go hand in hand but what happened when one worked against the other? And in a spectacularly dangerous way….

Kane had tried to distance himself from his MC family yet circumstances tore him from Mandy while sending him right back into it. Mandy, on the other hand, towed the line with her father but she was at the end of that rope. When the two ex-lovers reconnect, I could feel the terrible anger but also the love that was still there…

This read had drama pulling all the heartstrings. I raged against the unfairness but reveled in the bond that Kane and Mandy still had. Be prepared for a heap of MC-related bumps (aka not for the faint of heart) and a whole lot of love…

The second book in this series and you meet Kane in the first book. You now meet Amanda who is one of the owners of the company and she shows up at the site talking with the foreman and their Kane sees her and though she notices him she does not acknowledge him at first. You come to find out though that the two of them have a past and that their pasts were once them together as boyfriend and girlfriend, that he was going to college and then poof it was all gone as he lay there in hospital hearing Amanda says we are done and walking away, wondering what had happened why she was leaving. He would then be immersed into his father’s biker’s club and her trying to get money from her father out of her trust fund to run her company. He wants answers to why she left him and she wants to know if he is still with his father’s motor club. The attraction that the two of them had when they were younger is still there especially when her father tries to marry her off to a wealthy man who treats her horribly and back into Kane’s arm. When you are getting to the end of the book secrets from the past appear and you begin to see what really happened between them and the strings that were pulled. A good book.

I did enjoy this second opus of the Cooper Construction Series. Kane and Amanda were good together and their chemistry was off-the-charts. I liked the dynamic couple and how they were with each other. Their story had many turns in a long road, but the act of forgiving and the power of love, was worth the pain and the long wait. The good storyline pulled me right in from the very beginning and the well rounded characters kept me totally enthralled from the first page until the last!

This book was given to me via Netgalley for an honest review.
found this a great follow up to the first and will be adding Jen Davis on my list of favorite authors/insta buy in the future :)

Another story about some sort of redemption, bur this time working to figure out who your true friends and family are. This was an okay story but I didn't like it as much as Brick's book... mostly because I really didn't like Amanda. She had zero redeming qualities. No matter what she did, I could not get on board with her. I hated her attitude, how stupid and naïve she was.. She constantly did things and made decisions that made zero sense. I just didn't like her at all so it made this really difficult to read. I liked Kane a lot, but for the life of me could not figure out what it was about Amanda he loved so much.

So, this was a big "meh" for me.

I voluntarily read an advanced review copy of this book

This book was interesting, there is one thing I love and it is an MC romance. This MC though was something else...it was filled with people making bad decisions that kept digging a whole so deep that Kane suffered to make a decision that would be great for the MC and his future. Another thing that I love is a great romance...One thing I strongly dislike are flashbacks. I really just wanted their story but every time you started to get a good view it flashed back to something else. Some of the flashbacks were needed...Jen Davis did a great job drawing the reader in but I just was tired of the MC (Skulls) and tired of flashing backwards.

Overall not bad, if you are fine with flashbacks then you will enjoy this read

Good second chance romance. a bit of action, trouble, romance, and friends :)
A fun way to spend an after noon.

This is the first book by this author I've read and I'm still note quite sure what I think of it. I enjoyed parts of the book but there were other parts where I was just like WTF.

Let me start by saying I've read a number of MC books so I definitely have no issues with this sub genre.

I found Amanda to be immature at times and motivated by nothing more than Daddy's money which is ironic because she blames her father for using her for his own agenda when she's doing the same thing. The whole thing with Nathan really bothered me. There were tons of other ways that she could have explored to obtain the money she needed for the business.

I liked Kane's character and his struggle between his family and the MC lifestyle.

The epilogue fell flat to me as well, though the climax at the end was pretty good.

** ARC received from Netgalley **

This is the second book in this series by this author. OMG, this book just blow me away. This book will hook you from the first page and keep you reading long into the night. Amazing well written characters which were extremely intense. The secondary characters were fantastic and added to the story brilliantly. This is an amazing story and I loved how the story with the characters unfolded as I read. I can't wait to read more from this author in the future.



Highly recommended series

I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader copy of this book

I received and ARC from NetGalley and I will say this was the perfect ending to the small series. Too small. I wish there was more. I enjoyed the excitement of this storyline. In both books you can feel the love these men have for their women come off the page and it was very sweet. A wonderful reminder that not all men are pigs.

Kane is the second novel in Jen Davis' Cooper Construction series and since I absolutely loved the first novel in this series, Brick, I couldn't wait to read this one, but Brick was a great read and a hard act to follow, and I simply didn't think this novel was as good, as well-paced, as cohesive, as easy to follow, or as gripping as book one, but despite all that, I give it a 4-star rating.

As the novel opens we first meet Amanda, daughter of the mayor, and the man she is seeing at her father's insistence, Nathan. Her father wants to run for governor, and Nathan is well-connected, but he's also rude, ill-tempered, possessive and both verbally and physically abusive, and that's the first of the triggers I need to warn you about. When Amanda tells her father about the abuse, he brushes it off--Amanda, who has been manipulated by her father for years, is his bargaining chip, and her father doesn't care what Nathan does to her and long as he has access to Nathan's connections. Nathan is also sexually abusive, and Amanda's near-rape is another trigger I need to warn you about.

We soon meet Kane, 13 years in the past, the first of many such time-jumps in this novel. He's got real goals, a career in finance he's pursuing in college, andis totally in love with Amanda (Mandy). But Mandy is aware that Kane's father, Malcolm, is president of the Skulls MC, involved in illegal activities, as are many motorcycle clubs, and Mandy knows that Kane's father is pushing him to patch in, i.e. join the Skulls MC. Kane hates everything about the MC, and blames it for his messed-up childhood. He hates the way his father treats and cheats on his mother, the way members use and abuse women, and their involvement in criminal activities, and he assures Mandy that the last thing he wants to do is to live that life. Kane's brother, Scott, is a member of the MC, and when Kane asks for a lift so he can buy an engagement ring for Mandy, Scott agrees to take him there, but en route, Scott has one stop to make--it's at a drug den, and where there are drugs, there's violence, and plenty of it. After Kane is injured and unconscious, he wakes up in a hospital with Mandy at his bedside, and what the violence he experienced didn't do, Mandy does--she breaks up with him, severs all connections with him, tells him not to contact her or try to see her, and leaves Kane heartbroken and alone. What Kane doesn't know is why she won't even let him explain, and Ms. Davis takes a good long while to tell us why Mandy is being blackmailed by her own father to end her relationship with Kane, the love of her life, and she too is heartbroken, but feels that the only way to save Kane is to end their relationship.

With his world in shambles, Kane is bitter and alone, and he finally does patch in to the Skulls MC, but still hates everything about it. Meanwhile, Amanda's father helps bankroll the start-up of Cooper Construction, the company that Amanda's stepfather started and which she co-owns, and which also employs both Kane, and Brick, who now lives happily with Olivia, the woman he fell in love with in the first novel in the series. But Amanda's father only gives her half of the money she needs, extracting her promise to be Nathan's arm candy for the next six months.

Meanwhile, Kane's father and brother want to do something more illegal and more dangerous than what they have been doing, moving guns for the Russian mob. Due to the death of Sucre de la Cruz in the previous novel, they have a chance to take over the drug trade in their community, and no matter how much Kane tries to talk them out of it, he's out-voted, and while it's easy to see that this move isn't going to go well for the MC or Kane, it's the secrets and motives behind these decisions that fuel the drama and violence prevalent in the rest of the novel.

While Mandy and Kane try to reconnect and get their second chance at love, neither character is being entirely honest with the other, nor are the other people in their lives being open and honest with them, and through a series of complicated flashbacks, we slowly learn how and why they made and are continuing to make the decisions that have so negatively affected both their lives. Mandy hates her father for manipulating her into an abusive relationship, and for blackmailing her into doing what he wants her to do--but she doesn't know the half of it, and kudos to Ms. Davis for keeping Mandy and this reader in the dark to the very end.

This is a very violent novel, with many triggers, so be prepared, and the number of flashbacks are many, further complicating things and making the pacing a bit choppy. It was hard not to like Kane and Amanda and their explosive chemistry, although their motivations for why they make the choices they do are confusing and not readily apparent until you are well into their story.

Will Kane finally be able to finally get his long-awaited second chance with Amanda? Will he remain loyal to the MC which came to his aid when Amanda dumped him 13 years earlier? Will Amanda be willing to get back with Kane despite his club affiliation? What about Nathan, who is both violent, jealous, and possessive of Amanda? Will Nathan slink off into the sunset? Will Amanda's father continue to manipulate her into doing whatever he wants? Will he ever allow her to find happiness with Kane? What will happen when the MC gets into the drug business? These are some of the questions that kept me reading until the wee hours of the morning, and while Ms. Davis is a very good storyteller, some of the answers to these questions are a long time coming, and while I would have preferred fewer flashbacks, it was still an engrossing read, and, if the aforementioned triggers don't turn your off, I think you'll find this an exciting read as well, but I do suggest reading Brick, the first novel in this series before reading this one.

I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.

To be honest, I was a little hesitant giving Jen Davis another chance after finishing "Brick", which left much to be desire with it's plot, characters and lack of connection on my part. I said 'why the hell now?', what's the worse that could happen? Needless to say the author was able to redeem herself since I enjoyed reading Kane's story a lot more than I had originally expected to. Obviously Kane and Amanda's storyline was filled with some violent scenes, not much as "Brick", gang club activity, and drug use which tied together the entire story and the leads journey back together. The connection between the characters were a lot stronger than the first book and as a reader, you're able to feel the their pain and heartbreak between their broken relationship. Moreso, a decent read with likable characters and a solid premise.

Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team

Avid Reader – ☆☆☆☆☆
4.5 stars
M/F Romance
Triggers: Domestic Abuse, Blackmail

This is the second book in the series and I really enjoyed it and felt that it carried a good theme through from the first book.

Kane is living a life he never truly wanted. But when things in his life went out of his control, he had no choice but to become the person he never really wanted to be. When his first and only love comes back into his life, Kane has difficulty keeping her in the back of his mind, like he has been doing for years.

Amanda knows that she should be living a different life. What was taken from her by people around her is horrific and terrible. However, Amanda hasn't gotten this far in life without learning a few tricks herself. Despite feeling the same pull that she always has towards Kane, she knows that he comes first.

Kane and Amanda's past is very prominent in this book through flashbacks. I think that it really helped shape the story and their future. It was nice being able to see them before and them now. Their chemistry was still there and despite their family issues, they still love each other. I really enjoyed watching this story unfold and hope more are to come.

This one was a blast! I fell for Amanda and Kane. This is a second chance romance with a strong back story of both main characters.
Amanda comes from a powerful family and is the owner of the company that Kane works for. Their story is bringing so many emotions in so strong way. She can seem weak, but she's strong in her own way. I was cheering for her to bloom during the story to reach her whole potential.
Kane belongs to the MC where his father is a president. He loved Amanda from the first sight but their ways broke back then. It was devastating for both of them Yet it was what had to be done. Stay away from each other and break up.
I really liked how they were slowly getting back to each other. How everything was considered there. This book reached my expectations.
I hope the next book in the Cooper Construction series will be even better.

I often contemplate that in life the bad guys and the good guys aren't who society says they should be. The Cooper Construction series explore this same question. Kane (the book) especially delves into "who's really the good guy?" Kane (the guy) doesn't live by society's rules as a biker. He's done things that could easily end him in prison but those actions don't define him. He's not an amoral, sociopath. In fact, he's a deeply caring guy who'll do whatever it takes to help his friends and protect those he loves. Whereas Amanda is surrounded by Atlanta's top citizens including her father, the mayor and none of them are good people. She left Kane to protect him and from fear of the life his biker family seemed to be pulling him into but when he comes back into her life, he's the one person who loves her unconditionally and will protect her from any threat no matter who or what it is.

I love the complex characters Davis creates. No matter how rough Kane's life is, he's a completely likeable character. Amanda is equally complex. She's not as strong in the beginning but soon stands up for herself. She's able to find the man she loved in the Kane who is now a seasoned biker and there's a lot of back and forth as she decides who he is and if she's willing to be with him. Add to the personal turmoil, serious physical and psychological stresses and the action in this book is plenty to keep the reader guessing and on the edge of their seat.

I really enjoyed the story, the characters and the journey in Kane.

I struggled to get through this one unfortunately.This one just felt a little too disjointed for me to really sink my teeth into. 2 stars.

This is book two of the Cooper construction series and it's Kane and Amanda's book, kanes world basically fell apart and he was a broken man, then skulls took him in helped him out the pieces of his life back together! Then his past comes flying into his life with spiky high heels and an attitude to match! Amanda! And Amanda doesn't just own the he works for she owns his heart even tho she betrayed him in the worst way possible! This book was good , it wasn't my favorite, I'm not sure why but I just couldn't get into it? But it's still worth reading! Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for sharing this book with me!