Title: Mad Love

Series: Guns & Ink Series #1

Author: Shana Vanterpool

Genre: NA Romance/Contemporary

Release Date: September 25, 2017 Publisher: Swoon Romance

She was a disruption he never wanted.

He was everything she distrusted.

Klayton Caldwell owns a tattoo shop in Denver, Colorado, and has seen just about everything and met just about every kind of person. And they all have one thing in common. Ink. 

He isn’t complicated. What you see is what you get. Sex? Always. Relationships? Never. Pleasantries? He doesn’t do that either. Those who can’t handle his mouth get inked elsewhere. Klayton holds everyone at a distance, even his friends. He doesn’t do “close.”

Until Madison ends up in his tattoo parlor, broken, afraid and alone. There’s something about her, and almost immediately, Klayton’s guard drops. Now, everything he knows about himself changes as his life begins to unravel.

Twenty-year-old Madison Hart’s future was taken from her the moment she was abducted from her college campus and held captive by a sicko. After escaping, she flees, running into a stranger. A stranger who shares a similar past. Someone who might be able to help her heal. If she’ll let him. 

Madi comes into Klayton’s life like a storm. She’s beautiful. Pitiful. Dangerous. Her pain runs deep enough that she may never be able to talk about what she’s experienced. Her refusal to talk takes a level of patience Klayton’s not sure he has. 

He must navigate her broken pieces by changing everything he is. Who he’s been all these years won’t work anymore. But Madi fights him, she fights herself. She fights the madness.

She refuses to talk. He can’t control his mouth. She doesn’t want to be touched. He can’t help himself. They don’t want love. Inside this storm, is a love so mad it might destroy them both.

MAD LOVE is book 1 in the Guns & Ink series from Shana Vanterpool. Look for the rest of the Guns & Ink series coming soon from Swoon Romance. 

Book #2 Hard Love - Cat and Brando 

Book #3 Bad Love - Isaiah & Bell

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Romance author, coffee drinker, and bad boy aficionado. Every second not spent breathing is an opportunity to write and read. I live in Northern California with my family and actress dog, Halle Bella. (Just Bella when she decides to cut the crap.) Escaping with a good book is something I live for and I write so others can do the same.

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Dark, emotional, broken, plus so much is just some of things to describe this book. Mad Love is the first in the Guns & Ink series and this hot tatted Alpha never looked so good. This book is one emotional journey and at times it breaks your heart with the trauma that was endured with these characters. 

We meet Cat, the BF to Klayton and the girl with her own past, similar to Mad (AKA Madison). She is funny and doesn't let her past hold her back. The "Cardigan" scene is the best and will forever stick with Mad, you poor girl. haha She is not only Klayton's BF she is one of his best employees at the shop.She held this shop up when he couldn't. You shall see why.  I cannot wait to get her story cause it will not only be emotional like this one, but we get to see the other side of Cat that is well hidden. 

Klayton did not have the best past either, without his Ink shop he wouldn't be where he is today. He has no regrets for his time spent when it comes to Cat and you will see that he would have done it again when it came to Mad. He likes his quiet and his women with no strings attached. He is thrown a curve though when Cat rescues Mad. He doesn't want to feel, but he does. He is intense, but soft at the same time. Though your heart breaks, it melts at the same time when it comes to his actions with Mad. Most men would have ran the other way, not Klayton and those bathroom scenes skip the smell and it melts your heart with the care he takes with Mad.

Mad, in her other life she was Madison before that one fateful night that she was taken, raped and held for weeks with a sicko. She put on a good facade though and was always pleasing her family and boyfriend and wasn't the happiest she could be. While no one should endure what she went through it ironically led her to Klayton and Cat and this trio was meant to be. It breaks you when you see her actions trying to overcome her fear of men. Even when Klayton does what he does (he truly believed it was for the best though) it is shattering and your eyes will tear up. Mad's rock is Klayton. 

Mad gets the closure she needs quite a few times is all I will say and that ending oh my, their love is mad, it isn't perfect and easy, but they were destined to share in this crazy, Mad Love. The title itself says it all, you will be mad at the turn of events, you will agree that Mad now is better than the old Madison and that there is no greater love than a Mad Love. This book may be hard to read for some, but put these topics aside and you will see a great story. There is only one scene that I could have did without and it wasn't her tragic one. Can't say what it was though to avoid a spoiler. You will fall in love with Klayton!