Title: Deranged Ink, Book #2

Series: Inked Boys

Author: CA Harms

Genre/Tropes: Friends to Lovers, Second Chance, Tattooed Bad Boy

Release Date: October 31, 2023

Cover Design: Melissa Gill Designs

I’ve never been the kind of girl to take the easy way out. I learned at too young of an age there are no such things as fairy tales. Happy endings never came to people like me.

The tarnished ones.

I’m surrounded by a group that knows sadness too well. We know what it’s like to lose and be tossed away like last night's trash.

We are easy to blame for all the wrongs, because when others look at us, they see our scars. Most of our stories are told in the ink we bear, but we wear those tales proudly.

Oliver Riggins is the first man I’ve run across that made me feel like I could have more. But he’s also one of the many men who are more family to me than my own flesh and blood.

Four brothers by choice, they’ve taken me in, and treated me as one of their own.

The problem is, I’ve always wanted more from Oliver.

I’ve felt an instant connection to him from the first day I walked into Deranged Ink. But the fear of ruining what we have and then in the end not having him at all, that was too hard to bear.

So instead, I’ve sat back and watched the parade of women in his life, but with each one I feel a little part of me crumble away.

I want him, I’ve always wanted him.

Maybe it's time I stop running.

Maybe it's time I start fighting for the things I want.

“I kept telling myself that if I push everyone away hard enough, it will hurt less when everything blows up.” Luna whispers, with our lips only barely apart.

“But right now you’re hurting me.” Killing me is more like it. “I’m physically aching without you.”

Her body shudders.

“I don’t care about next week, hell next month or even next year. I care about now, and right now I need you. I need us, Luna, because I am falling apart slowly and you are the only person that can piece me back together.”

C.A. Harms is an avid romance and mystery reader. She's always had a love for books, getting lost in writing and storytelling even as a young girl. She enjoys happy endings and HEA love stories.

She lives in Illinois and enjoys spending time with her husband and two children. She holds an addiction for Starbucks White Chocolate Mocha’s and KitKat when she should really be focusing on water and maybe a fruit or two to make herself feel less guilty, but that feeling quickly passes...thankfully.

She is easy going, fun, and although she may seem like one of the quiet ones at first, you just wait until she gets to know you better...that quietness changes, fast.

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BLOGS REVIEW

Deranged Ink is a series and book two is on Oliver. While each can be read as a standalone, I will say I will prefer to read this set in order. You are set in a Tattoo shop setting with four men and then the lonely female, Luna. Reading these stories they all went through growing up and seeing how far they became is heartwarming cause not all chose the positive path in life when experiencing these events. We still see all the characters in this book and you will be laughing with Dumb and Dumber (you will get to see who these two are). They are funny and I cannot wait for their stories to be released. In this book we get Oliver and Luna. They are like family and both have hidden their feelings until one day when it comes to light. Do you explore these feelings and maybe ruin your friendship and work relationships or do you take the chance knowing that this may be the right move for them? Luna, like the men, has a past; however, the past is catching up to her. The suspense on this was spot on and did not disappoint. These tattooed bad boys (and Luna) will steal your heart (see all bad boys have soft hearts, they just choose to hide them well) and I look forward to seeing more of all these characters.