Northern Roots Atlantic Book 3: Bump Start by Eve Holmes

 

Northern Roots Atlantic Book 3

When control slips and chaos calls, some collisions are inevitable.

Cade Cormier is a brilliant quantum mechanics professor who can easily explain how energy behaves in the universe. But he can’t explain its absence within himself. Numbness has become his only constant, and he’s chased every force he can find to push back against it. But when drinking and self-destruction leave him emptier than ever, a different kind of force comes crashing into his orbit, and sets a collision in motion.

Alder Roy has spent his life balancing control with chaos—and bleeding for both. As Vice President of New Brunswick’s outlaw motorcycle club, the Basin Kings, he’s built his reputation on fear, loyalty, and danger. But when a rival club starts pushing in, threatening to drown the province in the kind of violence the Kings don’t want on their soil, Alder is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect what’s his. And that includes Cade.

As Cade’s hunger for danger grows, Alder’s obsession with him deepens, and each crack in Cade’s walls gives Alder more to protect… and more to lose. One fights to hold his world together while the other tears his apart—each driven by forces they can’t control.

In New Brunswick, where powerful tides transform landscapes in hours, winding roads cut through unforgiving forests, and cliffs crumble, nature doesn’t wait for permission—and neither can they.

They could be the force that holds each other up against the pull of destruction.

They just need to find balance in the collision.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241600016-bump-start

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My Review: 5/5 Stars

Absolutely loved this story! I could not put it down. Cade has been struggling for a long time. And lately, his depression has gotten worse. He’s numb and very few things break through that numbness. But then he meets Alder and bit by bit, he starts to feel alive again. The moment Alder sees Cade, he knows he is done for. There is something about Cade that draws Alder in and from the moment they talk and hook up, Alder is addicted. They understand one another in a way many don’t. And Alder can see behind the walls that Cade gives everyone to hide his pain. And while he sees the drowning, he also sees a spark that hasn’t quite been extinguished yet. So he’ll be there for Cade and stand by his side as he fights his way out of the darkness. And as Cade battles his own inner demons, Alder is fighting some real ones since he is part of Basin Kings, a motorcycle club, that is being threatened. But Alder protects those who are his and he will do whatever it takes to make them safe. I adored this story. It was just so good. You can feel every bit of pain that Cade is struggling with and you root for him to keep fighting and find a way to get the help he needs. And I loved Cade and Alder’s relationship. Alder knew when to give Cade exactly what he needed and never pushed. He was this sturdy presence who just saw Cade and understood. Something Cade just needed. They had a great connection and banter and just a love so deep, you can feel it every time they were together. Loved, loved this story! This series is just so fantastic. Giving us such complex characters and a love between them that is just everything. Definitely check this story out! I can’t wait for the next one.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest.