Knights of the Road: Curvy & Alpha Menage

By Q. Zayne

A curvy young woman escaped from a maniac. Her trucker fiance will do anything to protect her. His vigilante ex-con buddies patrol the roads to stop the crimes. And the killer prepares to take her again.

If you enjoy strong curvy women and fierce alphas with heart, crime fiction, and super hot menage, get ready for a thrill ride. Shelby's unprotected ride might result in baby passengers before this eighteen-wheeler adventure is over.

Although Knights of the Road can be read on its own, for greatest enjoyment, read the previous three parts first.
Truckers
Truckers Lyle
Truckers Tyrone

Warning: Dark, gritty, dangerous, and intense. Knights of the Road contains emotional and detailed scenes for adults 18+. It's a complete novella, no cliffhanger. Come on in for a hard ride.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Q. Zayne
• Release date: Oct 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463968284

Q. Zayne

Q. Zayne often appears on top 100 author lists. Q. minored in Classical Archaeology and has an MFA in Creative Writing from SFSU. After teaching at the university, working as an editor, and freelancing, the author embarked on a wild digital publishing adventure. Thanks to fabulous readers, super promoters, and unflagging supporters, Q. writes fiction for a living from the Yucatan, Central America, and the California coast.Check out the Quin Zayne books for dirty, high-heat romance, and Q. Zayne for Erotica and naughty fairy tales.

Book preview

I. The Nightmare

Into the Dark

DEAR READER,

Knights of the Road takes up where Truckers—Tyrone ends. For full enjoyment, read the series in order.

Truckers (Buck & Gia)

Truckers—Lyle

Truckers—Tyrone

Knights of the Road

Anyone sensitive to being triggered may want to exit now.

When I wrote Truckers, I intended it as a standalone short story. It was the first of a group of 3-on-1 ‘alphas-taking-curvy-virgins’ shorts. I followed it with Mechanics and Shrinks. Later, I wrote Hard Hats, with two men sharing a virgin instead of three. Most recently, three Pipe Layers initiate an untouched college student at her family’s lakeside cabin.

Truckers became so popular, I wrote a sequel from the point of view of Lyle, my silver fox. For many reasons, it’s one of my favorite stories. His pain, redemption, and his finding such a good, fitting, fated love, moved me. He and Liliana are a remarkable couple. They had a tough journey to the happiness they found.

Truckers—Tyrone surprised me by getting to me even harder than Lyle’s story. Tyrone is my youngest trucker, and his story came out deeper and grittier than I would have intended if I’d planned these books as a series. After all, this is menage erotica, not a novel. Tyrone entranced me, and I went with his story, even though it’s emotionally intense in ways that are unusual for short erotica. Shelby is strong and has the heart and courage to match Ty. I had to cut Tyrone’s story short. It was tough to do, but I have to publish often. Running out of money in Mexico isn’t something I want to experience.

Thank you for your patience with the time it took to complete Knights of the Road. I started it in Merida, the capital of the Yucatan near the tip of Mexico, and finished it in view of the Caribbean sea near the Belize border.

This is Tyrone’s story, and in a larger sense, it’s the story of a town split by violence, a town much like the one where I grew to adulthood. It was common for girls and young women to go missing and end up dead at the hands of predators.

Those crimes continue, perpetrated by men who target girls and women of all kinds and of all ages. This story is passionate and idealistic. It’s also the story of people committed to creating a better world, and of friendships that help damaged people rise and create good lives. Community and polyamory influenced me deeply in my twenties, and I was a volunteer training assistant in a karate-based self defense program.

Knights of the Road is not a romance, although it includes deeply-felt love and tenderness of a tough man for the woman who opened his heart. Tyrone and Shelby got together in the previous story. It’s not strictly erotica, although it includes hot, detailed sex scenes. In addition to one-on-one lovemaking and the deliciousness of multiple-men on one woman sex, it extends into intense rituals of honoring the victims and coming into power at multiple levels. It’s fantasy fulfillment multiple kinds. Part of that fantasy is justice and a safer world.

When I was eighteen, one of my college classmates was raped. A few years later, a lover told me about her missing brother. He was still missing, many years after his disappearance. Those facts bear no resemblance to the details of what happened to the women or to Tyrone’s brother, yet those stories and other painful ones never leave me.

One of the challenges in finishing this story is that the series shifted into romantic suspense with supernatural underpinnings. The concepts of expiation and redemption run through the series, as the men who have worked so hard to pull their lives together take it to a new level when they find love. They, and the women they love, are heroes. Although there are glimmers of powers beyond the norm, these people are at heart a celebration of outsiders I’ve known who overcome being shattered. It’s an homage to ordinary heroes, those who lose their lives too soon, those who deal with the challenges of PTSD, and those who grieve and find their way back to a full life, honoring the loved ones they’ve lost.

Please note: Some of the material is painful, although the book concludes in a good place. It’s up to you whether reading disturbing material, detailed sex, mature situations, moral ambiguity, and potential triggers is okay for you.

In Knights of the Road, you get to catch up with all the couples. At the end, in an outtake from Gia’s point of view, she and Liliana share happy news.

I’m looking out at palm trees in the wind, not wanting to let go of this book. Perhaps, sometime ahead, the better life I envision will allow me to return to my knights.

For now, I leave them to you.

Q.

Quintana Roo, Mexico

TYRONE

My phone vibrating on the nightstand woke me. It flashed electric blue like an updated bat signal. I checked the alarm clock. Three-thirteen in the morning, damn. But it was Lyle. I grabbed my cell and slid out of bed real easy to keep from waking Shelby.

I answered the call in the bathroom, keeping my voice low. What’s up?

He struck again.

Oh, shit, no.

Hang on. The woman he grabbed is okay.

What happened?

He grabbed her when she got to her car, but she had great reflexes. She’s a postal worker, had dog repellent in reach.

Good. Part of me was cheering the woman for spraying the predator, part of me was amped to get back to Shelby and hold her in my arms. I hated to think of that killer out there, too damned close.

Where was this?

At the mall. The new trucker, Ramon, was passing on his way to Stockton, saw her running like crazy across the highway and pulled over to help. He got a partial license plate on a white van that sped out of the mall’s lot. The driver was probably looking for the woman who got away. Ramon put in a call to his brother who works in the emergency room, in case the fucker goes in. The killer might not go to the hospital, but it’s worth a shot.

I’m glad our alert to all the knights did some good.

Yeah. Ramon was too modest to come out with it, but that stretch of road outside the mall could have been deadly for the killer’s latest target. There’s no place to hide. Ramon’s fast action probably saved her life.

Wow. It feels like it was meant to happen. That he had to be right there for her, right then.

"Yeah, I feel that, too. The clerk, her name’s Cass, was willing to call the police. He stayed with her and took notes. The killer was wearing a hoodie and shades. She did well on the description despite that. Fair skin, freckles, lean, tall, strong, wide mouth, a crooked incisor. No tats or anything that she noticed, but the guy