The Hope We Dare by S Cole

The Hope We Dare by S Cole
Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado #7
March 19, 2026

⚡ Grumpy × Sunshine × Lightning
🏍️ Motorcycle Club Romance
🤕 Hurt/Comfort
☠️ Touch Her (or Him) & Die
❤️‍🔥 Age Gap
🔥 Why Choose / MMF / Closed triad
🖤 Established MM
⏳ Love Worth Waiting For

From USA Today best selling author Scarlett Cole, writing as S. Cole, comes an electrifying MMF, grumpy x sunshine x lightning, motorcycle club romance.

Isla
I wanted to be loved by a biker with my whole heart, but all they ever took was my body.
Somewhere along the way, I stopped recognizing the woman I’d become.
Inheriting my Nanna’s rundown house is the fresh start I need.
A life away from the club. Away from men who only ever take.
So the last thing I need is Jackal and Shade moving into the only other house on the street…and offering me more than just help with renovations.

Shade
I’ve never thought I was worth loving.
I’m grumpy, withdrawn, and come with baggage.
Jackal saw through all that and loved me anyway. For me, he chose monogamy.
Men like me don’t get one great love, let alone two.
But I’m looking at Isla differently now…and wondering if there’s a way to love her without destroying what we’ve built.

Jackal
I fell in love with Shade the day I met him, even though he had no intention of loving me back.
He wanted monogamy, and he was worth the sacrifice.
But now he’s looking at Isla the same way I am.
And I can’t stop imagining a life where the three of us choose each other.

Until violence hits, and we don’t know which of us is the target.
We’ve been given the kind of love you only dare to hope for.
And we’ll burn the world down to protect it.

 

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The Hope We Dare by Scarlett Cole
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

***Review copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads Blog***

The Hope We Dare is book seven in the Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado series, and apparently the final book. This is an MMF grumpy/sunshine biker/club‑girl romance that focuses on Jackal (Kai), Shade (Garrett), and Isla.

When we first met Jackal and Shade, they arrived as Iron Outlaw Nomads. Throughout the series, their strength, loyalty, and dominance have always shined through. Jackal and Shade are more than club brothers, more than friends, more than chosen family… they’re lovers. Their love for each other was swoony and genuinely adorable.

Isla was the girl you loved to hate throughout the series; catty, meddling, and always inserting herself into relationships she had no business touching. Who knew that underneath all that attitude was a desperate woman looking for love and fighting her own demons. She puts in the work here, facing her trauma and peeling back the masks, and she actually becomes a surprisingly pleasant person once you see the real her.

Their story blends violence, action, angst, and suspense. There’s also family drama, light spice, plot twists, and some good old‑fashioned redemption. Shade and Isla do a lot of growing in this book, and their similarities become more and more apparent. Jackal, Mr. Charismatic, is the glue that binds them all together, at least in my opinion.

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MEET THE AUTHOR:

Scarlett Cole is a contemporary romance and romantic suspense author who calls both Toronto, Canada and Manchester, England home. A born city dweller, she periodically quashes the urge to live in the country by hiking up a mountain to remind herself that living away from people would terrify the pants off her.

She believes everybody deserves their love story to be told and loves her heroes on the rough and rugged side…and usually tall (because she married one of those 6ft 6” men you read about in romance!). She’s an A-type personality and Scorpio star sign, so good luck getting her to do anything she doesn’t want to.

When she isn’t writing, she’s happy to talk hot men and expensive shoes while drinking a cold gin and tonic. Don’t bring up olives. As far as Scarlett is concerned, they are the devil’s food. As long as you don’t bring up olives, she’s happy to hear from any time.

Connect with S. Cole: https://www.instagram.com/scarlettcole/