From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Jay Crownover,
comes the next title in her The Breaking Point romantic suspense series, RESPECT.
Don’t miss the amazing excerpt below, and order your copy today!
About RESPECT:
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess who called a corrupt kingdom home sweet home.Protected and sheltered from the worst the world had to offer, she fell in love with the crumbling city that burned and blazed around her. Every dirty corner, every scary shadow, found a place within her heart. So did a man who was violent and dangerous, just like the streets she claimed as her own.
He was all business and brutality, except when it came to her. With her, he was calm, caring, and heartbreakingly patient.
He warned her over and over that he wasn't the man for her, but she refused to listen. She never expected either the streets or their enforcer to hurt her, since she'd given her heart so completely to both.
She should have known the streets in the Point were always going to be savage, and so was the man committed to keeping control of them in the hands of criminals and bloody kingpins.
Blindsided by a betrayal which cut so deeply she was sure the wounds would never heal, the princess fled the home she loved and the man who broke her heart. Throwing away her rusted, twisted crown was supposed to help her forget. All it did was make her long for everything she left behind. She told herself she would never go back, but in this tormented kingdom, family is everything. Eventually, she has no choice but to return.
While she was gone, the people who loved her worked hard to make the city safe, and the man who destroyed her sank deeper into the darkness. Going back shouldn't feel like surrender... but it does. As this pretty princess hovers on the edge of the unknown, the past attacks with a vengeance. It's a good reminder that puppy love eventually grows up and turns into something with sharp teeth and one hell of a bite.
She never asked for the keys to the kingdom. She'd much rather go out and build her own.
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EXCERPT:
~Karsen~
I had no plans to leave the Point. It was ugly, mean, hard,
and unforgiving, but these streets were home and I couldn’t imagine being happy
anywhere else. This place had long since made my hands and the edges of my soul
dirty. It was something I would be hard-pressed to hide should I go anywhere
else. I’d have to spend my days trying to camouflage the filth I was so
familiar with. Here, no one looked twice at the pretty teenager with shadows in
her eyes and blood on her hands. I was one of many.
I wasn’t interested in leaving behind my sister or her
fiancé, Race. We were an odd, dysfunctional family, but we made it work.
I didn’t want to be too far away from my mother, who was
living in a group home as she slowly, painfully tried to recover from her
alcoholism and PTSD from an accident she caused that ended up taking the life
of a young mother and her child.
But more than anything, I absolutely didn’t want to leave him.
I couldn’t imagine a day going by without catching a glimpse
of Noah Booker. I mean, he was impossible to miss. Six-and-a-half-feet tall,
body built like a professional athlete, dark and brooding with the prettiest
gunmetal-gray eyes, he was the entirety of every one of my teenage fantasies. I
barely noticed the jagged scar dividing one side of his face. White and raised,
it cut one of his black eyebrows in half, slashed over a high cheekbone, and
ended somewhere under the chiseled edge of his hard jaw. He never talked about
it, but Race, Booker’s boss, let it slip that Booker got the scar when he was
locked up. Or maybe it wasn’t as much of a slip-up as a thinly veiled warning.
Race never kept it much of a secret that my infatuation with his massive,
dangerous, ex-con enforcer made him extremely uncomfortable. He’d warned me
over and over again that Booker wasn’t for me. And he’d made it clear to the
man who broke knees and smashed heads for a living that he was to stay as far
away from me as possible.
They called it puppy love. It wasn’t.
To me, it was a vicious kind of love, filled with teeth and
claws that I could feel digging at my insides every single time someone patted
me on the head and told me how young I was, how much life I had yet to live.
This love was rabid, and I was tired of having it on a leash. I wanted to let
it free, wanted to let it sink its razor-sharp fangs into the man who had
awoken the primal need inside of me. It was only fair he felt the same kind of
crushing bite and painful pressure around his heart that I did every single
day.
I was solely focused on getting to Booker. It barely
registered I was done with high school and had new doors opening all around me.
I couldn’t care less about getting my hands on my diploma. A piece of paper
with Karsen Carter written on it in pretty calligraphy meant exactly nothing to
me. The only thing I was focused on was the fact I was finally old enough to
make my own choices. And I’d always picked Booker. Over and over again he was
my number one priority.
And don’t miss the first titles in The Breaking Point series, HONOR and DIGNITY! Grab your copy today!
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About Jay Crownover: Jay Crownover is the international and multiple New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men Series, The Saints of Denver Series, the Point Series, the Breaking Point Series, and the Getaway Series. Her books can be found translated in many different languages all around the world. She is a tattooed, crazy haired Colorado native who lives at the base of the Rockies with her awesome dogs. This is where she can frequently be found enjoying a cold beer and Taco Tuesdays. Jay is a self-declared music snob and outspoken book lover who is always looking for her next adventure, between the pages and on the road.
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