Monday, May 16, 2016

Review, Excerpt & Giveaway:Charged by Jay Crownover

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From New York Times bestselling author Jay Crownover comes CHARGED, the latest in her sexy The Saints of Denver Series, releasing May 24th!

Known for her strong heroines and alpha males, you won't know what hit you as you read Avett and Quaid's story.


Keep reading for more about the Leagle Eagle and Avett and order your copy today. 

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About CHARGED

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Marked Men books comes the second installment in the Saints of Denver series featuring a bad girl and a by the book attorney who could be her salvation...or her ruin.

 

Avett Walker and Quaid Jackson’s worlds have no reason to collide. Ever. Quaid is a high powered criminal attorney as slick as he is handsome. Avett is a pink-haired troublemaker with a bad attitude and a history of picking the wrong men.

 

When Avett lands in a sea of hot water because of one terrible mistake, the only person who can get her out of it is the insanely sexy lawyer. The last thing on earth she wants to do is rely on the no-nonsense attorney who thinks of her as nothing more than a nuisance. He literally has her fate in his hands. Yet there is something about him that makes her want to convince him to loosen his tie and have a little fun…with her.

 

Quaid never takes on clients like the impulsive young woman with a Technicolor dye job. She could stand to learn a hard lesson or two, but something about her guileless hazel eyes intrigues him. Still, he’s determined to keep their relationship strictly business. But doing so is becoming more impossible with each day he spends with her.

 

As they work side-by-side, they’ll have to figure out a way to get along and keep their hands off each other—because the chemistry between them is beyond charged. 

Excerpt


Avett
             
I blew out a breath and felt that bottom I had careened onto reach up to embrace me even tighter. “It is what it is. I’ve let both my folks down a lot over the last few years but getting caught up with a guy that would rob the bar, a guy who could threaten my dad’s people.” I shook my head. “I deserve to rot.”
               I was being overly dramatic but that’s how I felt. I deserved to sit in jail and so much worse than that. Self-pity was good company down here at rock bottom and I wasn’t ready to let go of the warmth it provided just yet.
               He gave me a look I couldn’t read and headed for the door. “I’ll call your parents for you and see if we can have something in place before tomorrow. Working on your case will be a lot easier for both of us if you aren’t incarcerated. Remember, you need to listen to me, Ms. Walker. That’s the first rule in all of this.”
               Panic hit me like a truck. What if he called my dad and my dad told him he’d had enough of his problematic daughter and her endless nonsense? What if he couldn’t love me anymore? Jail I could survive; losing my father for good, well, it would be the end of me.
               Without thinking I jumped to my feet, which had the chains on both my hands and my legs rattling loudly, and two uniformed officers hurried into the room. I was about to make maybe the worst decision to date but I couldn’t stop the words from sliding off my tongue.
               “Don’t call my dad!” Recklessness, thy name was Avett Walker.
               The attorney turned around and looked at me like I had grown a second head. He didn’t say anything as the officers moved to either side of me and told me to calm down.
               “You can’t call my dad.” The words sounded as panicked and as desperate as I felt on the inside.
               His broad shoulders lifted and fell in a shrug like he really couldn’t give a shit that he was about to ruin my life…which was saying a hell of a lot considering where I was.
               “I have to.” He sounded bored and impatient with my outburst.
               I narrowed my eyes at him, and that vortex of awful, which I always seemed to be smack dab in the center of, started to spin faster and faster around me.
               “Then you’re fired.” I saw the cops exchange a look and my rushed words had the blond man turning fully back around to look at me. “I don’t want your help. I don’t want anything from you.”
               Finally, there was something other than indifference in his gaze. There was surprise, maybe a hint of admiration colliding with a huge splash of humor in the pale depths.
               “Sorry, Ms. Walker, but you didn’t hire me, so that means you don’t get to fire me.” That grin of his, which should be registered as a deadly weapon, flashed across his face again as he watched me, and then he was gone.

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What I thought about Charged

Let me start out by saying I love how the Saints of Denver series is coming together. Charged is the second book in the series, and I was totally captured by this tale of the lawyer and his client.

Avett is Bright's daughter and she's been in and out of trouble starting as a teen and into her adult years. Most of her troubles have been of the not-too-serious type, more annoying and disappointing than truly criminal.  But when she's arrested as an accessory to robbing Rome's Bar, she gets a taste of where her life is heading. It's a huge wake up call for her.


Quaid Jackson is the criminal attorney hired to represent her at the request of that "southern charmer" Asa.  Asa's familiar with this sort of trouble since he's been there before.  Quaid is the best, and when he meets with Avett for her preliminary hearing, he's immediately taken with her pink hair and her attitude. 


Things progress from that point, and when Avett is no longer Quaid's client, things really heat up between them. It's a good thing too, because Avett is going to need Quaid as the aftermath of the robbery and her ex-boyfriend try to implicate her further in a related drug case. 


What really made this a wonderful story is the introspection on the part of both Avett and Quaid.  They both have some serious decisions about how they want to live and their future. This brings them together on a level that's heartfelt and life-changing.  But when Avett realizes that she doesn't fit into Quaid's world, she has some serious choices to make. They both do.


Quaid is one hot lawyer too, not just in the courtroom and bedroom, but when it comes to protecting Avett, he's steps up to it, even though it might destroy his career.  I really loved so many things about him.  Avett was an interesting character to me as well, with her history of doing bad things, and her desire to change her life around, if only she thought she deserved it. There was a lot about Avett that rang true to me, especially how her guilt weighed her down.


There's some nice mentions of Rule and Rome and Asa has a role to play in Avett's recovery.  It's always nice to see characters from the previous series, and it's Rule and Rome so what more can I ask for!


While I think there were maybe some spots in Charged that could have been tweaked to be a little more suspenseful, I really enjoyed this title.  I love the misfit couples so far in the Saints of Denver series, and I hope there will be more cameos from Avett and Quaid as the series progresses. I'd like to know if their "happy for now" turns into a "happily ever after".


So overall, a great addition to this series.  Fans of Jay Crownover will love this, and new readers will too. 

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 About Jay Crownover:
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Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men, The Point, and the Saints of Denverseries. Like her characters, she is a big fan of tattoos. She loves music and wishes she could be a rock star, but since she has no aptitude for singing or instrument playing, she'll settle for writing stories with interesting characters that make the reader feel something. She lives in Colorado with her three dogs.      

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1 comment:

Stacy S said...

I would probably dye my hair, I've had subtle highlights but I'd want something more bold

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