Blurb:
From NYT & USA Today bestselling author comes a new Bleeding Stars stand-alone novel…
She is his strength and he is her weakness. And this time he won’t let her go.
Edie Evans is gorgeous.
Sexy.
Kind.
She’s also the definition of off-limits.
But that didn't stop me from sneaking into her room to comfort her at night.
But guys like me? We destroy everything, so it should have been no surprise when I destroyed us, too.
The night I sent her running, I thought I’d never see her again.
Until I saw her standing like a vision in the crowd.
Austin Stone is dangerous.
Alluring.
Tempting.
He broke my heart and I refused to give him the chance to do it again.
It’s been years since I’ve seen him, and now I can’t do anything but stare at the gorgeous, tattooed man playing onstage. I should run. I know I should. But like a fool, I run straight back to him.
Our desire is overpowering.
Our need unrelenting.
Our need unrelenting.
She is my hope.
He is my weakness.
He is my weakness.
We should have known a passion this intense would burn us right into the ground.
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You owe me A.L. Jackson. You owe me a box of tissues and nice big dose of chocolate, because by the time I finished this book I was a freakin' mess!
This isn't an easy review to write simply because I don't want to give anything away by mistake. This book will take you on an emotional journey which finds Edie and Austin trying to deal with the result of fate bringing them together after betrayal tore them apart years earlier. Austin was already broken and attempting to deal with the demons in his life when he and Edie became friends...but little did they know they were destined to be soul mates. Edie had her own demons, yet somehow Edie and Austin managed to balance and trust each other; enough that Edie confided in Austin. Unfortunately Edie's secret comes out, albeit unintentionally, but that was enough to force her to leave. With her departure, Austin is broken even further.
Fate brings them together, and the passion they both have for each other is still just as strong as it was years earlier. It was beautiful to see them both begin to realize that together, they have a chance to begin to overcome their demons. And when Austin finally confesses his shame to Edie? Make sure you have an extra box of tissues on hand because you will definitely need them. My heart broke as I read his story about the demons he's been living with. But it was beautiful to see how each of them realized that they were able to draw strength from each other.
You owe me A.L. Jackson. You owe me a box of tissues and nice big dose of chocolate, because by the time I finished this book I was a freakin' mess!
This isn't an easy review to write simply because I don't want to give anything away by mistake. This book will take you on an emotional journey which finds Edie and Austin trying to deal with the result of fate bringing them together after betrayal tore them apart years earlier. Austin was already broken and attempting to deal with the demons in his life when he and Edie became friends...but little did they know they were destined to be soul mates. Edie had her own demons, yet somehow Edie and Austin managed to balance and trust each other; enough that Edie confided in Austin. Unfortunately Edie's secret comes out, albeit unintentionally, but that was enough to force her to leave. With her departure, Austin is broken even further.
Fate brings them together, and the passion they both have for each other is still just as strong as it was years earlier. It was beautiful to see them both begin to realize that together, they have a chance to begin to overcome their demons. And when Austin finally confesses his shame to Edie? Make sure you have an extra box of tissues on hand because you will definitely need them. My heart broke as I read his story about the demons he's been living with. But it was beautiful to see how each of them realized that they were able to draw strength from each other.
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Excerpt :
“Shit,” I hissed, bracing myself against the spray of the icy shards pelting from the shower head.
I sucked in a breath, released it between clenched teeth, and forced myself fully under it.
Head dropped and chest heaving as rivers of ice-cold water slicked down my shoulders and back.
But it did nothing to lessen the need. Gave me no sanity or pacification.
Because all I could think about was the girl on the other side of the door.
My girl.
In my bed.
Wearing just her panties and my shirt.
An angel I wanted to dirty.
I always had.
Love was messy like that.
All of my restraint scattered. I gripped my cock. Squeezed the base. My mouth dropped open at the pressure of my hand against my rigid length.
A fool thinking it might be enough.
Shit.
God, I was a bastard, but there was nothing I could do before I was giving in, leaning forward and bracketing my forearm above my head to hold my weight.
Water pounded down on my head and back while I pounded my fist against my dick.
Trying to keep silent when all I wanted was to moan, teeth digging into my bottom lip as I pictured the girl spread out for me.
My breaths were coming short.
Panted and hard.
I gave into imagining the sounds she would make when I finally got to bury myself in her body.
A soft, soft gasp.
I slowed, trying to convince myself that throaty sound was all in my mind.
Just another part of this fantasy.
Until I heard the small thump against the wall.
Shit.
I mashed my eyes closed, like it might hide me.
Conceal the depravity of my actions after I’d just been comforting her hours before.
Heart thrashing, I turned and moved far enough to peek out the small section where the fabric shower curtain hadn’t been drawn fully closed.
It was just a little sliver that left me exposed.
But it was enough. When I peered out, I was looking right at my girl pressed up against the wall.
She stared right back at me.
And I wanted to be horrified, my mind scrambling to conjure every weak apology I could summon. Ready to fucking grovel to keep her from turning and running once again.
Because that’s exactly what I expected her to do.
But her expression…her expression clutched me in the center of the chest and sent what little brain function I had left stampeding south.
Red, lush lips were parted, her hand pressed to her hollow of her throat, pupils dilated so big that her hooded, cerulean eyes appeared black. Needy breaths were coming at me from that sweet mouth like a goddamned freight train.
Desire swelled in the confines of the too-tight room.
Alive.
She pressed deeper into the wall as if it might support her weakened knees. Head rocked back. Thighs squeezing together.
Motherfuck.
My hand shot to the shower wall to steady myself. “Warning you, Edie, you need to get out of here. Right now.”
A.L. Jackson is the New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance. She writes emotional, sexy, heart-filled stories about boys who usually like to be a little bit bad.
Her bestselling series include THE REGRET SERIES, CLOSER TO YOU, as well as the newest BLEEDING STARS novels. Watch for the next installments, WAIT and STAY, coming in 2016.
If she’s not writing, you can find her hanging out by the pool with her family, sipping cocktails with her friends, or of course with her nose buried in a book.
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