Title: Mad Love
Series: Guns & Ink Series #1
Author: Shana Vanterpool
Genre: NA Romance/Contemporary
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Publisher: Swoon Romance
She was a disruption he never wanted.
He was everything she distrusted.
Klayton Caldwell owns a tattoo shop in Denver, Colorado, and has seen just about everything and met just about every kind of person. And they all have one thing in common. Ink.
He isn’t complicated. What you see is what you get. Sex? Always. Relationships? Never. Pleasantries? He doesn’t do that either. Those who can’t handle his mouth get inked elsewhere. Klayton holds everyone at a distance, even his friends. He doesn’t do “close.”
Until Madison ends up in his tattoo parlor, broken, afraid and alone. There’s something about her, and almost immediately, Klayton’s guard drops. Now, everything he knows about himself changes as his life begins to unravel.
Twenty-year-old Madison Hart’s future was taken from her the moment she was abducted from her college campus and held captive by a sicko. After escaping, she flees, running into a stranger. A stranger who shares a similar past. Someone who might be able to help her heal. If she’ll let him.
Madi comes into Klayton’s life like a storm. She’s beautiful. Pitiful. Dangerous. Her pain runs deep enough that she may never be able to talk about what she’s experienced. Her refusal to talk takes a level of patience Klayton’s not sure he has.
He must navigate her broken pieces by changing everything he is. Who he’s been all these years won’t work anymore. But Madi fights him, she fights herself. She fights the madness.
She refuses to talk. He can’t control his mouth. She doesn’t want to be touched. He can’t help himself. They don’t want love. Inside this storm, is a love so mad it might destroy them both.
MAD LOVE is book 1 in the Guns & Ink series from Shana Vanterpool. Look for the rest of the Guns & Ink series coming soon from Swoon Romance.
Until Madison ends up in his tattoo parlor, broken, afraid and alone. There’s something about her, and almost immediately, Klayton’s guard drops. Now, everything he knows about himself changes as his life begins to unravel.
Twenty-year-old Madison Hart’s future was taken from her the moment she was abducted from her college campus and held captive by a sicko. After escaping, she flees, running into a stranger. A stranger who shares a similar past. Someone who might be able to help her heal. If she’ll let him.
Madi comes into Klayton’s life like a storm. She’s beautiful. Pitiful. Dangerous. Her pain runs deep enough that she may never be able to talk about what she’s experienced. Her refusal to talk takes a level of patience Klayton’s not sure he has.
He must navigate her broken pieces by changing everything he is. Who he’s been all these years won’t work anymore. But Madi fights him, she fights herself. She fights the madness.
She refuses to talk. He can’t control his mouth. She doesn’t want to be touched. He can’t help himself. They don’t want love. Inside this storm, is a love so mad it might destroy them both.
MAD LOVE is book 1 in the Guns & Ink series from Shana Vanterpool. Look for the rest of the Guns & Ink series coming soon from Swoon Romance.
Book #2 Hard Love - Cat and Brando
Book #3 Bad Love - Isaiah & Bell
This book had me hooked right from the prologue, and didn't let me go until I finished. It's rare that I read a book in one sitting, but this is one that I couldn't stop until I got to the end.
Told from both points of view, we get the story of Klayton and Madison, two people from vastly different backgrounds, but their experiences have left them both broken in their own way. Since we're meeting Madison for the first time since her traumatic ordeal, we're meeting the Madison who is learning how to navigate her new reality.
Despite Klayton's reluctance, he agrees to provide shelter to Madison. Klayton is the man who has no use for people, and has allowed only one person to breach his defenses and that's Cat, a young woman he's known for several years. Klayton is pretty content to live an almost hermit-type lifestyle, until Cat brings Madison into his inner sanctum. The more time they're in each other's orbit, the more walls are breached; although with Madison, it's usually two steps forward, 49 steps backward.
Given Madison's recent ordeal, I wouldn't say there's a lot of push and pull between her and Klayton, but it is there. He recognizes that she needs help he can't provide, yet he doesn't want to let her go, and Madison doesn't want to go anywhere without Klayton, he being the one of two people she knows she can be with.
There's a HEA for Klayton and Madison, but it was a hard-fought battle for them to get there, but the glimpse we get of them a few years after they meet shows how Madison was able to blend the halves of her before and after her ordeal into the woman she is at the end and it was great. Now I'm really looking forward to Cat's story next!
Romance author, coffee drinker, and bad boy aficionado. Every second not spent breathing is an opportunity to write and read. I live in Northern California with my family and actress dog, Halle Bella. (Just Bella when she decides to cut the crap.) Escaping with a good book is something I live for and I write so others can do the same.
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