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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, and BLEEDING STARS novels. Watch for A.L. Jackson’s upcoming novel, MORE OF YOU, the first stand-alone novel in her brand-new CONFESSIONS OF THE HEART SERIES.
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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Christopher Moore gave up on the idea of love years ago. Now, his life is an endless string of parties and an even longer string of girls. Enjoying the physical perks with none of the emotional mess, hes convinced everyone that hes satisfied—everyone but himself.
Samantha Schultz has moved on with her life. Finishing her student teaching and living with her boyfriend, shes deluded herself into believing shes content. But there is one boy she never forgot—her first love—and she keeps the memory of him locked up tight. She will never allow any man to break her the way Christopher did.
When Christopher's sister and her family move into a new neighborhood, Christopher is completely unprepared to find Samantha living at the end of the street. Memories and unspent desires send them on collision course of sex, lies, and lust. But when guilt and fear send Samantha running, Christopher will have to fight for what has always been his.
Release date: April 7th, 2015
Published by: NAL
Page numbers: 445
Review-
I had
really enjoyed the first book in A.L.Jackson's Closer to You series. Come
To Me Recklessly is the third book in the series which is the story of
Aly's brother Christopher and Samantha. I have to admit I did not enjoy this
book much. I just had way too many issues with it. The only thing good about
the book was the writing and what parts we got about Jared and Aly.
So let's start with this. We have Christopher who has given up on love when he
was sixteen and he lost the girl he loved. Now his life is filled with parties
and hook ups. The only good thing in his life is Aly and Jared and their
daughter Ella. But things change when Samantha walks back in. The simplest way
to put this would be to say that Christopher was an asshole for half the book.
He does improve but he is very much stuck in his spiral of pain.
Then we have Samantha. Samantha was portrayed to be a really nice and innocent
person but then she started spewing all these lies and I couldn't see what
Christopher saw in her. The worst thing, and this may be a minor spoiler was
the cheating. I hated that Samantha cheated on her live in boyfriend. Yes, he
may be an ass but I think she could have handled things much differently.
Christopher and Samantha defintiely have chemistry. They had been together in
the past despite the odds and they do love each other still. The book goes in
the present with flashbacks from the past. But I felt that the misunderstanding
between them was quite silly. I felt that the conflict was not strong enough to
have kept them apart for seven years.
So, yeah Christopher and Samantha irritated me. But I liked all the bits where
we see how Jared and Aly are doing. They have come a long way. I also enjoyed
Samantha's younger brother Stewart and how his plot went. Come To Me Recklessly
was an okay read for me.
The first sexy, captivating,
stand-alone novel in the brand-new FIGHT FOR ME series from NYT &
USA Today Bestselling Author A.L. Jackson . . .
Rex Gunner. As bitter as he is
beautiful.
The owner of the largest
construction company in Gingham Lakes has been burned one too many times. His
wife leaving him to raise their daughter was the last blow this single dad
could take. The only woman he’ll let into his heart is his little girl.
Rynna Dayne. As vulnerable as she is
tempting.
She ran from Gingham Lakes when she
was seventeen. She swore to herself she would never return. Then her
grandmother passed away and left her the deed to the diner that she once loved.
When Rex meets his new neighbor, he
knows he’s in trouble.
She’s gorgeous and sweet and
everything he can’t trust.
Until she becomes the one thing he
can’t resist.
One kiss sends them tumbling toward
ecstasy.
But in a town this size, pasts are
bound to collide. Caught in a web of lies, betrayal, and disloyalty, Rex must
make a choice.
Will he hide behind his walls or
will he take the chance . . .
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, and BLEEDING STARS novels. Watch for A.L. Jackson’s upcoming novel, SHOW ME THE WAY, the first stand-alone novel in her brand-new FIGHT FOR ME SERIES.
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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“Stay is a power, heart-wrenching story that will consume you heart and soul, leaving you utterly breathless days after the last page is read.” - Kelly Elliott New York Times bestselling author
Synopsis:
From NYT & USA
Today Bestselling Author A.L. Jackson comes the next sexy, gripping Bleeding
Stars Stand-Alone Novel…
I’m Ash Evans.
The life of the party.
Hot. Rich. Charismatic.
A tattooed rock star with the world at my feet.
I burn through women faster than the strike of a match.
I’ve embraced my
lifestyle and live it to the fullest.
Until the day my lifestyle caught up to me.
Willow Langston
found me at my lowest.
Literally.
Facedown in a puddle of my own blood.
I owe her my life
and I have three months to repay that debt.
What I never should have done was touch her. Kiss her. Take her to my bed.
Love wasn’t
supposed to be a part of the equation.
I gave up that nasty complication a long damned time ago.
Now I want her more than my next breath.
But she doesn’t know what I know.
Do I leave to
protect her? Or can I face my demons and ask her to Stay?
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.
She is my hope.
He is my weakness.
We should have known a passion this intense would burn us right into the ground.
"Meaningful. Mesmerizing. Magnificent...5 but should be 10 beautiful, broken, brilliant, and imperfectly perfect stars .” Karen, Bookalicious Babes Blog
"A beautifully written story about broken hearts and unshakable longing, about second chances and third chances and a whispered hope for a happily ever after. Intensely felt on every level, Edie and Austin’s story will own you." Vilma, Vilma’s Book Blog
“Beautiful. Sexy. Dripping with tenderness. I felt the emotion in this story all the way to my toes.” Mia Sheridan, NYT Bestselling Author
“6 Stars - Wait is equally devastating and beautiful! A.L. Jackson has a way of pouring words onto a page that makes you crave every piece of a story.” Molly McAdams, NYT Bestselling Author
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Excerpt
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“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.
UntilI 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’tbeen
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 mein 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.
Be sure not to miss new releases and sales from A.L. Jackson - Sign up to receive her newsletter http://bit.ly/NewsFromALJackson or text “jackson” to 96000 to receive short but sweet updates on all the important news.
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.
She is my hope.
He is my weakness.
We should have known a passion this intense
would burn us right into the ground.
I gripped the railing as if it might
propel me forward. Instead, my footsteps faltered and slowed. I stood facing
away, my back heaving as his consuming presence swarmed over me from behind.
“Please.” This time it was a whisper. A
plea.
Sincere.
Slowly I turned.
Drawn.
He’d always been my weakness.
Austin stood at the end of the walkway,
just outside the reach of the lights, his body obscured in shadows.
Even larger than I’d imagined when I’d
first seen him up on stage.
So foreign.
So familiar.
My heart ached. Because I was looking
at the boy who’d been my best friend. The one person who I’d thought would
completely understand. One who wouldn’t judge or make it hurt more than it
already did.
He’d been my safety.
My haven.
Until he’d dragged me right back into
hell.
“Why are you here?” My words cracked.
“H-h-how…how did you find me?”
I saw the shake of his head, and he took
a single step forward, out of the shadows and into the glow of the single lamp
attached high on the exterior wall that lit the way.
It hit him like a spotlight.
The boy was so beautiful.
It was a threatening kind of beauty, a
whorl of mystery and pain, sharp lines and corded muscle.
It almost dropped me to my knees.
He fisted his hands at his sides. The
question was strained, hard as it pressed from his mouth. “You believe in fate,
Edie?”
Old grief I’d bottled for so long
burst. It came out as some kind of maniacal cry. Incredulous. Oozing disbelief.
“After everything that happened…that’s what you’re going to ask me?”
“Edie…I—”
“Do you have any idea how badly you
hurt me?” I cut him off, my own hands fisting as I took a single step
forward. “The damage you caused?
Careless words, Austin. So fucking careless, thrown out there without a single
thought to the repercussions, without any consideration of how they would
affect me. How they would change my life. You promised.” My brow twisted
with the accusation. “And now you have the nerve to stand there and ask me if I
believe in fate?”
I swallowed hard, shook my head. “You
can go to straight to hell, Austin Stone.”
He laughed, but there was zero humor
behind it. “Come on, Edie. You can do better than that, can’t you? Considering
you know hell is where I’ve been all along, and you and I both know I deserve
so much worse. And yeah…those words were reckless, but you know they weren’t
heedless. You couldn’t expect me to just stand there. Not with him. Not with what he was saying.
Implying. I couldn’t.” The last
cracked on the emphasis.
I felt as if every cell in my body was
being crushed. Squeezed so tight there was no chance but for everything to
implode.
“And because you lost it, I lost it
all. You. My home. My future.”
His big hands fisted. “I know. I…I
fucked it up, Edie. Warned you, I always fuck it up.”
But what he failed to say was he’d promised he wouldn’t fuck it up with me.
I couldn’t tell if I was relieved or
terrified when Jed suddenly rounded the corner. His sister, Blaire, was hot on
his heels.
“Edie,” Jed gushed out in relief when
he saw me. He came to a stop a few steps behind Austin.
As if he’d just stepped into the bristling
intensity and it tripped up his feet.
The stand-off.
The war.
Austin standing there? I knew that’s
exactly what this was going to be.
“What the hell is going on here?” Jed
demanded. His voice twisted into a threat. He glared at the back of Austin’s
head, worried eyes flicking to me, hardening when they snapped back to Austin.
Blaire tugged at his arm. “Jed…I told
you to give her a minute. Sometimes you need to let people sort out their own
issues.”
Jed just grunted and shrugged off her
arm.
Refusing to budge.
Austin swung his head to look behind
him. When he did, his face shifted to the side, all those hard, beautiful lines
exposed in profile, his expression winding into a bitter sneer. “Nah, man.
All’s good here. Just telling an old friend hi. Isn’t that right, Edie?”
Aggression curled between them.
Alive and raging.
Jed was a burly, beefy, hulk of a man,
a full beard covering most of his face, his brown hair cut short at the sides
and longer on top.
Had Iever imagined him and Austin going
toe to toe, I would have put all my money on Jed.
Now I wasn’t so sure.
Jed lifted his chin, as if for the
moment he was standing down, turning to me as his tone softened. “You okay,
Edie?”
I nodded. “Yeah, I’m okay.”
Lie. Lie. Lie.
I was shaken to my core.
“I just want to go home.” It left me on
a desperate breath.
Jed pushed around Austin and stalked my
way. “All right, let’s get you out of here.”
As she passed by Austin, Blaire cast a
searching glance in his direction, before her attention flickered over to me,a
ton of worried questions moving across her expression.
Questions I didn’t know if I had the
strength to answer.
With an arm wound around my shoulder, Jed
spun me, breaking the spell Austin had me under, and tucked me into his side.
Protecting and shielding.
He began to lead me away, down the
planks and toward his car waiting in the parking lot out front.
With each step we took, I could feel
the heat of Austin’s stare. That burning intensity I wasn’t sure I could ever escape.
The hurt and hatred.
It was a hatred I couldn’t tell who it
was directed at.
If it was aimed at him or me or the
rest of the world that had threatened to choke the life out of us.
The world we were supposed to take on
together.
Just as we started to round the corner,
I paused because I just couldn’t stop myself, turned to look back at the man
who stood there staring back at me.
Emotion gripped his expression just as
tight as the clench of his fists.
Hard and tortured.
As if I was the one inflicting the
pain.
I choked down the sorrow that rose like
a cyclone, spinning and spinning, whipping up the old affection that longed for
that soft, understanding boy to take me in his arms and sing in my ear.
Dangerous.
I searched inside myself for the shelter
that secured my heart. The flimsy cover I wore that just barely kept me
together. I forced myself to speak the words I knew would drive him away, as
much of a lie as they were. “And for the record…no, Austin, I definitely don’t
believe in fate.”
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.
Be sure not to miss new releases and sales
from A.L. Jackson - Sign up to receive her newsletter
http://bit.ly/NewsFromALJackson or text “jackson” to 96000 to receive short but
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