When I finished Redemptive, I was stunned. I don’t know what I was expecting from this book, but what I read was not what I saw coming. In Combative we meet a shy and troubled young woman and you don’t understand the extent of pain from her past and what happened until you read this book. It is shocking and mesmerizing to see both her strength in the chaos and the sadness in her existence in this story. The book starts off leading the reader straight into the thick of things, dropped hard into a world of lies and death. We see Bailey struggling to survive and her unlikely savior, Nate. This book has so much happening; it was a bit much to take in. Jay takes every single theme and emotion and creates a story that is heartbreaking and troubling. You leave with a better understanding of who Bailey is and why she reacts and functions the way she does in the present day.

When the story begins to unfold, I was nervous of the direction the story would lead. Bailey is in a tough situation and it only gets harder. Lines are blurred and reality becomes skewed. Redemptive is a high adrenaline story of the fight or flight mentality. Bailey, Nate, and Tiny are bound together in a world of chaos and danger, always waiting for the next shoe to drop. As you read this story, you are constantly wondering what will happen next and who will survive the fall out.

This book is told in both Bailey and Nate’s POVs. This presentation allows the reader to truly begin to understand the extent of emotion involved and the dependency they have on one another. Some dependency is obvious, whereas others grow and lurk beneath a warped reality. I am dying to know what happens in the third book of the trilogy. I would recommend reading Combative before starting this new release. Even if you have read it already, re-reading the story will bring everything you learn in Redemptive into sharp focus with what is happening in present day. Jay is a genius and her story is raw and dark. It seems like quite a venture from what I know from her writing, but it is beautifully done and adds great depth and  purpose to the Combative Trilogy!

Combative, the first book in the trilogy, is on sale for only 99 cents. You will need to read this book first in the series! Don’t miss out on this deal.

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We all play victims to our pasts; to the choices we make and the lives we create.
They define who we are.
And sometimes if we’re lucky enough, the past stays where it belongs: in the past.
I’m not one of the lucky ones.
I never have been.
Because now the past is knocking on my door, offering deals I have no choice but to take… deals that will help bring justice—not just for me, but for my brothers.

The problem?
The deal is a ticking time bomb.
One I didn’t know existed.

Tick.
Tock.

Jay McLean is an international best-selling author and full-time reader, writer of New Adult Romance, and most of all, procrastinator. When she’s not doing any of those things, she can be found running after her two little boys, playing house and binge watching Netflix. She writes what she loves to read, which are books that can make her laugh, make her hurt and make her feel.

Jay lives in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, in a forever half-done home where music is loud and laughter is louder.