From New York Times bestselling author Jay Crownover comes Charged, the latest in her sexy 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 pre-order your copy today.
Charged
Saints of Denver #2
Jay Crownover
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publication Date: May 24, 2016
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.
Charged is a book you will not want to miss. You can pre-order your copy today from the retailers listed below! This book will be LIVE on May 24, 2016!
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I have mad love for Jay’s stories and her wonderful characters. Her stories have a way of taking me into a new situation and looking at something I might not normally see with new eyes. I love diving head first into her books, knowing something exciting will happen to expand my ideas and thoughts. Charged is no different! Quaid and Avett are real people. They are people you would pass on the street; people just trying to navigate their lives and find their place in the world. If you put them side by side, at a glance, they would never make sense, but when Jay draws you into their story, having these two unconnected seems like a travesty. I love how opposites seem to attract but when healing and hope become a part of the story, how different are they really?
This story overlaps with the first full length novel in the series. We see Quaid transform in major ways. When I met him in Built, I was intrigued but also annoyed by this pretentious attitude. He seems to have it all and expects everything to work in his favor. Yet the more you learn of his past and the wounds that run deep in his heart, you see the façade for what it is. His brokenness is attracted to the wild brokenness and abandon in Avett. Avett’s pain manifests in her poor choices, the reason she lands in Quaid’s path. She has been dealt a rough life through her choices and the resulting circumstances and she continues to add recklessness to the ever growing stack against her. It seems like two broken people shouldn’t be able to fix each other but when they come together and reveal their hearts and history, healing happens. They each bring something very different to the table, which makes it all work. Their story could go any number of ways, but the beauty of their romance is that there are infinite possibilities.
This story is softer. More of a slow burn romantic story. Avett and Quaid are surrounded by a fabulous cast of characters, bringing in faces we recognize from Jay’s other series and new ones to wonder about. Jay does a great job of sharing the meaning of family, unconditional love, and hope, while also allowing us to understand despair, anger, and hardship. Charged is a free flowing story of love and life, and I loved every minute of it.
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.
Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men, The Point, and the Saints of Denver series. 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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