Sunday, June 18, 2017

Salvaged (A Saints of Denver Novel) by Jay Crownover *~*~*~*~* Pre-order, Blog Tour & Review

   

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover continues her delightfully sexy Saints of Denver series with the next thrilling standalone, SALVAGED! Order your copy today!


   

Hudson Wheeler is a nice guy. Everyone knows it, including his fiancée who left him with a canceled wedding and a baby on the way. He’s tired of finishing last and is ready to start living in the moment with nights soaked in whiskey, fast cars, and even faster girls. He’s set to start living on the edge, but when he meets Poppy Cruz, her sad eyes in the most gorgeous face he’s ever seen hook him in right away. Wheeler can see Poppy’s pain and all he wants to do is take care of her and make her smile, whatever it takes.

Poppy can’t remember a time when she didn’t see strangers as the enemy. After a lifetime of being hurt from the men who swore to protect her, Poppy’s determined to keep herself safe by keeping everyone else at arm’s length. Wheeler’s sexy grin and rough hands from hours restoring classic cars shouldn’t captivate her, but every time she’s with him, she can’t help being pulled closer to him. Though she’s terrified to trust again, Poppy soon realizes it might hurt even more to shut Wheeler out—and the intense feelings pulsing through her are making it near impossible to resist him.
The only thing Poppy is sure of is that her heart is in need of some serious repair, and the more time she spends with Wheeler, the more she’s convinced he’s the only man with the tools to fix it.
   

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EXCERPT:

I put my hands to my cheeks and held my face. I could feel heat under the surface and I could hear the rush of blood between my ears. 

“Are you going to be okay? Do you need me to get you something? Should I grab Dixie?” He sounded genuinely concerned about me and that only made me shake even harder.

“No, I’m fine.” I wasn’t fine and hadn’t been in a very long time. “Dixie is in Mississippi. She took Dolly down because Church moved into the house he rented for them and she wanted the dog to get used to their new home and so she could see what it was like to have a yard.” I was babbling but I couldn’t stop the words from pouring out. “How do you move me without laying a hand on me?”

He looked up from where he was watching the puppy dig into his chow. Those blue eyes were like lasers as they cut into me from across the room. He put his hands on the counter and leaned forward. “What are you talking about?” His voice held that same even tone but there was something in it, some deeper note, that let me know he knew exactly what I was talking about. 

I wrapped my arms around myself in a protective hug and met his look with a pointed one of my own. “I get stuck, frozen with fear. I end up caught between memories and reality. Most people grab my arm or touch me somewhere to get me moving again. Either that or they go around me like I’m in the way. You made me move without doing anything.”

His eyebrows shot up and the corners of his mouth pulled down in a frown. “People shouldn’t touch you unless you tell them it’s okay, even if you are in the way.”

His words had me shivering in a completely different way than I had been before and I was the opposite of cold. “I didn’t use to mind it.” The words cracked and sounded almost as broken as I felt on the inside. “I mean being touched. It was until…after.”

He lowered his gaze and I saw his chest rise and fall as he sucked in a deep breath. “The reason doesn’t matter. If you don’t like it, people should respect that. No one has a right to put their hands on you unless you want them there.”

Right there in that moment I thought I wouldn’t mind it too terribly much if he walked across the room and replaced the frail and thin arms that were currently holding me together with his thick, strong, tattooed ones. It was probably the only touch I would ever crave but I would never be brave enough to ask for it, so I cleared my throat and awkwardly made my way closer to where he was standing. I lifted myself up into one of the barstools that was across the counter from him and put my hands on the cool surface separating us and prayed they would stop shaking. 
REVIEW:



I Heart Books Review

Salvaged (A Saints of Denver Novel) by Jay Crownover 
Review by Theresa Esterline
Stars: 5

Patience... It has rewards! 

We've all heard to the victors go the spoils meaning the winner gets extra winnings.  This story is no different, both Poppy and Wheeler have had an awful go of it so far.  Both are worried of the past coming back to wreck things.  But both are getting good at salvaging the best parts even in the worst scenario.  And now a bit about the story ...

Poppy has been thru a lot. A controlling, preacher for a father. A typical college jock that lied and knocked her up, only to knock her out when she wouldn't abort. And finally a verbally and physically abusive bible thumping idiot her father approved of. Luckily she escaped all of them to Denver. She is becoming stronger by the day. In fact the story starts with her going to see Wheeler out of the blue with a surprise.

Wheeler has his own crazy past. His mother left him at 4, he's bounced around from one foster family to the next growing up, but he's finally grounded himself. He owns a profitable business, is engaged, and has a great group of friends he considers his extended family. Then his fiance decides she prefers women and his world starts to crumble. When Poppy shows up at his garage with a puppy, things turn a shade happier. Now just to wait out her nerves!!

Favorite passages:
- She was born to be a hot rod but for reasons that were hard to think about she was living her life like she was meant to be a minivan. 
- “I’m cheaper than a shrink, Wheeler, and my office is a lot more fun.”
- One of these days all those years of conditioning to heel at her commands would break.
   

Jay Crownover continues her Saints of Denver series with SALVAGED, available June 20, 2017

Preorder and fill out the form here: https://a.pgtb.me/MdHvvG

Enter your name, email address, and the order number from your pre-order receipt on the form to receive an advance excerpt of DIGNITY and a Saints of Denver Doodle download to print at home.

Entries must be received by midnight PST on June 19th to be eligible.

The print-at-home Doodle and Dignity excerpt will be emailed the week of June 20th.

   
       
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June 14th
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June 15th
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June 16th
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June 17th
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June 18th
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June 19th
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June 21st
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A Leisure Moment – Review
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About Jay Crownover: 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 dogs.        

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