From New York Times bestselling author Jay Crownover comes
CHARGED
the latest in her sexy The 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.
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About CHARGED:
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.
Excerpt
Quaid
She let her arms fall and scooted forward on the chair. She leaned forward and looked at me intently. Her eyes were mesmerizing and I found myself distracted by all the different colors trapped there. I had to ask her to repeat herself when I realized she said something and was waiting for a response from me. I needed to get my head in the game where this girl was concerned…this girl…that was the part I seemed to keep forgetting.
“What did you say?” My voice dipped lower than it normally was and I shifted in my seat as other parts of me started to notice all the interesting and attractive things about Avett Walker as well.
“I said, I Googled you.” She swept some of her hair back from where it had fallen over her shoulder, and I literally had to force myself to keep my gaze locked on her face as the motion pushed her chest up higher and tighter against the plain, black T-shirt she had on.
“Oh, yeah? How did that work out for you?” I knew what she would find: my service record, my wedding announcement, my work history from the firm, various tidbits on my most high profile cases, and various articles chronicling my divorce. Most divorces weren’t newsworthy, but when one of the people involved came from money and the other was as high profile as I was, it made for good filer on a slow news day. I was curious to see what her interpretation of the snapshot of my life that existed on the internet was.
She got up from the chair and started to pace back and forth in front of my desk as she talked. “It worked out well enough, I guess. I saw that you were enlisted when you were younger, which explains why my dad immediately liked you.” She looked at me over her shoulder and a tiny grin tugged at her mouth. “He doesn’t usually like anyone instantly. It takes him a while to warm up.”
I listened with half an ear as I watched her brightly colored hair swish around her shoulders. She didn’t come across as the girly or overly feminine type, so I wondered why she had gone with such a delicate and pretty pink when coloring her hair.
“I learned that you’re a Colorado native, that you grew up in the mountains, that your birthday is right around Christmas, which means you’re almost thirty-two, so you’ve accomplished a lot in your career in a short amount of time. I also learned that you own a lot of suits.”
I snorted out a surprised laugh at that last part, which made her stop pacing. She took a step closer to my desk and put her hands on the opposite edge, leaning forward. The new position made her T-shirt gape at the collar, and even though I refused to look down, I could see the hint of a leopard-print bra peeking out. That hint of something forbidden made my mouth go dry and had my pulse kicking. It was a powerful reaction to very little provocation, and I made myself beat it back, forcibly.
THOUGHTS
I love that Jay can take a story and give it a fresh, new and different spin from other stories. So often the ‘messed up’ female lead comes from a bad home life (ie. foster care or abuse) but not in the case of Avett. She has 2 parents who love her and for the most part (moms and daughters will forever butt-heads) have always has her back. She has made some bad decisions but she doesn’t play the blame game other than to lay it all on her own shoulders.
Quaid thinks he’s living the life that he wants, the life he’s always dreamed of, because he came from nothing… he’s all about appearances and material things. Until Avett blows into his world and literally wakes him up. Turns his world upside down and he finds a reason to live and jump and change.
This story has such a real feel to it, as if these 2 people are not just from someones imagination but are flesh and blood. I found myself really rooting for them to come together and heal each other and make the other person see their true worth. Jay blows me away with her stories and I will always be back for more!
Fave quotes:
“He was flawless, and to someone that was deeply and tragically flawed, it was impossible not to be fascinated by that kind of perfection.”
“I guess at the end of the day it’s better to have nothing with the right person than to have everything with the wrong person, isn’t it?”
“I knew if I wanted to keep her I was going to have to show her and prove to her that she wasn’t my ruin. She is my salvation. She jumped, and I was going to have to show her that I was willing to be the guy that jumped after her.”
Grade A
And don’t miss the first titles in The Saints of Denver Series!
LEVELED
BUILT
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 Denverseries. 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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