Asa
The sixth book in the scorching hot NEW YORK TIMES bestselling MARKED MEN New Adult seriesRoyal Hastings has been a cop, first and foremost, for most of her adult life. So when a call-out goes wrong and her partner ends up in hospital, she finds herself suspended from the job, indefinitely. With too much time on her hands and a heavy load of guilt weighing her down, she seeks solace in oblivion – otherwise known as a golden-eyed bartender with a rap sheet as long as her arm.Asa Cross has spent his live on the wrong side of the law, but a near death experience has left him rebuilding his life and relationships. But being good is tougher than it seems – especially when being bad looks as good as Royal does.On paper, the cop and the con seemed doomed to heartbreak – but when love has stolen your heart, how can you walk away?
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First published in Great Britain by Harper 2015
Copyright © Jennifer M Voorhees 2015
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Dedicated to everyone living and experiencing this moment right now with me. This is for the readers, the book lovers, the bibliophiles, the word junkies ⦠my peeps that understand nothing is better than a new book and the escape into a new story. I love that we get to share this world together and I am and always will be proud to be one of you.
Happiness, not in another place but this place ⦠not for another hour, but this hour.
âWalt Whitman
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
âHenry David Thoreau
The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
âJ. P. Morgan
We made it! The end. Oh, my wordâor many, many words, to be more accurateâI donât know how, but six books in and weâre finally here. Itâs unbelievable and sort of fitting that Asa closes this particular circle. He wasnât supposed to be part of the groupâwasnât supposed to be familyâwasnât supposed to get a book or an HEA, and yet fate had other plans for him. Sort of like it did for me. He had to fight to get where he belonged, and a couple of times along the way Iâve felt like I had to do that, too. I tell ya what: this southern boy undid me on a lot of levels, and not just because heâs closing the chapter on this series that forever changed my life.
Itâs unbelievable to me when I think about the fact that Asaâs book will be number eight in a little over two years, and thatâs just insane and superexciting. I never thought Iâd have even one book published in my entire life! So the fact that we are all here at the end together is pretty damn amazing.
Initially, I had written a very different intro for this book. It was long and drawn out and outlined all the things I struggled with to get to this place where I am now ⦠the end ⦠and the beginning. It hasnât always been a smooth journey for me, but I realized somewhere along the way that this wasnât what I should be focusing on as we close this chapter together.
No, what I needed to focus on was this moment. This exact second, when I am able to say good-bye along with my readers, and when I hopefully entice them with me into starting the new series. I needed to be present in the here and now and not looking over my shoulder at all the wouldâves and couldâves and shouldâves ⦠thatâs something I struggle with on a daily basis. I sometimes forget Iâm not the boss of the entire world and letting go of the want and need to control particular outcomes and situations is very hard for me.
But Iâm doing it NOW.
Right now, Iâm sitting here being overwhelmed with gratitude that I got to give each of these men and women a story. Iâm overcome with emotion for the support and love my stories and ideas have found along the way. I am humbled by the amount of people that are willing to take a chance on me time and time again. And mostly I am filled to the brim with so much love for these books and the people that love them as much as I do that I canât even stand it. Readers bring such joy and excitement into my life, and any struggle, any complaint, any gripe I have pales in comparison to that.
