Built
The first in the new SAINTS OF DENVER series from NYT bestselling author of the MARKED MEN series, Jay CrownoverSometimes you have to tear everything down to build something new…Sayer Cole is frozen inside. At least, that’s what it’s felt like for as long as she can remember. She’s yet to let anyone past her icy exterior – and the one guy she thinks might melt her heart couldn’t possibly be interested in someone so uptight.Rough, hard and hot-as-hell, Zeb Fuller has rebuilt his life and his construction business since protecting his family sent him to jail all those years ago. His elegant client, Sayer, makes him feel like a Neanderthal in denim, but despite the many hints that he’s been dropping to get to know her better, she seems oblivious to his charms.Just as things finally start to heat up, Zeb’s past comes back to haunt him and he needs Sayer’s professional help to right a wrong and to save more than himself. As these opposites dig in for the fight of their lives, fire and ice collide in an unstoppable explosion of steam…
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BUILT
Jay Crownover
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
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First published in Great Britain by Harper 2016
Copyright © Jennifer M Voorhees 2016
Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016
Cover photographs © Kevin Irby
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Source ISBN: 9780008116231
Ebook Edition © January 2016 ISBN: 9780008116248
Version: 2015-12-10
Dedicated to the best dad any gal could ask for. My dad has always had a way about him ⦠a rock-solid reliability that has made him forever my hero and number one badass. Because life is never easy we havenât always seen eye to eye, but at the end of the day I have always known whatever needs to be done, my dad will be there to take care of it. Heâs the real deal and few people I have encountered have managed to live up to his legend.
This one is for you, DadVo.
Contents
Are you guys ready for this? I am so ready!
A new adventure. A new cast of characters. Something so different yet still familiar and comfy like a favorite pair of well-worn jeans.
I have to tell you that it only took one second, a single moment when these two met, for me to know they had to have a story and that it had to be epic. It had to be special, and larger than life, because frankly Zeb Fuller is both of those things. I needed to do my bearded wonder justice. Without Sayer and Zeb and their undeniable spark there would be no Saints of Denver. (I actually posted about the fact that they needed a book the second they met on Facebook when I was in the middle of writing Rowdy.) Their chemistry in that tiny little moment was so bright, so electric, so addicting, that it exploded in my head and I just knew they would be a perfect mess and that trying to get these two together was going to be a challenge I couldnât resist.
I adored writing this book. I loved getting to go back to places that feel like home, but seeing them and describing them in a whole new way. I know it will make my readers happy to see some familiar faces (itâs always nice to check up on old friends here and there) but I sure hope the new ones steal your heart along the way. Iâm pretty sure they will.
If you are a new reader just being introduced to all my crazy, welcome, Iâm so glad you are here with me. Strap in for a sweet, sexy, often unpredictable ride.
If you are a longtime reader who is familiar with the series that started this whole journey, Iâm sure youâre curious how the time line in the new series relates to the Marked Men series. While it might not be an exact match, in my head the start of the series takes place in the six months between the end of Asa and the epilogue in the final book. So that fall/winter before Rome and Coraâs wedding is when all the madness and sexiness begins.
As always, thank you, kickass readers, so much for being here. Thank you forever for letting me be here. There will never be a better place to be.
The fact that I get to keep doing this, that this is my actual, real-life job, never ceases to amaze and humble me. Youâve let me tell so many stories, let me bring so many interesting, valuable, important people to life with my words ⦠itâs a dream come true and I couldnât do it or have any of these opportunities and escapades without you.
You are EVERYTHING!!!
I have not failed. Iâve just found ten thousand ways that wonât work.
âThomas A. Edison
I met her at a bar.
She had a beer bottle in her hand even though she looked like she should be sipping champagne out of an expensive flute, and that inexplicably turned me on. She was pretty and looked completely out of place in the no-name bar sitting across from one of my oldest friends who also happened to be her long-lost brother. He was the reason she was here. In that split second that I laid my eyes on her I wanted to be the reason she stayed.
