Charged
The next book in the smoking hot SAINTS OF DENVER series from NYT bestselling author of the MARKED MEN series, Jay CrownoverAvett Walker and Quaid Jackson’s worlds have no reason to collide. Quaid is a high powered criminal attorney as slick as he is handsome, and Avett is a pink-haired troublemaker with a bad attitude and a history of picking the wrong men.When Avett lands in hot water because of one terrible mistake, the only person who can get her out of it is this insanely sexy lawyer. The last thing she wants to do is rely on someone who thinks of her as nothing more than a nuisance, yet there is something about him that makes her want to convince him to loosen his tie and have a little fun…They have to figure out a way to get along and keep their hands off each other – because the chemistry between them is beyond charged.
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CHARGED
Jay Crownover
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
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First published in Great Britain by Harper 2016
Copyright © Jennifer M Voorhees 2016
Cover design by Studio Takoma © HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Source ISBN: 9780008116279
Ebook Edition © May 2016 ISBN: 9780008116286
Version: 2016-05-06
Dedicated to the one person that has held my hand through all my worst decisions and cheered me on through all my amazing ones ⦠this book and this story about bad decisions leading to the best things in life is for you, Mom.
Youâre just the best, and every mistake Iâve ever made, every bad choice Iâve blindly made, youâve been there to pick up the pieces afterwards.
Luckily, I do indeed have some pretty awesome stories to tell after everything is said and done, and all the storms have passed. But nothing makes me happier than knowing that none of those tales of wonder and of woe would have had a happy ending if I hadnât been able to share them with you.
Contents
Sheâs immature.
Sheâs a brat.
Sheâs annoying and not very nice.
Why is she getting a story?
Whenever I have a character that seems like they shouldnât get a story or like they might not deserve some kind of happiness, they are inevitably the characters that I most want to turn it all around for. I want to know their stories more than anything, and I want to dig into why there might be more to them than we initially see. It happened with Asa, and it happened with Avett from the minute she touched the page. I always knew I wanted Briteâs daughter to get a story, but I had no clue how layered, complex, and difficult that story was going to be. Sheâs a hurricane all right, and watching the storm break on the shore has made for some of my most favorite writing to date. I never start out with a character determined to make the reader like them, but I do hope that by the end of the journey, the reader understands the character and maybe even sympathizes with them a little bit ⦠and hey, if you do end up liking that character you were so sure you hated ⦠score one for me. <3 (Looking at you, Melissa Shank!)
I think Avett is the character that speaks the most to the person I was at the same point in my life. As I was writing her I kept cringing and thinking, yep ⦠been there and done that, and now I definitely have a story to tell about those choices and the consequences they led to. Sometimes the story is the best part of screwing up, and really, no matter who we are or where weâve been in life, we all have a story to tell. I feel that for all my characters, but for some reason it really, really rang true with Avett and Quaid.
When I was twenty-two I made a lot of questionable choices: about men, money, school, and my future in general. I had to be rescued (by family, not a handsome fella, which was a total bummer for me!) and one would think I learned my lesson because I was sure that was as low as I was ever going to get. Flash forward to my early thirties when things once again fell apart because of my bad choices and my foolish stubbornness. There I was for the second time in my life needing to be saved with more stories to tell and harsh lessons learned. (That story involves Rule getting published and my whole life changing, so even though it starts with heartbreak, it ends with a dream come true.)
