From NYT & USA Today bestselling author comes a new Bleeding Stars stand-alone novel…
She is his strength and he is her weakness. And this time he won’t let her go.
Edie Evans is gorgeous.
Sexy.
Kind.
She’s also the definition of off-limits.
But that didn't stop me from sneaking into her room to comfort her at night.
But guys like me? We destroy everything, so it should have been no surprise when I destroyed us, too.
The night I sent her running, I thought I’d never see her again.
Until I saw her standing like a vision in the crowd.
Austin Stone is dangerous.
Alluring.
Tempting.
He broke my heart and I refused to give him the chance to do it again.
It’s been years since I’ve seen him, and now I can’t do anything but stare at the gorgeous, tattooed man playing onstage. I should run. I know I should. But like a fool, I run straight back to him.
Our desire is overpowering.
Our need unrelenting.
She is my hope.
He is my weakness.
We should have known a passion this intense would burn us right into the ground.
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This is the fourth novel in the bleeding stars series. This was my first time reading A.L. Jackson, she's one of those authors that has been on my tbr list for quite a while now and I've got to say I wish I hadn't waited. This book is incredibly well written, and one of the most emotional reads I've read this year.
Edie and Austin's story is emotional, raw, passionate and incredibly intense. I felt connected to these characters. Their story was both heartbreaking and heartwarming. This is a beautiful second chance romance. Edie and Austin share a special connection, and were best friends sharing each others secrets until Austin betrayed her trust.
Austin in particular was on a path of self destruction, he feels unworthy of love, affection and family. In order to find himself after years of pain, resulting from a truly traumatic experience Austin ceases contact with his family and friends. Whilst playing in a local bar, he sees the one person he thought to never see again - Edie.
Both Edie and Austin have inner demons, they are broken and insecure not only in themselves but in others ability to care and love them. Their story is one of heartbreak, romance and angst. I will admit to shedding a few tears. Their connection is so powerful, pure and loving, and a roller coaster of emotion.
This story is enthralling, and completely captivating, it's an emotional journey right from the start. I couldn't put this book down once I started reading and it left me with one hell of a book hangover, every book I've picked up since lacks the emotion and eloquence to the prose. I cannot wait to read the previous books in this series, and look forward to reading Ash's story as well.
“How do you both break my heart and heal it at the same time?”
Edie and Austin's story is emotional, raw, passionate and incredibly intense. I felt connected to these characters. Their story was both heartbreaking and heartwarming. This is a beautiful second chance romance. Edie and Austin share a special connection, and were best friends sharing each others secrets until Austin betrayed her trust.
The first girl who’d managed to touch something within me when I’d been completely dead inside.
Austin in particular was on a path of self destruction, he feels unworthy of love, affection and family. In order to find himself after years of pain, resulting from a truly traumatic experience Austin ceases contact with his family and friends. Whilst playing in a local bar, he sees the one person he thought to never see again - Edie.
A strike of light in the darkness.
Both Edie and Austin have inner demons, they are broken and insecure not only in themselves but in others ability to care and love them. Their story is one of heartbreak, romance and angst. I will admit to shedding a few tears. Their connection is so powerful, pure and loving, and a roller coaster of emotion.
I wasn’t such a fool that I didn’t realize the two of us were messed up. Nothing but a mess of shattered, broken pieces that had been scattered and mixed together.
This story is enthralling, and completely captivating, it's an emotional journey right from the start. I couldn't put this book down once I started reading and it left me with one hell of a book hangover, every book I've picked up since lacks the emotion and eloquence to the prose. I cannot wait to read the previous books in this series, and look forward to reading Ash's story as well.
“Shit,” I hissed, bracing myself against the spray of the icy shards pelting from the shower head.
I sucked in a breath, released it between clenched teeth, and forced myself fully under it.
Head dropped and chest heaving as rivers of ice-cold water slicked down my shoulders and back.
But it did nothing to lessen the need. Gave me no sanity or pacification.
Because all I could think about was the girl on the other side of the door.
My girl.
In my bed.
Wearing just her panties and my shirt.
An angel I wanted to dirty.
I always had.
Love was messy like that.
All of my restraint scattered. I gripped my cock. Squeezed the base. My mouth dropped open at the pressure of my hand against my rigid length.
A fool thinking it might be enough.
Shit.
God, I was a bastard, but there was nothing I could do before I was giving in, leaning forward and bracketing my forearm above my head to hold my weight.
Water pounded down on my head and back while I pounded my fist against my dick.
Trying to keep silent when all I wanted was to moan, teeth digging into my bottom lip as I pictured the girl spread out for me.
My breaths were coming short.
Panted and hard.
I gave into imagining the sounds she would make when I finally got to bury myself in her body.
A soft, soft gasp.
I slowed, trying to convince myself that throaty sound was all in my mind.
Just another part of this fantasy.
Until I heard the small thump against the wall.
Shit.
I mashed my eyes closed, like it might hide me.
Conceal the depravity of my actions after I’d just been comforting her hours before.
Heart thrashing, I turned and moved far enough to peek out the small section where the fabric shower curtain hadn’t been drawn fully closed.
It was just a little sliver that left me exposed.
But it was enough. When I peered out, I was looking right at my girl pressed up against the wall.
She stared right back at me.
And I wanted to be horrified, my mind scrambling to conjure every weak apology I could summon. Ready to fucking grovel to keep her from turning and running once again.
Because that’s exactly what I expected her to do.
But her expression…her expression clutched me in the center of the chest and sent what little brain function I had left stampeding south.
Red, lush lips were parted, her hand pressed to her hollow of her throat, pupils dilated so big that her hooded, cerulean eyes appeared black. Needy breaths were coming at me from that sweet mouth like a goddamned freight train.
Desire swelled in the confines of the too-tight room.
Alive.
She pressed deeper into the wall as if it might support her weakened knees. Head rocked back. Thighs squeezing together.
Motherfuck.
My hand shot to the shower wall to steady myself. “Warning you, Edie, you need to get out of here. Right now.”
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A.L. Jackson is the New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance. She writes emotional, sexy, heart-filled stories about boys who usually like to be a little bit bad.
Her bestselling series include THE REGRET SERIES, CLOSER TO YOU, as well as the newest BLEEDING STARS novels. Watch for the next installments, WAIT and STAY, coming in 2016.
If she’s not writing, you can find her hanging out by the pool with her family, sipping cocktails with her friends, or of course with her nose buried in a book.
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