I am absolutely thrilled to bring you the Review/Excerpt Tour for BUILT by Jay Crownover! BUILT is a Contemporary Romance novel being published by HarperCollins, and it is the 1st full-length novel in The Saints of Denver Series, a spinoff of her New York Times bestselling Marked Men Series. This amazing book releases on January 5th!
My Thoughts
There was just so much that I loved about this book. Most of all I was head over heart that it wasn't just a book about a man and woman falling in love, but it was also about a man falling in love with his son. Zeb was just flat out delicious. He was a man that made mistakes and learned from them. Not just learned from them, but also became a better man because of them. He flips over a woman that is so broken because of her past that she doesn't grab hold of him. Sayer broke my heart for all that she had been through, but I did want to give her a shake. Then she does something so spectacular to come out of the darkness that it made me cry for the significance of it. I loved the journey that these two took to get to each other, but also the ones they had to take separately to find themselves. I so enjoyed their story and can't wait to read more in this series.
I give Built 5 hearts!
About the Book
From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men books comes an electrifying new spin-off series,Saints of Denver, featuring all the characters fans have been dying to read about.
Sayer Cole and Zeb Fuller couldn’t be more different. She’s country club and fine-dining, he’s cell-block and sawdust. Sayer spends her days in litigation, while Zeb spends his working with his hands. She’s French silk, he’s all denim and flannel.
Zeb’s wanted the stunning blonde since the moment he laid eyes on her. It doesn't matter how many smooth moves he makes, the reserved lawyer seems determinedly oblivious to his interest—either that or she doesn't return it. Sayer is certain the rough, hard, hot-as-hell Zeb could never want someone as closed off and restrained as she is, which is a shame because something tells her he might be the guy to finally melt her icy exterior.
But just as things start to heat up, Zeb is blindsided by a life altering moment from his past. He needs Sayer’s professional help to right a wrong and to save more than himself. He can’t risk what’s at stake just because his attraction to Sayer feels all consuming. But as these opposites dig in for the fight of their lives, battling together to save a family, the steam created when fire and ice collide can no longer be ignored.
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Excerpt
“One battle at a time, Zeb. That’s all we can tackle, okay?”
He was
quiet for a long moment, but I could hear him breathing and then finally he
grunted a little bit and replied, “Well, then the battle I need to tackle right
now is those god-awful walls. Thank you for talking me off the ledge. It’s
impossible not to hope for the best when I talk to you.”
Maybe
it was the overwhelming quiet of my house or it was the wistfulness in his
voice. Or maybe it was really the fact that no matter how hard I tried to keep
a clear divide between the two of us, I was always going to be too eager to
cross over it when an opportunity presented itself. Like a goddamn fool.
Calling
myself every kind of name there was in the book, I blurted out, “I’m not doing
anything tonight, and Poppy went out with Rowdy, so if you need an extra set of
hands to help with the paint I can swing by the house.” I wanted to groan. I
was the least handy person in the whole world and I don’t think I had ever even held a paintbrush, but the idea
of getting to spend some one-on-one time with him was just so tempting that I
ignored all of that and secretly hoped he would ignore it, too.
He
chuckled a little. “Are you serious?”
I
shrugged even though he couldn’t see it. “Sure. Why not?”
“Well,
I’m not going to turn down free labor, especially when that free labor looks
like you. Do you even own anything that you won’t be pissed to get paint on,
Say? What I do tends to get dirty.” His voiced dropped a little bit and there
was a husky timbre to the words that made me shiver.
There
was a double entendre there that was impossible to miss and it made all of my
skin heat up from the inside out. Not to mention no one had ever shortened my
name before. I wasn’t exactly the cutesy nickname type. My father wouldn’t have
approved and as such I was always just “Sayer.” Zeb’s shortening my name felt
intimate. It felt far more familiar than I should be allowing myself to get
with him. Still I didn’t say anything other than “I’m sure I can find
something.”
And don’t miss the previous novella
in The Saints of Denver Series!
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About the Author
Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men and The Point series. 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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Thank you so much! ~Jessica, InkSlinger PR
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