Synopsis
The conclusion to Caleb and Isabelle’s story…
Everything is going as planned, for the most part. With school, the club, and new responsibilities on the horizon, the life Caleb and Isabelle imagined together is so close they can taste it. But their happiness is also a fragile one--all it takes is one wrong turn, one stupid decision and their happily ever after shatters all over the highway.
Because as old threats resurface and new ones rise, the most deadly enemy of all lies not in outside forces, but inside the club itself. How do you follow orders when you know those orders might destroy everything you love? How do you move forward when all your best-laid plans slip right through your fingertips?
Choice breeds consequence. Hope rises from the ashes. Love weathers any storm. And in the end, every road leads home.
**Carry You Home is not a standalone and is the sequel to Carry Your Heart. It is intended for readers 18 and older**
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Excerpt
Isabelle
Both of his hands settled around my face now and overwhelmed
by his closeness and drunk on the emotions he’d resurrected in me, I closed the
short space between us and pressed my lips gently into his. Caleb stilled for
only a moment, no doubt startled by the fact that I was the one initiating
this, but I was way past the point of no return now, and he recovered a
heartbeat later, tightening his hold on my face, somehow pulling me even closer
to him.
It started slow and tender as our mouths tentatively became
reacquainted with each other and I couldn’t help the soft moan in the back of
my throat just at tasting him again. It had been so long since I’d felt this,
I’d honestly forgotten what his lips felt like...or maybe I’d just forced
myself to forget. But there was no denying how good this felt, how at home I
felt as his hands slid all the way around my waist.
Suddenly, I was moving in the air as he spun us around to
press me back into the island. He gripped my hips to hoist me up onto the
counter and my legs wrapped around his waist to help him sink in even deeper
before I had a moment to recover.
His tongue pushed its way through my mouth and as his rough,
familiar hands skimmed up the back of my shirt, just stopping at the edge of my
bra. I shivered in his arms and wondered fleetingly if this was just all a
dream. If I’d wake up any moment now, alone in my bed, and wondering what the
hell just happened. But his lips were still moving over mine, tasting and
taking everything I offered to him, eagerly giving it right back to me.
My hands wound their way around the back of his neck and
gripped the top of his head as he ground my hips down against the hardness in
his jeans. Just as I leaned my forehead against his to sigh into his lips, a
loud cough jerked me out of the whirlwind I’d stumbled into it.
My hands dropped away from Caleb’s face and I turned just in
time to see my dad shuffling toward the refrigerator. Caleb jolted and hustled
out from between my legs to put some space between us. He ran a hand over his
head as if to smooth the hair he didn’t really have there and my dad cast a
wary glance over his shoulder at us.
“Don’t mind me,” he chuckled. “Just needed something to
drink.”
“Sorry, Dad,” I murmured and bit down on my bottom lip as I
slid off the counter.
My dad met my eyes briefly before turning his attention to
Caleb. “Where are you planning on sleeping tonight?”
Caleb cleared his throat roughly. “The couch.”
“Good,” he nodded and shut the fridge door as he turned to
us with a water bottle in his hand. “Probably best to take it slow, huh?”
I opened my mouth to protest, but for the life of me, I
couldn’t find any words to say. My dad just waved goodnight and disappeared
around the stairwell. When my eyes found Caleb again, he was staring
slack-jawed after my dad and he shook his head.
“Wow.”
“Yeah,” I laughed. “That wasn’t embarrassing or anything.”
Instead of responding, he tucked his hands deep in his
pockets and grinned at me.
“I should, um,” I swallowed hard, already backpedalling
toward the same hallway my dad had just disappeared to. “I should get to bed.
I’ll see you in the morning?”
“I’ll be here,” he nodded. “Sweet dreams, Iz.”
I waved awkwardly because there was no way in hell I was
getting out of this gracefully and I scrambled up the stairs, practically
running my dad over in the process, and didn’t stop until my old bedroom door
was shut safely behind me.
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Synopsis
When Isabelle Martin steps onto Sawyer Auto Repair’s parking
lot, she can’t believe it’s come to this. After dropping out of a school she
never really wanted to go to in the first place and dumping a boyfriend she
never really loved to begin with, she thought coming home to Claremont, North
Carolina would solve all her problems. Instead, she’s still reeling from her
mom’s death six months earlier and trying, but failing to help her dad, who’s
sunken deep into a whiskey-fueled depression. Working in the local, motorcycle
club-owned, auto shop’s office is a last resort, but it’s the only option she
has...even if it means working with Caleb Sawyer, the bad-boy biker with
swagger to spare who used to drive her up the wall in high school.
Caleb Sawyer is on the fast-track to a downward spiral. He
used to think he had the world at his feet--all he has to do is be patient,
earn his keep in the club and in the shop, and his legacy within the Iron
Horsemen MC will be his for the taking when the time is right. But that just
doesn’t mean anything without his old lady by his side, who wants to leave
Claremont more than she wants to stay with him. When the bottom finally drops
out, nothing prepares him for the impact and he deals with it the only way he
knows how--with whiskey and women. Despite all that, being around Isabelle
Martin, the girl whose feathers he ruffled so easily in high school, somehow
brings him back to life. She doesn’t take any of his crap, but she calls him on
it without judgment and without pity.
Despite some initial animosity, Caleb and Isabelle quickly
realize that the perceptions they had of each other in high school couldn’t be
further from the truth. The more time they spend together, the closer they
become and the more they gravitate towards each other. Both are at a
crossroads, but stuck in reverse. Isabelle needs help; she just doesn’t know
how to ask for it. Caleb needs a life preserver; he just doesn’t know where to
find one. And ultimately, on the path to rediscovery and identity, all roads
lead them to exactly what they need--each other.
**New adult/contemporary romance told in alternating points
of view. Recommended for readers 18 and older.**
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About the Author
K. Ryan is a former English teacher, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 2009. When not writing, she’s either binge-watching something on Netflix, running, reading, or cheering on the Packers. She lives in the Green Bay area with her crazy-supportive boyfriend and the best decision of her adult life, a not-so-stray cat named Oliver.
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