Virtual Book Tour: For You I'd Break by Hannah Jordan

 Good morning!  Please welcome author Hannah Jordan to Full Moon Dreaming today! She is here to tell us about her new release, For You I'd Break. Hannah will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to one randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter during the tour. The more you comment, the greater your chances of winning. To find the other stops on her tour, go here. Don't forget to look for the Rafflecopter at the end of this post!

 

FOR YOU I'D BREAK

Hannah Jordan

 

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GENRE:  Contemporary Romance

 

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BLURB:

 

When Rowan’s two-year marriage ends with a crash, she returns home to Peace Falls, VA, riding shotgun in her sister’s 1990 Cadillac hearse. Everything about her is damaged: her heart, her pride, her bank account, and her spine—thanks to a tourist, a Segway, and finding her husband getting busy with her boss. But Rowan is determined to reclaim her career and city life as soon as she recuperates and lands a new job.

 

Caleb “Cal” Cardoso didn’t notice wallflower Rowan in high school, but the former football star, and Peace Falls’s newest physical therapist, can’t take his eyes off the stunning redhead now. Too bad he’s sworn off relationships. After his last hookup purposely tanked his online reputation, Cal stands to lose his job if a single patient leaves his care. Which is why he can’t let Rowan switch to another practitioner, despite the friction between them, and why he definitely can’t act on his growing attraction.

 

Rowan agrees to remain Cal’s patient if he helps her younger brother train for football tryouts. Though Cal hasn’t touched a football since the accident that killed his best friend, he agrees, and as Cal helps heal Rowan’s body, she begins to heal his heart.

 

For You I’d Break is a small town romance with a hefty dash of spice, a HEA ending, and a cast of memorable characters, including a goth sculptor who secretly loves to decorate cakes, a fearsome-looking felon with a heart of gold, a hothead with a sweet side, a karma-devoted barista who collects damaged pets and first dates, and a lovable dog with more emotional sense than everyone put together.

 

 

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EXCERPT:

 

Just then, the second door opened and out walked Caleb Cardoso in a pair of slate gray scrubs. Years of watching him swagger down school hallways and sprint across football fields did nothing to prepare me. He’d added more muscle to his lean frame, his broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist. His dark, tousled hair looked styled to suggest he’d just climbed out of bed after an all-night sexfest. His jaw was sharper, his cheek bones more chiseled. When he looked at me with those rich chocolate eyes, all the air left my lungs.

 

“Mrs. Norris,” he said, glancing at the tablet in his hands.

 

The sound of my married name lifted the lust fog from my brain. “Please call me Rowan,” I said, relieved I’d finally managed to speak in his presence.

 

He studied my face, frowned, and looked back at his tablet. “Nice to meet you,” he said, studying my face again. “I’m Cal. Take a seat on the first table.”

 

Lauren would have politely told him that we were two years apart in school. Poppy would have flipped the embarrassment of being forgotten back onto Cal with a snide comment about his observation skills. Not that anyone ever forgot Poppy. I just turned my back to him and hoped he hadn’t seen my cheeks burn. People often didn’t remember me, but it still stung, especially when it was someone I’d spent so much time fantasizing about in my teens. As I crossed the room, I could feel him behind me, watching my every movement.

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Hannah Jordan grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia but wound up in South Jersey after falling in love with her complete opposite. She's got all the degrees of a "serious" fiction writer but only smiles when she's writing romance.

 

She lives with her husband and two daughters in a picturesque town outside of Philadelphia where she enjoys reading in all genres, especially the spicy ones, and confusing people with her half-Southern, half-Northern accent.

 

The first book in her Peace Falls Small Town Romance Series, For You I’d Break, launched July 17, 2024.

 

Website: https://hannahjordanauthor.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hannahjordanbooks

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/hannahjordanbooks

Amazon Buy Link:   https://www.amazon.com/You-Id-Break-Second-Romance-ebook/dp/B0D5VNSHF3/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top

 

Free to read on Kindle Unlimited.

 

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 The Questions 

1)      You’re marooned on a small island with one person and one item of your choice—who is that person and what item do you have?

 

I’d want to be marooned with my husband since I’ve lived and worked with him for decades and haven’t wanted to get rid of him yet. If we’re being practical, I’d have a fully charged satellite phone. I love my man to bits, but eventually we’d both want creature comforts like air conditioning and warm showers. Not to mention, we’d miss our kids.

 

2)      Which musical would you say best exemplifies your life – and which character in that musical are you?

I feel a great affinity for Elphaba in Wicked. I’ve always been a bit of an outsider but attract outgoing extroverts who usher me through social situations. I’m also someone who sticks out physically. Everyone thinks I’m related to someone they know or a minor actor in a show they can’t name. In other words, I’m unusual looking enough to be memorable. It’s made me very self-conscious at times. I’m also very loyal, like Elphaba, and willing to stand up for my beliefs even if they aren’t the norm.

 

Many of my female heroines have quirky traits or physical attributes that make them a bit unusual. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized everyone has their weird, and the most interesting people embrace theirs.  They’re also all incredibly loyal and feisty.

3) Take these three words and give me a 100 word or less scene using them: hammer, saucer, traffic

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4) What is your idea of how to spend romantic time with your significant other?

We were 18 when we met and have been together our entire adult. It’s easy to get muddled in the mundane after so many years. For that reason, I love traveling with him or doing anything new. It’s exciting and always reminds me of when we first met in college, when everything was new.

5) When you start a new story, do you begin with a character, or a plot?

My work has always been character focused. I honestly struggle with plotting. Before I wrote For You I’d Break, all my publications were short-form nonfiction and literary fiction pieces. The plot in nonfiction is already there, and the plot in short stories doesn’t extend beyond ten to fifteen pages.

I love the high reader expectations for pacing in the romance genre. If there’s an expectation that the first physical contact happens at a certain point in the story, it helps me develop the plot to that point. But before I even start plotting, I build the characters in my mind until they feel like real people. This helps me decide how they would act at each point in the story.

7) Who’s your favorite horror villain and why?

I’m too chicken to watch horror films. I have vivid dreams, so I’m very mindful of what I watch and read. I’m much rather dream about a book boyfriend than a sadistic clown.

9) Is there a story that you’d like to tell but you think the world isn’t ready to receive it?

It’s usually the opposite. I’ll have a story that would resonate with others, but I’m not ready to share it. I write my best work though when I write the painful stuff. This actually happened when I was writing the second book in the Peace Fall series, For You I’d Mend. The Peace Falls trilogy centers on three men who lived through a horrific car accident when they were teenagers that claimed the life of their friend. For You I’d Mend was the hardest to write, not because I didn’t love the characters or their story, but because it often brought up my own feelings of loss. As a nonfiction writer, I use words to work through my emotions all the time. I didn’t anticipate doing the same in a romance novel. I contemplated omitting parts of the story because they cut too close and too deep. I’m still worried they might trigger grief in others. Ultimately, I left them because those sections of the novel are the most meaningful to me as a writer. And, perhaps, will be to readers. 

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