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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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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
lights
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.
