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PagesHomeAbout LeaReview Request Tuesday, June 20, 2017 SALVAGED BY JAY CROWNOVER RELASE BLAST!
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover continues her delightfully sexy Saints of Denver series with the next thrilling standalone, SALVAGED! Dont miss this amazing new novel and grab your copy today! Hudson Wheeler is a nice guy. Everyone knows it, including his fiancée who left him with a canceled wedding and a baby on the way. Hes tired of finishing last and is ready to start living in the moment with nights soaked in whiskey, fast cars, and even faster girls. Hes set to start living on the edge, but when he meets Poppy Cruz, her sad eyes in the most gorgeous face hes ever seen hook him in right away. Wheeler can see Poppys pain and all he wants to do is take care of her and make her smile, whatever it takes.Poppy cant remember a time when she didnt see strangers as the enemy. After a lifetime of being hurt from the men who swore to protect her, Poppys determined to keep herself safe by keeping everyone else at arms length. Wheelers sexy grin and rough hands from hours restoring classic cars shouldnt captivate her, but every time shes with him, she cant help being pulled closer to him. Though shes terrified to trust again, Poppy soon realizes it might hurt even more to shut Wheeler outand the intense feelings pulsing through her are making it near impossible to resist him.The only thing Poppy is sure of is that her heart is in need of some serious repair, and the more time she spends with Wheeler, the more shes convinced hes the only man with the tools to fix it.
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ADD SALVAGED TO YOUR GOODREADSMy Review
Salvagedwas the end of the Saints of Denver, but it was a great ending. I've been waiting for Poppy to get her happy ending from the beginning, and she met the perfect match in Wheeler. He was patient, kind, and everything she needed to help her heal. Wheeler is the same way, and he needs Poppy to help him move on after a bad breakup.
This was a good story, and it focused more on the internal issues that the two were going through. While there were external issues that they had to deal with, this was more of a rebuilding book. Overall it was great to see the two come together and it was a good conclusion. I would definitely recommend this one! EXCERPT:
I didnt want her to be scared of anything ever again.
Things at home had been rocky, rougher than class-five rapids in winter, but I was paddling for my life and prepared to ride it out. I couldnt let go. I wouldnt let go. I saw Poppy the day she walked through my shop and I started to feel how sore my hands and my heart were from holding on.Her head was down, focused on the tips of her shoes. Her shoulders were hunched over and her long hair hid her face. She was skinny, so skinny, nothing but skin and bones. She was nothing that I should have noticed, not because she was clearly doing everything in her power to be invisible, but because I was supposed to have my eyes locked on my future and doing whatever I could do to salvage it. But I did notice her and I couldnt look away once I did.
She was obviously terrified, clearly out of her element and uncomfortable, but it wasnt her unease that called to meit was her loneliness. I could feel it filling up the space that separated us. Stretching, growing, expanding until it was all I was breathing in and exhaling back out. It was bitter on my tongue and heavy across my skin because I knew the feeling well. I lived with it pressing me down and pushing me forward every minute of every day. The reason I was so set on the way things had to be, the reason I was singlemindedly set on settling down and building a life with the girl that was slipping through my fingers was because I never again wanted to be as alone as this girl was. I didnt want to be left and forgotten. Id barely survived it the first time.
I did my best to sell her a car that was as beautiful as she wasa classic with clean lines and a flawless finish. She picked something practical and boring but that was ultimately safe and reliable. I understood her choice but it grated and annoyed me long after she left the shop. When she wasnt standing in front of me, she should have been easy to forget; after all, everything in front of me, everything I had been working for and toward, was falling down in front of my eyes. My world was collapsing in on itself and everything I thought I was so goddamn sure about turned out to be nothing more than lies and illusions. In the middle of all of it, I couldnt forget her sad eyes and shivering, shaking form. Her loneliness clung to me, unshakable and unforgettable. I didnt think I would see her again and against my better judgment I often found myself wondering how she was doing and if she had gotten a handle on all the things that seemed to be crushing her under their inescapable weight.
I was wrong about seeing her again, just like I was wrong about thinking that doing everything in my life differently from how my mother had lived hers would ensure my happiness and a future built on an unshakeable foundation. I was wrong about hard work and sacrifice being enough. I was wrong about holding on when what I was holding on to desperately wanted me to let go. All I was left with was bleeding palms, rope burns around my heart and scars on my soul.
The next time I saw Poppy Cruz it wasmyloneliness that was filling up the space, suffocating me, choking me, making me forget to handle her with care. I was nothing more than a vast, open wound. One that was raw, aching, throbbing, and leaking my heart and shattered emotions out everywhere. I felt like Id lost everything, like my entire life had been nothing but a waste of time, nothing more than building blocks knocked over with the swipe of a careless hand. The girl I loved didnt love me back, my future was ultimately nothing more than a fuzzy, fractured blur. I couldnt see anything clearly other than waste and ruin.
But I saw her. And I saw that I scared her.It was the last thing I wanted to do but my loneliness was just as big and just as consuming as hers was. It spread out, hungry and angry, looking to consume anyone that might try and challenge its reign.
I tried to pull myself together, apologized because I knew our paths would cross again now that she lived next door to my best friend. I didnt want to be another man that she was terrified of. I locked the loneliness down, wrestled it into submission, and tried to quiet down the wild inside of me that was howling, screaming at the loss of its mate. I wanted to be nothing more than gnashing teeth and tearing claws but I swallowed those instincts and allowed myself to be like a kicked puppy that just wanted to whimper and cry.
Poppy had been through more than I could imagine. She was the one I couldnt look away from, but even then, she managed to slip past me and disappear. She looked like honey but she moved like a ghost. I memorized everything about her even though she hardly let me see her face.I wasnt supposed to be looking at anything other than how to salvage the mess my life was in, but she was all I could see.
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