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It started with a kiss. A single kiss that shook me to my core. A kiss to silence me, and a kiss to numb the pain.
I took his hand and in turn, he took me away. I thought when we ran away, we’d never have to look back.
I was wrong.
I think Sebastian knew, and so did I, that he’d be pulled back into this life one day. There was no way we could have gotten our happily ever after. Scars don’t ever fully go away, and this sinful place is etched into our flesh.
I don’t know how I’ll ever forgive him for bringing me back here. Even when he kisses me the way he does… no kiss can take away this pain.
He’s still my everything, but I don’t know how we’ll survive this.
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Kasia Amon is a master at hiding. Who―and what―she is makes her a mark for the entire supernatural world. Especially dragon shifters. To them, she’s treasure to be taken and claimed. A golden ticket to their highest throne. But she can’t stop bursting into flames, and there’s a sexy dragon shifter in town hunting for her…
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Everyone hates parts of their job.
Maybe it’s the paperwork. Maybe it’s the day-to-day grind. Maybe it’s that client who never knows what they want, or the guy who always cooks fish in the microwave.
But not me. I love every corner of the Longbourne Flower Shop, every flower, every petal, every stem. I love the greenhouse, and I love Mrs. Bennet, my boss. I love creating, and I love being a florist. I don’t hate anything at all.
Except for Luke Bennet.
The Bennet brothers have come home to help their mom save the flower shop, and Luke is at the helm. His smile tells a tale of lust, loose and easy. He moves with the grace of a predator, feral and wild. A thing unbridled, without rules or constraint.
When he comes home to save Longbourne, I almost can’t be mad at him.
Almost.
He doesn’t remember that night I’ll never forget. That kiss, touched with whiskey and fire. It branded me like a red-hot iron. But it meant nothing to him.
Everyone hates part of their job, and I hate Luke Bennet.
Because if I don’t, I’ll fall in love with him.
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It was an accidental spring fling three years ago—one week spent in the mountains of Big Sur and no one was the wiser. Ignore the fact that Tobias James was my neighbor and my best friend’s older brother. Or that upon our return his hoop dreams were waiting for him, robbing us of any potential future we could have shared.
Now, I’m fulfilling my own dreams in L.A. and my biggest dream of all is about to come true. The last thing I expected was for my past and my present to collide.
Not now. Not here. Not him.
But he struts back into my life like he never even left. Unfortunately, I’ll never forget what happened after he did.
The ball is in my court, but Tobias isn’t below stealing—my power, my resolve, my heart… When he wants a second chance to reignite our connection, my answer is simple. We can’t.
Not unless we defy the rules our dreams were built on and risk everything.
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“Where can we find the best view in Los Angeles?”
I had to think about that one. Every trail I’d hiked in the area ended with a gorgeous view, but I didn’t think a hike was what he’d had in mind. That gave me an idea. “Griffith Observatory has some nice views. Not sure how parking is this time of night.” I was still thinking. “Or there’s always Canyon Lake Drive.”
The look he gave me next wrapped a string around my heart and tugged gently. “Somewhere you haven’t been with a dude.”
Forcing back my smile, I grabbed his phone. “Drive. I’ll program the directions so I can enjoy the ride.”
I tried to ignore the pleased look on his face when I blushed at his request, but it was almost impossible to ignore him when I handed back his phone and my fingers accidentally brushed his. Our eyes connected on a beat, the electricity so charged between us that I felt the vibration throughout my body.
We rode the rest of the way in silence, like we both knew the conversation to come was a big one. Besides that, neither of us was a fan of small talk. Maybe that was why we’d always gotten along so well. We preferred hours of comfortable silence to awkward conversation. It made each moment we were together meaningful.
“Almost there,” he said once we were on Western Canyon Drive. “Where should I park?”
“You’ll keep going up the hill. Park on West Observatory Road. You’ll see the line of cars. I usually find a spot up close, but—” I made a face as I looked around his truck. “My car is three times smaller than this.” I grinned at him. “You might want to park about a half mile away.”
He chuckled. I didn’t understand why until he continued driving past where I recommended and almost reached the top of the hill, when he slowed. Just then, like fucking magic, a large truck was pulling out of a parallel parking spot, leaving it vacant.
“You are kidding me.”
He laughed again and parked with ease. Growing up in Malibu didn’t give us many opportunities for parallel parking, but I was certain he’d had his fair share of chances to get it right in Chicago.
I hopped out of the truck just as he made it to my side. “So impatient to hang out with me.”
I rolled my eyes. “Keep dreaming, James.”
He rolled his head back, grinning. “You realize there are women out there dreaming about a night just like this, right?”
I hoped he could feel the heat of my glare. “You don’t say.”
His lips pressed together like he was biting back a smile, then he took my hand in his and tugged me forward. “Let’s move. We have to make it before sunset.”
This time, silence didn’t fill our gaps. It dissipated with the first view we encountered before ever reaching the observatory.
“Wow.” I tugged away from him and walked to the balcony of the outlook.
As I stared out over trees and rock mountains, I had an epiphany. Taking Tobias here conveyed an unspoken promise that I’d never shared the same space with another man. I hadn’t even questioned the intimacy of what that meant, because it felt natural, just like everything with Tobias, even when the world was trying to pull us apart.
My choice had always been Tobias, even when he wasn’t around for me to choose. My heart still belonged to him.
A breeze whooshed by, tossing my hair. I breathed into the wind as it continued to beat against me, like the week hadn’t been enough for me to endure. And then strong arms wrapped around me from behind as my insides softened to putty. It had been only a week of knowing Tobias was back in town to stay, and I already knew I was in trouble.
Neither of us dared a word as he held me there, the hills of LA a beautiful sight before us, but it was his touch, his breath, his nearness that stole my focus. We’d never even made it to the observatory, but I knew what his mission was in wanting to take me somewhere with a view.
It was reminiscent of the one we’d shared in Big Sur, and I couldn’t ignore the rush of those memories that surfaced in the moment.
We stood in silence for a long time while Tobias held all of me—physically, emotionally, and metaphorically. His presence grounded me in a way that only my soul could feel. He owned me. All it took was the admission, and for the first time in a very long time, I felt at peace.
Once upon a time, Tobias had called me his moon. His rock. His strength. The one he reached for when the waters got rough. As risky as it was to admit it, I still wanted that to be true.
“Should we keep going?”
I knew Tobias was referring to the observatory, but my response was to a different interpretation of the question.
“Yes.”
Meet K.K. Allen
K.K. Allen is a USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author and interdisciplinary arts and sciences graduate from the University of Washington who writes heartfelt contemporary romance stories that are as real as they are inspiring. K.K. is a Hawaiian girl who was raised in Seattle, and currently resides in central Florida. She works full time as a digital producer for a leading online educational institution and is the mother to a ridiculously handsome little dude who owns her heart.
K.K.’s publishing journey began in June 2014 with the YA Contemporary Fantasy trilogy, The Summer Solstice. In 2016, K.K. published her first Contemporary Romance, Up in the Treehouse, which went on to win the Romantic Times 2016 Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best New Adult Book of the Year. With K.K.’s love for inspirational and coming-of-age stories involving heartfelt narratives and honest emotions, you can be assured to always be surprised by what K.K. releases next.
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The world knows Samantha Brooks as the violin prodigy. She guards her secret truth—the desire she harbors for her guardian.
Liam North got custody of her six years ago. She’s all grown up now, but he still treats her like a child. No matter how much he wants her.
No matter how bad he aches for one taste.
Her sweet overtures break down the ex-soldier’s defenses, but there’s more at stake than her body. Every touch, every kiss, every night. The closer she gets, the more exposed his darkest secret.
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“She was there. Always there. Steadying me in the storm.”
In her newest book, Defying Gravity, K.K. Allen has drawn a beautiful universe of forbidden love. Beautifully etched with happiness and tears, Tobias and Amelia’s story lives deeply on the page, pulling at the heart-strings of her readers. This story will break your heart and then mend it all together in the end.
Synopsis:
This story begins after the moments in the prequel book, Falling Gravity. Tobias is Amelia’s best friend’s brother and her next-door neighbor. They engage in a tryst over Spring Break, knowing that their futures might problematize anything long term. However, hearts being as they are, both of them know that the other is becoming more important than they expected initially. Life enters, though. Tobias finds out that he has been given an opportunity to play developmental pro basketball. The issue: it’s in Chicago and he must leave within twenty-four hours. Additionally, Amelia realizes her life-long dream when she auditions for and makes the dance team for a professional basketball team in Los Angeles. As they go off to pursue their dreams, they try hard to hold onto their relationship, placing little expectations on it.
During their absence, Amelia encounters devastating challenges. This changes her, and she makes a drastic decision about her future, one that she cuts Tobias out of. This change causes a three-year absence from each other’s lives. One day, Tobias and Amelia meet again. Will they rekindle their romance, or has too much time passed? Can they ever find their HEA?
Review:
I need to say this. K. K. Allen blew my mind with this story. Here’s the thing. It isn’t out of the ordinary in terms of forbidden romance/best friend’s brother. Honestly, it’s a pretty common trope. What I LOVED about Defying Gravity from the start is Allen’s care in crafting this story.
With more people reading e-books than ever before (this reader included), there is so much available to authors in terms of multi-media that they can incorporate to enhance the story. And this is the genius of this book. This may seem so simple, but it made the book transcendent for me. K. K. Allen incorporates dance links into her book so we can really understand and feel Amelia. In my opinion, it’s genius. For one, it breaks up the narrative, giving the reader a break from Tobias and Amelia’s issues. Secondly, it shows the reader the image that Allen is trying to portray. One of my favorite dances comes towards the end of the book: “Broken and Beautiful.” This dance represents a HUGE moment in Amelia’s journey. Seeing this dance lived out after having read Amelia’s experience made me cry, a “full tears down my face” cry. I don’t know that I would have felt Amelia’s pain and healing so deeply without watching this dance. Again, this is so simple, yet Allen’s intention here makes the story more poignant, more visceral.
Additionally, Tobias James is my new favorite book boyfriend. This is a man who loves deeply and carefully and fully. From the start, through his confidence and his broken moments, I fell in love with Tobias simply because he loves Amelia distinctly. He waits for her, he treasures her, and he sees her in a way that no one else in the story does. Because of this, I was rooting for him and Amelia from the start.
Amelia is no slouch either. Like Tobias, Amelia knows Tobias in a way that shows the reader early on these two are destined for each other. I love how Allen creates them to be equal parts, completing each other. Even in their absence, they are never far from each other’s thoughts. Allen also crafts a heroine who is mature and self-aware. Amelia’s struggle could have derailed her, taking the story in a completely different direction. However, Allen makes her responsible to herself, and the choices she makes are healthy. This is important for readers. It reminds them to love themselves before they can love others. This book could have easily been over a third of the way through it. But the lesson to love yourself first is more important than two soulmates finding their happily-ever-after sooner rather than later.
This message of self-love also connects with Tobias’s challenges related to his adoption. Again, Allen suggests, through his story, that we have to find peace in our circumstances. For much of the book, Tobias lives a life of resentment given his parents’ choices about the knowledge of this adoption. However, when Amelia reminds Tobias of the need to let go of the anger and resentment, he is able to mature and develop deeper relationships with his family…and even her.
I cannot say enough about this book. There is so much beauty in this story, even in the angst of it. Lessons about loving yourself and letting go of the past flood the page, and you cannot help but hope for the best for Tobias and Amelia. Thankfully, K. K. Allen doesn’t disappoint, and she gives them a most beautiful ending.
“We were just Amelia and Tobias. Moon and Earth, living among the stars and sun. We were everything. And no matter the hardships we’d face along the way, we would always make sense together. “
In love and romance,
Professor A
Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2
I’m a romance reviewer. I fell into it over a year ago, and I’ve been working hard to build an interest in my blog. A couple of months ago, thankfully, a PR person reached out to me about Rebecca Jenshak. And, to this day, I am so thankful that PR person found me because Rebecca Jenshak has become one of my favorite new adult sports romance writers. She has this way of building your interest in the characters by walking us carefully through their stories and their motivations. When you start reading her books, you quickly fall into the lives of her characters, and she grows your love for them.
I have been waiting for her newest book, The Tip-Off. After reading The Assist and The Fadeaway, there were two characters who had revealed the least about themselves in those books: Zeke (“Z”) and Gabby. From those books, we knew that Z loved Tom Cruise, listening to music, and being solitary. When he spoke, he did it carefully and with great wisdom. His place was important, though, as the foil to characters like Joel. He was dependable for Wes, and he was always a solid presence, albeit a quiet one.
We gained a bit of Gabby’s story in The Assist because she is Blair’s (the story’s heroine) best friend. We learned that she was in a car accident that caused scarring, and it led her to forgo social situations out of insecurity. With Blair’s prodding, in The Tip-Off, Gabby has decided to attend Valley University in person. Since she has been taking classes online, she has missed out on the typical college experience, and she’s made a list to do just that: experience college. She’s looking for someone to help her fulfill it. That person becomes Z.
Since the beginning of college, Z’s life has been basketball. His goal is the NBA, and his life is balanced on the cusp of graduating college, going into the draft, and fulfilling his dream. Gabby entering his life complicates this because her need to live the college experience challenges him to see more than just basketball, to be more for himself. Gabby challenges Z to simply become a better, more well-rounded person. Will their journey end with each other?
Folks, The Tip-Off is a slow burn. At the end of The Fadeaway when Joel plans a prom for Gabby and Katrina, it seems as if the sparks are already flying off the page with Z and Gabby. There is clearly an interest there. However, the beginning of this book finds an irritated Z (he’s been roped into the “date”) and eventually, an embarrassed Gabby. While it seems like common sense to the reader that Z and Gabby would make a great pair, this does not happen for much of the book. But here’s the great part of this: when Z finally recognizes his feelings for Gabby, this couple becomes magical, like more so than Wes and Blair and Joel and Katrina. Their HEA is probably my favorite of the three books, and it made the slow burn of their coupling gratifying. So…be patient.
Additionally, Gabby is a gem. A true, true gem. I loved Blair and Katrina, but Gabby has this combination of emotional depth and humor where the other two heroines of the series don’t compare. Don’t get me wrong. I love them, but Gabby made me smile and laugh aloud many times in this book. Even in her insecurity, there’s an internal beauty to her character that makes you fall in love with her. She is both insecure and wise. She challenges Z, pulls him out of the protective barrier of basketball. She helps him see more than just his goal; she shows him life, something he hadn’t really been living until her. She is a fresh breath and a hope. And she reads like that on the page.
I think Z has been one of my favorites from the start. Wes is a bit too grumpy for me, and Joel is a bit too much of a flirt. Z’s solitary way of life connects with me. There is a headiness to his character even when he isn’t “living”. And he’s my favorite guy especially in the last quarter of The Tip-Off. His and Gabby’s happy ending is, I think, the best of the three. It has the most movement, and it’s the most real, at least to me.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this review, Rebecca Jenshak’s stories are mini-universes. She crafts her characters so that her readers walk and breathe and love with them through their journeys. You know every thought and emotion and experience. In doing this, she draws you in and makes you, the reader, responsible for the love on the page. Z and Gabby in The Tip-Off are my new favorite Jenshak couple. Their story illustrates the truths that beauty is definitely better when it is internal, not on the outside only, and life is only lived when it is lived in moments with others. Zeke and Gabby craft these truths through humor, tears, and love.
“I want someone to love me for the ugly and the beautiful, and every shade in between. True vulnerability is being seen for everything you are, the good and the bad…”
In love and romance,
Professor A
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