RELEASE BLITZ WITH EXCERPT: A Lick and a Promise by Kristen Ashley
AVENGING ANGELS: A LICK AND A PROMISE, a swoon-worthy new action-packed and suspenseful romantic comedy from New York Times Bestselling Author, Kristen Ashley, is out now!
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They both knew this was it. Together forever…
Luna Nelson and Knox Chambers fell together fast, and they did it hard. It was so big, so special, they wanted it just for themselves and kept it a secret from their found family: the Avenging Angels and the Hottie Squad.
They both knew this was it. Together forever.
What Luna didn’t know was that Knox had secrets.
Secrets that tore them apart.
But when Knox asked for them to continue being friends—for the sake of their crew, and so he wouldn’t lose her—Luna loved him enough to say yes. Yes to the torture of being in the life of a man who was the love of hers, but he let her go.
Then, Knox gets shot. He gets shot not because he’s got a dangerous job (which he does), but because his family is an absolute mess.
With the man who means everything to her recuperating, Luna can’t keep away.
While Luna tries to keep the Angels safe from interfering in Knox’s family’s criminal enterprises, she and Knox circle each other, drawing a different kind of blood.
Will Knox continue to keep his secrets?
And will both of them be safe in the Chambers Family Feud?
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“…one heck of an angsty, emotional ride.” ~Danielle, Red Cheeks Reads
EXCERPT:
Chapter One
He Wants You
I shouldn’t be here.
I knew I shouldn’t be here.
But when Raye called, even though my mind said one thing (that I shouldn’t be here), my body (okay, my heart) said another.
So I was there.
The good news: I was just one more body in the mix, so it wasn’t like I was the castoff chick hanging around, embarrassing herself pining for some dude.
In other words, that hospital waiting room was a crush seeing as all the Hottie Squad was there, all the Angels, along with Tex, Nancy, Shirleen, Marjorie. Even Tito was there.
So I was just another person in a sea of people who were worried as fuck Knox got shot.
That was the bad news, Knox had been shot.
Twice.
He’d been shot…twice.
Oh yeah.
That was the way bad news.
He did not get shot while conducting Nightingale Investigations & Security business, which it was my understanding was a possibility, if not a probability in their line of work due to them not being your average, everyday private investigations and security business, but a whole lot more. He got shot because his family was a nightmare.
More good news, the surgeon came out and told us he was out of surgery, stable, resting and no lasting damage had occurred. Though he’d need some time to mend and do physical therapy to regain full strength in his shoulder and leg.
Okay, so that was mixed good news because, absolutely, no lasting damage was obviously a good thing.
But he had to recuperate from two gunshot wounds he got because his family was borderline ready for their episode of Evil Lives Here and that totally freaking sucked.
More of that mixed good news, my staring contest with Cheyenne was over.
Although I sensed why she hated me—even though it was lame as hell, since she had him for a while, and I didn’t (well, I did, but it wasn’t a very long while)—what I didn’t know was why she was there at all.
They’d broken up.
But by damn, when the surgeon came out, the bitch popped out of her seat like a demented Jill in the Box and shouldered even Cap and Mace out of the way (respectively, Knox’s best bud and his boss) to belly up to the doc.
She also lied and said she was Knox’s partner, so she got to be the first to go back and see him.
Usually, the dudes were super cool with chicks. Lots of patience (needed), lots of understanding (also needed—what could I say? we were a bunch of nutso broads), all kinds of room to be who we were and do what we did (as, of course, it should be—save Knox in that scenario, but that was a longer story).
But when Cheyenne did that, everyone got pissed, and even the dudes didn’t hide it.
And when she did it, Raye took my hand (again, she’d been holding it on and off for the last three hours), and Brady shot me a look.
Truth: Brady and me had screwed the pooch.
Honestly, it seemed a good idea at the time.
Okay, not a good idea. A demented, in-your-face, heartbroken idea. But when you were heartbroken, demented ideas often seemed like good ones.
Then again, I was learning not to lead with the heart. Though, admittedly, I was learning this by messing up royally because I’d done something stupid at the edict of my heart.
My heart had me sitting right there, benched, because I meant nothing to Knox except being a member of his friend posse.
A distant one.
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About Kristen Ashley:
Kristen Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of over eighty romance novels. She’s a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally, her books have been translated in fourteen languages and she’s sold millions of books.
Kristen, born in Gary and raised in Brownsburg, Indiana and was a fourth-generation graduate of Purdue University. Since, she has lived in Denver, the West Country of England, and she now resides in Phoenix. She worked as a charity executive for eighteen years prior to beginning her independent publishing career. She now writes full-time.
Although romance is her genre, the prevailing themes running through all of Kristen’s novels are friendship, family and a strong sisterhood. To this end, and as a way to thank her readers for their support, Kristen has created the Rock Chick Nation, a series of programs that are designed to give back to her readers and promote a strong female community. You can learn more about Kristen and the Rock Chick Nation on her website.
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