ROCK CHICK REMATCH, an all-new 1001 Dark Nights novella in the Rock Chick world from New York Times Bestselling Author, Kristen Ashley, is out now!
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In high school, Malia Clark found the man of her dreams.
Darius Tucker…
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Ashley brings a new story in her Rock Chick series…
In high school, Malia Clark found the man of her dreams.
Darius Tucker.
But life hits them full in the face way before it ever should. Darius makes a drastic decision to keep his family safe and Malia leaves town with a secret.
When Malia returns, she seeks Darius to share all, but Darius finds out before she can tell him. At the same time, she finds out just how much Darius has changed in the years she’s been away.
She just refuses to give up on him.
Until he forces her hand.
Secrets come between Malia and Darius, at the same time Malia has to worry about weird things going on at the law firm where she works, her kid wants a car and she’s stuck in slow-cooker hell. Luckily, her ride or dies have her back.
And in the meantime, she might just learn she never should have lost hope in Darius Tucker.
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EXCERPT:
PROLOGUE
His Father
Don’t make me check that backpack,” I shouted to my son. “Mom!”
I’d had sixteen years to navigate the wide spectrum of my son’s different varieties of Mom! and get a lock on each version.
This one said, I don’t need my mother to check my backpack. I haven’t since I was twelve. I’m all grown up. Stop already.
And yet, the boy was always forgetting something.
I was in the kitchen, dealing with the pork in the slow cooker.
I was doing this against my will.
Not against my will when it came to cooking. I was a damn good cook, and I did say so myself. Also, I liked doing it.
No, it was because it was summer. Summer wasn’t about slow-cooker meals. That was winter.
Winter was stews and chili and enchiladas. Summer was meat on the grill and some kind of salad (preferably one with potatoes or macaroni in it, let the good Lord bless the woman—and it had to be a woman—who deemed those “salads”).
It almost hurt to put that pork shoulder in the crockpot that morning.
But I was a single mom. I worked. My kid was busy with end-of-school-year stuff (though, Liam loved to cook, just right now, with finals and friends and parties and making plans for the summer, he had less time than me).
And, I told myself, I was making barbeque pulled pork (the vinegary North Carolina style, and don’t give me any guff about that goodness, I was a barbeque aficionado, and I could appreciate all the different styles, but if you were pulling pork, you went NC).
Pulled pork sandwiches were a summer thing.
Though, I wished I had a smoker. That said summer to me.
Also winter. A smoker didn’t discriminate.
These were the thoughts on my mind so I didn’t think of other things.
Like the weird stuff going on at work that was giving me a very bad vibe.
Or more importantly, like the chat I’d had with Lee and Eddie yesterday. About the decision
I’d made. About the conversation I’d had with my son that morning. About the decision he’d made.
And about how his father was going to handle it.
(My take: he wasn’t going to handle it very well.)
(My next take: my first take was an understatement.)
Liam walked into the kitchen, all tall, gangly teen.
As I watched him, I took the hit I always took once the boy started to fade out of him and he began to look like the man he’d become.
In other words, he began to look just like his father.
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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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