Holy smokes!! We are so excited to bring you the Release Week Blitz for Jay Crownover's ASA! ASA is a New Adult Contemporary Romance novel being published by HarperCollins, and it is the 6th book in The Marked Men Series. We sure hope you're ready for this amazing book!
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About ASA:
Jay Crownover’s New York TimesandUSA TodaybestsellingMarked Menseries continues with the much anticipated story of southern charmer and certified criminal Asa Cross. Starting over in Denver with a whole new circle of friends and family, Asa Cross struggles with being the man he knows everyone wants him to be and the man he knows he really is. A leopard doesn’t it change its spots and Asa has always been a predator. He doesn’t want to hurt those who love and rely on him, especially one luscious arresting cop who suddenly seems to be interested in him for far more than his penchant for breaking the law. But letting go of old habits is hard, and it’s easy to hit bottom when it’s the place you know best. Royal Hastings is quickly learning what the bottom looks like after a tragic situation at work threatens not only her career but her partner’s life. As a woman who has only ever had a few real friends she’s trying to muddle through her confusion and devastation all alone. Except she can’t stop thinking about the sexy southern bartender she locked up. Crushing on Asa is the last thing she needs but his allure is too strong to resist. His long criminal record can only hurt her already shaky career and chasing after a guy who has no respect for the law or himself can only end in heartbreak. A longtime criminal and a cop together just seems so wrong . . . but for Asa and Royal, being wrong together is the only right choice to make.Review: I love, love, loved this book. Okay, I love most of Jay's book. Ever since Jet, I've had this image of Asa in my head. He was such a jerk, but i knew he had a good side. Asa grows throughout the book and the character development is just stellar. While I won't give any spoilers away, I do want to point out that this is the last book in the series. At the end I cried, not because the ending was super sad but because I will miss all these wonderful characters. You must read, read them all in order, then start all over again!
EXCERPT:
I pulled the Nova to a stop in front of a duplex that had clearly seen better days. It wasn’t a rusted-out
trailer in Kentucky, but it might as well have been. I turned off the ignition and sat back in the seat so I
could turn to look at Ayden. She was watching me carefully and I could see how frustrated she was with
the entire conversation in the way her shoulders were tensed up and the way her hands had curled into
tight balls on her lap. It was the way she used to look whenever I got into trouble and she had to do
something desperate and drastic to get me out of it. I reached out a hand and put it on top of her fists.
“I died in that hospital, Ayd. There were no angels playing harps. There was no redemption and
repentance. I died and it was very clear that I was going to get exactly the kind of fate I had been
courting with all the messed-up shit I had been doing to other people. All I could see was every wrong I
had ever committed and every bad decision I had ever made exploding all around me. For once I could
see how all of that affected you. I was dying, and I knew what was waiting for me on the other side, yet I
couldn’t go knowing that was all you were going to have to remember me by. I had to come back and
give you something else to hold on to, some kind of good memory to go with the endless miles of bad I
laid at your feet. I wanted to have the chance to show you I could be the kind of brother you deserved
all along, so no, I didn’t save myself—you saved me. Just like you’ve always done for my entire life.”
I saw her bottom lip tremble until she snapped her teeth around it to keep it still. Her fists unclenched
below my palm and she curled her shaking fingers around my hand and her already husky voice rasped
with even more emotion when she told me what I think I had needed to hear from her all along.
“I have always been proud that you’re my brother, Asa. Yes, there have been times in the past I would
have gladly fed you to the wolves, and it’s no secret that I had to leave home because I didn’t know
what to do to help you anymore, but we both made it out alive and are better people for it. I know
you’re sorry for the way things went down when we were younger, but I need you to open your eyes
and take some credit for the way you have turned it around to make things the way they are now. I’ve
long since come to terms with the Asa from my childhood. What I want to do is love the Asa that’s here
with me now. You need to let go of those boulders weighted with all the bad things from past that are
dragging you down before you get crushed under them.”
It was eerily similar to what Royal had been telling me the deeper and deeper I sank in with her. I don’t
think I was ready to let any part of those stones go just yet, but a sexy redhead was slowly and surely
eroding bits and pieces of the rock the more and more time I spent with her. By the time she was done,
maybe she would be able to carve out something that was worthwhile, something that didn’t eviscerate
me to look at.
I leaned over enough that I could kiss Ayden right on the center of her forehead between her midnight
eyebrows and I felt her let out a shuddering sigh.
“I’m never going to let you down again, Ayd. That is the one and only thing in the entire world that I can
promise and know it’s a promise I will keep.”
We stared at each other for a long and silent moment. The seriousness of the words I had said to her
and the fact that I could see that she understood that I really, truly meant them finally worked to
absolve me of some of the guilt that seemed to suffocate me whenever I thought about the things she
had done to keep me safe.
And don’t miss the previous books in The Marked Men Series!
RULE
JET
ROME
NASH
ROWDY
About Jay Crownover:
Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men series. She
will also be introducing the dark and sexy world of The Point in a new series this summer starting with
Better When He’s Bad. Like her characters, she is a big fan of tattoos. She loves music and wishes she
could be a rock star, but since she has no aptitude for singing or instrument playing, she'll settle for
writing stories with interesting characters that make the reader feel something. She lives in Colorado
with her three dogs.
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