Welcome to the Dark Horse Dive Bar, where the Wildes throw one hell of a party and love could be a barstool away!: Wilde Abandon by Jennifer Ryan Book Blitz & Giveaway
Wilde Abandon
A Dark Horse Dive Bar Novel #1
by Jennifer Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
New York Times bestselling author
Jennifer Ryan’s page-turning Dark Horse Dive Bar series continues
with this story of love shadowed by secrets and lies as a bar owner
falls for an old friend, now a computer programmer mogul, she once
betrayed.
Welcome to the Dark Horse Dive Bar,
where the Wildes throw one hell of a party and love could be a
barstool away!
Broken and betrayed, Fox Bridges
escaped Blackrock Falls 16 years ago, vowing never to return. But
when his mom is diagnosed with terminal cancer, there’s no escaping
it. Making the best of a bad situation, he goes back to face his past
and set up a program to help foster kids who age out of the system
like him. But more importantly— to reunite with the best friend he
had to leave behind.
Melody Wilde never got over the loss
of her childhood best friend. She saved his life… but it cost her
Fox. He left town and never looked back, hating her for revealing his
secret.
So when Fox walks back into town—right through
the front door of her bar—she realizes he’s the man she’s been
falling for online. He could be her chance at forever.
But
Fox has secrets, and there are those who will do anything to bring
him down. They’ll exploit any weakness. And he’s just given them
the biggest one yet—Melody.
WILDE
ABANDON by Jennifer Ryan excerpt…
“Fox?” A tear slid down her cheek.
“Yes.” Fox’s eyes narrowed and the muscle in his jaw
ticked.
The past came back to her in a slideshow of them as
kids and the nightmare of how it all ended with him yelling at her that he
hated her.
She couldn’t stop the tears now; they ran down her
cheeks one after another as her heart broke all over again. “I’m sorry. I’m so,
so sorry. I never meant to hurt you.” She couldn’t breathe. She couldn’t stand
there and look at him, knowing what she’d done and that he hated her. “I’m
sorry.” She dropped the tray she’d been holding and ran through the kitchen.
Lyric called out to her, asking what was wrong, but Melody didn’t stop until
she shot out the back door and ran across the wide patio area. She bent over
and tried to catch her breath and wipe away the tears, but they just wouldn’t
stop.
Strong hands settled on her shoulders and pulled her
upright. “Hey now. You need to stop that because I seriously have no idea what
to do and it’s killing me to see you so sad. Please, Dee, give me a chance to
explain.”
She caught her breath when she saw the guilty look
in his eyes and she put the pieces together. “You’re him.”
“Yes. It’s me. Fox.”
She shook her head. “No. You’re him. The guy
who’s been DMing me online.”
Even in the dim light she could see the flush of red
hit his cheeks. Embarrassment and guilt lit his eyes. “I know it was stupid to
try to slip back into your life that way. I should have just talked to you. But
there are so many people in the bar and every guy has his eyes on you and I
didn’t want to just show up and tell you I’m sorry and dump all our past on you
in the middle of your shift with everyone watching.” The words came out in a
rushed plea.
She raised a brow. “How did that work out for you?”
A pained look came into his eyes. “I made you cry.
I’m sorry.” He ran his hand through his gorgeous hair. “I blew it just like I
thought I would. That’s why I tried to talk to you online. I thought if I took
the time to get to know you again and you got to know me without everything
else from the past, then when I did finally talk to you in person we’d be
friends again.”
Both brows shot up this time. “You deceived me, so
we could be friends?”
“Yes?”
Why was that a question?
His hand raked through his hair again. “I am so not
good at this.”
“What?” She really didn’t understand any of it.
“Talking to people. In foster care, you keep your
head down, mouth shut, and just get through another shit day.”
Tears welled in her eyes again. “It’s all my fault.
I’m sorry.”
He rushed forward, cupped her face, and brushed his
thumbs across her cheeks, wiping away her tears. “Okay, you need to stop doing
that. I can’t take it. Nothing is your fault. You don’t owe me an apology. You
aren’t to blame for anything. You are everything good and happy that I ever had
in my life.
“Because of you, I’m alive. I survived. I’m the one
who needs to tell you I’m sorry. I lashed out at you, but I didn’t mean it. You
know I could never hate you.”
His eyes burned bright with need for her to
understand. “You were my everything.” His mouth crashed into hers in a kiss
that stole her breath and commanded all her attention.
New York Times & USA Today bestselling author JENNIFER RYAN writes suspenseful contemporary romances about everyday people who do extraordinary things. Her deeply emotional love stories are filled with high stakes and higher drama, love, family, friendship, and the happily-ever-after we all hope to find.
Jennifer lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children. When she finally leaves those fictional worlds, you’ll find her in the garden, playing in the dirt and daydreaming about people who live only in her head, until she puts them on paper.
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