FOR YOU I’D BREAK
FOR YOU I’D BREAK
Hannah Jordan
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance
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BLURB:
When Rowan’s two-year marriage ends with a crash, she returns home to Peace Falls, VA, riding shotgun in her sister’s 1990 Cadillac hearse. Everything about her is damaged: her heart, her pride, her bank account, and her spine—thanks to a tourist, a Segway, and finding her husband getting busy with her boss. But Rowan is determined to reclaim her career and city life as soon as she recuperates and lands a new job.
Caleb “Cal” Cardoso didn’t notice wallflower Rowan in high school, but the former football star, and Peace Falls’s newest physical therapist, can’t take his eyes off the stunning redhead now. Too bad he’s sworn off relationships. After his last hookup purposely tanked his online reputation, Cal stands to lose his job if a single patient leaves his care. Which is why he can’t let Rowan switch to another practitioner, despite the friction between them, and why he definitely can’t act on his growing attraction.
Rowan agrees to remain Cal’s patient if he helps her younger brother train for football tryouts. Though Cal hasn’t touched a football since the accident that killed his best friend, he agrees, and as Cal helps heal Rowan’s body, she begins to heal his heart.
For You I’d Break is a small town romance with a hefty dash of spice, a HEA ending, and a cast of memorable characters, including a goth sculptor who secretly loves to decorate cakes, a fearsome-looking felon with a heart of gold, a hothead with a sweet side, a karma-devoted barista who collects damaged pets and first dates, and a lovable dog with more emotional sense than everyone put together.
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EXCERPT
Being a wallflower makes you thirsty, so parched for attention your heart feels brittle. Then after years—or in my case a lifetime—someone finally sees you. The exquisite feeling seeps deep, the attention saturating your life. So, you jump, headfirst. The red flags go unnoticed. Declarations of love tossed as lightly as petals. Maybe you marry him, like I did. Maybe you bloom in domestic bliss with a house in the suburbs and two adorable kids. Maybe a dog. Bare minimum a pet turtle.
I wasn’t so lucky.
After two years of marriage, instead of house hunting in the outskirts of DC, I was riding shotgun in my sister’s 1990 Cadillac hearse, headed back to Peace Falls, VA, with everything I owned stuffed where a coffin ought to be.
I’d cried so much in the past three hours, I could barely make out the foothills rising in the distance. My throat was raw. Crumpled tissues littered the floorboard, and lint covered my leggings.
The tears surprised me. Apart from a couple of late-night phone calls to my mother after I left the hospital, I’d held it together pretty well. I was too busy tying up the loose ends of my life in DC to feel anything but stressed. The moment Poppy arrived to drive me home, the tears started and built with every box, bag, and lamp we slid into the hearse.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Hannah Jordan grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia but wound up in South Jersey after falling in love with her complete opposite. She’s got all the degrees of a “serious” fiction writer but only smiles when she’s writing romance.
She lives with her husband and two daughters in a picturesque town outside of Philadelphia where she enjoys reading in all genres, especially the spicy ones, and confusing people with her half-Southern, half-Northern accent.
The first book in her Peace Falls Small Town Romance Series, For You I’d Break, launched July 17, 2024.
Website: https://hannahjordanauthor.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hannahjordanbooks
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/hannahjordanbooks
Amazon Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/You-Id-Break-Second-Romance-ebook/dp/B0D5VNSHF3/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top
Free to read on Kindle Unlimited.
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Q & A With …
Tell us about you as a person.
I grew up in southern Appalachia and now live in the Philadelphia suburbs, so I have a pretty unique perspective of both places. I also confuse the heck out of people with my half-southern, half-northern American accent.
I’m neuro-spicy. In fact, my husband is the only neurotypical member of the family, so sometimes, I think we accidentally gaslight him into thinking our quirks are the norm. Like, that light is too loud! (Sensory process dysfunction). Or it takes an hour to fold a load of laundry or do an unpleasant task (ADHD time distortion).
I’m an introvert who fakes being an extrovert so well, people think I am. I’m extremely loyal and supportive of the people I let into my life. I’m still best friends with the extrovert who adopted me on the first day of third grade.
It takes a lot to make me angry, unless someone did or said something to hurt someone I care about. Then, I’m basically a dragon.
If you could hang out with one famous person for one day, who would it be and why?
Tylor Swift. I’d bring my daughters with me because we didn’t get to see the Eras tour, and that’s about the only thing I can think of that would top that for a Swiftie.
What’s the story behind your latest book?
The book began as a dare, specifically a challenge to write a romance in one month. I confessed to a writer friend that I’d always wanted to write a romance novel, a very different genre from my usual work. She had a partial draft of a paranormal romance she wanted to finish, so we dragged our third friend along for the ride. And just to be clear, the book went through over a year of revisions and rewrites, but the first draft came together in January 2023. I expected to be very busy that month. I didn’t expect to love every minute of it. I fell in love with the characters, the story, and the thrill of writing something I couldn’t wait to read myself. In short, I was hooked. And just to be clear, the book went through over a year of revisions and rewrites, but the first draft came together in one calendar month.
What advice do you have for other writers who want to get the word out about their latest book?
Become an engaged member of writer communities. I’m stressing the “engaged” part. Many people just blow into in-person or online groups, shout about their book, and leave. That’s a mistake. Some of the best opportunities I’ve received in my career came from other writers, many of whom I’ve helped before or since. Romance readers are voracious, so supporting and promoting other authors doesn’t cannibalize on your own book sales. Working with other authors is also the cheapest form of marketing since it usually only requires your time and audience.
List 5 things on your bucket list.
I crossed two off when I published For You I’d Break (publish a book and own my own business).
Here are a few remaining ones:
• Learn to play guitar
• Travel to Australia (I swear, that one was actually on the list)
• Learn Spanish
• Live without a physical address for six months
• Attend Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Any final thoughts?
Please leave your honest reviews! (Not just for me, but for any writer you want to support). We love hearing what readers think, and it really helps others discover our work. One thing I love about the romance genre is the community aspect between readers and writers (who are usually rabid romance readers themselves). It’s really incredible, and I’m thankful every day that I took that friend’s dare.
