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If you haven't experienced Austin & Edie's intense love story, now's your chance!
The USA Today Bestseller readers are raving about!
"It is a book that consumes your soul and keeps you entranced with every turn of the page. Pure brilliance...A huge 5+++ stars and very highly recommended." MJ Fryer
"A beautiful symphony of musical words, depth, heart, and a storm of betrayal...Just Brilliant!" – Queenzany Book Blog
EXCERPT
“Shit,” I hissed, bracing myself against the spray of the icy shards pelting from the shower head. I sucked in a breath, released it between clenched teeth, and forced myself fully under it. Head dropped and chest heaving as rivers of ice-cold water slicked down my shoulders and back. But it did nothing to lessen the need. Gave me no sanity or pacification. Because all I could think about was the girl on the other side of the door. My girl. In my bed. Wearing just her panties and myshirt. An angel I wanted to dirty. I always had. Love was messy like that. All of my restraint scattered. I gripped my cock. Squeezed the base. My mouth dropped open at the pressure of my hand against my rigid length. A fool thinking it might be enough. Shit. God, I was a bastard, but there was nothing I could do before I was giving in, leaning forward and bracketing my forearm above my head to hold my weight. Water pounded down on my head and back while I pounded my fist against my dick. Trying to keep silent when all I wanted was to moan, teeth digging into my bottom lip as I pictured the girl spread out for me. My breaths were coming short. Panted and hard. I gave into imagining the sounds she would make when I finally got to bury myself in her body. A soft, soft gasp. I slowed, trying to convince myself that throaty sound was all in my mind. Just another part of this fantasy. Until I heard the small thump against the wall. Shit. I mashed my eyes closed, like it might hide me. Conceal the depravity of my actions after I’d just been comforting her hours before. Heart thrashing, I turned and moved far enough to peek out the small section where the fabric shower curtain hadn’t been drawn fully closed. It was just a little sliver that left me exposed. But it was enough. When I peered out, I was looking right at my girl pressed up against the wall. She stared right back at me. And I wanted to be horrified, my mind scrambling to conjure every weak apology I could summon. Ready to fucking grovel to keep her from turning and running once again. Because that’s exactly what I expected her to do.
But her expression…her expression clutched me in the center of the chest and sent what little brain function I had left stampeding south. Red, lush lips were parted, her hand pressed to her hollow of her throat, pupils dilated so big that her hooded, cerulean eyes appeared black. Needy breaths were coming at me from that sweet mouth like a goddamned freight train. Desire swelled in the confines of the too-tight room. Alive. She pressed deeper into the wall as if it might support her weakened knees. Head rocked back. Thighs squeezing together. Motherfuck. My hand shot to the shower wall to steady myself.
“Warning you, Edie, you need to get out of here. Right now.”
QueenZany 5 Star Review
How do I write this review without ripping out a piece of my soul out?
I have no fucking clue!
I'm still a well of guttural emotions!
My heart feels as though it has been ripped out with “Wait,”
lord knows I’ve gone through multiple variations of this review.
“Wait” A beautiful symphony of musical words, depth, heart, broken, fractured, and a storm of betrayal!
Yet, seductive and life changing all at the same time.
If two souls are destined to be one. Can they then be saved from their demons? From their unknown past? From their lost and hidden lost secrets? Is this fate? Can it be destiny?
There is no force in nature that can stop the truth from being revealed!
Its all consuming! When you find healing and meaning. Its everlasting!
Yes, all these terms and lost promises describe “Wait!”
These are some of the questions running through my mind!!
“I wished upon every damned star in the sky for a second chance.
For something I could do to truly make it right when I’d done her so fucking wrong.
To be good enough for this girl who was so obviously created for me.”
“The girl was the only one who shed a light strong enough to pull me from the dark. The one who held the power call me from the blackened waters where my lungs were filled. At the cusp of succumbing.
But that girl…that girl had given me air.”
A.L. Jackson lead me on this guttural emotional journey. Where I became unglued, unhinged,and fractured beyond repair.
Where I seemed to leave my heart in fragmented pieces. Im literally crying this is so fucking brilliant! Where I needed a soul engulfing hug. Just to make sure I was still real! That I was not a character from “Wait!” To lose myself in a book is simply not me!! But fuck it happened!! Im still not myself days later.
A beautiful symphony of elegant words, depth, and heart.
I truly do not know how A.L. Jackson does it.
Her writing just seems to grow leaps and bounds with every new creation.
She has this unique quality. That brings poetry, lyrics, and filmic narrative to life! All while seducing you with every neuron in your body. Every fiber of your being. Leaves you captivated, hypnotized and seduced with every hypnotic word. Then you're dying for the next word to come forward. Almost like a movie sequence, that is all occurring in your mind.
JUST BRILLIANT!!!!!
ARC kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review
On Audio (Narrated by the fabulous Andi Arndt & Zachary Webber who NAILED it!!!) --> http://smarturl.it/WaitAudio
A.L. Jackson is the New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance. She writes emotional, sexy, heart-filled stories about boys who usually like to be a little bit bad.
Her bestselling series include THE REGRET SERIES, CLOSER TO YOU, as well as the newest BLEEDING STARS novels. Watch for the next installments, WAIT and STAY, coming in 2016.
If she’s not writing, you can find her hanging out by the pool with her family, sipping cocktails with her friends, or of course with her nose buried in a book.
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