If You Stay (Beautifully Broken #1)
Author: Courtney Cole
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Publisher: Lakehouse Press
Description:
24-year old Pax Tate is an asshole.
Seriously.
He’s a tattooed, rock-hard bad-boy with a bad attitude to match.
But he’s got his reasons.
His mother died when Pax was seven, leaving a hole in his heart filled with guilt although he doesn’t understand why. What he does know is that he and his dad are left alone and with more issues than they can count.
As Pax grew up, he tried to be the kid his father always wanted; the perfect golden boy, but it didn’t work. His dad couldn’t overcome his grief long enough to notice and Pax couldn’t keep up the impossible perfect façade.
So he slipped far, far from it.
Now, he uses drugs and women to cope with the ugliness, the black void that he doesn’t want to deal with. If he pretends that the emptiness isn’t there, then it isn’t, right?
Wrong.
And it’s never more apparent than when he meets Mila.
Sweet, beautiful Mila Hill is the fresh air to his hardened frown, the beauty to his ugly heart. He doesn’t know how to not hurt her, but he quickly realizes that he’s got to figure it out because he needs her to breathe.
When memories of his mother’s death resurface from where he’s repressed them for so long, Mila is there to catch him when the guilt starts making sense. Mila is the one…the one who can save him from his broken troubled heart; from his issues, from the emptiness.
But only if he can stop being an asshole long enough to allow it.
He knows that. And he’s working on it.
But is that enough to make her stay?
**Warning -Contains sex and violence**
About the Author:
Courtney Cole is a novelist who would eat mythology for
breakfast if she could. She has a degree in Business, but has since discovered
that corporate America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds. She
loves chocolate and roller coasters and hates waiting and rude people.
Courtney lives in quiet suburbia, close to Lake Michigan,
with her real-life Prince Charming, her ornery kids (there is a small chance
that they get their orneriness from their mother) and a small domestic zoo.
Links:
Website: http://courtneycolewrites.com/
Author Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/courtneycolewrites
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/courtwritesYA
Novel Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17032328-if-you-stay
Author
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3112212.Courtney_ColeBe sure to follow along with the release launch and the blog tour! You can see the full schedule here: http://wp.me/p2jI8L-3n.
Giveaway:
Steph,
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This book sounds amazing! I have read a few posts on If You Stay and excepts and everything about this book sounds intriguing! Pax especially :)
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