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For You I'd Break

by Hannah Jordan

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GENRE:   Contemporary Romance

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BOOK 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 ONE:

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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GUEST POST:

Fierce Female Characters in Romance: Why We Need Them and How to Write Them

Romance is fantasy, right? What better fantasy than a guy who takes care of every problem a woman has and gives her things she didn’t even know she wanted? (And lots of orgasms. Let’s not forget those). Sounds great! It’s also not remotely realistic, and therefore, not relatable. I want my characters and their relationship to be flawed enough to resonate with the reader because the best love stories are true (or at least could be). In real life, the perfect guy doesn’t swoop in to fix everything imperfect in a woman’s life, but he can sure help. So can her friends.

I’m a firm believer in the transformative power of love (romantic and platonic), but when it comes down to it, I believe people, and by extension my characters, are responsible for their own growth. Rowan’s character arc in For You I’d Break details her journey from physical and emotional brokenness to a place of strength and confidence. While her relationship with her physical therapist, Cal, certainly helps her become the woman she wants to be, she doesn’t rely solely on him. When he breaks her heart (I’d give you a spoiler alert, but this is contemporary romance. Someone’s heart is going to break, usually two people’s), she forges ahead on her own.

Ok, she’s not entirely on her own. Rowan surrounds herself with strong women who help her become one herself. Here’s my biggest tip to anyone wanting to write a fierce female lead: Give the secondary characters attributes the lead character needs to grow.

Rowan is a people pleaser at the start of the novel. Her sister Poppy doesn’t give AF what anyone thinks. Rowan doesn’t believe she’s beautiful or appealing. Her best friend Lauren exudes confidence and has guys falling for her left and right. She also has an unwavering belief that Rowan is gorgeous inside and out. Both secondary characters have issues, which I gleefully pull apart in later books in the series, but in Rowan’s story they serve as role models.

Rowan’s mother, Rose, is another fierce female. Widowed as a young mother of three, she starts her own business to support her grieving family. While she’s loving and sweet, she isn’t afraid to tell her daughter the hard truth. Rose urges Rowan not to allow heartbreak to keep her from the life she wants. While the circumstances differ, Rowan respects her mother’s advice because she knows it comes from experience.

Apart from being more realistic, there’s another reason romance novels need fierce female characters. Unless the heroine’s love interest is perfect from page one (and how boring would that be?), he’ll need to grow as well in order for their relationship to flourish. The couple is stronger together than apart because they are both strong on their own. That’s the kind of love that warms my heart and hopefully my readers’ as well.

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AUTHOR BIO:

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.

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CONNECT WITH HANNAH:

Website:

https://hannahjordanauthor.com

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http://www.facebook.com/hannahjordanbooks

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http://www.instagram.com/hannahjordanbooks

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AMAZON BOOK BUY LINKS & FREE BOOK INFO:

**For You I'd Break eBook is available for FREE on Amazon Kindle Unlimited!!!**

Amazon US Kindle eBook:

https://amzn.to/4dAYhdd

Amazon US Paperback:

https://amzn.to/3BCUDT6

Amazon CA Kindle eBook:

https://www.amazon.ca/You-Id-Break-Second-Romance-ebook/dp/B0D5VNSHF3

Amazon CA Paperback:

https://www.amazon.ca/You-Id-Break-small-town-romance/dp/B0D7QG4GJ7

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GIVEAWAY:

Hannah will be awarding a $25 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card (Winner's Choice!!!) to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.

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