For You I'd Break

November 11, 2024

For You I'd Break

FOR YOU I'D BREAK

Hannah Jordan

GENRE: Contemporary Romance

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.

Excerpt:

Just then, the second door opened and out walked Caleb Cardoso in a pair of slate gray scrubs. Years of watching him swagger down school hallways and sprint across football fields did nothing to prepare me. He’d added more muscle to his lean frame, his broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist. His dark, tousled hair looked styled to suggest he’d just climbed out of bed after an all-night sexfest. His jaw was sharper, his cheek bones more chiseled. When he looked at me with those rich chocolate eyes, all the air left my lungs.

“Mrs. Norris,” he said, glancing at the tablet in his hands.

The sound of my married name lifted the lust fog from my brain. “Please call me Rowan,” I said, relieved I’d finally managed to speak in his presence.

He studied my face, frowned, and looked back at his tablet. “Nice to meet you,” he said, studying my face again. “I’m Cal. Take a seat on the first table.”

Lauren would have politely told him that we were two years apart in school. Poppy would have flipped the embarrassment of being forgotten back onto Cal with a snide comment about his observation skills. Not that anyone ever forgot Poppy. I just turned my back to him and hoped he hadn’t seen my cheeks burn. People often didn’t remember me, but it still stung, especially when it was someone I’d spent so much time fantasizing about in my teens. As I crossed the room, I could feel him behind me, watching my every movement.

About the Author:

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.

Q&A With the Author:

Who is your favorite author and why?
I love Jane Austen. It should have been my first clue during my literary fiction phase that I might be in the wrong genre. Austen’s writing is masterful and I will die on that hill, but when it comes right down to it, she wrote romances. Exceptional romances, but romances.
What is something unique/quirky about you?
I’m neuro-spicy, so I have ample quirks. 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 grew up in southern Appalachia and now live in the Philadelphia suburbs, so I feel like I have a pretty unique perspective of both places, which in turns makes me pretty unique. I also confused the heck out of people with my half-southern, half-northern accent.
What was your inspiration for writing this book?
For You I’d Break 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 did come together in one calendar month.
What did you enjoy most about writing this book?
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. I felt like I’d finally found my place as a writer after jumping around from one type of writing to another.
Do you have any other books you are working on that you can tell us about?
I’m very excited about the rest of the Peace Falls series. The second book, For You I’d Mend, launched in October. It focuses on Rowan’s sister, Poppy, and Cal’s best friend, Theo. Poppy and Theo feature heavily in For You I’d Break as friends who are clearly attracted to each other. Poppy is my favorite character in the entire series, so I really enjoyed writing her book. I’ve been told I should warn readers they might need tissues, which is fair because I definitely used a few when I wrote it.
The third book, For You I’d Bloom, will come out in January. It’s my favorite book of the series because I fell a bit in love with the lead, Aiden. It’s an enemies-to-lovers story with an accidental pregnancy thrown in. I’m currently working on final edits of the book.
I knew I’d be staying in Peace Falls for at least three more novels, but I was debating which story to write next. A reader on Goodreads asked if a specific character would have a story (who happened to be one of the two I was going back and forth on), so I took it as a sign to write the fourth book about the character the reader requested. Cammie and Wyatt’s story will come out in 2025 as well.
Anything more you would like to say to your readers and fans?
Please leave your honest reviews! I love hearing what readers think, and it really helps others discover the series. 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.

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