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Seventeen-year-old Violet has always been expected to sit back and let the boys do all the saving.<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s the code her father, a member of the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, raised her to live by. Yet when her dad is killed carrying out Terror business, Violet knows it\u2019s up to her to do the saving. To protect herself, and her vulnerable younger brother, she needs to cut all ties with the club\u2014including Chevy, the boy she\u2019s known and loved her whole life.<\/p>\n But when a rival club comes after Violet, exposing old secrets and making new threats, she\u2019s forced to question what she thought she knew about her father, the Reign of Terror, and what she thinks she wants. Which means re-evaluating everything: love, family, friends . . . and forgiveness.<\/p>\n Caught in the crosshairs between loyalty and freedom, Violet must decide whether old friends can be trusted\u2014and if she\u2019s strong enough to be the one person to save them all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “An intoxicating and unforgettable story that kept me glued to the page.” <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 5 shining stars!<\/strong><\/p>\n I am a mad fan of all things Katie McGarry, and I love this series. Set in the world of a legitimate motorcycle club, and telling the stories of the younger generation \u2013 those who were born and raised in the club and who are now approaching adulthood. From the first book of the series I fell in love with Chevy and Violet, who grew up together, became best friends, fell in love and then lost it all. I have been so excited to get their story, and this book did not disappoint. It\u2019s a heartfelt second-chance-romance, and a wonderfully written coming of age story. It was everything that I wanted, and I absolutely loved it!<\/p>\n Chevy and Violet have shared a strong connection for as long as they can remember, but that all changed when Violet\u2019s father died and her grief, anger and fear for the safety of her family saw her turning her back on the Reign of Terror MC and the people she had called her friends and family for her entire life. Chevy\u2019s father died before he was even born, but as the Grandson of the Club President, the Terror has been Chevy\u2019s whole life, so when Violet left that life, she also left him behind. He has been without her for over a year, but that doesn\u2019t mean his feelings have changed, and it tears him up to continuously see the girl he has always loved, yet to have the foreign and heartbreaking distance between them.<\/p>\n Some people, like me and Violent, aren\u2019t supposed to break up. Some people like me and Violet, don\u2019t know how to be near each other when we do part ways.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n But one terrifying night is about to change everything, when Chevy and Violet are thrown together in the worst of circumstances \u2013 clinging to each other and fighting for their very survival, each of them discovering secrets that will change their lives.<\/p>\n I love the way that Katie McGarry weaves her stories together \u2013 giving us two strong characters and showing us their personal journeys, and then weaving those two storylines together into an honest, real, raw and emotional love story, and that\u2019s exactly what she\u2019s given us with Chevy and Violet. The book is written in dual POV, and I could understand where both of them were coming from \u2013 Chevy struggling to figure out who he is and what he wants, torn between his love for his girl and his love for his family and terrified to lose either of them. And while I was worried how I would feel about Violet after she had already left Chevy brokenhearted, I could totally see where she was coming from \u2013 she wants more from her life than what she sees as possible if she stayed within the MC world, she wants safety and security, and she wants to be more than just an old lady. She wants Chevy, and she\u2019s not afraid to tell him exactly what she wants from him, and I love her strength as she fights for what she needs.<\/p>\n \u201cI am not your property, I am not a dog \u2026 I am your equal, and I deserve the love and respect that comes with that because that\u2019s what a real man does when he loves a woman.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n God, I love these two together!!! Violet and Chevy have such a wonderful dynamic. It\u2019s clear that they are both still very much in love with each other, they don\u2019t deny that. And I loved the glances, the touches, the smiles, and the comfort that they got from each other. But there are legitimate reasons why they aren\u2019t together, and I love the maturity that they show in trying to work through all of that.<\/p>\n \u201cIgnoring our problems won\u2019t make them go away. We\u2019re playing a dangerous game, and I\u2019ll be honest, I don\u2019t know how many more hits I can take.\u201d Their love story is both heartbreaking and beautifully romantic as they fight to find their way back each other. Two best friends who know each other inside and out, whose memories are completely intertwined, and who are made to be together – it\u2019s real and emotional and intense, and I loved every moment of it!<\/p>\n \u201cI love you,\u201d I whisper. \u201cI can\u2019t remember a time when I haven\u2019t loved you.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In addition to their relationship dramas, they both have a lot of figuring out to do in their personal lives, and as Chevy looks to the past for answers, Violet is dealing with a new and terrifying threat. It\u2019s intense and exciting, and though it had the potential to becoming annoying, I thought it was handled really well, and it ties in nicely with the other books in the series and the over-arching storyline of the Rein of Terror\u2019s ongoing war with the Riot MC.<\/p>\n I also loved the strong theme of family \u2013 both the family that you have and the family that you make, and I loved getting to see more of the private side of the MC members (Eli in particular), as Chevy and Violet figured out their relationships with the people in their lives, and their places in their world, setting their course for their future in the way that they want it to be.<\/p>\n \u201cAs much as you want to, you can\u2019t take all our pain away. Hurting, it\u2019s a part of life, and if you try to stop any of us from being in pain, that means you\u2019re not allowing us to actually live.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n And then there\u2019s the absolutely sensational cameo that will have long-time Katie McGarry fans squeezing with excitement. There\u2019s a wonderful tie in to the Pushing the Limits<\/i> series that was a fantastic treat, and I can only hope that we get to see more of that storyline in future books.<\/p>\n I loved this book. Once again, McGarry has taken me on a wonderfully intense and emotional ride. I fell in love with Chevy and Violet, and I loved their story. It was beautifully written, absolutely captivating and everything that I was hoping for.<\/p>\n I loved it \u2013 5 stars.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nowhere But Here (#1) Walk the Edge (#2) Long Way Home (#3)<\/strong> Untitled (#4)<\/strong> <\/p>\n CHEVY<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The instructions of the English homework I didn\u2019t do hangs out from the top of my folder: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both.<\/em><\/p>\n Story of my life.<\/p>\n According to my football coach, I chose wrongly on the two crap paths I had to face last week. I just ran into Coach on the way to English, and he ripped into me for my sorry decision-making skills when it came to me choosing to stand up for the Reign of Terror Motorcycle Club instead of a member of my football team.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t just get my ass chewed out, his tirade made me late for English with no tardy note. Which is great since my English teacher hates late students like I hate riding\u00a0 my motorcycle in forty degree weather while it rains.<\/p>\n I round the corner, then peek through the small window on the door of my class. Ms. Whitlock stands in front of her desk in her patented white button-down shirt, gray pencil skirt, and dark-rimmed glasses. From the back row, my best friend Razor meets my eyes and shakes his head. Damn. That means she\u2019s in one of her moods where she\u2019s refusing to let anyone in.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not a tail-tucked-between-my-legs type of guy, but this lady is one of the few who can reduce me to begging. If she doesn\u2019t let me in, then she\u2019ll mark me as absent, the front office will think I skipped, and that means I won\u2019t be able to play at tonight\u2019s football game.<\/p>\n The window rattles when I knock. The entire class turns their heads in my direction, but Ms. Whitlock doesn\u2019t. The muscles in my neck tighten. She is one of the hardest core people I know and my grandfather is the president of a motorcycle club. That says something.<\/p>\n She starts for the white board and I knock on the door again. This time, Ms. Whitlock does look my way and she grants me the type of glare reserved for people who kick puppies. I got it. I\u2019m late. I\u2019m the scum of humanity, so let my ass in so I can play football.<\/p>\n There\u2019s this guy in my club, Pigpen. He\u2019s about the same age as Ms. Whitlock, late twenties, and he\u2019s a walking hard-on for this woman even though she would never give him the time of day. He practically runs into walls when she\u2019s around because he\u2019s too focused on checking her out. I don\u2019t see gorgeous\u2014all I see is seriously pissed off and the person standing between me and playing.<\/p>\n Ms. Whitlock points at the clock over her desk. She\u2019s telling me I can wait. If I\u2019m lucky, she\u2019ll open the door after the quiz that I\u2019ll receive a zero on. If I\u2019m not so lucky, she won\u2019t open the door at all.<\/p>\n Two pathetic paths and I could only travel one. Nowhere in that stupid poem did it mention there was good and bad to both paths and that sometimes it\u2019s best not to choose, but to set up camp at the fork and do nothing at all.<\/p>\n I slam my hand into the nearest locker, almost relishing the sting.<\/p>\n \u201cFeel better?\u201d<\/p>\n A glance across the hallway and I freeze. Doesn\u2019t matter how many times I see her in a day, she still manages to take my breath away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Escapist Book Blog is not responsible for this giveaway<\/em><\/p>\n Katie is the author of full length YA novels, PUSHING THE LIMITS<\/a>, DARE YOU TO<\/a>, CRASH INTO YOU<\/a>, TAKE ME ON<\/a>,\u00a0 BREAKING THE RULES<\/a>, and NOWHERE BUT HERE<\/a> and the e-novellas, CROSSING THE LINE<\/a> and RED AT NIGHT. 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Katie McGarry was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.<\/p>\n