Excerpt Reveal: The Tempo Of Truth

 

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒐 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉 (𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑫𝒖𝒆𝒕 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 3) by NYT and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover available in her store! The book will be released on all retailers on September 18th. Check out this sneak peek! 

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Tropes:

🐦 Secret baby

🐦 Unrequited love/first love

🐦 Stalker tendencies 

🐦 Opposites attract

🐦 Curvy FMC

🐦 She fell first/he fell harder

🐦 Princess vs Pauper 

🐦 I will make the world burn for you

Excerpt: 

“Do you really want to call a truce?” I nudged her with my leg. It would be nice if things could go back to the way they were before everything got so complicated. We might never recapture our youthful infatuation, but it would be nice to return to a place where she didn’t doubt me, and I didn’t hate her for her suspicion. In that scenario, I still had too little and she had too much, but the gap between the two of us didn’t feel as insurmountable as it always seemed to be.

She nodded and watched me with sincere eyes behind the lenses of her glasses. “I do.”

I lifted the sling slightly and asked, “Do you want to kiss it and make it better?”

I was playing around, trying my best to reset the clock. Something flashed in Winnie’s eyes that suggested she didn’t get that I was joking.

Before I could get my footing and tell her I was teasing, her hands shot out and clasped my cheeks between her palms. I felt her thumb brush over the abrasions left behind from the earlier fight. Her touch was warm. The heat and softness radiated throughout my body. I’d never been handled with such care before. It was like our roles switched, and she now saw me as the breakable one.

There was plenty of time to pull away or dodge her as she leaned closer to me. My eyes locked onto where the old jersey started to ride up along her pale, creamy thighs. I stayed as still as possible as her lips hovered over mine. All it would take for a kiss was one of us moving the last few centimeters. We both stayed frozen in place as our breaths started to mingle.

I meant to pull away before things shifted in a direction I wasn’t prepared to deal with.

Winnie didn’t give me a chance to retreat. She closed the distance between us, her lips settling over mine with the lightest pressure possible. I was immediately thrown back to the single night we spent together. It might’ve been a big blur, but there was no forgetting how quickly things ignited and how quickly she was capable of making my insides burn.

BLURB:

Winnie Halliday is life's greatest winner…

She has money, power, influence, and a family that loves and supports her no matter how impulsive or improper her choices. Winnie has longed to step out of the shadow cast by the Halliday name, but even gilded cages are hard to break. After several years chasing the one who got away, her childhood crush turned infamous footballer, Kyser Kent, Winnie's about to return home. It's time for her to take on the role she was born to play: the first female CEO of her family's multi-billion-dollar business. It's a massive challenge, but nowhere near as difficult as explaining to Ky and the relentless press that the reason she wasn't alone upon her return could be traced back to a heated one-night stand in Portugal—an encounter her now downtrodden fling can hardly recall.

Kyser Kent is the world's biggest loser…

He has no money, no friends, and a reputation tarnished beyond repair. His dream career of playing professional football overseas was sidelined by bad luck and some seriously questionable decisions. From the moment he returned home, the familiar cage of poverty and disgrace trapped him behind familiar rust-covered bars he longed to escape. The thought of starting over makes him want to give up before he even begins digging himself out of suffocating debt and overwhelming disappointment.

Winnie saved Ky from himself when he hit rock bottom once before. Little did he know that night would tie him to the heiress for a lifetime and give him an undeniable reason to fight for himself—and for the family he never thought he'd have.

This is a spinoff of The Monsters Duet. Mental health and mental heath disorders, suicide, domestic violence and loss of a child. 

Find more books by Jay Crownover here: https://www.jaycrownover.com