Yowza! We are extremely excited to bring you the Release Day
Launch for Cora Carmack's ALL BROKE DOWN!! ALL BROKE DOWN is a New
Adult Contemporary Romance novel being published by HarperCollins, and it is
the 2nd book in The Rusk University Series.
In this second book in New York
Times and USA Today bestselling
author Cora Carmack’s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began
with All Lined Up, a young woman discovers that you
can’t only fight for what you believe in . . . sometimes you have to fight for
what you love.
Dylan fights for lost causes. Probably because she used to
be one.
Environmental issues, civil rights, corrupt corporations,
and politicians—you name it, she’s probably been involved in a protest. When
her latest cause lands her in jail overnight, she meets Silas Moore. He’s in
for a different kind of fighting. And though he’s arrogant and infuriating, she
can’t help being fascinated with him. Yet another lost cause.
Football and trouble are the only things that have ever come
naturally to Silas. And it’s trouble that lands him in a cell next to do-gooder
Dylan. He’s met girls like her before—fixers, he calls them, desperate to heal
the damage and make him into their ideal boyfriend. But he doesn’t think he’s
broken, and he definitely doesn’t need a girlfriend trying to change him.
Until, that is, his anger issues and rash decisions threaten the only thing he
really cares about, his spot on the Rusk University football team. Dylan might
just be the perfect girl to help.
Because Silas Moore needs some fixing after all.
I think I get it then. That decision I saw in her eyes back
in the kitchen. That’s what this, what I’m about for her,
too. I’m just another part of whatever rebellion she started earlier today.
About doing what she wants, not what’s expected of her.
“We’re not talking about me, though,” she says. “So you went
to meet your friend, and then what happened?”
She keeps her eyes down as she picks up the gauze and begins
winding it snugly around the knuckles of one hand, and then the other.
“He said the wrong thing.”
“Which was?”
“Dylan.” Now it’s her that’s pushing too hard. I didn’t want
to talk about things with my friends, and I won’t talk about them with her,
either, no matter how gorgeous she is.
“I’ll guess. You were mad about what he did, and he wasn’t
sorry.”
“This isn’t middle school, Pickle. He didn’t hurt my
feelings. He said some shit he had no business saying, and it pissed me off.
The end.”
“But you don’t think some of that anger stems from what you
feel is a betrayal of your friendship?”
She finishes taping down the last of the gauze, but doesn’t
let go of my hand.
“I think you’re analyzing me again. Making things more
complicated than they are.”
“And I think you’re just a guy who doesn’t like to admit he
has feelings.” She drags out the word, teasing me with some goofy smile on
her face. I turn my hand over so I can clutch her wrist. I curlmy other
bandaged hand around her waist and pull her closer.
“I feel plenty of things.”
The teasing stops. She swallows.
“I wasn’t talking about that kind of
feeling.”
With her standing and me sitting, I’m eye level with her
chest. I see the sharp rise and fall as she sucks in a breath. I want her in my
lap again, straddling me this time.
“Doesn’t mean we can’t talk about that kind of feeling. Or
experiment with it.”
“Is that Stella girl an ex?”
I cough, surprised. My throat twists uncomfortably, and it
takes me a couple of solid breaths to get a hold on myself.
“Ah, no. Stella and I have never dated.”
“Have you—”
“Do you ever run out of questions?”
“Not ever.” She turns playful again, and I’m done doing this
the careful way. If she wants a rebellion, I’ll be the one to give it to her. I
want her against me, and I’m tired of waiting.
I pull her forward, insinuating my knees between hers, and
her body naturally follows, settling across my thighs. Her lips part, but she
catches herself before she gasps this time. I keep her steady with my hands at
her waist and say, “I’ll make you a deal. A question for a kiss.”
Tentatively, she lays her palms against my shoulders. They
rest there, her grip light and casual. She ponders my offer for a moment, and
it drives me mad that she can do that while our hips are inches away from
alignment.
“Okay then. Are you—”
I cut her off. “Not so fast, Dylan Brenner. I’ve already
answered one question. We’ve got to settle up first.”
I wrap her braid around my hand like I’ve been waiting to do
all night, and I use it to pull her head back just enough that I can crush my
mouth against hers.
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About Cora Carmack:
Cora Carmack is a twenty-something writer who likes to
write about twenty-something characters. She's done a multitude of things in
her life-- boring jobs (like working retail), Fun jobs (like working in a
theatre), stressful jobs (like teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). She
enjoys placing her characters in the most awkward situations possible, and then
trying to help them get a boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too.
Her first book, LOSING IT, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.
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