Title: Fighting Redemption
Author: Kate McCarthy
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 2, 2013
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Synopsis:
Ryan Kendall is broken. He understands pain. He knows the hand of violence and the ache of loss. He knows what it means to fail those who need you. Being broken doesn’t stop him wanting the one thing he can’t have; Finlay Tanner. Her smile is sweet and her future bright. She’s the girl he grew up with, the girl he loves, the girl he protects from the world, and from himself.
At nineteen, Ryan leaves to join the Australian Army. After years of training he becomes an elite SAS soldier and deploys to the Afghanistan war. His patrol undertakes the most dangerous missions a soldier can face. But no matter how far he runs, or how hard he fights, his need for Finlay won’t let go.
Returning home after six years, one look is all it takes to know he can’t live without her. But sometimes love isn’t enough to heal what hurts. Sometimes people like him can’t be fixed, and sometimes people like Finlay deserve more than what’s left.
This is a story about war and the cost of sacrifice. Where bonds are formed, and friendships found. Where those who are strong, fall hard. Where love is let go, heartache is born, and heroes are made. Where one man learns that the hardest fight of all, is the fight to save himself.
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At nineteen, Ryan leaves to join the Australian Army. After years of training he becomes an elite SAS soldier and deploys to the Afghanistan war. His patrol undertakes the most dangerous missions a soldier can face. But no matter how far he runs, or how hard he fights, his need for Finlay won’t let go.
Returning home after six years, one look is all it takes to know he can’t live without her. But sometimes love isn’t enough to heal what hurts. Sometimes people like him can’t be fixed, and sometimes people like Finlay deserve more than what’s left.
This is a story about war and the cost of sacrifice. Where bonds are formed, and friendships found. Where those who are strong, fall hard. Where love is let go, heartache is born, and heroes are made. Where one man learns that the hardest fight of all, is the fight to save himself.
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Kate has officially
claimed a part of my heart..Fighting Redemption is a remarkable book just like
I knew it would be, judging by her previous releases..She has published 3 books
so far and I have to say each and every one of them is a 5-star and a personal
favorite of mine..
As a reader, you may be
a fan of an author..Meaning you generally like that author’s work..Kate has
done the unimaginable..If you ask me now, which of Kate’s book is your
favorite, I would stare back at you like an idiot..I wouldn’t know where to
begin..Blank page coming right up!..
Fighting Redemption is
very different from Give me Love and Give me Strength..It’s darker and
deeper..I wouldn’t say it’s more emotional, because the Give me Series is quite
emotional..But it’s definitely deeper..By deeper I mean that we not only get a
glimpse of what our characters are feeling or thinking, but we feel what they
feel..I felt Ryan’s pain and fear and guilt and I felt Fin’s frustration and
grief and sadness..We feel their love..We got a look at their hearts and we
definitely stayed there..
I’m not going to even
begin talking about the storyline..It’s one of the most powerful stories I’ve
ever read..It draws you in like a freakin magnet..You cannot look away..You
simply forge ahead..Fighting redemption is a brilliant book! It has 2 POVS and
a few flashbacks..They’re not done very gradually and that only sparked our
interest and ignited our adrenaline levels…I usually dislike transitions that
aren’t gradual and smooth, but Kate’s way was full of suspense and worry..The
story turned so many times that I may have imagined 10 or so different
outcomes..You never knew what was going to happen and when…Nothing is for
granted, that’s for sure..
Fighting redemption was
one of the most anticipated books this year..And I have to say..It’s definitely one of the BEST books
published this year…It has it all..Romance and Sexiness..Suspense and
Mystery..
It’s one of the most intense
books I’ve ever read..
As I said the book has
many turns, so I won’t get into the characters, like I usually do..I feel that
anything I say would give you a hint..So I won’t say a thing about them..
In conclusion,
Kate McCarthy is one the most talented authors and her
books are beyond amazing..5 Stars aren’t even close enough to rate them..
Excerpt:
The call disconnected before she could
reply, and she tossed the phone beside her with a sigh. Pushing up off the bed,
she walked towards her wardrobe. Catching movement from the corner of her eye,
she turned her head and jolted. Ryan was leaning casually against the
doorframe, his arms folded. Licking his lips, he stepped into the room and shut
the door behind him.
“Ryan. You scared me.” She reached for
the top she’d tossed on her corner chair a few minutes ago and gave him her
back.
Fin felt him come up behind her and she
shivered. He reached around, grabbed the shirt from her hands and tossed it on
the floor. Suddenly breathless, she looked at it, then at his hands where they
came to rest on her stomach.
He was an asshole for doing this to her,
but her door was ajar. When Ryan heard her voice and saw her lying on her bed
in nothing but lacy pink underwear, he couldn’t stop himself. How did she
manage to look so innocent and so sexy all at the same time?
His lids lowered as he looked down over
her shoulder, watching his hands as they skimmed up the smooth, taut skin of
her belly to cup her breasts firmly.
Her
body trembled as he rubbed his thumbs across her nipples. He felt them harden
beneath the flimsy lace of her bra.
“Fin,” he breathed, running one hand down
along the inner edges of her tanned thigh. Fuck. Her legs were smooth and warm,
and he wanted them wrapped around him as he sank himself deep inside her.
Burying his head in her neck, Ryan
shifted his hand to cup the pretty lace panties between her thighs and took a
deep, shuddering breath. God, he shook with the need to taste her.
“Ryan,” she moaned.
With his other hand, he fisted the soft
strands of her hair and yanked her head back, exposing the line of her throat,
and he fell on it—sucking and biting the sweet skin until he was unbearably
hard.
A tap came at the bedroom door and they
both froze. “Fin? Are you heading out soon or eating here first?” Jake called
out.
“I-I’ll be right out,” she stammered and
took a step forward out of Ryan’s arms. She turned around, meeting his eyes.
“Okay,” Jake called back.
Ryan’s blood pulsed so hard it was a roar
in his ears as they stared at each other wordlessly. After a beat of silence,
she tore her eyes away and opened the wardrobe door.
“Are you happy now?” she hissed as she
grabbed a pair of jeans from the shelves.
His eyes on her ass, he muttered, “What?”
She threw the jeans at him and he caught
them when they hit him square in the chest. “This. Us. Yes, okay? I want you. Is
that what you want to hear? That I dream of you too?” she choked out. “Your
hands on me, inside of me, and I ache too.”
Ryan took a step towards her.
“Don’t.” She snatched the jeans out of
his hands and tugged them on.
“I’m sorry,” he murmured.
Fin turned, rummaging for a top. She
pulled one off a hanger and tugged it on furiously. “You’re sorry. I’m sorry.
Everybody’s sorry. Well it’s just one sad, fucking sorry situation, isn’t it?”
Christ, Fin was a fiery inferno when she
was mad, and it had his dick swelling even harder. “Fin, I—”
“Enough!” She jabbed a finger in his
chest. “There’s hurt in there. I know it. You know it, but you’re not going to
move on from it until you let that shit out. Whatever you’re doing now isn’t
working. Own it, Ryan. Stop letting it own you.” With that she brushed passed
him and opened the bedroom door. She looked at him over her shoulder before
stalking away.
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Author bio:
Kate McCarthy grew up in a small town outside of Port Macquarie, Australia. Raised in a house just a short walk to the beach, Kate enjoyed the peaceful, relaxed atmosphere and friendships that come from being raised in a friendly, small town area.
She now resides in Brisbane, Australia, a city in the state of Queensland where she works as an accountant, along with a sideline wedding cake business and her writing.
She is married with two children, has two dogs and house in the suburbs, and a pile of friends and family dotted all over the country that help keep her sane.
When she’s not busy running after naughty kids, filthy dogs, crunching numbers, piping buttercream and writing books, you can find her curled up in bed in the early hours of the morning reading new books and re-reading old favourites. Her favourite books are the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward in which she longs to eventually join the brotherhood and change her name to Phierce Mutha.
She now resides in Brisbane, Australia, a city in the state of Queensland where she works as an accountant, along with a sideline wedding cake business and her writing.
She is married with two children, has two dogs and house in the suburbs, and a pile of friends and family dotted all over the country that help keep her sane.
When she’s not busy running after naughty kids, filthy dogs, crunching numbers, piping buttercream and writing books, you can find her curled up in bed in the early hours of the morning reading new books and re-reading old favourites. Her favourite books are the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward in which she longs to eventually join the brotherhood and change her name to Phierce Mutha.
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