Does the past ever really stay in the past? Find out in Scarlett Cole’s NIKAN REBUILT, the steamy, third standalone in her rockstar romance series, Preload. After years of no contact, Nik and first love Jenny’s connection still blazes between them. Will they have their second chance at love? Or will the weight of their past crush their future together?
Don’t know about you, but we love a great Rockstar romance. And Scarlett Cole knows how to write a great Rockstar romance. We are excited to share with you NIKAN REBUILT, book three in Cole’s Preload series. Follow the tour for reviews, excerpts, and enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card + ebook copies of JORDAN RECLAIMED and ELLIOTT REDEEMED!
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press SWERVE
Format: Digital and Paperback
From the queen of heart-pounding, sexy, emotional romance Scarlett Cole comes Nikan Rebuilt, the next novel in the Preload series.
Does the past ever really stay in the past?
Nikan can never be complete. He's got a rock group made up of the family he built for himself, more money than he knows what to do with, and a stream of groupies falling over themselves to date him. But none of them are her. The one regret that still plagues him, still taunts him with what he could have had.
Jenny is a survivor. Now running a group home after overcoming life in a cult lead by her manipulative father and watching her mother drink the poison he fed his followers, she fights to keep the light in the eyes of every boy who walks through her doors. Far from simple young love, Nik taught her to trust, showed her how good life could be. Before he formed the band. Before he became a famous rockstar. Before he destroyed it all.
A chance meeting after years of no contact shows the connection still blazes between them. But will they have their second chance at love? Or will the weight of their past crush their future together?
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Second chances never were so good!
Nikan grew up in a group home. coming from a very violent background he was lost until he found his place and a new family with a group of boys who became his family and his responsability.
Jenny's life wasn't easy either, watching her mother die because of her father broke her but meeting Nikan when she was young made her believe in happy endings but them he broke her heart (and his).
Years later they meet again, and their chemestry is there. Their bodies in synch asever but learning to trust again isn't easy for Jenny and Nikan has a lot to sort through his head as well.
I loved how the author portraited both characters. This isn't just about their love story or how they found each other again but about how they find themselves.
I felt sorry for Nikan more than once, he took care of everything and then just went with the flow and somehow he lost himself in there. His hopes and dreams going up in smoke when he lost Jenny and I loved that he was trying to find a way back BEFORE she came along. While Jenny's presence was needed and helpful, he was already moving towards putting all of his pieces back together. I think the author did an amazing job with his feeling over hisNative heritage too.
Jenny's such a strong woman. She not only survived his crazy father, after her heartbreak she still went on to live her dream. And when She and Nik meet again, she can tell the difference between her feelings and her body.
I think the pace for the relationship was perfect. They didn't jump right back and it made it more realistic. I usually get a bit impatient with the characters getting together but this felt just right.
I read this as a stand alone, but I'm very intrigued abot the other characters and how they all cope with their pasts. Can't wait to pick the rest of the series!!
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NIKAN
REBUILT Excerpt
Copyright © 2017
Scarlett Cole
Nik
took the towels out of her hands and placed them on the dryer. “Hey, come
here,” he said as he reached for her hands. “Talk to me.”
She
wasn’t ready to, not least because she didn’t understand the swirl of feelings
sweeping through her. To put into words for Nik exactly how that felt was
impossible. “I’m fine, I’m good. I just have a lot to do here now.”
Nik
placed his finger under her chin and raised her eyes so she was forced to look
at him. “I think we can safely say that lies have no place between us. So, I’ll
tell you what I’m thinking, and then you can tell me what you’re thinking.
Okay?”
Jenny
sighed and nodded. “Okay.”
“I
didn’t come here tonight expecting to kiss you like this. I’d be lying if I
said I hadn’t thought about it, but I know I have a lot of work to do to prove
myself to you. But seeing you laugh, and seeing you look at me, just for a
moment, without the pain I caused you in your eyes . . . Well, I don’t even
know how to begin to explain what that felt like to me—except that I didn’t
want to be away from you for another moment, and that it felt like a new
beginning of sorts. If there’s any doubt in your mind about what that kiss did
to me, I’d encourage you to touch me and check, but I think that might be a
step too far, given where we are. Now it’s your turn.”
His
words made her stomach flip, and despite her best efforts she was filled with a
warm and fuzzy feeling. She looked over to the staircase again to check that
nobody was within earshot. “We’re coming at this new friendship . . .
relationship . . . from two completely different places. I’m mad at myself for
letting you get this close to me again. It’s reckless to fall for you all over
again and I know it. But when you stand so close to me, I can . . .” Crap.
How could she explain that the way the smell of him, and the heat of him, and
the proximity of him, and the touch of him took her straight back to that time
and place where she wholeheartedly loved him?
“You
can what?” Nik asked, moving his hands to her hips.
“I
can remember us. Before.”
About Scarlett Cole
The tattoo across my right hip says it all really. A Life
Less Ordinary. Inked by the amazingly talented Luke Wessman at the Wooster
Street Social Club (a.k.a. New York Ink). Why is it important? Well, it sums up
my view on life. That we should all aspire to live a life that is less boring,
less predictable. Be bold, and do something amazing. I’ve made some crazy choices.
I’ve been a car maker, a consultant, and even a senior executive at a large
retailer running strategy. Born in England, spent time in the U.S. and Japan,
before ending up in Canada were I met my
own, personal hero – all six and a half feet of him. Both of us are scorpios! Yeah, I know! Should have checked the
astrological signs earlier, but somehow it works for us. We have two amazing
kids, who I either could never part with or could easily be convinced to sell
on e-bay.
I’ve wanted to
be a writer for a really long time. Check through my office cupboards or my
computer and you’ll find half written stories and character descriptions
everywhere. Now I'm getting the chance to follow that dream.
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