Review & Excerpt Tour for NIKAN REBUILT by Scarlett Cole
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!
Title: Nikan Rebuilt
Author: Scarlett Cole
Series: Preload #3
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press SWERVE
Format: Digital and Paperback
Synopsis:
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?
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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If you have been following my reviews you know that I am a HUGE fan of Scarlett Cole's and this book right here is the reason why.
Ms. Cole isn't afraid of hitting hard, gut-wrenching, emotional topics as we see right here first hand. I do not live in Canada, I am a US citizen but I do know that the treatment of the Native Indian tribes when the Europeans first started coming over wasn't kind and Ms. Cole did a wonderful job in bringing that to light with Nikan's story. I need to point out that Nikan's story for me felt a bit different than the others in the series, I'm not sure if its because he and Jenny have a past together or if it is because of his life before he entered the home where he met his friends and band-mates, but what I do know is that this was an amazing story that added another layer to the men of Preload.
The chemistry and attraction was evident with every encounter Nikan had with Jenny, whom he hadn't seen in eight years. To say their reuniting was easy would be a fopaux because it was anything but, and I loved that Jenny didn't just run into Nikan's arms like he didn't destroy her when he left for the band's first tour, she made him work for it and he did just that because they both knew what they had was a once in a lifetime kind of love.
Lennon's story is next and WOW are we in for a doozie because we are gifted with a sneak peek of Lennon Reborn and let me tell you that my jaw was on the floor with what happened in just two pages of his story. Unfortunately we have to wait until MAY 20018 for it but hopefully the time will fly by because I really need to see what happens to the most mysterious band member.
The chemistry and attraction was evident with every encounter Nikan had with Jenny, whom he hadn't seen in eight years. To say their reuniting was easy would be a fopaux because it was anything but, and I loved that Jenny didn't just run into Nikan's arms like he didn't destroy her when he left for the band's first tour, she made him work for it and he did just that because they both knew what they had was a once in a lifetime kind of love.
Lennon's story is next and WOW are we in for a doozie because we are gifted with a sneak peek of Lennon Reborn and let me tell you that my jaw was on the floor with what happened in just two pages of his story. Unfortunately we have to wait until MAY 20018 for it but hopefully the time will fly by because I really need to see what happens to the most mysterious band member.
Enter to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card!
(Plus ebook copies of JORDAN RECLAIMED and ELLIOTT REDEEMED!)
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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