One moment...
That’s all it takes to change your life.
What happens when your entire future is on the line because of one reckless moment? This is what Breanna Miller and Thomas “Razor” Turner have to face in Katie McGarry’s WALK THE EDGE. Blackmail, family secrets, future plans on the verge of collapsing, two people who aren’t supposed to be together fall in love, and the power of social media in defining who you are when you’re not even sure who that person is yet…Join the Club and and immerse yourself in the world of the Reign of Terror. Pick up WALK THE EDGE today!
One moment of recklessness will change their worlds
Smart. Responsible. That's seventeen-year-old Breanna's role in her large family, and heaven forbid she put a toe out of line. Until one night of shockingly un-Breanna-like behavior puts her into a vicious cyberbully's line of fire—and brings fellow senior Thomas "Razor" Turner into her life.
Razor lives for the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, and good girls like Breanna just don't belong. But when he learns she's being blackmailed over a compromising picture of the two of them—a picture that turns one unexpected and beautiful moment into ugliness—he knows it's time to step outside the rules.
And so they make a pact: he'll help her track down her blackmailer, and in return she'll help him seek answers to the mystery that's haunted him—one that not even his club brothers have been willing to discuss. But the more time they spend together, the more their feelings grow. And suddenly they're both walking the edge of discovering who they really are, what they want, and where they're going from here.
EXCERPT
School starts in a few days and tonight is senior
orientation. My parents are currently in a meeting with my guidance counselor
while I’m being propositioned.
Propositioned.
My lips tilt up sarcastically.
My goal
for this evening was to be noticed. Guess I succeeded. I was noticed, but not
for my new choices in clothing, hair style, or because I dumped my glasses for
contacts. Nope, I was hunted for my brain. All exciting and swoon worthy
romance novels start off this way, right?
Kyle
misreads my body language and his dark eyes brighten. “So you’ll write my
English papers for the year?”
Fifty
dollars per paper-that’s his offer. Standing in my sister’s second generation
hand-me-downs of a sleeveless blue blouse, shorter-than-I’ve-ever-worn jean
skirt and platform sandals causes me to consider his proposal if only for the
course of a heartbeat. I’m the middle of nine children and, I’ll admit, new and
shiny gains my attention, but this…this is wrong.
“Do you
know this is the first time you’ve spoken to me?” I say.
He
laughs like I told a joke, but I’m not kidding. Snowflake, Kentucky is a small
town and everyone tends to know everyone else, but just because we breathe the
same air doesn’t mean we communicate, or act like everyone else exists.
“That’s
not true,” he retorts. “We sat at the same table in fourth grade.”
I
incline my head to the side in a mock
why-didn’t-I-remember-that-bonding-moment? “My, how time flies.”
He
chuckles then scratches the back of his head causing his styled hair to curl out
to the side. “You’re funny. I didn’t know that. Look, it’s not my fault you’re
quiet.”
Kyle’s
right. It isn’t his fault I became socially withdrawn. That blame falls solely
on me. It’s a decision I made in seventh grade when I was publicly crucified.
Blending
into paint for the past couple of years has kept me safe, but it creates the
sensation of suffocation. Everyone says the same thing: Breanna’s smart, she’s
quiet. On the inside, I’m not at all quiet. Most of the time, I’m screaming.
“I’m not writing your papers.”
Kyle’s
smile that had suggested he had a done deal morphs into a frown and acid
sloshes in my stomach. Denying Kyle isn’t what bothers me as much as it worries
me what he’ll mention to his friends. They’re the reason why I went voluntarily
mute in seventh grade.
Heat
races up my neck as the repercussions of refusing sets in, but I don’t even
consider agreeing. Cheating is not my style.
Kyle
surveys the hallway and, it it’s privacy he’s searching for, he’ll be sorely
disappointed. He slides closer and a strange edginess causes me to step back,
but Kyle follows. “Fine. One hundred dollars per paper.”
“No.”
“You
don’t understand. My grades have to improve.” Easygoing Kyle disappears and
desperation is hardly attractive.
I steal
a peek into the school’s main office, hoping my guidance counselor will beckon
me in. Half of me hopes she’ll have life altering news for me, the other half
hopes to end this insane conversation. “What you’re asking for is crazy.”
“No,
it’s not.”
In an
answer to the one million prayers being chanted in my head, my guidance
counselor opens her door. “Breanna.”
Kyle
leans into me. “This conversation isn’t over.”
"There's something about McGarry's writing that's totally enthralling. Her characters are vivid, flawed and riveting, making this is a truly amazing read!"
~ RT Book Reviews
"Katie McGarry is a master of her craft! Raw emotion, pure grit, I hang on every word. Her characters are real people with real problems and I cheer them every step of the way. Ready for a new addiction? Look no further than Katie McGarry's books."
~ Gena Showalter, Bestselling author of Firstlife
"I finished WALK THE EDGE by the amazing Katie McGarry. It was SO good that now I feel bereft. I already miss Razor & Bre - I need to know more! She is by far my #1 favorite author. She paints a picture with the words, puts you IN the story... LOVE."
~ Lori Foster, New York Times Bestselling Author
*MY REVIEW*
This is my first time reading this author. I can say that I quickly saw some appeal in her work. She channels some strong emotions within the reader. It is hard not to have a book hangover.
I wasn't sure what to expect from this story. I'm not a huge fan of MC book's and this story has a big part dealing with a MC. However it isn't as bad as I thought it would be. While searching for answer's about his mother a young member also discovers what love is. What it means to really want to protect someone more than anything he has ever felt the need to before. But the one he love's also comes with issues of her own.
What starts out as a unusual friendship turns into something so strong that neither know what to do with it other than to turn to each other in the times that they both need it.
Now what happens in between is where the real soul searching happens. This book is a soul cleansing for the characters. A truly heart warming breathtaking young adult novel that took me over.
4 1/2 STAR'S
*REVIEWED BY DAWN*
About Katie McGarry:
Katie McGarry was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.
Katie is the author of full length YA novels, PUSHING THE LIMITS, DARE YOU TO, CRASH INTO YOU, TAKE ME ON, BREAKING THE RULES, and NOWHERE BUT HERE and the e-novellas, CROSSING THE LINE and RED AT NIGHT. Her debut YA novel, PUSHING THE LIMITS was a 2012 Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction, a RT Magazine's 2012 Reviewer's Choice Awards Nominee for Young Adult Contemporary Novel, a double Rita Finalist, and a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Teen Pick. DARE YOU TO was also a Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction and won RT Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Best Book Award for Young Adult Contemporary fiction in 2013.
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