Shelter

by Jay Crownover

  Emrys laughed and some of the weight I’d been carrying around in my heart lately lightened a bit.

  “Just play nice with everyone for the next week, Leo. That’s all I’m asking.”

  “I can do that.” She wasn’t asking for much, and as long as big brother Warner stayed away from me, I should be able to comply with no problem. I was here to invest some quality time in our friendship and to give my battered heart and sense of self some much-needed space. My ability to trust and my faith in my own judgment had been eviscerated. Maybe the quiet and disconnect from everything that was familiar would work at healing all the things Chris and his lies had left torn and tattered.

  I was going to do my best to trust these not quite cowboys to not only guide us through the mountains and the wilderness but hope that along the way, they somehow managed to guide me back to who I was before I was broken.

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  Everything inside of him is screaming that he needs to run, he needs to go, he needs to escape.

  Lane Warner is used to being overshadowed and overlooked.

  After all, he’s the youngest brother and the most laid back one in the family. He’s the one known for going with the flow and not making waves, even when things seem to be at their worst.

  Very few things in life have had the ability to rile Lane up and get under his skin. At the top of that list is his childhood friend Brynn Fox…no…Brynn Warner. The fact that they share a last name was the one thing that has the power to light him up and spin him out of control like no other. There was no calm, cool and collected when it comes to all the reasons why Brynn had to become part of his family.

  It’s slowly killing him to keep wanting what he can’t have, so Lane sees only one way to stop himself from doing something they’ll both regret…he has to leave.

  Everything inside of her is calling out to find him, to follow, to bring him home.

  Brynn Warner is used to being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

  After all, she’s the daughter of an unrepentant gold-digger who never once blinked at being the cause of her daughter’s pain and suffering.

  Very few things in her life have ever brought happiness and a sense of security. At the very top of that list is Lane Warner. She has unwaveringly loved the youngest Warner since the first minute she laid eyes on him. He was everything Brynn ever wanted and everything she knew she could never have.

  Sometimes the right choice is the one that hurts the most and Brynn’s had to make a few that felt like they might be the end of her.

  When Lane takes off, one thing is clear, the only choice Brynn has is to go after him.

  She’s going to bring her wayward cowboy home….whatever it takes.

  Escape is a standalone novel, the third book in the Getaway series, which features the hardheaded and brokenhearted Warner brothers and the women who dare to love them. These boys are very good at putting the wild in wilderness.

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  If you have purchased, read, reviewed, promoted, pimped, blogged about, sold, talked about, preached about, or whined about any of my books . . . thank you.

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  If you have held my hand and helped me through the tough times when it feels like everyone’s against me . . . thank you.

  I also have a pretty special girl gang of professionals who help me turn my words into an actual book. If you are looking for an editor, I can’t recommend Elaine York enough. I love getting to work with her. I adore her insights and her commitment to each project I send her way. She doesn’t pull any punches and she’s not scared to tell me that I’m not quite there yet. She makes me work for it, and as a result, my readers get the best book possible. She jumped into a long-standing series with no frame of reference to the existing storylines and characters and rolled with it. She’s smart as hell and has a way of seeing nuances in a story I’ll admit to never even thinking about. Unlike when I publish traditionally, I got to pick who I wanted to work with when it came to self-publishing. For me, Elaine was the only choice.

  The same thing goes for Hang Le. She was my one and only choice to work with when it came to my covers. She’s brilliant. I love her style and her flare. She takes what I want and makes it better than I could imagine. Pretty sure her beautiful covers do more to sell my books than anything I do.

  If you want the pages and the guts of your book to be pretty, then you need to hit up my friend, Christine Borgford. She’s one of the kindest, most supportive humans I’ve ever met, and not just because she’s Canadian! She really loves books, romance, and the reading community. She wants our words to be as pretty as possible. Formatting is important. End of story. It makes your book look pulled together and professional. Let Christine play with your pages, you won’t regret it.

  My friend, Beth Salminen, handled all my copy edits and proofreading this go around. Beth is wicked smart and super funny. The only thing better than writing books is getting to work on them with people who care about making your words the best they can be. It’s a bonus when that person also wants the writer to be the best she can be. If you are looking for a pretty blonde to cross your t’s and dot all your I’s you need to give Beth all your money.

  I want to thank Pam Lilley, Karla Tamayo, and Traci Pike for giving up their valuable time and precious moments to help me out. They don’t get anything out of the deal other than my undying gratitude and unwavering thanks. There are some very special readers out there in Booklandia and I feel like I’ve been so lucky to have most of them in my court since the very beginning. If you notice fewer errors and less typos in this book it’s all thanks to these lovely ladies.

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  If you read the intro in Retreat you know that this particular series was born out a particularly difficult time in my personal life. I was aching for something simple and sort of a throwback to all the things that made me love romance in the first place. I wanted to write a series that reminded me of the books I used to steal from my mom when I was a teenager. Her love of reading was what got me into books and writing from the start. The Getaway series is an homage to all of the books that got me where I am today.

  Believe it or not, I was also struggling on a pretty major level when it came time to bring Sutton and Emrys to life. I swear I live right in the middle of ‘if it can go wrong it will’ on a regular basis. It’s never just one thing that falls apart, it seems to be everything all at once. I’m usually pretty good at keeping my shit straight, but this summer I was holding on by the very tippy tips of my fingernails. I think you’ll be able to feel where I was at mentally when it comes to Emrys being lost and in the way Sutton just w
ants to fix everything around him but doesn’t really know how. That’s also why this book is dual POV (point of view) and not just told through Em’s eyes. I was feeling what Sutton was feeling . . . deeply. I heard him loud and clear, sometimes louder than Em. It tends to be hard to keep some of those personal feelings out of the story when you are deep in your own drama and creating a fictional world filled with equal parts drama and romance at the same time.

  These books are something pretty special. I feel like they ground me and give me a perspective on why I do what I do. Writing the Warner brothers brings me back to a time when life felt less hectic and less complicated. This series forces me to think about what romance really means to me and to take a look at why it’s been my favorite genre to read since as far back as I can remember. These books are me trying to give that to another little girl, or boy, with a vivid imagination and a million stories to tell. I would love for someone to look back and remember that they picked up Cyrus, or Sutton, or Lane and wanted to tell a story similar to theirs twenty-some years later.

  I know they are different from my norm. I know they aren’t for every reader. But for those of you who are here, those of you who show up time and time again, I can’t thank you enough. I wasn’t kidding in the dedication . . . we are kindred spirits. It takes a special kind of person to embrace ALL kinds of romance. I wouldn’t be anywhere or have finally found what I really feel like I’m meant to be doing without you.

  Thank you.

  Jay Crownover is the International and multiple New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men Series, The Saints of Denver Series, and The Point and Breaking Point Series. Her books can be found translated in many different languages all around the world. She is a tattooed, crazy haired Colorado native who lives at the base of the Rockies with her awesome dogs. This is where she can frequently be found enjoying a cold beer and Taco Tuesdays. Jay is a self-declared music snob and outspoken book lover who is always looking for her next adventure, between the pages and on the road.

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