Title: TRISTAN
Series: Ruins of Emblem #1
Author: Cora Brent
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release: April 9, 2019
Blurb
Emblem, Arizona.
Not a place people dreamed of moving to.
More like a place people escaped from.
Known for its barren desert and the state’s largest prison, it had been home to my family for generations. Now the town’s name is a curse to them. And yet I’ve always wondered about it.
By the time I finished college I had big plans.
I was going to pack up and move to Emblem. I would teach at Emblem High. I would see past the crime and poverty that the town was infamous for. I would make a difference.
Tristan Mulligan never figured into my plans at all.
He was a small time criminal with a bad attitude who’d never bothered to graduate from high school. Worse, he didn’t seem interested in changing any of that. He was also the sexiest guy I’d ever laid eyes on.
I knew better than to start something with him. I did it anyway.
Tristan might break my heart. He might shatter my future. And there’s something dangerously explosive about the way we are together.
You can warn me about him all you want.
Everyone else has.
I haven’t listened yet. And I never will.
Whether I’m ready to admit it or not, I’m already his.
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Excerpt
Cadence enjoyed getting her buttons pushed.
I could tell that about her less than thirty seconds into our first conversation.
She also liked me.
Or at least she liked what she saw when she looked at me.
I knew that from the way she squirmed, sucking in her breath when I touched her hand and leaned too close.
She didn’t fool me with the lie about some limp dick boyfriend named Todd. If there was such a thing as Todd then he didn’t have much of a claim on her. She’d eyed me with too much interest and I could practically hear the gears turning inside her pretty head.
She’d consider me a challenge, the adult version of some wayward kid in her classroom, raw material she could tame and domesticate the way her sister had housetrained my brother.
And I couldn’t fucking wait to see her try….
My Thoughts <3
Oh my gosh, every since I saw this title I have been SUPER excited to read the book and let me tell you that Cora Brent never disappoints, especially when it comes to a Gentry!
This is the first book in the Ruins of Emblem and we are back to the city where Cord, Chase, and Creed all escaped from once upon a time. This time we have the youngest of Cord’s girls, Cadence and Tristan who is Curtis Mulligan’s middle brother.
Cadence and Tristan’s siblings are married to each other and she is super close with Cassie, but Tristan is definitely not close to his brother anymore and is doing some side jobs around town. He sees that Curtis was able to escape the town and their upbringing, but he just has no desire to do better, he feels he is doing just fine where he is. Cadence is like a combination of her sisters and is starting as a new teacher at the local HS in Emblem and let’s just say that this is not the best place ever to start teaching, but she wants to make a difference and I love it!
This story is about finding yourself, being that best self, and what happens when you meet the person who is going to help you be that person. I absolutely loved it and can’t wait for more!
Cora Brent’s Gentry/Emblem stories are like a freaking drug and I am hooked!
5 outta 5 stars!
I received this book for free but am voluntarily reviewing it!
Author Bio
Cora Brent was born in a cold climate and escaped as soon as it was legally possible. Now, she lives in the desert with her husband, two kids and a prickly pear cactus she has affectionately named ‘Spot’. Cora’s closet is filled with boxes of unfinished stories that date back her 1980’s childhood and all her life she has dreamed of being an author. Amazingly, she is now a New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer of contemporary romance and begs not to be awakened from this dream.