{Blog Tour & Guest Post} Ripped (Real #5) by Katy Evans (@AuthorKatyEvans)

The fifth story in the new adult series that began with the New York Times bestseller REAL.

New Adult Contemporary

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Release: December 9, 2014

Every woman wants me--except the one I sing for.

Seattle shakes with anticipation: they call it the concert of the year. They say girls are getting pregnant just thinking about my band being in town.

But when you love a girl, you don't leave her with nothing but a ring and a promise. Any man with half a brain should know.

So what did I expect my girl would do when she saw me again?

Well, for starters, she loathes our music. Particularly the song I wrote about her.

When I sing it, the stadium is in an uproar. Thousands of fans scream my name like I'm a god--but yeah, not her. Crystal clear: the girl's not happy to see me.

Black hair, black boots, a bad attitude, that's her -- Pandora Stone is a freaking man-eater and she's out for my blood.

That's alright.

Let her come at me. Because I'm out for her heart and, this time, there's no way she can stop me.

Pandora Stone doesn’t believe in love anymore.  She thought she did once long ago when she was just seventeen.  There was a boy who saved her in everyway possible and then he disappeared taking her heart with him. 

All she can think about is hurting him as much as he hurt her.  So when his band, Crack Bikini plays Seattle she’s going to be there and she’s going to make sure to give him something that he’ll never forget.  

“As far as I was concerned, he was it for me, and I for him.
He was my best friend too.
My world broke when I heard he left Seattle.
He didn’t even say goodbye.
The last thing he’d said to me was that he loved me.
Now. I. Hate. Love.
I thought that with his absence, the wound would heal. But the wound is still there. It’s festered and bubbled up and grown.
I gave the motherfucker everything that was in my young, stupid heart to give, and he ruined me. 
Well, fuck him.”

Mackenna Jones never forgot the girl he fell in love with.  He poured all of his pain into his music and it’s made him a famous rock star.  He has the world at his feet but all he really wants is her. 

Now he has to show Pandora that they can overcome the heartache of the past and share a future together.  Just as they always dreamed that they would.

“You’re a world of contrasts, aren’t you?” The words are spoken reverently as he eases his fingers into my hair. We’re in our own little world. Rock music plays in the background.

We may be in a booth, in the middle of a club, but right now, there’s no one but us. “Pink hair on a set of black. Innocent bad girl. Sarcastic but sweet. Is it any wonder I could never forget you?”

Ripped is another amazing departure for Katy Evans! The intense passion and longing that have become her trademark are still there but she delivers them in a whole new way – through the eyes of a raging and yet vulnerable girl - Pandora Stone. 

 For all of her anger, Pandora is such a unique paradox and to experience her falling in love all over again was beautifully painful.  And Mackenna Jones is the perfect bad boy to steal her heart with his raw sensuality and seductive honesty.

It’s heartbreaking, maddening and more than a little naughty perfection…

Katy Evans on Writing Ripped - 

I’m so excited to be sharing with everyone RIPPED, Real series book #5!

RIPPED began with Pandora, Brooke (Real, Mine and Remy) and Melanie’s (Rogue) goth friend. She’s such a wounded warrior and so bitter that I was completely hooked wanting to know—what happened? What made her like this? Why does she hate men so much?

And that’s how I met her man, Mackenna Jones.

He’s back in Seattle for the concert of the year, and Pandora hates him so much, she is still so stuck in the past for having loved (and lost) him when she was young, she’s determined to go pay him a visit and give him a little something to remember her by. Nothing nice, I assure you.

And that’s where RIPPED totally exploded for me. It’s one of those books where I couldn’t stop writing even for a second. It seemed like I just opened Pandora’s box of secrets and they came spilling out, one after the other. Memories, what truly happened in her eyes, in his eyes, their first kiss (sigh) and so much more. Their past is tumultuous and passionate and their present, when they reunite again, is just as passionate and rocky. They have a long way to go to their HEA but, though Pandora doesn’t feel she deserves it and has never let herself want it, Mackenna has another plan to conquer back his girl.

What I love about this couple in particular is how equal they seem—the push and the pull always kept me guessing as to who had control of the situation, sometimes Pandora had Mackenna by the pants, and plenty of others it was Mackenna who kept getting the upper hand, knowing each and every one of Pandora’s weaknesses (including that he is the main one.)

He is the boy she could never forget.

She is the girl no other girl has ever compared.

Things are about to get RIPPED during Mackenna’s concert tour when his manager thinks it brilliant to force Pandora to tag along.

About The Author - 

Katy Evans grew up with books and book-boyfriends until she found a real sexy boyfriend to love. They married and are now hard at work on their own happily ever after. Katy loves her family and friends, and she also loves reading, walking, baking, and being consumed by her characters until she reaches “The End.” Which is, hopefully, only the beginning…

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