Ripped

Informationen zum Autor Katy Evans lives with her husband and their two children plus three lazy dogs in south Texas. Some of her favorite pastimes are hiking, reading, baking, and spending time with her friends and family. She is the New York Times and USA TODAY  bestselling author of Manwhore, Manwhore +1, Ms. Manwhore, and The REAL series: REAL, MINE, REMY, ROGUE, RIPPED, and LEGEND. For more information on Katy Evans visit her website KatyEvans.net, and follow her on Facebook and Twitter, @AuthorKatyEvans. Klappentext The final book in the series that began with Real, a New Adult indie phenomenon and New York Timesbestseller. Leseprobe Ripped ONE SECRETS Pandora I’m the only person in my apartment building that still gets a newspaper. It sits on my doorstep this morning, and I love the way it smells. I love the crackling noise when I drop into my dining room chair and slap the sucker open. This sound, this smell . . . they remind me of lazy Saturday mornings reading the paper with my dad, his cologne scent engulfing me. By the time I was seventeen, he was gone. As was his morning rumple of my hair and his cologne—but not the smell of the paper. It’s been almost a decade and I still find an incomparable little joy in the smell of this freshly printed newspaper. Until now . . . Now . . . when the headline of the entertainment section stares back at me, mocking me. Mackenna Jones Is Back in Town! the headline says, and just reading that feels like a punch in the gut. I squeeze my eyes shut and open them, my stomach trembling uncontrollably. Mackenna Jones is back in town! Fuck, I really need to stop reading that. Mackenna Jones is back in town! God. Still reads the same. Mackenna. The name curls around me like smoke in my insides, and butterflies I didn’t even know I still carried crash into the walls of my belly. I thought it impossible that a single one of these butterflies had survived Mackenna Jones. He’s coming to town, Pandora. What are you going to do about it? The thought of him being in the same state makes me scowl bleakly. “Seriously, asshole? You had to come here?” I begin reading the article about Crack Bikini, how the band has revolutionized music. How even Obama has openly said this band is responsible for turning young kids back to the music of the masters—Mozart, Beethoven. But it doesn’t end there. It’s just getting started turning up the schmooze. The reporter keeps going on and on about how this tour has sold out Madison Square Garden faster than Justin Bieber’s first show, and how it will be the concert of the year, if not the decade. Briefly, the band’s breakout song flits through my head. For a time, this song played on every radio station in the country, and it made me loathe music with a passion—hell, the mere thought of it angers me all over again. My hands shake as I set down the newspaper, fold it, and try to move on to another section. I live with my mother and my cousin, and I’ve always had an appreciation for my quiet time on Saturdays, when Magnolia has ballet and my mother has errands. But now, my precious Saturday—time I get our apartment to myself—has officially been ruined. Not only my Saturday, this just ruins my entire fucking year. Mackenna. In Seattle. My hands tremble as I go back to the entertainment section and slowly scan for the date of the concert. I find myself clicking open Internet Explorer on my phone and navigating straight to Ticketmaster. Yep, the show is already sold out. So I head to eBay, where I discover the staggering prices the best tickets command. I don’t know why, but for a moment, I imagine myself in one...

Product details

• Authors: Katy Evans
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2014
• EAN: 9781476755625
• ISBN: 978-1-4767-5562-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: The REAL series; The REAL series
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature