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Zusatztext "A fast-paced, sexy read with the perfect bad boy in Lucas. Warn your loved ones they will be ignored when you're reading Dare To Run !"— New York Times bestselling author Erin McCarthy Praise for the novels of Jen McLaughlin “I devour [Jen McLaughlin’s] books no matter what genre she’s writing in.”—Romance for Every World “A really enjoyable read. No one does angst and romance quite like Jen McLaughlin does. . . I laughed, shook my head and swooned.”—Once Upon a Book Blog Informationen zum Autor Jen McLaughlin is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of numerous books including the Out of Line Novels. She has also written under the name Diane Alberts. Klappentext The New York times bestselling author of the Out of Line Novels takes readers to Boston where one gang of criminals knows how being bad can be so good... She knows what he's like on Boston's mean streets. Now she's going to find out if he's got some heart. Lucas Donahue is not ashamed of his criminal past! but after a brief stint in prison! he's ready to go legit and live a normal life. The problem is! no one leaves the gang without permission-even if he is one of the boss's top men. Plus someone's placed a hit on him. And then there's that feisty little bartender who's going to cause him even more trouble. Heidi Greene knows to keep her distance from a ladies' man like Lucas-even if she can't keep her eyes off him. When he rescues her from an attack in the alley outside her bar! she's forced to stay by his side for safety. But the longer she spends time with him! the greater her chances are for getting hurt in more ways than one. Leseprobe He watched me with narrowed eyes that did bad things to my equilibrium. I knew from memory that they were green. Like, really green. They looked clean and fresh and happy, but he was none of those things. He always came in wearing jeans and a muscle-hugging long-sleeved shirt, which he always rolled up to just below his elbows to show off his strong arms covered in a thin dusting of fine hair. I’d stared at those freaking arms way too many times. I’d never been one for arms, for the love of God, but on him? They just worked. Everything did. In truth, he looked raw, gritty, and dangerous. And he had the faintest hint of a Boston accent. As if he hadn’t already been unfairly sexy. Dare To Run Title Page Copyright Dedication CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 10 CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 12 CHAPTER 13 CHAPTER 14 CHAPTER 15 CHAPTER 16 CHAPTER 17 CHAPTER 18 CHAPTER 19 CHAPTER 20 CHAPTER 21 CHAPTER 22 CHAPTER 23 CHAPTER 24 CHAPTER 25 CHAPTER 26 CHAPTER 27 CHAPTER 28 CHAPTER 29 EPILOGUE Acknowledgments Excerpt from DARE TO STAY CHAPTER 1 LUCAS The smells of rotting fish, salt water, and dying dreams on the docks of Boston Harbor were all too familiar to me, but even so . . . they made me reflect on my choices every single fucking time. I’d lived in the heart of Boston my whole life, but I’d never taken the time to enjoy the city the way the tourists did. For them, it was all about a celebration of freedom and liberty. It was all memories and American pride and all the shit that goes with it. For me, the city meant jail time for assault, bloody bar fights, meaningless one-night stands, blackouts from binge drinking, money lost to gambling, lives lost to violence, and shady shipments on the docks at midnight. Which was why I stood here in the dark, with no moon shining brightly, watching a bunch of sweat...
