~Synopsis~
You don’t know when…
You don’t get to choose if…
When it’s time to join…you’ll know.
You might think you want to be a
member—but trust me this is one club you don’t want to join. It’s not a place
where people go to live out their deepest, darkest sexual desires—there are no
handcuffs or blindfolds.
The 27 Club only admits those who die
young and tragically. My brother was recently bestowed membership and joined
many of our ancestors before him. I know I’m next. This is my destiny, and I
was ready to yield.
But then I met Nate. He awakened a
sensuality in me that had never been explored, never satisfied. I knew then I
could no longer accept my destiny. Nate’s presence controls me. I’m overwhelmed
by his touch, his words; my every thought is consumed by desire. I believe he
was brought into my life for a reason.
Nate doesn’t believe in destiny.
But I do.
And if there’s a way to cheat it—I must.
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My jaw practically hits the table.
The chocolate crêpe!
I can’t believe it.
Harnessing all of my willpower, I fight the sudden
inclination I have to leap around the table and jump onto his lap. I always
tell people I prefer dessert before a meal, but never has anyone taken me
seriously.
Never.
Tension coils deep in my belly. Lust flows through my
veins running faster and faster with each passing second. I look over at him
and as soon as I see his face, I can feel myself coming unhinged. Urges I can’t
deny surface. The need to know the taste of his lips, to feel his hard body,
to be able to lick the chocolate he just ordered off his
chest, and to slide my tongue down his stomach so I can taste him.
Looking thoughtful, his return gaze slowly changes to one
of concern. “Have you stopped planning for your future because you don’t think you
have one?” he asks softly.
Remnants of our conversation must have been lingering in
his mind. Slamming my eyes shut, all of the erotic images I had conjured up
immediately disappear as I fight to breathe.
Suddenly the air becomes thick in my lungs and I can’t get
it out. I take deep calming breaths. As the haze around me dissipates and I
fight off the panic attack, I hear a fumbling in front of me. I force myself to
lift my lids. Nate is attempting to open my clutch. “What are you doing?”
“Trying to get you your inhaler.” Panic seems to drown out
the deep green of his eyes.
I push to my feet and give him a disbelieving look. “I’m
not having an asthma attack.”
“You’re not?” He sounds uncertain.
Shaking my head, I set my napkin on the table. “Excuse me,
I have to use the ladies room.” I walk inside the restaurant, realizing I have
no idea where I’m going. Looking around, I find the bathrooms immediately.
Just as I pull the door open, a hand covers mine. “You’re
upset.”
I drop my head. “No, I’m fine.”
Fierceness grips his voice. “You’re lying.”
Summoning all of my willpower, I raise my eyes.
Nate lifts my chin. “You didn’t let me finish. I’m trying
to understand you. I want to know why, if you believe in destiny, you’d change
your path. Why wouldn’t you do what you had always planned on doing? Why change
your course? Personally, I think destiny is bullshit. I also think not pursuing
your dream is bullshit too.”
Caged by his body, his scent, his presence, I look up into
his burning eyes and I can see compassion there. I believe he wants what’s best
for me. If I think I know him through my brother, he thinks he knows me through
my brother as well. And Zach wanted me to continue my education. His dream was
that someday I’d be Dr. Zoey Flowers. Nate knows this.
“Zoey?” Nate’s voice is questioning. Low. Maybe even
slightly fearful.
“Nate”—I press my finger to his lips—“I think I need to
tell you something about myself.”
“What?” he asks.
In all our e-mails after my brother’s death, I never
mentioned the real reason for my delay in coming to Miami. I keep my eyes open
even though I want to close them. “I had a breakdown shortly after Zach died. I
took a leave from my job. I couldn’t get out of bed. I couldn’t plan one day,
let alone the next. And somewhere during that time, I let any plans I had for
the future fall to the wayside. I don’t know what I want anymore.”
Shock appears on his face. “Why didn’t you tell me in any
of our e-mails?”
The truth is hard to admit. “I actually looked forward to
your weekly e-mails. But I did lie to you. It wasn’t work that kept me from
coming to get my brother’s things. It was me and my inability to cope.”
Nate stares down at me.
My entire focus is on him. “Don’t think I’m crazy. I’m
not. Really, I’m not.”
His gaze continues to pin me in a way that makes me think
he understands me.
It holds me in place. Keeps me calm.
“Zoey, God, I don’t think that at all,” he breathes. “I
can understand how that would happen.
With everything coming at you at once, and the shock of
Z’s death, coupled with the revelations about your family, it was just too
much. I get it.”
I just stare at his lips, longing to kiss him. My body is
filled with so many wants and needs, and all these new urges I’ve never felt
before.
And all I want is just for him to set me free.
~Review~
Kim
Karr has won my heart as reader yet again. I loved “The 27 Club”; it wasn’t
what I was expecting at all. She kind of caught me off guard in a good way and
I was so damn happy about it. It isn’t what you think it is, trust me. I loved
every single minute of this book. I fell in love the characters, Zoey and Nate.
Both so different, but similar in some ways; they’re brought together by
tragedy, one that kind of caught me off guard because of how the book started,
slick move by Kim by the way. But with this tragedy we get to see two
individuals who live life differently come together and steam up our e-reader
devices. First we Zoey, she doesn’t live life on the edge; she believes in
destiny, she thinks that one should live each day like it’s your last. She has
a fear of dying; she tries to close herself off from everything adventurous until
she met her brother’s bestfriend Nate. Nate makes Zoey feels and craves for
things that she never did before, he brings out her wild side. The thing is
this thing between Zoey and Nate starts to blossom into something so much more
than they, or might I say, she wanted because in the back of her mind who knows
when destiny will win out. But all long I just knew that she was meant to meet
Nate, she meant to be there for him because Nate was fighting way bigger demons
of his past than she was and he had so many skeletons to tackle. It was so
crazy that she was so caught up in her situation that she never saw that, and
in the end I think that was the picture Kim was trying to paint for us readers.
Yes she gave these no holds bar sex scenes, but in the end it was the fact that
all along Zoey was meant to be there for Nate and him for her, they were each
other’s destiny in waiting, in tragedy came happiness. Thank you to Kim Karr
for a wonderful beautiful story, I cannot wait to find out what’s next in store
for us readers.
~About the Author~
I live in Florida with my husband and four
kids. I've always had a love for reading books and writing. Being an English
major in college, I wanted to teach at the college level but that was not to
be. I went on to receive an MBA and became a project manager until quitting to
raise my family. I currently work part-time with my husband and full-time
embracing one of my biggest passions—writing.
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