She's a combat medic. He's SAS, and her best friend. They
weren't supposed to fall in love.
Fighting Absolution, an all-new standalone contemporary
romance by USA Today Bestselling author Kate McCarthy is LIVE!
At fifteen, Jamie Murphy finds herself broken and alone,
convinced she doesn't need anyone.
Until she does.
Bear is the boy behind the fence, the one who was there for
her when no one else was.
Until he's not.
Left with nothing, Jamie joins the army hoping it will give
her purpose. The last thing she expects is the best friend from her past to
reappear in the dusty plains of a war-torn country. No longer the boy she once
knew, Bear is now a man: big, bearded, and SAS—one of the army’s elite.
Soon Jamie finds herself not only fighting against her
enemies, but her feelings for a man who left her once before. Can she risk
losing him all over again?
Fighting Absolution is a friends to lovers romance and
features characters from Fighting Redemption, but is written as a standalone.
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Excerpt:
After an early night, I wake in the morning with my body
sagging into the ground. “What the hell?”
I roll and flail, my air mattress squeaking like a little
bitch.
Bear laughs and I turn. He’s watching me, thoroughly amused.
“I’m not here for your entertainment,” I hiss, my back aching from an
uncomfortable sleep.
“Someone needs her coffee.”
“Did you poke a hole in my mattress?”
“No, but there’s something poking a hole in my—”
“For the love of god!” I rise up, the knife from beneath my
pillow in hand. “I’m gonna stab yours just for that.”
“No!” He laughs, half-rising from his own bed, warding me
off with his massive paws. “That damn thing is probably why you woke up on the
ground.”
I lunge across the tent, my knife jabbing straight into his
inflatable mattress. It tears a long, deep gash in the corner. Air hisses out
in a wheezy rush. “What in the actual fuck?” he shouts, falling back with a
stunned laugh. “You’re such a bitch!”
The knife drops from my hand, and I double over, gasping
with laughter while the airbed deflates around him, sinking him slowly to the
ground.
“Now neither of us have a bed!”
“Oh well.” I tuck my knife away. “We can start on those
bottles of red tonight until we can’t feel a damn thing, and then it won’t
matter.”
I unzip the tent and step out, my jaw cracking from a yawn
that stretches my face. “Bring me coffee!” he orders from inside the tent.
I turn my head, sneaking a glance his way. He’s standing
over his duffel bag, clad in nothing but a tight pair of bright blue cotton
boxer-briefs. It’s almost a physical punch. I linger a moment before I look
away, back to the ocean, trying to dispel the image, but my mind won’t let it
go. The wide, muscled shoulders, his tattooed arms, the thick washboard abs,
his body scarred from combat and a lifetime of hard and heavy training.
I shiver with a sense of longing and have to remind myself
that it’s just Bear as I start on the coffee. The same Bear who laughed his ass
off when I tripped on the edge of the jetty in Broome and fell in the water.
The one who snores like a freight train after one too many beers. The one
slowly turning into a mountain man because he hasn’t shaved since we left. The
very same Bear who tips his head back each night in his camp chair and makes me
scratch his head with my nails while he sits there and whimpers like a little
girl.
About Kate:
Kate is the USA Today Bestselling Author of The End Game and Goodreads Nominee
for Best Contemporary Romance Fighting Redemption, and the Give Me series.
When she's not plotting or writing, she works as a financial
officer.
Kate has two mini me's (both bookworms to her delight),
three Dachshunds named Petie, Maximus and Thor, and a fish named Cash (who unfortunately
suffers resting bitch face). She lives in Brisbane, Australia and decided to
miraculously stop ageing at 30.
Connect with Kate:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KMacinOz
Website: https://katemccarthy.net/
Jenn's Review
Gutted! Fighting Absolution left me gutted. This book has pain and heartbreak, but also redemption and hope. This book stole my breath at times.
The plot of this book was great. The whole story is so complex. The story arcs were perfect. The characters were dynamic. I fell in love with them immediately.
This book started off slow, but really kept things interesting. I was so caught up in it that i lost track of time. Then it stopped my heart and brought tears to my eyes. Such an amazing story!
Ratings:
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Heat: 5/5
Writing style: 5/5
Overall: 5/5
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