Stay with Me by J. Lynn, Jennifer L Armentrout

Stay with Me (Wait for You, #3)

by J. Lynn and Jennifer L. Armentrout

Another outstanding New Adult novel from the bestselling author of WAIT FOR YOU - a NEW YORK TIMES bestseller

Not all scars are visible on the surface

Calla Fritz is used to hiding. Hiding the scar that she believes mars her beautiful face. Hiding the burns that cover so much of the rest of her body. Hiding her past and her family secrets from her new college friends.

But when her mother clears out her bank account and disappears, Calla is forced to return home and face up to a life she'd rather forget about. What she didn't count on was meeting the one guy who seems to be able to see past her defences. Jackson James, known as Jax, is beyond smokin' hot - and Calla can't quite hide her feelings for a man who knows that beauty isn't only skin deep.

But with some dangerous characters looking for her mother - men who are perfectly happy to punish Calla for her mother's sins if she doesn't turn up soon - Calla and Jax have more troubling things to think about than the searing heat between them...

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Jennifer Armentrout knows how to write an angsty New Adult book.

I think of all the books in the Wait for You series, this was one where I felt for the heroine right away. Calla had her friends at Shepherd, but they were all paired off and he had just found out the guy she had a crush on has a girl. Then to make matters worse, she discovers her mother had gotten her a hundred thousand dollars in debt and unable to pay her upcoming semester tuition. That was enough to make me want to put my arms around the poor girl and give her a huge hug. And things don’t get much better for Calla when she goes back home to figure out just what he mother has done.

Calla is a pretty strong girl. Probably stronger than the previous heroines of this series, mainly because she tries to fight for herself right from the beginning. Things are pretty bad and I think anyone else would have had a moment (or a hundred) of feeling sorry for themselves. But Calla keeps fighting. Against her mother, thugs and sometimes even herself to get a little bit of happiness for herself.

There were a lot of things to love about Jax (especially the way he uses ‘Honey’ all the time). He wanted to protect Calla and was there to help her when she needed it, which made him hard to resist. But it was how he saw Calla, how he loved all of her, that made it easy to forgive him for anything he might have done wrong.
Another great read by J. Lynn/Jennifer Armentrout. If you haven’t read any of the books in this series, definitely pick them up. They are all worth it.

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