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CHAOTIC BEAUTY

Beauty Series

Written by Tara Sosa

Genre(s): Contemporary Romance, New Adult



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“I messed up so much in the past. At least I knew it, and owned it. Now it was time for me to fix it …” 

Connor Brennan knew from the moment he first met Riley Sullivan that he wanted her and that he would have her. It wasn’t the first moment he laid eyes on her that he knew. It was the first time she spoke and put him in his place. He didn’t believe in one woman, love always, or together forever until the moment he met her and she changed everything. He thought that she was the one. He thought he was falling for her and that they were happy.

But then the unexpected happened and she left him.

He tried to move on from her. He tried to forget her. He went back to his wicked ways and old habits. He fooled himself into believing she was almost out of his system, and his life. Then she came back and all bets were off. He knew he wanted her again right from the moment she walked through the door. He knew he would stop at nothing to have her back in his life, and in his bed. He knew it was only a matter of time before she was his for good.

But he was wrong.

Because she was different. Her warm summer blue eyes were now as cold as steel. Her attitude that once screamed confident, carefree, and loving, was now shutdown, evasive, and distant. Where there was once laughter, fun, love, and the future, now there’s nothing but hurt, pain, misunderstandings, and destruction. He wanted to fix them more than anything, but all she brought back with her was lies, another man, and chaos.

Riley Sullivan believed in the one, true love, and happily-ever-after, she just didn’t think she’d ever find it. She definitely didn’t think she’d find it in the cocky, overbearing, hotheaded, obnoxious, annoyingly handsome, driven, and intelligent thorn in her brother’s side. But she did. She thought Connor Brennan was the one. She thought she met her match. She thought she had found her equal. She thought that they had the promise of a future together. She thought they might be forever. Without a doubt she knew that she was falling hard and falling fast.

Then the unexpected happened, and they both said and did things that she couldn’t get past and that sent her running. But that wasn’t the end of it. Because she is still paying for what she did. In the worst possible ways.

What sent her running is nothing compared to what brings her back…

And when she comes back through the door and into Connor’s life again, she’s not alone, and she’s not prepared.

Riley’s not the same girl she was when she left. Everyone can see it. Everyone wants to know what’s wrong with her … but she can’t tell. The only person she wants to lean on is the very last person she wants to know her secrets. The person she wants more than anything is the person she pushes away the most. The one she realizes she loves more than anything is also the one she hurts over and over again.

What happens when she pushes him too far and hurts him too much?

Connor knows that he wants Riley more than anything. But she’s leaning on someone else. She trusts someone else. She wants someone else. What’s he supposed to do when she only tells him lies? When she hides and evades? When she runs to another? When she changes even more?

Cut his losses? Shatter his own heart? Lose his soul? Or jump into the chaos and accept everything that’s changed … even if by doing so he shatters and loses himself and her once and for all?

Will she finally trust him enough to tell him everything, even though by doing so she may lose him forever? Will she continue to protect him from the threats, the violence, the pain and destruction? Or will she bring him into the chaos and danger with her? And if she does – will he fight with her, for her, for them? Will they realize in enough time that together they just might escape the chaos and survive? 

Or will everything be realized too late, and everything they love and value the most – including their lives – be destroyed?

An excerpt from

CHAOTIC BEAUTY

“Why are you doing this to me?” I whispered, looking down at the floor. After everything, I couldn’t believe that this was happening. I didn’t know how to make any of it stop.

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“You? Why am I doing this to you? What about what you did to me?”

I looked up and across from me. What I saw in his eyes made my heart stop.

Connor … Please.

“You ruined my fucking life. I wish I never met you.”

Please. Don’t.

I continued to stare ahead, my heart beating faster and faster. I could tell by the look in his eyes what was coming next. I knew what was going to happen. I just didn’t know if either of us would survive it. I looked deep into his eyes and I knew he was pissed, enraged, and murderous.

He was deadly in this moment.

It was terrifying.

I knew our time was up.

He was deciding for the both of us.

This was the end.

Of everything.

I knew I couldn’t take it anymore. I couldn’t stay silent. I had to fight for us. I couldn’t sit by and let us be destroyed. Again.

I saw everything in his eyes and I just knew …

“Connor, please don’t!” I yelled.

But it was too late.

I was too late.

He didn’t care that I screamed at him to stop. To not do it.

He didn’t listen.

He couldn’t have understood what he was doing to the both of us. He couldn’t have.

Right?

He couldn’t have known what he was doing.

. . .

He killed me.

The soul-shattering pain I felt in that moment destroyed me. The sound of the bang that changed my world reverberated off the walls and penetrated through my entire being. I saw the blood, I felt the destruction, I knew the agony that his one action was going to cause everyone.

How could he do this to me? To us? To our families?

I couldn’t breathe.

I couldn’t think.

I couldn’t move.

All I could do was feel.

And all I felt was broken.

I didn’t feel like I was whole. Like I was all together. Like I was human.

I felt like I was glass.

Fragile glass that had been dropped, that had splintered, that had cracked into a million tiny shards and could never be put back together again.

I was broken.

In pieces.

Shattered.

Destroyed.

Lifeless.

. . .

And then entered the chaos.

Author Bio

Tara Sosa

Tara Sosa grew up in New Jersey, went to a few of its colleges and earned her degree with honors, as well as her teaching credentials, along the way. Though she is technically a High School English teacher, she finds it much more enjoyable to read and write all day without restrictions, which is why she is literally without a classroom and students.

From a very early age she knew she was in love with books and always would be, and though she tries to get everyone to love them too, she is constantly disappointed to find out that not everyone does. She absolutely loves her family, including her husband and two babies – of the four-legged variety. One day soon she hopes to add a few of the two-legged kind to her total, where she hopes at least one of them has the good sense to love reading and writing as much as she does.

Right now she is currently living her dream as a writer.  Her debut novel Unexpected Beauty released on June 23, 2015, Book 2 in the series, Chaotic Beauty, was released in November 2015, and she is hard at work writing books 3 & 4 of the series which will be releasing in 2016.