Tour Stop/Giveaway: For You I'd Break by Hannah Jordan

 

Check out the tour stop for Hannah Jordan's For You I'd Break today and make sure to enter the tour wide giveaway in the post as the author is  awarding a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. The tour is sponsored by Goddess Fish Promotions and you can find all the tour stops HERE.

Interview with Hannah Jordan

Tell us about your latest book, who are the main character’s and what can we expect when we pick it up?

Rowan’s life is a hot mess. She found her husband cheating with her boss, ran out of the office, and got pinned to a tree by a Segway. Rowan moves back to Peace Falls from DC with her confidence and a spine in shambles. She’s incredibly kind and giving, which makes what happened with her husband all the more infuriating to the people who love her. She finds out she’ll be completing her physical therapy with her high school crush, Cal, which is both mortifying and intriguing.

Caleb “Cal” Cardoso is handsome, smart, and kind, but a bit lacking in the insight department. He was severely injured in a car accident ten years ago that killed his friend. While he’s physically recovered, he focused on school and his career instead of dealing with his grief. He keeps insisting to everyone that he doesn’t “do relationships” yet he is an incredibly devoted friend and “dog dad”.

Besides the lead couple, the book contains a cast of quirky characters, including Rowan’s sister Poppy, a goth sculptor who secretly loves to decorate cakes; her mother, Rose, and brother, Chris. Rowan’s best friend Lauren is a karma-devoted barista who collects damaged pets and first dates.

Cal’s best friends Theo, a fearsome-looking felon with a heart of gold, and Aiden, a hothead with a sweet side, were both in the car accident with him. Theo ended up serving time for the accident, and Aiden was so injured he lost his football scholarship and had to pivot. Cal’s lovable dog, Skye, has more emotional sense than everyone put together.

Do you come up with the hook first, or do you create characters first and then dig through until you find a hook?

I usually have an idea for the hook before I develop the characters. It gets tweaked as I learn more about them and their story.

Which of your own characters would you like to have lunch with?

Poppy is my favorite character in the entire series. She’s delightfully quirky and incredibly passionate about her art. I imagine we’d have an interesting conversation, despite both being introverted.

Tell us about what you are reading at the moment or anticipate reading in the future? Any favorite authors you enjoy reading in your spare time?

The list of current authors I admire (and read every chance I get) is long, but includes writers in different subgenres. I’ll read an LJ Shen novel one week, a Pippa Grant another, and an Amy Harmon the following. One writes fairly dark romance, one writes romantic comedies, and one writes historical romance. I love it all!

Which of your own books would you like to live in?

I modeled Peace Falls after my hometown in Virginia, so I’ve lived there already. Every time I write feels like going home.

What do you do when you have free time?

I love seeing new places and hiking. I’m not a hardcore hiker. I enjoy the outdoors for a few hours and then return to the luxuries of running water and air conditioning. Even when I can’t travel, I try to get outside and walk at least a couple times a week with friends. It’s good exercise and keeps me from being a complete hermit who only sees her husband and kids.

How do you approach character development in your stories? Do you have any specific techniques or methods that you find particularly effective?

This might sound odd, but I don’t visualize while I’m writing. I write completely blind, which apparently isn’t typical of most writers. Instead, I hear the characters tell me the story in their own voice. Most of the visual descriptions are still filtered through that voice (what a particular character would notice or not), but I usually fill out the descriptive sections during the revision process.  

Often if a scene isn’t working, it’s because, on a subconscious level, I know it isn’t reflecting the character accurately. I’ll sit with it a bit and consider what my character would do in the situation.

To get around the complete lack of visualization issue, I create an entire PowerPoint slide deck before I start a novel. It has pictures of all the characters and bullet points about them. Some of this info never makes it into the story, but it’s in my head. I also pull pictures of locations like Karma, Lauren’s coffee shop/ bookstore, or base locations on places I’ve seen in real life. 

What do you believe sets your writing apart from others in your genre, and why should readers choose to read your books?

If you love spicy stories with realistic characters in a small-town setting, this series is for you.

Can you discuss any upcoming projects or books that you’re currently working on? What can readers expect from your future works?

The second book in the series, For You I’d Mend, launched October 10th. It focuses on Poppy and Theo, who feature heavily in For You I’d Break as friends who are clearly attracted to each other.

The third book, For You I’d Bloom, will come out in January. It’s my favorite book of the series because I fell a little in love with the lead, Aiden. His love story with Lauren is hinted at throughout the first two books and follows the enemies-to-lovers trope with an accidental pregnancy.

FOR YOU I'D BREAK

Author: Hannah Jordan

GENRE:  Contemporary Romance

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 When Rowan’s two-year marriage ends with a crash, she returns home to Peace Falls, VA, riding shotgun in her sister’s 1990 Cadillac hearse. Everything about her is damaged: her heart, her pride, her bank account, and her spine—thanks to a tourist, a Segway, and finding her husband getting busy with her boss. But Rowan is determined to reclaim her career and city life as soon as she recuperates and lands a new job.

 

Caleb “Cal” Cardoso didn’t notice wallflower Rowan in high school, but the former football star, and Peace Falls’s newest physical therapist, can’t take his eyes off the stunning redhead now. Too bad he’s sworn off relationships. After his last hookup purposely tanked his online reputation, Cal stands to lose his job if a single patient leaves his care. Which is why he can’t let Rowan switch to another practitioner, despite the friction between them, and why he definitely can’t act on his growing attraction.

 

Rowan agrees to remain Cal’s patient if he helps her younger brother train for football tryouts. Though Cal hasn’t touched a football since the accident that killed his best friend, he agrees, and as Cal helps heal Rowan’s body, she begins to heal his heart.

 

For You I’d Break is a small town romance with a hefty dash of spice, a HEA ending, and a cast of memorable characters, including a goth sculptor who secretly loves to decorate cakes, a fearsome-looking felon with a heart of gold, a hothead with a sweet side, a karma-devoted barista who collects damaged pets and first dates, and a lovable dog with more emotional sense than everyone put together.

 

Excerpt Two:

 

Just then, the second door opened and out walked Caleb Cardoso in a pair of slate gray scrubs. Years of watching him swagger down school hallways and sprint across football fields did nothing to prepare me. He’d added more muscle to his lean frame, his broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist. His dark, tousled hair looked styled to suggest he’d just climbed out of bed after an all-night sexfest. His jaw was sharper, his cheek bones more chiseled. When he looked at me with those rich chocolate eyes, all the air left my lungs.

 

“Mrs. Norris,” he said, glancing at the tablet in his hands.

 

The sound of my married name lifted the lust fog from my brain. “Please call me Rowan,” I said, relieved I’d finally managed to speak in his presence.

 

He studied my face, frowned, and looked back at his tablet. “Nice to meet you,” he said, studying my face again. “I’m Cal. Take a seat on the first table.”

 

Lauren would have politely told him that we were two years apart in school. Poppy would have flipped the embarrassment of being forgotten back onto Cal with a snide comment about his observation skills. Not that anyone ever forgot Poppy. I just turned my back to him and hoped he hadn’t seen my cheeks burn. People often didn’t remember me, but it still stung, especially when it was someone I’d spent so much time fantasizing about in my teens. As I crossed the room, I could feel him behind me, watching my every movement.

  

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AUTHOR Bio and Links: 

Hannah Jordan grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia but wound up in South Jersey after falling in love with her complete opposite. She's got all the degrees of a "serious" fiction writer but only smiles when she's writing romance. 

She lives with her husband and two daughters in a picturesque town outside of Philadelphia where she enjoys reading in all genres, especially the spicy ones, and confusing people with her half-Southern, half-Northern accent. 

The first book in her Peace Falls Small Town Romance Series, For You I’d Break, launched July 17, 2024. 

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