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Ten Tiny Breaths
Series · 6 books · 2012-2016

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Ten Tiny Breaths

2012

Kacey Cleary’s whole life imploded four years ago in a drunk-driving accident. Now she’s working hard to bury the pieces left behind—all but one. Her little sister, Livie. Kacey can swallow the constant disapproval from her born-again aunt Darla over her self-destructive lifestyle; she can stop herself from going kick-boxer crazy on Uncle Raymond when he loses the girls’ college funds at a blackjack table. She just needs to keep it together until Livie is no longer a minor, and then they can get the hell out of Grand Rapids, Michigan. But when Uncle Raymond slides into bed next to Livie one night, Kacey decides it’s time to run. Armed with two bus tickets and dreams of living near the coast, Kacey and Livie start their new lives in a Miami apartment complex, complete with a grumpy landlord, a pervert upstairs, and a neighbor with a stage name perfectly matched to her chosen “profession.” But Kacey’s not worried. She can handle all of them. What she can’t handle is Trent Emerson in apartment 1D. Kacey doesn’t want to feel. She doesn’t. It’s safer that way. For everyone. But sexy Trent finds a way into her numb heart, reigniting her ability to love again. She starts to believe that maybe she can leave the past where it belongs and start over. Maybe she’s not beyond repair. But Kacey isn’t the only one who’s broken. Seemingly perfect Trent has an unforgiveable past of his own; one that, when discovered, will shatter Kacey’s newly constructed life and send her back into suffocating darkness.
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In Her Wake

2014

Before you knew him as Trent in Ten Tiny Breaths, he was Cole Reynolds—and he had it all. Until one night when he makes a fatal, wrong decision…and loses everything. When a drunken night out at a Michigan State college party results in the death of six people, Cole must come to terms with his part in the tragedy. Normally, he’d be able to lean on his best friends—the ones who have been in his life since he could barely walk. Only, they’re gone. Worse, there’s the shattered body of a sixteen-year-old girl lying somewhere in a hospital bed, her entire life ripped from her because of a case of beer and a set of keys. Everyone assures him that they know it wasn’t intentional, and yet he can’t ignore the weight of their gazes, the whispers behind his back. Nor can he shake the all-consuming guilt he feels every time he thinks of that girl who won’t so much as allow him near her hospital room to apologize. As the months go by and the shame and loneliness festers, Cole begins to lose his grip on what once was important—college, his girlfriend, his future. His life. It’s not until Cole hits rock-bottom that he can begin to see another way out of his personal hell: forgiveness. And there’s only one person who can give that to him…
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One Tiny Lie

2013

Livie has always been the stable one of the two Cleary sisters, handling her parents' tragic death and Kacey's self-destructive phase with strength and maturity. But underneath that exterior is a little girl hanging onto the last words her father ever spoke to her. “Make me proud,” he had said. She promised she would...and she’s done her best over the past seven years with every choice, with every word, with every action. Livie walks into Princeton with a solid plan, and she’s dead set on delivering on it: Rock her classes, set herself up for medical school, and meet a good, respectable guy that she’s going to someday marry. What isn’t part of her plan are Jell-O shots, a lovable, party animal roommate she can’t say ‘no’ to, and Ashton, the gorgeous captain of the men’s rowing team. Definitely him. He’s an arrogant ass who makes Livie’s usually non-existent temper flare and everything she doesn’t want in a guy. Worse, he’s best friends and roommates with Connor, who happens to fits Livie’s criteria perfectly. So why does she keep thinking about Ashton? As Livie finds herself facing mediocre grades, career aspirations she no longer thinks she can handle, and feelings for Ashton that she shouldn’t have, she’s forced to let go of her last promise to her father and, with it, the only identity that she knows.
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Four Seconds to Lose

2013

When a gorgeous young dancer walks through his door, a strip club owner must decide whether to follow his rules or his heart in the third novel by the author of One Tiny Lie and Ten Tiny Breaths. Owning a strip club isn’t the fantasy most guys expect it to be. With long hours, a staff with enough issues to keep a psych ward in business, and the police regularly on his case, twenty-nine-year-old Cain is starting to second guess his unspoken mission to save the women he employs. And then blond, brown-eyed Charlie Rourke walks through his door, and things get really complicated. Cain abides by a strict “no sleeping with the staff” rule. But being around Charlie challenges Cain’s self-control... and it’s been a long time since any woman has done that. Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Rourke needs a lot of money, really fast, in order to vanish before it’s too late. Taking her clothes off for men makes her stomach curl but Charlie tells herself that at least she’s putting her acting and dancing skills to good use. And though her fellow dancers seem eager to nab their sexy, sophisticated, and genuinely caring boss, she’s not interested. After all, Charlie Rourke doesn’t really exist—and the girl pretending to be her can't get distracted by romance. Unfortunately, Charlie soon discovers that developing feelings for Cain is inevitable, and that those feelings may not be unrequited—but losing him when he finds out what she’s involved with will be more painful than any other sentence awaiting her.
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Five Ways to Fall

2014

Purple-haired, sharp-tongued Reese MacKay knows all about making the wrong choice; she’s made plenty of them in her twenty-odd-years. So when her impulsive, short-lived marriage ends in heartbreak, she decides it’s time for a change. She moves to Miami with the intention of hitting reset on her irresponsible life, and she does quite well…aside from an epically humiliating one-night stand in Cancun with a hot blond bouncer named Ben. Thank God she can get on a plane and leave that mistake behind her. Football scholarship and frat parties with hot chicks? Part of charmer Ben Morris’s plan. Blown knee that kills any hope of a professional football career? So not part of the plan. Luckily Ben has brains to go with his knockout looks and magnetism. After three long years of balancing law school with his job as a bouncer at Penny’s Palace, he’s ready to lead a more mature life—until his first day of work, when he finds himself in the office of that crazy, hot chick he met in Cancun. The one he hasn’t stopped thinking about. If Ben truly were a smart guy, he’d stay clear of Reese. She’s the boss’s stepdaughter and it’s been made very clear that office romances are grounds for dismissal. Plus, rumor has it she’s trouble. The only problem is, he likes trouble, especially when it’s so good-looking…
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Prima di incontrarti - Dieci piccoli respiri - Una piccola bugia - Quattro secondi per perderti - Cinque ragioni per odiarti

2016

Un'autrice da oltre 30.000 copie5 romanzi in 1Se non avete mai letto K.A. Tucker, non sapete cosa vuol dire innamorarsi di un romanzo.Le cinque storie qui raccolte insieme vi faranno tremare come al vostro primo bacio.In Prima di incontrarti il rientro dopo una festa si trasforma in tragedia. Muoiono sei persone e da un momento all’altro la vita di Cole Reynolds, uno dei superstiti, cambia irreversibilmente…Kacey Clearly, protagonista di Dieci piccoli respiri, aveva solo vent’anni quando la sua vita è andata in pezzi. Ora ha finalmente trovato la forza di fuggire a Miami. Qui incontra l’affascinante e misterioso Trent Emerson, deciso a far breccia nel suo cuore…In Una piccola bugia conosciamo è entrata a Princeton per studiare Medicina. Ciò a cui non è invece preparata è la passione per due ragazzi così diversi tra Ashton, l’arrogante e attraente capitano della squadra di canottaggio, e Connor, il prototipo del bravo ragazzo. Chi dei due sarà meglio per lei?Quattro secondi per Cain è il gestore dell’unico strip club della città in cui non gira droga e le ragazze non si prostituiscono. La regola numero uno per Cain è tenere gli affari di cuore, e di letto, fuori dal Penny’s. Ma quando la bionda Charlie entra nel suo ufficio per un colloquio di lavoro, le cose si complicano…Cinque ragioni per Reese è intenzionata a dare una svolta alla propria vita. Niente più scelte affrettate, niente più amori di una notte. Ma quando incontra Ben durante un viaggio a Cancun, ogni decisione viene rimessa in gioco…«Perché tu non sei la ragazza di una notte. Tu sei la mia ragazza per sempre.»La serie che ha sedotto centinaia di migliaia di lettrici«Una storia d’amore romantica, divertente e super sensuale.»Jay Crownover, autrice di Oltre le regole«Imperdibile!»Romantic Times«Questo romanzo mi ha strappato il cuore dal petto.»Courtney Cole, autrice bestseller del New York Times con If You Stay K.A. TuckerVive vicino Toronto con il marito e le due figlie. I suoi romanzi, inizialmente autopubblicati, grazie al grande successo sono stati acquisiti dalla Simon & Schuster, uno dei maggiori gruppi editoriali di lingua inglese.

Author

K.A. Tucker
K.A. Tucker
Author · 53 books

K.A. Tucker writes captivating stories with an edge. She is the internationally bestselling author of the Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water series, He Will Be My Ruin, Until It Fades, Keep Her Safe, The Simple Wild, Be the Girl, and Say You Still Love Me. Her books have been featured in national publications including USA Today, Globe & Mail, Suspense Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, Oprah Mag, and First for Women. She has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance 2013 for TEN TINY BREATHS and Best Romance 2018 for THE SIMPLE WILD. KEEP HER SAFE made Suspense Magazine's Best of 2018 list for Romantic Suspense. K.A. Tucker currently resides in a quaint town outside of Toronto. Join Tucker's Troop on Facebook! >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/14685... Signup for her newsletter >> https://www.katuckerbooks.com/newslet...

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