**This project has been shelved, to be reworked in the future. Stay tuned!** What It Takes A Standalone in The Midnight City Series My name is JR Walsh, and I have life by the balls. My career is off the charts. My agent’s phone never stops ringing with an endless stream of jobs on the other end. I’m married to a smokin’ hot blonde, and we live in a huge house in the Hollywood Hills with our adorable, perfect daughter. Women and men want to be me and be with me, LA is my playground and everyone knows my name. I’m ballin’ so hard, the great Air Jordan is getting jealous. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, that’s because it is. Turns out no one is perfect, not even me. Which I definitely knew before I became a famous actor. I had a troubled childhood… What I remember of it, anyway. Whatever happened to me when I was younger affected me big time, and I’ve used that as my motivation when starring in some very dark roles. I’m so good at playing freaks, in fact, that now they’re the only parts I’m offered. Every time my agent’s phone rings, there’s another twisted opportunity on the other end. It’s been messing with me pretty hard, and the only way I know how to cope is by drinking, drugging, and partying with skanks. My smokin’ hot wife left me, moved out of our huge house and took my adorable, perfect daughter with her. The only time my face shows up in the tabloids now is when I’m stumbling around LA looking drunk and disorderly, surrounded by bad influences. But I’m the worst influence of all. I spend my days nursing deep hangovers, and my nights struggling to push it all away. Struggling? That’s the understatement of the year. I’m barely surviving right now. I want my daughter back. I want my life back. I’m afraid of getting worse, but what can I do? I can’t fix myself, and I don’t know if anyone has what it takes to save me. If anybody out there does, I’ll do whatever it takes to keep them. I’m JR Walsh, and this is my story. **What It Takes is a standalone in The Midnight City Series, told only from the POV of JR Walsh. It contains references to Parts 1-3, but can be read and fully understood on its own. This book is a love story, but it gets dark at times, and contains potential triggers relating to drug use, addiction, and domestic and/or childhood abuse. It’s a HEA so don’t fret! This is a tale of redemption.**