Featured Author: Jo Raven

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Jo Raven!!!

Inked Brotherhood series

Five boys brought together by fate. Five young men trying to overcome their troubled pasts. Five tattoos marking them as a brotherhood built on tragedy. Will they find understanding and rise above the pain?

Five girls tied by friendship. Five young women fighting their own demons. Five lives laced with sorrow. Will they be strong enough to save the men they love and make them happy?

The series comprises five interconnected, stand-alone novels: Asher, Tyler, Zane, Dylan and Rafe. 

Asher (Inked Brotherhood #1)

by Jo Raven 

Now eighteen, Audrey returns to her hometown for the first time after the accident – the car crash that took her dad and scarred her for life. She’s here to start again. Go to college and have fun. Make new friends. Get over the past.

But the past won’t let go. Asher is here – her first kiss, her first heartbreak. More handsome and distant than ever, he’s still the boy who used to be her best friend. That was before he changed into someone she hardly knows anymore – the boy who started getting into fights and gave her the cold shoulder for years.

Asher isn’t what she needs. In fact, she hates him and should try her best to keep away from him. Yet her body doesn’t seem to care about how she feels, and maybe, just maybe this time her body got it right. Not that she has much of a choice. Asher draws her like a bright flame, and if she isn’t careful, she’ll burn.

And that may not be such a bad thing after all...

This is New Adult erotic romance, dual POV. Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex, and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young adult readers. 

 

 

Tyler (Inked Brotherhood #2)

by Jo Raven 

From the USA Today and NY Times bestselling author Jo Raven comes the second installment in the Inked Brotherhood series which began with Asher.

Four years have passed since I left home, my parents, and my brother Asher behind – since I shut out my past.

And Erin. Four years since I last saw her, since I heard her voice and held her in my arms. I’ve spent my time forging a path from woman to woman, from bed to bed, trying to find an answer. But I think I’ve lost my way. There’s no light at the end of the dark.

No big surprise. I carry the dark inside me. I’m a bastard – branded as such from the start. I never give my phone number and address. I take my pleasure, and don’t come back for seconds. No commitments, no promises and no happy endings. Yeah, I’m a bastard down to the bone and I don’t give a damn.

But now I’m back in my birth town, the town I fled at eighteen – back to make amends to the brother I abandoned and watch from afar the only girl I’ve ever wanted. Hope isn’t a currency I can afford. I learned that lesson long ago.

Yet when she looks at me and says my name, I can’t help but hope.

Standalone novel. No cliffhanger. Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex, and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young readers.

Zane (Inked Brotherhood #3)

by Jo Raven 

From the USA Today and NY Times bestselling author Jo Raven comes the third installment in the Inked Brotherhood series which began with Asher.

They call me Zen-man, the cool-headed one, the protector. I keep an eye out for everyone, take them in, find them homes. They think I’m the calm and collected one, the self-assured one, the one who knows the way. They think they see me. They think they know me.

But they’re all wrong, because inside I’m broken. I have a jagged hole in my soul I can’t fix, a festering blackness. I’ve been to the pits of hell, and nobody comes back unscathed. Life in foster care fucked me up, and now a thread is all that’s holding me together.

So I sleep around and never date, keeping chicks away. One day I’ll snap, and when I do, there’s no telling who I might take down with me.

All the same, there’s this one girl who won’t be scared away. Dakota. She’s hot, and I won’t deny I want her. But she keeps coming back, pushing me, trying to get me to talk, to open up to her.

She has no idea she’s playing with fire. When the demons come, she’d better be far away from me, just like everyone else.

Standalone novel. No cliffhanger. Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex, and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young readers.

 

 

Dylan (Inked Brotherhood #4)

by Jo Raven 

When you’ve tried your best for years and never managed to please your demanding parents… When you’ve fallen head over heels for someone who keeps ignoring you… When you’ve hit rock bottom.

Tessa is this close to giving up – on her authoritative parents and their demands, on her studies, on everything in her life.

Including Dylan. The one boy she has loved since she can remember. The one who dated her and promised her forever when they were fourteen, and then dumped her without an explanation only to ignore her ever since.

The one who shows up to save her from the hands of her abusive ex before the stroke of midnight, who kisses her and holds her close, only to tell her in the course of the same night he doesn’t love her.

Tessa knows Dylan has gone through some tough times, and they’re only getting tougher - but is he telling the truth about his lack of feelings for her, or is he running from his own demons?

The way Tessa sees it, she has two options: run away, leaving it all behind - or stay to fight against her controlling family, and win back Dylan. She has a feeling he needs her, and how can she leave when he's the only man who’s ever made her feel alive?

Standalone novel. No cliffhanger. Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex, and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young readers.

About Jo Raven:
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jo Raven writes contemporary New Adult romance. She loves sexy bad boys and strong-willed heroines, and divides her time between writing and reading. When not cooking up plots, she putters in her cluttered kitchen and dreams of traveling to India and Japan.


Interview with Jo Raven:

1. Can you tell us a little about your books?

I like writing about strong-willed heroines who don’t need a knight in shining armor to save them. And I love boys who are both strong and sexy, but also in need of the women in their lives to save them from their own demons. Finally, I adore make up sex and happy endings.

2. How many books will there be in the Inked Brotherhood series?

The Inked Brotherhood comprises five books. Of course, Damage Control is a series set in the same world, also comprising five books, and I have two more trilogies planned with characters we meet in the series.

3. Can the Inked Brotherhood series be read in any order? 

Yes, the Inked Brotherhood series can be read in any order, but like always, it’s best to read the series in order – as in, Asher, Tyler, Zane, Dylan and Rafe.

4. Micha (Damage Control 1) was included in Red Hot Boxed Sets Book 2, will it be published by itself too?

Yes, Micah will be published on its own in February, and the other four books in the series in the months that follow (well, throughout the year, that is)

5. Do you have a favorite character to write about?

Okay, this is a really tough one… lol. I love all my characters, but I like the foul-mouthed ones especially… So Zane is a favorite in that aspect. That, and his Mohawk. I do love bad boys (in books!)

6. Do you have any book trailers for your books?  If yes can you share them with us?

Oh I don’t have any trailers of my books… One day I’d love to make a movie, though!!

7. When did you know you wanted to write a book?

This one is easy. Around the age of nine, if I recall. I did write a short fantasy story, and it all went downhill from there… lol. Seriously, I’ve been writing all my life, but only recently thought to let the world see my stories.

8. What was the last book you read?

TAUT: The Ford Book: (Rook and Ronin Spinoff) by JA Huss. She is an amazing writer. Being an author myself, I can’t easily find writers with a strong voice to pull me in, but oh boy did she pull me in. I am a huge fan.

9. Are you attending any author signing events this year?

Only one: the Tattooed Bad Boys in York, UK. Hope to attend more next year!

10. What are writing projects are you currently working on?

Right now I am writing RAFE (Inked Brotherhood #5) and plotting the Damage Control series. One thing you should know about me as a writer: I spend similar amounts of time writing as I do plotting. Unless a story is more or less plotted out, and unless I have a cover for it, I can’t really start writing. Call it writer OCD ;) So… I have RAFE’s cover ready, and now I am plotting. By the end of the month I should start writing.