DOWN SHIFT by K. Bromberg: Book Tour, Excerpt, Teasers & Mary’s Review
Meet Zander & Getty in DOWN SHIFT –
the newest stand alone in the Driven Series by K. Bromberg!
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BLURB
The New York Times bestselling Driven series continues with a story about finding love where you least expect it…
Behind the wheel, racing champion Zander Donavan is at the top of his game. But after too much excess in his personal life, he’s forced to step away. He needs to accomplish something all on his own—outside of his famous father, Colton Donavan’s, shadow.
Getty Caster is running away from the abuse that clouds her past. She thinks she’s found the perfect escape—until she discovers a stranger in the beachside cottage she’d been promised. He’s undeniably sexy, but she’s there to heal. Alone.
Before long though, fighting with each other turns into fighting their attraction. And giving into desire sets off a chain reaction that has their pasts colliding. With an unexpected love on the line, can they overcome the fallout to build a future?
EXCERPT
“You don’t know anything about me.” My voice is slight but strong, my need to assert myself front and center despite his calling me on the carpet.
“That’s where you’re wrong, Socks. I might not know where you’re from or why I ruffled your feathers today, but I know you’re stronger than you give yourself credit for. Whatever it is that you ran from back home, you did it. You got out and are making it on your own. That takes guts and you deserve mad props for that. I know you like things messy and are goddamn cute when you’re tipsy. I know you’re stubborn as hell and gorgeous as fuck. And that your kiss tastes like an aged whiskey: something I want to sip slowly, feel on my lips, savor on my tongue, and take my time with before I get drunk on it.” With a lift of his eyebrows and a nod of his head, he walks past me, leaving me with my mouth agape and eyes wide.
I can’t move. Just stand staring at the door in front of me as I try to process what he just said, what he meant by it, and yet there’s no use because we just had a whole one-sided conversation and that need to banter with him is gone. Lost to the tingling in my lower belly and the wild spinning of my thoughts.
“Oh, and, Getty?” Zander calls out to me from the kitchen, refusing to continue until I turn to face him, standing there unabashedly shirtless. “If you ever call me pretty again, we’re gonna have a real problem. I guarantee you there is nothing pretty about me.”
I almost smile at the fact that out of all of the crappy things I said to him, that is the one that bugged him the most.
“You are kind of pretty, though,” I murmur, unable to resist goading him further, needing to try to get us back on an even playing field. Because hell if right now I don’t feel like I’m on the low end of the teeter-totter.
His immediate response? A snort to signify that his chiseled abs and the tall, dark, and handsome thing he’s got going on are nothing more than average.
“Last warning, Socks.” His eyes flash with mirth. And what looks like desire.
An unexpected part of me—the one who usually hides and doesn’t ever take a chance—wants to say it again. Just to see what he’d do if I did.
“So damn pretty.” I don’t know who’s more shocked at my comment, him or me, but we stand there for a moment, gazes locked, unspoken words warring across the distance between us.
He walks toward me with a predatory gleam in his eyes and a salacious smirk on his lips that catches me off guard. “I know I said you were brave, Getty, but now you’re just playing with matches.”
I draw in a long inhale as he steps right in front of me. I can’t look at him. My nerve is suddenly gone. Outside, rain pelts the roof. The constant drip into the bucket in the hallway serves as a metronome to this anticipatory silence we are dancing in. The goose bumps on his chest are the only thing I can focus on.
When his thumb and forefinger direct my chin up so I’m forced to meet his eyes, every part of me hums from his touch. From the want of something I don’t quite understand myself and couldn’t ever put into words. Our eyes meet—his intense, mine searching for answers that aren’t his to give—before his gaze flicks down to my mouth and then back up again.
“Not yet, Getty.” He closes his eyes for a beat, and I see what I think is restraint reflected in his grimace, before a ghost of a smile spreads on his lips. “I don’t think you’re ready to light this fire just yet.”
MARY’S 5 STAR REVIEW
The anticipation of Down Shift has been nearly unbearable!
Having read everything that Kristy has written I was so freakin excited to read Down Shift. Let me say that you will not disappointed one iota. Down Shift is everything you could have hoped for. It’s unquestionably an emotional read but there is so much more to Down Shift. There is flash of humor, with a bit of angst and what would a Bromberg romance be without molten chemistry.
We all remember Zander as the little boy that stole our hearts and fell in love with from the Driven Series. Starting Down Shift I was eager to find out what Zander would be facing and it didn’t take long for that to happen. Good Lord that prologue is unbelievable.
IT. BLEW MY. MIND!
Zander was staggering!! But he was conflicted, he was angry and he was hurt. Following in Colton’s footsteps he was racing’s “Golden Boy”, talented, and at the top. Everything was as it should be until he got that box. A box that sent his life into a tailspin and off grid…to a beachside cottage.
But what happens when Zander has an uninvited house guest show up?
That uninvited house guest in none other than Getty Castor. Although she had been living in the cottage for a few months Zander’s sudden and unexpected appearance threw a wrench into her living arrangement. Getty had found refuge in the small beachside community. Living on her own, leaving the abuse and exploitation of her past behind.
From the very first moment Zander and Getty meet there is a standoff as to who will be leaving. Both stubbornly holding onto their right to the cabin leads to them ultimately sharing the cabin. Their banter is funny, edgy and you can see the sexual tension building. But they also see each other’s hurt. The many unanswered questions to memories that haunt them.
I loved both Zander and Getty’s characters. They felt real, their struggles were real and they will just squeeze your heartstrings!! Zander, swoon…. he’s cocky, he’s kind, he’s perceptive and damn if he isn’t sexy as hell. Getty is witty, she’s feisty, she’s fierce, she’s insecure and she’s determined to live life her own way.
What happens when the solitude that Zander counted on to work things out is no longer an option and Getty’s little piece of heaven has been invaded?
Will Zander and Getty heal each other?
Kristy Bromberg continues to wow me with her books.
Down Shift is perfect and definitely will not disappoint.
Down Shift can easily be read as a standalone too.
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Sweet Cheeks releases on November 14th
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About the Author:
New York Times Bestselling author K. Bromberg writes contemporary novels that contain a mixture of sweet, emotional, a whole lot of sexy and a little bit of real. She likes to write strong heroines and damaged heroes who we love to hate and hate to love.
She’s a mixture of most of her female characters: sassy, intelligent, stubborn, reserved, outgoing, driven, emotional, strong, and wears her heart on her sleeve. All of which she displays daily with her husband and three children where they live in Southern California.
On a whim, K. Bromberg decided to try her hand at this writing thing. Since then she has written The Driven Series (Driven, Fueled, Crashed, Raced, Aced), the standalone Driven Novels (Slow Burn, Sweet Ache, Hard Beat, and Down Shift (Releasing 10/4/16)), and a short story titled UnRaveled. She is currently finishing up Sweet Cheeks a standalone novel out at the end of 2016.
Her plans for 2017 include a sports romance duet (The Player (#1) and The Catch (#2)) and the Everyday Heroes series (Cuffed (#1), Combust (#2), and Cockpit (#3). She’s also writing a novella for the 1,001 Dark Night series that will be out in February 2017.
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