{"id":616,"date":"2022-09-16T07:31:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2022-09-17T08:10:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T15:10:49","slug":"featuring-author-tijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/16\/featuring-author-tijan\/","title":{"rendered":"Featuring Author Tijan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">This week my blog feature is to be part of Tijan&#8217;s blog tour for her new release, The Revenge. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/81tn7ysCw8L-667x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-617\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/81tn7ysCw8L-667x1024.jpeg 667w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/81tn7ysCw8L-768x1178.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/81tn7ysCw8L-1001x1536.jpeg 1001w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/81tn7ysCw8L-1335x2048.jpeg 1335w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/81tn7ysCw8L.jpeg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Title: The Revenge<br>Author: Tijan<br>Genre: Contemporary Romance<br>Release Date: September 16, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3DtAbme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-297\" width=\"125\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-300x120.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The enemy is closing in and everything is on the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THE REVENGE, the must-read finale to The Insiders Trilogy from New<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>York Times bestselling author Tijan is out now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Revenge is the taut, edgy, sexy, explosive conclusion to The Insiders trilogy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by New York Times and USA Today bestseller Tijan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bailey and Kash were used to living in the shadows. Now they are thrust into the public<br>eye. Together, they can do anything, but undeniable danger and seemingly<br>insurmountable challenges threaten the love and passion that binds them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bailey is reeling from the greatest loss she has ever suffered.<\/li><li>Enemies are closing in.<\/li><li>Even bigger secrets and twists are coming to light.<br>Win or lose, for Bailey and Kash, everything is on the line.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_ANBT-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_ANBT-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_ANBT-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_ANBT-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_ANBT-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_ANBT-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_ANBT.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>The Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group excerpt\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I didn\u2019t recognize the night guard, but he straightened from the wall where he<br>was positioned when I stepped into the hallway.<br>\u201cWhere is he?\u201d I asked, before he could say anything.<br>His hands came together in front of him and he stood even taller. He nodded<br>forward. \u201cIn the basement gym, ma\u2019am.\u201d<br>Ma\u2019am.<br>I grinned at that, literally hearing Chrissy chuckling next to me. \u201cYou\u2019re just like<br>me now, girly. Ma\u2019am. What a hoot.\u201d<br>Yeah. A hoot.<br>I padded past him and headed for the elevator that went past the main section of<br>the house. Going inside, I hit the basement floor, and there were two guards waiting for<br>me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I paused, seeing Josh as he was eyeing me. \u201cDon\u2019t you ever sleep?\u201d<br>He grinned. \u201cI sleep when your man sleeps.\u201d<br>I narrowed my eyes.<br>His grin deepened. \u201cSo that\u2019s rarely, ma\u2019am.\u201d<br>I bared my teeth. \u201cDon\u2019t you start with that \u2018ma\u2019am\u2019 shit.\u201d<br>He just laughed. \u201cWould never entertain the thought, ma\u2014\u201d<br>I growled.<br>He amended, still chuckling, \u201cBailey.\u201d<br>I scoffed, \u201cBetter.\u201d<br>If anyone had asked me where the gym was on the Chesapeake estates, I<br>wouldn\u2019t have had a clue. I would\u2019ve rolled my eyes and said something sarcastic like,<br>\u201cOf course there\u2019s a gym; it\u2019s alongside the Olympic-sized pool,\u201d but now I knew exactly<br>where it was, and it was right next to an Olympic-sized pool, though the pool was only<br>two lanes wide. It wasn\u2019t built for playing and horsing around, not like the pool outside,<br>which had a complete slide with it.<br>Heading farther toward the gym, I was shocked to not hear sounds of grunting<br>and punching from inside. Instead, the door to the pool was open.<br>\u201cHe had some extra energy to work off.\u201d<br>I glanced sideways, not having heard Josh walking beside me.<br>\u201cI honestly don\u2019t think he\u2019s human.\u201d<br>Josh\u2019s mouth twitched. \u201cYou might be on to something, Bailey.\u201d<br>We came to the door and he stepped forward, checking the room before nodding<br>for me to go ahead. I stepped inside, feeling the humidity and breathing in the chlorine<br>before I noticed Josh shutting the door. A second later, I met his gaze through the<br>door\u2019s window, and he gave me another polite smile before pressing a button. The<br>window frosted over.<br>Looking to the corner, I saw the camera\u2019s light switch from green to red. Josh<br>was giving us complete privacy, and only when that was all done did I seek out where<br>Kash was. He was at the far end, turning, flipping, and coming up a few paces away,<br>heading my way. I went to the edge and sat down, putting my feet in the water.<br>I didn\u2019t have long to wait, enjoying the view as Kash\u2019s arms were cutting through<br>the water, his shoulders and biceps bulging from the motion.<br>I forgot how he was a fish in water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His head was perfectly in alignment with his shoulders, and every fourth arm<br>swing he raised his mouth up for air and went back down. He went past me. I thought<br>he was going to keep going, but at the last second, his hand snaked out. He latched on<br>to my ankle and tugged me into the water.<br>I shrieked before I was eating chlorine. \u201cAgh!\u201d<br>He grinned, the water pulsating between us, and he maneuvered me back until I<br>was against the pool wall. \u201cWhat are you doing down here?\u201d His eyes were alert, taking<br>me in as he placed both hands on either side of me, trapping me.<br>The buoyancy kept me floating, but then Kash was moving his legs under me<br>and I was completely resting over him. My legs straddled his, and he hooked one ankle<br>around the other, tugging me to open even wider for him.<br>Heat flared in me, boiling my blood, but when I thought Kash would bend his<br>head, finding my throat, he didn\u2019t. He moved his head back, sinking so he was on the<br>same eye level as me, and he tugged at his sweatshirt. \u201cNice shirt.\u201d<br>I grinned, feeling a laziness intertwining with the warmth in me. \u201cIt was this or a<br>robe. This was closer.\u201d<br>\u201cReally?\u201d<br>I nodded, enjoying the teasing look in his eyes. It was dark, but it was there.<br>\u201cReally.\u201d My voice hitched on a soft sigh with that one. He grew sober, his head moving<br>back so he could take me in more fully. \u201cYou look good.\u201d His eyebrows dipped down.<br>\u201cYou look like you again.\u201d His hand moved, and he touched a wet finger beside my eye.<br>\u201cI see you again.\u201d<br>My throat swelled up, my chest filled with an ache that was bittersweet.<br>\u201cWoke up.\u201d<br>\u201cI can see that.\u201d His head cocked to the side, but he didn\u2019t say anything further.<br>He was still holding me in place, and as he settled back, I knew he was waiting for me.<br>He was waiting for whatever I was going to say or do, for whatever path I was going to<br>put us on because that\u2019s what I felt in that moment.<br>I was awake.<br>I said, \u201cI know you\u2019ve been waiting for me.\u201d<br>That somber expression settled back on him and his hand went back to the pool<br>wall, trapping me in again.<br>\u201cI\u2019ll never forget what they did to her, what he did to her, but I wasn\u2019t myself. You<br>gave me that time. You knew I would come back to me and I did. I\u2019m here. Me. And I\u2019m<br>ready for the next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hunger licked my insides, lighting that fire again.<br>It grew, jumping up, and it was engulfing me.<br>I sunk down on Kash\u2019s legs, and the higher that blaze built in me, the more I<br>wanted him. But I wanted more.<br>I wanted blood.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_BTFB-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_BTFB-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_BTFB-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_BTFB-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_BTFB-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_BTFB-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TR_BTFB.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"136\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/download-136x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-620\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Tijan is a New York Times Bestselling author that writes suspenseful and unpredictable novels. Her characters are strong, intense, and gut-wrenchingly real with a little bit of sass on the side. Tijan began writing later in life and once she started, she was hooked. She\u2019s written multi-bestsellers including the Carter Reed Series, the Fallen Crest Series, and the Broken and Screwed Series among others. She is currently writing a new series from north Minnesota where she lives with an English Cocker she adores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3xweqP8\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vreAub\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vreAub\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vreAub\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vreAub\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vreAub\" target=\"_blank\">Reader Group<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vreAub\" target=\"_blank\">Audiomen Group<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week my blog feature is to be part of Tijan&#8217;s blog tour for her new release, The Revenge. 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