Walk the Edge Tour: Excerpt + Giveaway

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Walk the Edge (Thunder Road #2) 
One moment of recklessness will change their worlds.

Smart. Responsible. That's seventeen-year-old Breanna's role in her large family, and heaven forbid she put a toe out of line. Until one night of shockingly un-Breanna-like behavior puts her into a vicious cyber-bully's line of fire—and brings fellow senior Thomas "Razor" Turner into her life.

Razor lives for the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, and good girls like Breanna just don't belong. But when he learns she's being blackmailed over a compromising picture of the two of them—a picture that turns one unexpected and beautiful moment into ugliness—he knows it's time to step outside the rules.

And so they make a pact: he'll help her track down her blackmailer, and in return she'll help him seek answers to the mystery that's haunted him—one that not even his club brothers have been willing to discuss. But the more time they spend together, the more their feelings grow. And suddenly they're both walking the edge of discovering who they really are, what they want, and where they're going from here.



Author Bio:
Katie McGarry was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.
Katie is the author of full length YA novels, PUSHING THE LIMITS, DARE YOU TO, CRASH INTO YOU, TAKE ME ON, BREAKING THE RULES, and NOWHERE BUT HERE and the e-novellas, CROSSING THE LINE and RED AT NIGHT. Her debut YA novel, PUSHING THE LIMITS was a 2012 Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction, a RT Magazine's 2012 Reviewer's Choice Awards Nominee for Young Adult Contemporary Novel, a double Rita Finalist, and a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Teen Pick. DARE YOU TO was also a Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction and won RT Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Best Book Award for Young Adult Contemporary fiction in 2013.



Excerpt:
School starts in a few days and tonight is senior orientation. My parents are currently in a meeting with my guidance counselor while I’m being propositioned. 
Propositioned. My lips tilt up sarcastically. 
My goal for this evening was to be noticed. Guess I succeeded. I was noticed, but not for my new choices in clothing, hair style, or because I dumped my glasses for contacts. Nope, I was hunted for my brain. All exciting and swoon worthy romance novels start off this way, right? 
Kyle misreads my body language and his dark eyes brighten. “So you’ll write my English papers for the year?” 
Fifty dollars per paper-that’s his offer. Standing in my sister’s second generation hand-me-downs of a sleeveless blue blouse, shorter-than-I’ve-ever-worn jean skirt and platform sandals causes me to consider his proposal if only for the course of a heartbeat. I’m the middle of nine children and, I’ll admit, new and shiny gains my attention, but this…this is wrong. 
“Do you know this is the first time you’ve spoken to me?” I say. 
He laughs like I told a joke, but I’m not kidding. Snowflake, Kentucky is a small town and everyone tends to know everyone else, but just because we breathe the same air doesn’t mean we communicate, or act like everyone else exists. 
“That’s not true,” he retorts. “We sat at the same table in fourth grade.” 
I incline my head to the side in a mock why-didn’t-I-remember-that-bonding-moment? “My, how time flies.” 
He chuckles then scratches the back of his head causing his styled hair to curl out to the side. “You’re funny. I didn’t know that. Look, it’s not my fault you’re quiet.” 
Kyle’s right. It isn’t his fault I became socially withdrawn. That blame falls solely on me. It’s a decision I made in seventh grade when I was publicly crucified. 
Blending into paint for the past couple of years has kept me safe, but it creates the sensation of suffocation. Everyone says the same thing: Breanna’s smart, she’s quiet. On the inside, I’m not at all quiet. Most of the time, I’m screaming. “I’m not writing your papers.” 
Kyle’s smile that had suggested he had a done deal morphs into a frown and acid sloshes in my stomach. Denying Kyle isn’t what bothers me as much as it worries me what he’ll mention to his friends. They’re the reason why I went voluntarily mute in seventh grade. 
Heat races up my neck as the repercussions of refusing sets in, but I don’t even consider agreeing. Cheating is not my style. 
Kyle surveys the hallway and, it it’s privacy he’s searching for, he’ll be sorely disappointed. He slides closer and a strange edginess causes me to step back, but Kyle follows. “Fine. One hundred dollars per paper.” 
“No.” 
“You don’t understand. My grades have to improve.” Easygoing Kyle disappears and desperation is hardly attractive. 
I steal a peek into the school’s main office, hoping my guidance counselor will beckon me in. Half of me hopes she’ll have life altering news for me, the other half hopes to end this insane conversation. “What you’re asking for is crazy.” 
“No, it’s not.” 
In an answer to the one million prayers being chanted in my head, my guidance counselor opens her door. “Breanna.” 
Kyle leans into me. “This conversation isn’t over.”

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Tour Schedule:

March 21st
Grownup Fangirl – Excerpt
Book Sniffers Anonymous – Review
Broc's Bookcase – Review
BookWorm221 – Review & Excerpt
Take Me Away To A Great Read – Review & Excerpt
Dark Faerie Tales – Review
Lost in Literature – Review & Excerpt
Always YA at Heart – Review & Excerpt
The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club – Excerpt


March 22nd
Book Boyfriend Reviews – Excerpt
Letter shelves blog – Review & Excerpt
Oh My Shelves – Excerpt
SnoopyDoo's Book Reviews – Excerpt
Milky Way of Books – Review & Excerpt
Mary Had a Little Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Tween 2 Teen Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt


March 23rd
A girl and her books – Review
Eye in Bookland – Review
Under the Covers – Review & Excerpt
the bookdragon – Review & Excerpt
Lost in a Book Blog – Excerpt
Cesya MaRae Cuono, Author – Excerpt
Emilie's Book World – Review & Excerpt
No BS Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt


March 24th
Angel Reads – Review
Ineffable Book Blog – Review
LucyLicious Reads – Excerpt
YA Book Divas – Excerpt
Movies, Shows & Books – Excerpt
Peace Love Books – Excerpt
BookCrushin – Review & Excerpt


March 25th
So Bookalicious – Review & Excerpt
LuLo Fangirl – Excerpt
Little Read Riding Hood – Review & Excerpt
Gabic Reads – Excerpt
2 Greek Girls Reading – Excerpt
Chasing Faerytales – Review
Eat, Sleep, and Read – Review
HotPressedBooks – Review & Excerpt


March 26th
Margie's Must Reads – Review & Excerpt
Girl Plus Books – Review & Excerpt
Short and Sassy Book Blurbs – Review & Excerpt
A Dream Within A Dream – Excerpt
The Consummate Reader – Review & Excerpt
Curled Up and Cozy – Review & Excerpt
Becky on Books – Review & Excerpt
Brittany's Book Blog – Excerpt


March 27th
Beauté De Livres – Review
Lita's Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Oh My Growing TBR – Review & Excerpt
Rachel's Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt
Have Words Will Scribble – Review & Excerpt
Cocktails and Books – Review & Excerpt
Library Linsey's Teen Books & Baubles – Review & Excerpt
Alpha Queen's Book Obsession – Excerpt


March 28th
Never Judge a Book by its Cover – Review
Lazy Book Lovers – Review & Excerpt
Kindle and Me – Review & Excerpt
Crazii Bitches Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
TSK TSK What to Read – Review & Excerpt
PopKitty Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt
Confessions of a Bookfreak – Review & Excerpt
Bows & Bullets Reviews – Review & Excerpt


March 29th
The Book Hammock – Review & Excerpt
Best Book Boyfriends – Review & Excerpt
Defiantly Deviant – Review
Desert Divas Book Addiction – Review & Excerpt
The Heart of a Book Blogger – Review
Bookworm Misfit – Review & Excerpt
Bookaholics Anonymous – Review & Excerpt
Lady Amber's Reviews – Excerpt


March 30th
Pages to Explore – Review & Excerpt
The Butterfly reads – Review
Naomi’s Reading Palace – Review
Book Angel Booktopia – Review & Excerpt
Bridget's Book Bungalow – Review & Excerpt
Nerdy Soul – Review & Excerpt
Once Upon a Twilight – Excerpt
True Story Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
behind Closed Covers – Review & Excerpt


March 31st
Coffee&Books – Excerpt
A Book Lovers Playlist – Review & Excerpt
I Heart YA Books – Review & Excerpt
Sanaa's Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
21st Century Once Upon A Times – Review
Avid Reader Musings – Excerpt
RhiReading – Review & Excerpt
Feed Your Fiction Addiction – Review


April 1st
Crawling Over the Pages – Excerpt
This Literary Life – Review & Excerpt
Buttermybooks – Review
A crazy vermonters book reviews – Review
The Phantom Paragrapher – Review
A Pair of Okies – Excerpt
Shelf_life – Review & Excerpt
PBC – Excerpt


April 2nd
BooksChatter – Excerpt
For the Love of Books and Alochol – Review & Excerpt
Book Bitches Blog – Review & Excerpt
The Cover Contessa – Review & Excerpt
Aaly and The Books – Review & Excerpt
Book Butterfly in Dreamland – Review & Excerpt
BOOKS&LOVERS – Review & Excerpt
Greyland Reviews – Excerpt

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