Thursday, March 8, 2018

White Knight

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White Knight an all-new romantic standalone from New York Times bestselling author CD Reiss is available NOW!


Catherine's long-lost love is found.

Catherine Barrington is a rich girl. Chris Cartwright is a poor boy.

He left her to make something of himself. A man she could be proud of. A man she could bring home to her parents. A man she could marry.

On the trading floor he became the man he knew he could be. Now, it’s time to return.

Rich girl.

Poor boy.

She didn’t care about his money, but he didn’t believe her. Soon after he left, all the money was gone.

Her life is hell.

Now he’s back, and he’s different. Pristine. Gorgeous. Rich.

Rich boy.

Poor girl.

Money was never the barrier, until now.

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White Knight is a standalone in the same world as King of Code, with its own beginning, middle, and end. You don't need to read anything else to read White Knight.


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Excerpt:

I crossed the train tracks, looking both ways as if the freight ran on a thoroughfare. It was a few steps to the rows of mobile homes that defined that side of Barrington. The playground was in a little clearing just west of the center of the trailers. My fingertips were cold, but the rest of my body thrummed and pulsed so hard that I made my own heat. I told myself I didn’t know what to expect from this meeting, but if I didn’t know what to expect, I knew what to hope, and they were pretty much the same thing. “Catherine!” Chris wasn’t loud, but the excitement in his voice made him sound as if he were shouting. “Chris?” I spun around, looking for him in the darkness. And on a three-quarter turn, he crashed into me, all lips and hands, digging his fingertips into the muscles of my back as he pulled me close. I tasted the minty toothpaste in his mouth and thought he brushed his teeth for me. He kissed me as if he would never kiss me again. He kissed me as if this was the last kiss he would ever have in his life. As if he wanted to eat me alive. I’d given over my freedom and my choice to this thing with him, to this moment, to this stupid set of choices that would ruin me forever. As surely as the sun would rise, I was the designer of my own destruction. I wanted to be destroyed by that kiss. When Chris took my hand, I imagined I could feel the blood pulsing through the veins, the cells in his skin. I imagined that when my nerve endings vibrated at his touch, they connected to his somehow. Everything felt new. I was discovering that my body had routes between one place and another that I never knew existed. I never knew that when a man touched my hand or kissed my nipples, I could feel it between my legs. There was a click behind the tree line, and he stopped kissing me with a jerk. We froze long enough for him to smile. 



White Knight follows one time teenage sweethearts, Catherine and Chris, ten years after they last saw each other. They first met when Catherine was the rich girl at the country club and Chris was just a lowly worker most ignored. When their lives bring them together again, though, Chris is now wealthy with a name everyone knows in New York, and Catherine is still in the small town, selling off her family's possessions for money.

I honestly don't know what to say about this book because I'm just so conflicted over it. I liked everything in parts; when we got Catherine and Chris' past, I enjoyed it, and same for when we saw them together in the present. But how it all came together was a little frustrating. I'm not a fan of past and present back and forth chapters and there were a lot of parts set in the past being shoved into this story. I felt like I never got time to connect to the characters before the book would jump forward or back.

I ended up liking the past a lot more also because the present was moving so much faster. In the end I barely remembered anything happening in the present between Chris coming back and Catherine falling into his arms again. And then the ending just felt very abrupt to me and I was frankly a little annoyed that near the end a lot of things weren't being shown in detail and instead were just mentioned.

Overall, I did enjoy the story of Catherine and Chris, and how they found each other again after they were pushed apart. Even though I had issues with the story I would definitely still recommend it. I think it was really well written and the only thing that kept me from loving it was my own hate for past/present books.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CD Reiss is a New York Times bestseller. She still has to chop wood and carry water, which was buried in the fine print. Her lawyer is working it out with God but in the meantime, if you call and she doesn't pick up she's at the well hauling buckets. Born in New York City, she moved to Hollywood, California to get her master's degree in screenwriting from USC. In case you want to know, that went nowhere but it did give her a big enough ego to write novels. She's frequently referred to as the Shakespeare of Smut which is flattering but hasn't ever gotten her out of chopping that cord of wood. If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine.

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