Title: When I Say Yes
Series: Necklace Trilogy #3
Author: Lisa Renee Jones
Release Date: January 25, 2022
ABOUT WHEN I SAY YES
I believe that there is one person in this world that can both break us and make us whole. One person who can love us more than life can hurt us. With this comes deep, intense passion, and a burning connection. But in turn, that person can destroy us, cut us, make us bleed in ways no other ever could. They have power over us.
For me, that one person is Dash Black.
He walked into my life in a rush of sunshine, in the darkness of heartache and uncertainty. We were broken apart, and whole together. He healed me. I believed I did the same for him. Until the past became the present, and every moment of suffering in his life consumed him. Instead of seeking refuge in me, he pushed me away. As the famous quote from an unknown author says, “If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it’s yours; if it doesn’t, it never was.”
I’ve set Dash Black free. Now, I wait.
When I Say Yes is the third and final book in the Necklace Trilogy.
EXCERPT
Dash carries me to the bedroom and lowers me to my feet at the end of the mattress. I reach for him, and I can feel his need to feel my hands on his body, but instead of caving to that burn, he catches my wrists again. “Not until I say you can touch me.”
Defiance rips through my body and my chin tilts. “And if I touch you anyway?”
“Then you won’t feel my hand on your ass, baby. Or anywhere else.” He drags me closer, aligning our bodies. “You know what I want. Tell me. What do I want, Allie?”
“Control,” I say without hesitation, but there’s a hint of vulnerability in my voice that I cannot tame. Just as I know I will never tame Dash. And the thing is—I don’t want to. In fact, I want the opposite. I want him unleashed. I want him wild and free.
“Are you going to give it to me?” he presses. “Can you trust me that much, Allie?”
Trust.
That’s the monster that torments each of us in our own minds and yet, we want it from each other, we demand it be given blindly, irrationally perhaps, but it doesn’t seem to matter. So much about how Dash and I approach each other is irrational and yet somehow, we make sense. And so I say, “I already do.”
He turns me to face the bed, one hand cupping the side of my neck under my hair, the other on my waist, his hard body at my back. Dash leans in close and says, “I can be demanding, Allie.”
My mind flashes to the night of our fight back in Nashville, when my hands had been pressed to the front door of our apartment, his hand on my throat, him behind me, thrusting into me. “I know,” I whisper, my skin flushing with the memory and because it’s the truth, now I dare add, “I like it.”
“Do you?” he challenges.
“Beyond reason,” I whisper.
His fingers flex on my neck, seconds ticking by before he replies with, “I used to think I wanted to scare you off, Allie.”
“And now?”
“Now, I pray I can’t.” His teeth scrape my shoulder, rasping roughly.
I suck in a breath at the rough, erotic nip that borders on a bite. He cups my jaw and drags my head back to his shoulder, just enough to angle my mouth to his and lower his to mine. “But that doesn’t mean I won’t try,” he adds. “Nice guys are gentle, Allie. You need to know that I’m not a nice guy.”
“If I’d wanted nice, I would have walked away before we ever started calling me cupcake which was almost the moment I met you, Dash.”
It’s a joke about the nickname I’ve earned with him, but he doesn’t laugh or smile. He brushes his lips over my lips. “You taste like you don’t know what you’re asking for.”
“And you taste like you talk too much, Dash Black.”
He lingers there a moment, his breath rushing over my lips with a promise of a kiss that doesn’t come. Instead, he says, “No more talking. Knees on the mattress, baby.”
BINGE READ THE SERIES
WHAT IF I NEVER (book one)
BECAUSE I CAN (book two)
WHEN I SAY YES (book three)
The conclusion to Allie and Dash’s trilogy. Yes, you need to read books 1 & 2, hence why it’s called a trilogy, in order for this book to make sense. You need to meet Allison and Dash and what they’ve gone through that has taken them this far. Don’t read further if you haven’t read books 1 & 2.
We finally get to know who the other Allison is and how she fits into this story. Her and Allie are definitely different, besides having the same name and kinda looking like each other.
This story, well really the whole trilogy, was a 3-day read for me. I think I started and finished a book before bed each night – which lead to some long nights. But this was definitely worth it. In reading this story, we learned more about Dash, the other Allison, Tyler and Dash’s big blowup and why they aren’t “friends” any longer. Although I’d probably call them frenemies, of a sort.
Long story short, all 3 books are out, there’s no reason for you NOT to start and finish this trilogy!
5 stars!!
𝑲𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓’𝒔 𝑳𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒁𝒆𝒓𝒐 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅, 𝑳𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒁𝒆𝒓𝒐 (𝑳𝑻𝒁), 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒆, 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒆, 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆, 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆. 𝑬𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆. 𝑰𝒏 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝑲𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄-𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝑳𝑻𝒁 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆.
𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦
When circumstances throw them together eight years after breaking up, the fireworks are explosive, but their hearts are fragile.
𝘾𝙖𝙣 𝙏𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙕𝙤𝙚𝙮 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙀𝙉𝘿𝙇𝙀𝙎𝙎?
𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦
As their lives orbit on different courses, gravity always seems to pull them back together…
Unless a blast from the past blows their chance to smithereens.
𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙅𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙭 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙇𝙄𝙈𝙄𝙏𝙇𝙀𝙎𝙎?
𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦
When your future has been tainted by innocence lost, learning to trust is an uphill battle.
𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙧 & 𝙍𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙞, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙁𝙀𝘼𝙍𝙇𝙀𝙎𝙎.
𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦
When a rash decision changes their lives forever, hope for their future is all but shattered.
Stakes are high.
𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙕𝙖𝙣𝙚’𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀𝙇𝙀𝙎𝙎.
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼.
Kaylene Winter wrote her first Rock Star Romance novel at age 15 starring a fictionalized version of herself, her friends and their gorgeous rocker boyfriends. After living her own rockstar life as a band manager, music promoter and mover and shaker in Seattle during the early 1990’s, Kaylene became a digital media legal strategist helping bring movies, television and music online. Throughout her busy career, Kaylene lost herself in romance novels across all genres inspiring her to realize her life-long dream to write creatively.
She lives in Seattle with her amazing husband and Siberian Husky. She loves to travel, throw dinner parties and support charitable causes supporting arts and animals.
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