BREAKING A LEGEND
Kavanagh Legends #1
Sarah Robinson
Released Sept 29th, 2015
Loveswept
Perfect for fans of Katy Evans and
Monica Murphy, Sarah Robinson’s blistering-hot series debut introduces the
Kavanagh brothers—mixed martial arts fighters who work hard, play hard, and
love with all their hearts.
As one of the big names at his
family’s gym, Legends, MMA star Rory Kavanagh is used to being in the
spotlight—until a gruesome leg injury knocks him out of the cage. Rory is left
feeling sidelined in more ways than one, battling the inner demons that come
with losing the one shot at his dreams. Then Clare walks into his life and
gives him a new dream: winning her heart. There aren’t many new faces in
Woodlawn these days, but this tough, beautiful stranger makes Rory want to get
his life back into fighting shape.
Clare Ivers doesn’t think she’ll be
able to tell anyone what really brought her to the close-knit Bronx
neighborhood where she just started bartending. But her life’s on pause and her
past is catching up fast, try as she might to move on—with new friends, steady
work, and a chiseled alpha male trying to get her attention. Even though Rory’s
more than a little intense, she can’t deny that her heart beats faster when he
looks at her with those soulful silver eyes. Clare thought she was done with
love, but Rory might just be man enough to show her she thought wrong.
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Rory felt his jaw drop slightly as he
watched her, his interest piqued. He wasn’t normally one to let a girl walk
away without snagging her phone number, but something about her told him that
she wasn’t the type to give that away so easily.
“Already hitting the latest talent?” Quinn
came up beside his older brother and handed him a beer.
“Fuck off, Quinn,” Rory ribbed, surprised
at how light he felt at the moment. It had been some time since he had laughed
at all, he realized, as he downed the beer Quinn gave him.
A third brother, Kane, appeared behind
Quinn a few seconds later, nodding at Rory. No one would know those three were
related if it wasn’t for the famous Kavanagh name.
Quinn was the odd man out in the group of
brothers, with his straight black hair, clean-shaven face, and snakelike black
eyes. Quinn had even added to his differences by covering his arms and chest
with tattoos that peeked out from under his sleeves and shirt collar, along
with piercings on both ears and several other places.
“You coming to Ma’s tomorrow?” Kane asked
Rory, leaning his back against the bar.
His body was turned to face Rory, but he
was obviously scoping out the bar as his dark blue eyes peered around the room.
Rory followed Kane’s stare, noticing more than a few heads turned in their
direction. He didn’t bother rushing to answer his brother, since Kane’s
attention was clearly elsewhere.
The Kavanagh brothers were well known in
the Bronx, especially Woodlawn, but even if they weren’t, the group of athletic
men was hard not to stare at. Several women on the other side of the bar were
giggling, batting eyelashes, and attempting flirty glances as they openly
gawked at the three men.
Rory knew Kane was a notorious ladies’ man;
he watched him smile eagerly at a woman passing by. Everyone had always told
him that Kane resembled Rory the most out of all the Kavanagh brothers, which
was ironic since Kane was one in a set of twins. Rory wasn’t as close to Kane’s
twin, Kieran, who was currently serving time in prison. They had had a
falling-out before Kieran landed up in jail and not gotten around to resolving
things between them yet.
Considering their similar dark brown hair,
scruffy beards, and muscular build, the biggest difference Rory could see
between himself and Kane, aside from their eye color, was that Rory liked to
let his hair grow to chin length, leaving the wavy locks down to frame his
face. He liked his longer style versus Kane’s short hair, and most of the women
he found himself around seemed to share that opinion.
One woman had even told him he appeared
medieval, as if he could be her knight in shining armor. That was a comparison
that still eluded him, since his refusal to settle down or be in any type of
serious relationship usually had women calling him much different things, none
of them very pleasant.
Pulling back his attention to his brothers,
Rory purposefully stayed noncommittal, though he knew Sundays at the Kavanagh
house really weren’t optional. Not if their mother had anything to say about
it.
“What about Monday, coming to Legends?”
Quinn asked, nodding suggestively at one of the women watching them, as he
referred to the MMA club and gym that the Kavanagh family owned a few blocks
over.
“I can’t start training yet.” Rory pushed
his hand through his hair, wanting to avoid the topic.
He was suddenly feeling a lot more sober
than he liked, wanting his brothers to leave so he could slip a few more pills
out of his pocket undetected. The numbing feeling they had brought earlier was
already wearing off.
“It’s been over a year since the fight,
man. The hell you can’t train—you’re Rory ‘Knockout’ Kavanagh, best MMA fighter
in New York!” Quinn said sarcastically and slightly louder than was necessary.
“New York? Try the entire nation, Quinn,”
Kane added, a swell of pride in his voice as he beamed at Rory.
“Was, guys. Past tense.” Rory spoke through
gritted teeth as his hand touched his own knee, feeling the thick scars through
the fabric of his pants, gruesome evidence of the injury that had ended his
mixed martial arts career. The bottle of pills was now burning a hole in his
pocket as he thought about how badly he wanted some relief.
“Maybe
it would be present tense if you didn’t reek of booze all the damn time,” Kane
said, daring him to counter the statement. Rory took a slow, deep breath to
calm himself. He loved his brothers, but he didn’t need their pity
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Sarah Robinson is the bestselling
author of The Photographer Trilogy and the Sand & Clay rock star series. A
native of Washington, D.C., Robinson has both her bachelor’s and master’s
degrees in criminal psychology. She is married to a local police officer who is
just as much of an animal rescue enthusiast as she is. Together, they own a zoo
of rescue and foster animals.
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