Jet. Jay Crownover

      

      JET

      Jay Crownover

       Copyright

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain by Harper 2013

      Copyright © Jennifer M Voorhees 2013

      Cover photograph © Getty Images

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2014

      Jennifer M Voorhees asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      Source ISBN: 9780062302410

      Ebook Edition © June 2013 ISBN: 9780007536306

      Version: 2014-06-30

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Contents

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Ayden

       Jet

       Prologue

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Epilogue

       Jet’s Playlist

       Jet’s Playlist for Ayden

       Ayden’s Playlist

       Acknowledgments

       Keep reading for more from Jay Crownover

       About the Author

       Also by Jay Crownover

       About the Publisher

       Ayden

      Jet Keller was all kinds of temptation wrapped up in too-tight pants and with too many personal demons hidden in those dark, golden-rimmed eyes. He was every girl’s rock-and-roll fantasy, with an edge that made him just sharp enough to be hard to handle. And boy, oh boy, did I want to handle him in every way possible.

      The trouble was that I was supposed to be making better decisions and walking a clean and much narrower path now. There could be no stops for the kind of things Jet inspired along the way, and no detours for the spontaneous combustion he brought with him. Unfortunately—or fortunately, depending on who was looking at the situation—it was a two-against-one battle, with my brain coming up short and my body and heart repeatedly overruling my better judgment.

       Jet

      Ayden Cross was a puzzle that, every time I thought I was close to solving, proved to have five extra pieces and no corners. For a long time, I thought she was a Southern belle, complete with mile-long legs in cowboy boots, but then she would turn around and do something that knocked me on my ass.

      I had the feeling I didn’t know the real Ayden at all. I would gladly spend the time it took to unravel it all, to undo her in every way I could. But I knew firsthand what happened when two people who had opposite ideas of what a relationship should be tried to force it to work. I wasn’t up for that, even if she made all the parts of me that scorched and blazed manageable in a way no one else ever had.

      So It Begins

      Ayden

      It was totally against everything I was supposed to be doing in my new life—to ask a really cute boy in a band to take me home. There were