Better When He's Brave (Welcome to the Point, #3) by Jay Crownover Also by this author: Jet, Rome, Nash, Better When He's Bad, Rowdy, Better When He's Bold, Asa
Series: Welcome to the Point #3
Also in this series: Better When He's Bad, Better When He's Bold
Published by William Morrow Paperbacks on August 11th 2015
Pages: 352
ISBN: 0062385925
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In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover’s third novel in her sexy, thrilling Welcome to the Point series, a woman’s search for repentance leads her to the one man from her past she can’t forget as they join forces to save their city—and the explosive love neither can live without.
Titus King has always seen his world in black and white. There is a firm right and wrong in his mind, which is why as a teenager he left behind the only family he’d ever known to make a better life for himself. Now a police detective in one of the worst cities in the country, he can’t deny his life has turned into a million different shades of gray.
The new criminal element in The Point has brought vengeance and destruction right to Titus’s front door, and walking the straight and narrow seems far less important now. The difference between right and wrong is nothing compared to keeping those he loves alive. To add to his already strained moral compass, the beautiful and mysterious Reeve Black has made her way back to town. This girl might be as dangerous to Titus as the guy trying to destroy the Point but he can’t walk away because he needs her—in more ways than one.
Reeve knows all about the threat trying to destroy The Point. She knows how ruthless, how vicious, and how cruel this new danger can be… and instead of running away, she wants to help. Reeve knows that she has a lot to repent for and saving the city, plus the hot cop that she hasn’t been able to forget might just be the only way she can finally find some inner peace.
With an entire city poised on the brink of war, Titus and Reeve stand in the crossfire—and it will take two brave souls to fight for the ultimate love.
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Yesi’s Thoughts
The wait for the #HotCop is finally over! Titus King has been an enigma from the very first Welcome to the Point
“The cop and the sexy criminal with a heart of gold.”
What I really liked about this latest book in the series was the dynamics between Titus and Reeve. He was the good cop trying to save a crime ridden city and she was the girl who we all hated in the previous books because she made some awful choices. Here though, she was really trying to right all of her wrongs and I think Titus was the perfect man to help her in her quest for atonement. I enjoyed their struggle to find each other, to give in to their undeniable attraction, and to finally realize they couldn’t be more perfect for each other. So while their heated relationship was building, all that bad stuff just kept on happening at Point. All of the previous players in the series have significant roles… Bax, Dovie, Race, Brysen, and even Booker, Nassir, Karsen, and Keelyn aka Honor. It was interesting to see how their roles shifted in this one. And while I enjoyed the story, and I really did love Titus, I wasn’t as invested in crime that continues to plague the Point. Don’t get me wrong, the story is as compelling as ever but I honestly just wanted more of Reeve and Titus… that’s the romantic in me.
“Love can really look strange in the Point. In fact, if you aren’t paying attention you might miss it altogether because it doesn’t look like love at all.”
Bottom line is Better When He’s Brave
Excerpt
The car finally skidded to a stop in a shower of gravel and dust. The headlights illuminated the drop-off in front of us. The moon was high in the sky, forcing its way through smog and clouds to shine silver. It was the same color as Titus’s eyes when he was turned on, when he was buried deep inside of me.
“I haven’t had my parents in my life for a long time, so I shouldn’t feel like I lost them. But I do.”
“I felt that way when I locked Bax up. I knew he wouldn’t understand that I had to do my job, and when he got out, the first time I saw him he punched me in the face. He hated me.” He turned off the car and reached out a finger to twist a piece of my long hair around it.
“Don’t let Roark win. Once everything is settled, go back to them and make them understand.”
I turned to look at him. He was fierce in the shadowy light. He was what heroes were supposed to look like no matter the path he had taken to become one.
“I don’t even know if I understand. At the time it felt like my only choice. Now I’m not so sure.” I leaned across the space separating us and brushed my knuckles across his still-bristly cheek. He was almost in full beard mode and it looked so good on him. “Lately the only thing I understand is you, Titus.”
He lifted one of his dark eyebrows at me and asked, “What is it that you understand about me, Reeve?”
“That you make everything better. You make me better, and I might never be good enough for you, but you make me feel like I can get close.”
One of his hands slid down to my wrist and the next thing I knew he was guiding me over the console and the emergency brake so that I was straddled across him with my back to the steering wheel. I hadn’t been in a car like this with a boy since I was a teenager. I kind of liked it. More than kind of.
“You make everything better too, Reeve, and there is no good enough because this with you is the best there has ever been.” And then his mouth was on mine and I didn’t get a chance to tell him we had left this behind and were now firmly venturing into more. Knowing that Titus was flawed, that he had made some questionable choices on his road to becoming the man he was today, made me love him even more. Where he was from was even uglier than where I was from, and that was beautiful to me. So was the way he was pulling on my clothes and kissing me along my throat.
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About Jay Crownover
Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men and The Point series. Like her characters, she is a big fan of tattoos. She loves music and wishes she could be a rock star, but since she has no aptitude for singing or instrument playing, she’ll settle for writing stories with interesting characters that make the reader feel something. She lives in Colorado with her three dogs.
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My favorite Welcome to the Point love interest is Bax.
I’m with you on that one… LOVE Bax! He’ll be tough to beat if it ever happens. <3
I’m definitely a Bax girl!
There was just something so special about him! Bax for the win! 😀
No favorite yet.
They’ve all been so spectacular! But I can’t wait to read Nassir and Keelyn’s.
His convictions lead him to right all the wrongs on his beat and continue to do so even when it seems a waste because crime never ends and bad guys never stop terrorizing the innocent. But the reason Titus sacrifices himself to keep the Point as safe as it can be is because he’s a product of it. He knows what it feels like to struggle, to be selfish, and to make necessary choices in order to make life better.