Clipped Wings
Tenley Page has moved to a new city for grad school, working at a small bookstore and keeping the world carefully at arm's length after losing her fiancé and both parents. Directly across the street is Inked Armor, the tattoo shop run by Hayden Stryker: tattooed, charming, and immediately, stubbornly interested in the guarded new bookstore girl.
Hayden isn't used to being told no, and Tenley isn't ready to let anyone close enough to get hurt again. But his persistence chips away at her defences one visit at a time, and what starts as unwanted attention turns into the one thing Tenley didn't think she wanted any more: a reason to open back up.
Helena Hunting's Clipped Wings is the first half of a duet with Inked Armor, which retells the same story from Hayden's point of view and carries it forward. An emotional, explicit new adult romance about two broken people learning to heal together.
A graduate student and bookstore employee starting over in a new city, guarded by grief from her past.
A tattoo artist at Inked Armor, the shop across from Tenley's bookstore, who pursues her despite her guardedness.
Clipped Wings is the first book in Helena Hunting's two-book Clipped Wings series, paired with the companion novel Inked Armor, which retells events from Hayden's point of view and continues the story. Several related novellas are also set in the same world.
Clipped Wings is a new adult romance with explicit, on-page sexual content between its two leads, alongside its emotional, angst-driven storyline.