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.\n\nHayden 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 defenses one visit at a time, and what starts as unwanted attention turns into the one thing Tenley didn't think she wanted anymore: a reason to open back up.\n\nHelena 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.