True power is being the last one in the room who hasn t lost control On the run from her abusive husband Kate is learning how to rule the room and navigate her freedom from an unlikely source a hustler and errand boy for a professional mistress His name is Jay but nobody cares As a man he s invisible As Blue Jeans he s a legend on the streets of NYC where he spent nearly half his life Survival mode helped him master the art of using denial detachment and distractions like duct tape to conceal open wounds While his resilience is admirable he s running out of duct tape Then Kate enters his life Perched at the edge of a rabbit hole looking for an exit from the miserable person she has become Kate leaps into Blue s bizarre world where their developing relationship is the only stable ground He manages to coax out the girl Kate was before marriage erased her self respect In turn she sees Jay for who he really is an affable stray who s generous with hugs and intimate sport Though both of them are broken neither is beyond repair If they can find a way to escape their pasts they have a real chance at a happy future together But this kind of change is expensive There s always the last resort a dangerous plan that could lead to freedom or disaster but Jay is against it Like all lovers in opposition they need to decide whether to make two sacrifices or one compromise While Kate is determined to do whatever it takes to become the hero of her own story losing her beloved Jay might be the price she pays What to expect At its core KBJSS is a real love story that will reach into your soul and pull out the essence of love s transformative power What to know Considering the subject matter there are multiple triggers At best no animals are harmed in this book It s about s3x workers forchrissake and yes his name is taken in vain multiple times adult language adult situations descriptive intercourse mentions of extreme traumatic childhood experiences involving siblings mentions of adult men taking advantage of a homeless kid 3 separate mentions and attempts to unalive one s self one successful a descriptive dream involving two men and oral s3x Violence spousal r pe bis3xuality redrum of a woman in the first trimester a realistic stint in a psychiatric hospital DV MH NSFW Kate Blue Jeans and a Single Shotfound this author on Facebook and when I read the blurb I knew it was a must read Her writing style is top notch I like all the trigger warnings so the story line of the main male character had me hooked The same with the main female character Jay didn t have the best childhood and did what he had to do in order to survive Kate married the wrong man and chose to runaway However the way Kate and jay meet is cute The obstacles they face is along their journey is remarkable they even make it What I would do to read this book for the first time again Kate Blue Jeans and a Single Shot

Kate, Blue Jeans, and a Single Shot By Sangay Glass

English

355

Kindle Edition

Sangay Glass is a former psychiatric nurse living wild in the Adirondacks She got her start writing inspirational true stories and moved along to fictionalized versions of the truth: She wrote The Secret Lives of Geeks Nothing to Fear Here and has published works in Hurrah Magazine Chicken Soup for the Soul National Parks Magazine..