Hello and Welcome All!

Today I’m very lucky to be interviewing Hannah Jordan author of For You I’d Break.

Hi Hannah, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Please share a few Fun facts about yourself:

My husband and I started dating when we were both eighteen, and I knew I would marry him after a month (I kept it to myself but I knew). I’m neuro-spicy and have ample quirks. I grew up in southern Appalachia and now live in the Philadelphia suburbs, so I feel like I have a pretty unique perspective of both places. I also confused the heck out of people with my half-southern, half-northern accent.

Who are your favorite authors? Why?

I love Jane Austen. It should have been my first clue during my literary fiction phase that I might be in the wrong genre. Austen’s writing is masterful and I will die on that hill, but when it comes right down to it, she wrote romances. Exceptional romances, but romances.

The list of current authors I admire (and read every chance I get) is long, but includes writers in different subgenres. I’ll read an LJ Shen novel one week, a Pippa Grant another, and an Amy Harmon the following. One writes fairly dark romance, one writes romantic comedies, and one writes historical romance. I love them all!

What types of scenes are your most favorite to write?

I love all the supporting characters in this book (who become main characters in later books in the series), so anytime I have them all together interacting was a blast to write. I felt like I was dropping Easter eggs left and right. Plus, I absolutely love writing dialogue because, unlike most authors, I hear my characters rather than see them.

Please share a few Fun facts about the book:

The book began as a dare, specifically a challenge to write a romance in one month. I confessed to a writer friend that I’d always wanted to write a romance novel, a very different genre from my usual work. She had a partial draft of a paranormal romance she wanted to finish, so we dragged our third friend along for the ride. And just to be clear, the book went through over a year of revisions and rewrites, but the first draft came together in January 2023. I expected to be very busy that month. I didn’t expect to love every minute of it. I fell in love with the characters, the story, and the thrill of writing something I couldn’t wait to read myself. In short, I was hooked.

Another fun fact: Peace Falls is loosely based on my hometown in Virginia. Every time I write feels like going home.

Without revealing too much, what is your favorite scene in the book?

During the “everything falls apart” portion of the novel, there’s a scene between Rowan and her mother, Rose, I absolutely love. (I know, my favorite scene should probably be between Cal and Rowan, but I can’t help it). It’s one of those beautiful moments that can happen between an adult child and their parent. Rose respects the woman Rowan has become, but she knows her daughter’s weakness and, therefore, exactly what Rowan needs at her lowest point. Rowan is a people pleaser, so Rose basically tricks her daughter into staying alone at a beautiful resort while she thinks about what she wants next in life without everyone telling her what they want her to do. I have a wonderful mom, and I hope when and if my girls ever need me, no matter how old they are, I’ll be there like Rose is for Rowan.

Using just 5 words, how would you describe Hero and Heroine’s love affair?

Wallflower’s second chance with crush.

Thank you very much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to take part in this interview.

 

 

FOR YOU I’D BREAK

Hannah Jordan
GENRE: Contemporary Romance

When Rowan’s two-year marriage ends with a crash, she returns home to Peace Falls, VA, riding shotgun in her sister’s 1990 Cadillac hearse. Everything about her is damaged: her heart, her pride, her bank account, and her spine—thanks to a tourist, a Segway, and finding her husband getting busy with her boss. But Rowan is determined to reclaim her career and city life as soon as she recuperates and lands a new job.

Caleb “Cal” Cardoso didn’t notice wallflower Rowan in high school, but the former football star, and Peace Falls’s newest physical therapist, can’t take his eyes off the stunning redhead now. Too bad he’s sworn off relationships. After his last hookup purposely tanked his online reputation, Cal stands to lose his job if a single patient leaves his care. Which is why he can’t let Rowan switch to another practitioner, despite the friction between them, and why he definitely can’t act on his growing attraction.

Rowan agrees to remain Cal’s patient if he helps her younger brother train for football tryouts. Though Cal hasn’t touched a football since the accident that killed his best friend, he agrees, and as Cal helps heal Rowan’s body, she begins to heal his heart.

For You I’d Break is a small town romance with a hefty dash of spice, a HEA ending, and a cast of memorable characters, including a goth sculptor who secretly loves to decorate cakes, a fearsome-looking felon with a heart of gold, a hothead with a sweet side, a karma-devoted barista who collects damaged pets and first dates, and a lovable dog with more emotional sense than everyone put together.

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Just then, the second door opened and out walked Caleb Cardoso in a pair of slate gray scrubs. Years of watching him swagger down school hallways and sprint across football fields did nothing to prepare me. He’d added more muscle to his lean frame, his broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist. His dark, tousled hair looked styled to suggest he’d just climbed out of bed after an all-night sexfest. His jaw was sharper, his cheek bones more chiseled. When he looked at me with those rich chocolate eyes, all the air left my lungs.

“Mrs. Norris,” he said, glancing at the tablet in his hands.

The sound of my married name lifted the lust fog from my brain. “Please call me Rowan,” I said, relieved I’d finally managed to speak in his presence.

He studied my face, frowned, and looked back at his tablet. “Nice to meet you,” he said, studying my face again. “I’m Cal. Take a seat on the first table.”

Lauren would have politely told him that we were two years apart in school. Poppy would have flipped the embarrassment of being forgotten back onto Cal with a snide comment about his observation skills. Not that anyone ever forgot Poppy. I just turned my back to him and hoped he hadn’t seen my cheeks burn. People often didn’t remember me, but it still stung, especially when it was someone I’d spent so much time fantasizing about in my teens. As I crossed the room, I could feel him behind me, watching my every movement.

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Hannah Jordan grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia but wound up in South Jersey after falling in love with her complete opposite. She’s got all the degrees of a “serious” fiction writer but only smiles when she’s writing romance.

She lives with her husband and two daughters in a picturesque town outside of Philadelphia where she enjoys reading in all genres, especially the spicy ones, and confusing people with her half-Southern, half-Northern accent.

The first book in her Peace Falls Small Town Romance Series, For You I’d Break, launched July 17, 2024.

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