Broken Rival - by Tessa Bailey (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey comes a gripping, heated romance about a girl trapped in a new reality, forced to make a choice between two brothers--one who is the high school golden boy, the other sworn to hunt down her kind--time travelers. This is Tessa Bailey as you've never seen her before.

Magnolia Brown loves Friday night football games, volunteering and dominating at high school swim meets. Just your average everyday eighteen-year-old. Except for one thing:

She's from fifty years in the future.

Magnolia's parents, two brilliant scientists, are the inventors of time travel, but due to widespread destruction and rampant abuse of the technology from a corrupt few, time travel is outlawed and punishable by death. When Magnolia's parents are seized and executed for illegally traveling to the past, they leave Magnolia stranded in 2026 without a way to get home.

Now Magnolia has nowhere to turn but a complicated Kansas family with two sons--Fallon, her high school sweetheart with secrets of his own, and Ramsey, the brooding militia commander who hunts and kills criminals like her. Magnolia knows Ramsey resents and hates her, but how can he be her true enemy when he looks at her with such hunger, despite his callousness, and guards her with his very life? Which brother can she trust and is the real danger coming from inside the house?

Review Quotes

"Broken Rival is Tessa Bailey at her most intense, raw, and impossible to put down. With crackling tension, deeply flawed characters, and a romance that hurts so good, this story grabs hold of your heart and refuses to let go. I devoured every page." - Jennifer Armentrout, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of the Blood and Ash series

"Bailey imaginatively pivots from her much-loved sports romances to something different. But while the time-travel inspired plot and almost dystopian setting are new, the snappy dialogue, sizzling chemistry, intense emotions, and hot sex are quintessential Bailey." - Booklist

"A dystopian new adult romance with a tense premise and a steamy enemies-to-lovers arc. The love triangle leads to some high-heat sex scenes, and there's plenty of drama and angst as Magnolia navigates this fraught world... this page-turner offers plenty of excitement." - Publishers Weekly

"The Michelangelo of dirty talk. She wields filth like Da Vinci does a paintbrush, and there's a lot to be said for an author who can fill such exchanges with all the requisite heat, enthusiastic consent, and yes, even humor, of such a scenario without veering into corny territory." - Entertainment Weekly

"Tessa Bailey is the undisputed queen of sexy romcoms, and never ever disappoints!" - Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Nothing makes my heart catch fire like a Tessa Bailey book. She is all things magic and dirty talk." - Elena Armas, New York Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception

"Tessa Bailey writes pure magic!" - Alexis Daria, internationally bestselling author of You Had Me at Hola

"Tessa Bailey is in a league of her own. She has mastered the perfect balance of heart, hilarity, and of course, heat...pure romance perfection." - Lyla Sage, New York Times Bestselling Author of Lost and Lassoed

"Tessa Bailey's writing stands out in all the right sexy ways." - Buzzfeed

"Bailey creates flawed but endearing characters that readers will fall head over heels for." - Publishers Weekly