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The Party Favor
by Kitten Delight
Language: English
Content Rating: Older than 17
Keely has never been anywhere bigger than her family's farm. Now she's a freshman at the state's largest university—4'11" of pale skin and painful shyness, drowning in a crowd of 5,800 strangers. Her only lifeline is her roommate Rosalyn, a dark-eyed soccer star with a wild streak and a fiercely protective heart. They make a pact that first night: watch over each other, keep each other safe, don't let the other do anything stupid.
Then comes the party.
A fraternity blowout in an old plantation house, three hundred students packed from basement to attic. Rosalyn buys Keely a little black dress and refuses to take no for an answer. For one evening, the farm girl lets herself be pretty.
At the door, a giant of a man named Moose kisses her knuckles and turns bright red. He's the bouncer, the keg master, the shy gentle bear who can't find words around a beautiful girl. He watches Keely all night from across the room—until a keg runs dry and he loses her.
The man who finds her first is older, polished, God-fearing. Everything a good Christian girl could trust. He leads her to a soundproof recording studio, hands her a soft drink, and shuts the door.
What follows is a brutal, methodical taking: two broken arms, a blackened eye, a body torn inside, and a name she never learns. He switches off the light and walks away.
Moose breaks down the locked door.
In the hospital, Keely barely speaks. But Moose never leaves—not the waiting room, not the hallway, not her side. And as she heals, she begins to understand something she has told no one: she has dreamed of this man before she ever met him. A big man. A kind man. The one.
THE PARTY FAVOR is a raw, unflinching novel of first times—first freedom, first heartbreak, first love—and of a shy girl who walks into a nightmare and comes out holding the hand of the man from her dreams.
For readers of new adult romance, hurt/comfort, and slow-burn protective heroes. Contains explicit content.
One party. One stranger. One night that changes everything