Title: Beat
Series: The Beat and the
Pulse #1
Author: Amity Cross
Release Date: October 6,
2014
Synopsis
Renee "Ren" Miller was
five when her Dad left to go to the shops and never came back.
Left
Left
to grow up with a cancer riddled mother,
things have never been easy
for a teenager who had to be
wise beyond her years. Then one day they
lose the battle and she’s all
alone.
Now twenty-two, Ren
Now twenty-two, Ren
reluctantly goes to find her
estranged father. He owns the down and out
boxing studio, Beat, and Ren
finds herself drawn to the ring. She
thrives on learning a new way
of fighting a life that kept kicking her
down…instead of struggling
against the current, she kicks it right
between the legs.
Then one day, Ash Fuller, her Dad's star
Then one day, Ash Fuller, her Dad's star
fighter comes back to town.
Mysterious, handsome… Dangerous… Everything
Ren doesn't need.
But he's got other ideas…
…and so does she.
But he's got other ideas…
…and so does she.
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Excerpt
BEFORE
ASH
People
say I have a problem
with
anger.
You
could say a lot of
things about me and they all
wouldn’t be nice. I’ve done a lot of things I’m
not proud
of.
People
looked at me and
only saw what was on the
surface.
Money.
Power. Talent.
Cash was the driving
factor. Mainly because I was
winning it out from under everyone’s noses on a
daily basis by just being good
at punching the shit through people. It’s
fucking great to ride high,
but there’s always someone right at your heels,
snapping like a rabid beast,
waiting for the moment you
stumble.
Yeah,
that’s the thing
about getting a little fame
and money - it made everyone below you jealous and
jealous people were willing to
do whatever it took to bring you down. They all
wanted the prize and not all
of them were up for playing fair to get it. There
were lines you
never crossed and that line had been obliterated a long
time
ago.
You
hurt the people I love
to get to me and I will
fucking kill you.
I would
destroy myself to
save
them.
I’ve
done it before and I
will do it time and time
again.
I will
beat your ass until
you beg for
mercy.
Repent
or die.
AFTER
REN
I
didn’t feel the pain as
much
anymore.
My
knuckles had hardened,
my muscles had tightened, and
my pain receptors were shot.
Duck.
Feign. Punch. Guard.
My Mum
would be totally
horrified knowing what I made
of my life after she was gone. I lived for her,
to see her win her battle, but
in the end she lost. I wasn’t losing this fight.
The fight for my future. How
could she argue with that? She always wanted the
best for me, even when she was
too sick to move and this is my best.
It’s just that it involves
pounding my fists into the flesh of my opponent
until they
drop.
The
love of a man. The love
of an estranged father. The
love of a mother… What good did it do if they just
abandoned you in the
end?
Me and
my fists. That’s
what would get me through this
battle. That’s what would get me onto that
podium.
Me.
It
didn’t start out this
way. I, least of all, didn’t
see it coming until it hit me square in the
face.
The day
I stood outside the
place that would change my
life into something
unrecognisable.
The
sign over the roller
door that was painted in red
letters. Red - the same colour as the blood that I
drew three nights a week in
the cage.
The one word that had
become my
mantra.
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Author
Bio
live in a leafy suburb of Melbourne writing
about screwed up
relationships and kick ass
female leads that don’t take s**t lying
down.
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