I am the person who made people uncomfortable. I am the thing that happened in this high school, in this small town. Smiles are wiped from the faces of those who liked you well enough when you didn’t cause trouble, but like you a lot less once you open your mouth and say something they don’t like. The kind of thing we’re forced to notice it energizes us, interrupting the comfort of our everyday monotony it separates us, inevitably pitting some of us against others, and that’s when the ugliness comes seeping out of every previously unnoticed hole. Then there are the rarer times when something too eventful to ignore happens. But that moment of accidental discomfort is usually fleeting, it can be glossed over and forgotten so you can go on to have another peaceful day alongside people you don’t actually like, and another, and another after that.

Most days, you might experience at worst a tightening smile, a twinge of annoyance when someone nudges your comfort zone, challenges you just enough to wake you up and make you notice. Not everybody actually likes everyone else, but most days, that doesn’t matter. Groups of people in their own separate tribes, forced together arbitrarily, made to coexist in order to achieve optimal pleasantness. High schools and small towns have a lot in common. ) Carter Mahoney is not for the faint of heart. I have very much enjoyed Carter and Zoey’s story, so I hope you will too, but I want to make sure I’ve prepared/warned you adequately. These characters have their own unique damage, needs, desires, and proficiencies, and they are seeking out partners who fit them as they are, not partners who need them to change and be something they’re not. If you need safe, good-guy heroes in every romance you read, this is not the story for you. I know where the characters’ limits are, but you know your own sensitivities much better than I do.Ĭarter Mahoney is not a comfortable hero, and this is not always a comfortable love story. This book contains some dark shit, and if you have sexual violence/abuse triggers, this may not be a good fit for you.

Please, please take me seriously when I say this is a BULLY romance. “I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world that it alone can overcome hate.” No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Untouchable Copyright © 2018 by Sam Mariano Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination, or used fictitiously.

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