Blog Tour: Rebel Romeo by Katana Collins

 

Holden didn’t set out to betray me… but that’s just what he did.

Twice.

Rebel Romeo, an all-new enemies to lovers, second chance romance, and the second book in the Shattered Hearts series from USA Today bestselling author Katana Collins is now available!

They say history repeats itself. Same Holden. Same me. Same heartbreak and betrayal. Only this time, I’m not the same shattered college freshman who runs away from a fight broken-hearted. I’m not going to fall on my knife, like Juliet.
This time, I stay. And I fight.

It’s bad enough that my director is my first love and the guy broke my heart. But now his most recent ex-girlfriend, the stunning Tony-Award winning actress, Missy Howl, is my producer on the show.

I have one more chance to prove to everyone that I deserve this lead role on Broadway. Everything’s on the line: my career, my apartment... and my heart.

I know falling for Holden again would be nothing short of a tragedy, but I can’t help the spark of hope that maybe we can rewrite the script for ourselves. But when it comes to star-crossed lovers, Shakespeare said it best himself: “These violent delights have violent ends.”

Start reading today!

FREE in Kindle Unlimited

Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/rebelromeo

Add Rebel Romeo to Goodreads: http://tinyurl.com/rebelromeo   

Start the series with Broken Romeo: https://mybook.to/brokenromeo

Keep reading for a look inside Rebel Romeo!

Not only has Holden James broken my heart and shattered my confidence, but he also ruined Romeo and Juliet for me. 

I used to think Romeo was a hero for the ages. A romantic icon. An amorous prince. When I was a kid, I’d drag my dad’s ladder up to my bedroom and balance precariously on the top rung, reciting Juliet’s balcony scene monologue to my teddy bear, all the while imagining who my real life Romeo would be. 

If only I could go back in time, tug that naive little girl down from the ladder, and tell her the truth: Romeo was nothing more than a recently-dumped, mushy emo-bro waxing poetic. 

And Juliet was his rebound. 

Juliet was level-headed before he came into her life. She was grounded. Maybe even a little cynical about love. And then Romeo ruined her. 

He didn’t mean to… but he did. 

And now for the first time in my life, I stand outside of a theater dreading entering the building for our production meeting and rehearsal. 

A low voice purrs my name from behind me, pulling me out of my memory. “Katherine.” 

Holden. My very own personal Romeo. 

He didn’t set out to betray me… but that’s just what he did. 

Twice. 

I stare at the stage door. I’d already fallen on that dagger once for Holden James back in college because I believed he’d taken the poison, too. But he hadn’t. And now, it was time for him to sacrifice. 

“Katherine,” he says again. “You don’t have to come to this production meeting. My dad’s going to be there. Missy will be there⁠—” 

“I can handle your dad.” 

The muscle at his jaw jumps and I can tell he’s not pleased. “What about Missy?” 

I try to keep my expression neutral but he catches me with his honeyed brown eyes. The air between us crackles, igniting as it always does when we’re around each other. Whether it’s sizzling with anger or passion, love or hatred, the strength of emotions stir the molecules around us. The helix of anticipation braids us into one and hums below the surface like the soft rumble of a storm in the distance. 

“What about her?” I challenge. 

Missy. His ex. The woman he apparently got back together with right after kissing me. 

He holds my gaze for a long moment. Tell me, I silently implore. Tell me it’s not real. 

“She’s over at the cafe getting a smoothie right now, but she’ll be back any minute now.” 

“Great. I can’t wait to get to know her better,” I sneer. 

I sound like a snotty brat and I don’t even care. I’m about to enter a production meeting for my first ever Broadway show. A Broadway show where the director is my first love from college who broke my heart. And the producers are his father and Holden’s girlfriend. 

I’m walking into a lion’s den completely unarmed. “Tell me something,” I say. “Did you know you were getting back together with her before or after you went down on me?” 

“Katherine,” he growls a warning, but I don’t heed it. Not this time. “You know the answer to that.” 

But I don’t. I don’t know anything anymore. I step further into his body, narrowing my eyes at the man that used to melt my heart with a single, heated glance in my direction. 

“Your grandfather’s ring looks good on her,” I say, glaring at him. We both know what that ring symbolizes for him. The memory from my freshman year of college comes rushing back to me. 

I giggled and took his hand, pulling it close to my face to examine his ring closer. “So, what kind of heirloom is this? Are you going to, like, give this to the woman you plan to marry someday?” I glanced up and caught the heated way he stared down at me from where I bent over his hand. 

My heart lurched as I skimmed my fingers gently across the back of his hand, pretending, if only for a second, that he was mine. That this was my hand to hold. 

He snorted a laugh that was anything but humorous. “This hideous thing? The only way I’d give this to a woman as a gift was if I secretly hated her.” 

The very ring Missy now wore on her thumb was the ring he’d told me he’d only give to a woman he secretly hated. That couldn’t be a coincidence. He couldn’t have forgotten. 

His gaze flashes as it snaps to mine and our breaths syncopate for a long moment before he says, “You know what that ring means to me.” And if I’m not mistaken, there’s a tilt to his lips. 

It’s not what he’s saying, but what he isn’t saying that increases my suspicions. 

Whatever this is with Missy, it’s not what it appears. I don’t know why he’s in this fake relationship with her or why he can’t just tell me right now that we’re here alone, but something’s up. 

And I’m going to get to the bottom of it. Even if the truth pulverizes the already broken shards of my heart into pure dust.

For more information about Katana Collins and her books, visit her website: 

https://katanacollins.com