Blog Tour: JAX: Cristin Harber

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JAX (A Titan Novel)
Cristin Harber
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Release Date October 10, 2017

Seven is an enigma. A motorcycle club princess. The daughter of a notorious gangster. The best friend of the deputy mayor. A coffee shop owner. The single mom of two young, adopted children. She’s colorful, in every way possible—from her attitude to her piercings and bright pink hair—and she’s a woman on a mission with the power to help broker a clean break between a powerful motorcycle club and a South American drug cartel. But not all players are ready for the game to change, including the ones she can’t see like the CIA. 

Jax Michaelson has a bad attitude and a good shot. The former Navy SEAL has been on Titan’s problem list for running his mouth since the day he showed up for work, but he does a hell of a job, and they’d never let him go. Call him cocky, that’s fine, because then you’d have to admit he’s the best at anything and everything—except diplomacy. 

When Titan is forced into the seedy drug world filled with cartel glitz and Harley-riding MCs, Seven and her family become an unexpected bargaining chip right after she and Jax find a way to stand each other—in bed.

Will friends become lovers? Or are they too far gone to be opposites that attract? Is Jax nothing but a bad boy who leaves her hoping for a military hero when the burden of living as Mayhem royalty backfires and her children disappear.


JAX is a standalone romantic suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author Cristin Harber. It features characters from the Titan, Delta, and Only series, but readers do not have to have read those books to enjoy this one. There's a guaranteed happily ever after and no cliffhanger! Enjoy!
Jax Michaelson is cocky, broody, and closed off. He is noted to have a bad attitude and is not seen as a team player. His past is a big mystery, but it has made him the man he is today. He's empty, angry, void, and uncaring about his life or a future. He doesn't let himself get close to women, but one woman has the potential to challenge him and change that. 

Seven is an enigma herself. She is Victoria's best friend and is the Mayhem MC Princess. She is flashy and edgy with her brightly colored hair and piercings. She is sassy, honest, smart, and likes to push back at him. But she is also a business owner, mother, and caretaker. Her past has also shaped and marked her. She does not do one night stands, but is also afraid of bringing someone new fully into her busy life. She has anxiety and control issues. And her world is about to spiral out of her control. 

While Jax is at Ryder and Victoria's wedding in Sweet Hills, Iowa, he was hoping to spend some alone time with Seven even though she has been resistant to his advances. But he did not dream that it would come in the form of Titan getting involved in MC and Cartel business. But when she asks for help, he can't say no.

Before they know it they are spending quality time enjoying each other in the bedroom, but also dealing with situations that seem to keep escalating between several dangerous parties. As their pasts and presents collide, they get closer, but the stakes get higher. Trust is hard and believing that they can actually have something good can be harder.

They are playing a game with ruthless and powerful players. And the game they start out playing with each other ranges from pretend to almost to maybe real. They have great sexual chemistry, understanding, and challenge the other. She makes him feel alive and brings out more of his romantic, funny, sexy, and protective sides. Jax is the only choice she has been able to make on her own without outside influence. But with their lives in chaos and danger surrounding them and those they care about, it might just be too much for either of these emotionally challenged people to handle. 

This brings back several Titan, Delta, and Mayhem characters from the previous books Delta: Redemption and Locke and Key. It is told in multiple points of view. It is funny, sexy, suspenseful, dramatic, and romantic. Who would have thought unfiltered, jerky Jax had a heart? I really enjoyed getting to see what made him tick and getting to see the softer and more real side of his personality. I loved him and Seven together. They were both tough, smart, and loving, even if they both had issues.

There are several story lines left somewhat open ended so I imagine we will be seeing more in the next book that was teased at between a couple of other side characters.

I was gifted a copy in exchange for an honest review. 

Jax is one of Titan’s newer members, but they won’t let him go -- no matter how hard he runs his mouth or acts like a jerk. He has been flirting and verbally sparring with Seven since they met. Seven is a mystery unto herself. MC princess, business owner, and mother, she has many facets and just as many secrets.

These two are explosive together, but Seven isn’t good about letting go of control, and Jax isn’t good about holding anything back. Together, they act first and think second, something very out of character for Seven.

Jax turned into the perfect hero for Seven. He wasn’t smooth around any edges, and he didn’t mince his words, but he also made Seven take chance she wouldn’t have and gave her a support she hadn’t even received from her MC family. But even as the perfect hero, there is a lot to tackle when Titan is called in to mediate between the MC and the drug cartel.

I love returning to the Titan world, but this particular visit felt unfinished. Jax and Seven’s story is complete and wonderful. But parts of the backstory and the operational plot lines are not resolved in this book, nor did they even begin here. I guess I was mostly confused by the amount of Delta/Titan crossover in a Titan novel. I’m used to it in Delta novels, but not as much in Titan.

I look forward to seeing more from Jax and Seven, and learning more about Colin and Adelia in Delta: Ricochet, as well as seeing where certain events from Jax lead the Titan & Delta men and women.

I was gifted a copy in exchange for an honest review.
What kind of name is Jax?"
"Probably the easiest thing my ma could think to shout when she heard she was having a boy. It stood out on a block of Dons and Johns."
"Your neighborhood was filled with porta-potty kids?"
Her humor made him grin. "Guess so. But that was back in the day. Who cares? This place makes me realize I don't know much about you."
She sucked her cheeks in thought. "I don't think you're always a jerkface."
"Good to know, princess. " He gave her a lingering once-over. " I don't think you're always… I'm coming up blank." Or at the very least, he was having a hard time thinking of an appropriate comparison.
It was too dim to see her blush, but she ducked her chin as though she were. After a second that strung between them for miles, Seven regained her unaffected composure. "I slapped you. I think you can come up with at least one thing."
The memory ran to his groin, and Jax rolled his bottom lip into his mouth, letting go with a slow breath. Her slap hadn’t been just a no. It had been a hell no with style. She’d rejected his proposition, but he wasn't positive she was rejecting him.
"Sweetheart, I liked that."
Tension crackled in the few feet between them. The hairs on his skin stood as he waited to see what she would do next, what she would say, and how he would volley it back.
"Don't flirt with me right now," she whispered. "I need a favor." She eased back onto the desk as though she owned the place, crossing her legs. 
"Isn't that the best time to flirt?" 
Seven rolled her eyes, but she smiled liked the devil sipping sweet tea.
"Careful, beautiful."
A thick wave of magenta hair fell over her cheek, obscuring half her face. "Careful or what?"
Her pink fucking hair was ridiculous but artistic, not too serious. She was like splashes of colors sprinkled with surprises—tongue stud, eyebrow jewels, and a name like Seven.
Jax had no idea what to do about that. "You want to have that conversation right now?" He set the smoothie on the ground. "Because if you want to try again, I’ll dole out whatever consequences we agree to."
Seven's tiny, unexpected gasp made a shiver of anticipation roll through his muscles. Even if Jax hadn't been trained to pick up on microchanges in human behavior, he would've noticed how her breaths quickened despite her best effort to disguise the natural reaction. Jax wanted to feel her pulse, needed to know how far she would let him push her, how much she would trust him.




The Titan Series:

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Each Titan and Delta book can be read as a standalone (except for Sweet Girl and Sweet One), but readers will likely best enjoy the series in order.

Book 1: Winters Heat (Colby Winters) FREE!
Novella 1.5: Sweet Girl (Prequel to Garrison's Creed) FREE! 
Book 2: Garrison's Creed (Cash Garrison)
 Book 3: Westin's Chase (Jared Westin)
Novella 4: Gambled (Brock Gamble)
Novella 5: Chased (Asher McIntyre)
Book 6: Savage Secrets (Rocco Savage)
Book 7: Hart Attack (Roman Hart)
Novella 7.5: Sweet One (More Cash and Nicola )
Book 8: Black Dawn (Parker Black)
Novella 8.5: Live Wire 
Book 9: Bishop's Queen (Bishop O'Kane)
Titan World Novella 9.5 : Deja Vu (James Tuska)

Book 10: Locke and Key (Locke Oliver)

Spin off Series:  

Delta Series


Book 1: Retribution: (Trace Reeves)
Book 2: Revenge (Javier Almeida)
Book 3: Delta: Redemption (Ryder) 

Delta Rescue (
Luke Brenner):
Delta Novella in Liliana Hart’s MacKenzie Family Collection:

Only Series: 
(Grayson Ford)

Only For Him
Only For Her

Only For Us
Only Forever

Titan World Novellas

Cristin Harber 
Cristin Harber is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author. She writes sexy, steamy romantic suspense and military romance. Readers voted her onto Amazon's Top Picks for Debut Romance Authors in 2013, and her debut Titan series was both a #1 romantic suspense and #1 military romance bestseller.


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