I can’t believe it’s finally time to show you this cover! I have been working on this new series, which will be rapid-releasing each month starting in June, since 2022 and in that time I have literally remade this cover at least a dozen times. From the very beginning I knew it was flowers and skulls. Which was pretty easy to pull together since I have thousands of graphic assets of both these things. But wow, was I ever picky about getting it ‘just right’. I made six of them right off the bat. Six very unique covers with varying amounts of flowers and skulls from different angles. 

Now maybe this cover is not everyone’s cup of tea but it’s 100% a JA Huss cover, you can’t deny that. And the funniest thing about it is the irony. Since this is a small-town romance it was modeled on a cozy mystery. I remember posting in an author group I’m in (some time last year) about how I just finished my not-cozy, small-town romance and it was gonna have a skull on the cover. 

No small-town cozy writer in the right mind would put a skull on the cover. Well, maybe a cartoon one. Still, that would definitely be bucking the trends as far as covers go. But it feels so right when the name JA Huss is at the bottom of the cover, doesn’t it? 🙂 

I knew this would be a multi-book series from the very start because I had just finished up the Creeping Beautiful series, which is the tail-end of what began as the Rook & Ronin Series, then turned into the Company World, and then the Bossy Brothers got involved and between all the spin-offs and one-offs, the books in that twisted hydra mess totaled in the high twenties and spanned a good ten years of my writing career.

You can’t end something like that without a new beginning. And I know, I know, I know that I’m gonna get all kinds of messages asking if this is a Company book. Because it feels like a Company book. It’s got all the makings of the Company. And if you’re new to me, and haven’t read all those twisted books mentioned above, then good for you. You won’t see the connections so you won’t have to think about it.

But for those of you who have read my twisted-tentacle signature-world series, I’m gonna go on record here and say that this will not interconnect with anyone in the Company world and there will not be a revised graphic for the reading order of Rook & Ronin/Company/Bossy/Creeping series. (I have said I was done with it, and I meant it, though I reserve the right to go back and write inside it any time I want).

But just to be clear, Rumble is something all brand new. And so I present to you the cover for book one in my brand new twisted journey through the Appalachian Mountains…

Collin Creed is a killer. But he’s Lowyn’s killer. And after a twelve-year separation, she wants him back.

Deep in the hills of West Virginia, three small towns have found a way to flourish in the face of extreme poverty. Disciple runs a side-show tent revival that brings in millions of dollars a year. Bishop flaunts traditional ways in the vein of Colonial Williamsburg, luring weary city people to the slow-living lifestyle. And Revenant offers them an experience of sin filled with tattooed bikers and live-music dive bars.

It’s a sacred trinity that worships the almighty dollar and everyone plays their role like a well-trained Broadway actor.
But these hills have secrets, and so do the people.

Twelve years ago, when he was just eighteen and dreaming of a future with his high school sweetheart, Collin Creed learned something about himself. Something so disturbing he left Disciple to join the Marines and didn’t once look back. But all that came to a screeching halt with the congressional hearings, forcing Collin to return home and rebuild his black-ops empire brick by brick.

Lowyn McBride’s heart broke when Collin shut her out and left town without an explanation just as they were getting ready to start their adult lives together. The death of her mother the following year was a make-or-break moment and Lowyn rose to the occasion, giving up her university education to parent her younger sister while building an empire of her own as a specialty antiques dealer.

Anger and desire, guilt and shame—the return of the enigmatic Collin Creed ignites the town and sparks an explosion of emotions inside Lowyn. But he’s not the only one with a secret in his past. Lowyn has always played the good girl to Collin’s bad-boy reputation. But it turns out—she’s just like everyone else up in these hills—not as wholesome and pure as she looks.

The Rumble and the Glory is a cinematic and spicy small-town secret, second-chance romance wrapped up in a cloak of mystery and suspense. It honors the themes of found family, redemptive anti-hero, and is filled with bigger-than-life, morally-grey characters against a backdrop of deceit and deception.

TROPES:
Small Town Secrets
Touch Her and Die
He Falls First
Enemies to Lovers
Morally Grey
Found Family
Second Chance
Childhood Sweethearts
Anti-Hero

PRE-ORDER LINKS:

AMAZON

NOOK

APPLE

KOBO

THIS BOOK WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE AT NOOK, KOBO, AND APPLE ON PRE-ORDER and will release two days early at those distributors. It will go into Kindle Unlimited on the stated release day of June 27, 2024.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

JA Huss is a scientist, New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and a cowgirl who rides English. Five of her books were optioned for TV/film, several of her audiobooks have been nominated for the Audie and SOVA Awards, and she was a RITA Finalist in 2019. She has been an indie author in both fiction and non-fiction for seventeen years and lives on a ranch in Colorado with her family, horses, dogs, goats, donkeys, and chickens.