[Time Served 01] • Time Served

“One of my favorite things in this book is that it doesn’t pull punches… If you’re looking for a gritty story with a lot of heat (and I mean a lot) and real characters, I’d definitely recommend Time Served.” –Dear Author, recommended read

Dean Barclay had nothing to do with my decision to flee my old life, but he is 100 percent of the reason I vowed to never look back.

I’ve never forgotten how it felt to follow Dean—dangerous, daring, determined—away from the crowd and climb into his beat-up old Trans Am. I was sixteen and gloriously alive for the first time. When I felt his hand cover my leg and move upward, it was over. I was his. Forever.

Until I left. Him, my mom, and the trailer park. Without so much as a goodbye.

Now Dean’s back, crashing uninvited into my carefully cultivated, neat little lawyerly life. Eight years behind bars have turned him rougher and bigger—and more sexually demanding than any man I’ve ever met. I can’t deny him anything…and that just might end up costing me everything.

102,000 words

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### Review

"At the end of the book, I felt that neither Rachel nor Dean were thesame character as they were in the beginning and that their reconnection sparked that change, as can happen. There's a gritty realness to thestory that really struck home." - DearAuthor.com - Recommended Read

"Emotionally plump with well developed characters and a strong well plottedstoryline, Keyes builds a lush, erotic, and at times volatile secondchance romance between two broken stubborn souls whose innate fearscause many a stumbling block." HeroesandHeartbreakers.com

"Those looking for a fast-paced storyline featuring romance and drama will enjoy Keyes' novel. Its main character, Rachel, is knee-deep in one of the largest suits in her firm's history when her high school sweetheart, Dean, serendipitously re-enters her life. Keyes' suspenseful story reveals the truth that we cannot run from our pasts forever, making this book all the more difficult to put down." - RT Book Reviews

### About the Author

**Julianna Keyes** is a Canadian writer who has lived on both coasts and several places in between. She's been skydiving, bungee jumping, and white-water rafting, but nothing thrills--or terrifies--her as much as the blank page. She loves Chinese food, foreign languages, baseball, and television, not necessarily in that order, and will go to her grave swearing that "ain't" is not a word. She has volunteered in Zambia, taught English in China, and dreams of seeing pink dolphins in the Amazon. It'll happen.