Humble pie wasn’t supposed to taste this sweet.Bend or Break, Book 2Jack Tarkington’s life is in the toilet. He was supposed to be spending his junior yearstudying someplace cool like Paris or Rome. Instead, after taking out his anger on thecampus “golden boy”, whose dad ripped off his parents, Jack is facing possible expulsion.Sure, it’s all his own fault, but coming back to the small Iowa town he thought he’descaped, after crowing about his admission to a prestigious school, has been a humblingexperience.When he runs into Miguel, Jack braces for backlash over the way he lorded it over hisold friend and flame. Instead, Miguel offers him friendship—and a job at his growing farmto-table store and café.Against the odds, both guys bond over broken dreams and find common ground inmusic. But when Jack’s college gives him a second chance, he’s torn between achieving adream that will take him far from home, and a love that strikes a chord he’ll never findanywhere else.Warning: This book contains a humbled guy who’s on the brink of losing it all, adetermined entrepreneur who seems to have it all together, apologies issued through banjopicking duets, and two lovers who can play each other’s bodies like virtuosos.