Ford: Slack Taut Omnibus

by J.A. Huss

I’m not on the run from my feelings . Because I don’t do feelings. And it’s not that I’m repressing my feelings, I just… seriously… don’t have feelings. Until now. Apparently. For the wrong girl. My best friend’s girl. So, OK fine. I’m on the run from the feelings I’m not having. Everything is great. I’m getting out of Dodge. I’m on my way to a new life, and a new job, and no more feelings…and then I run right into another girl. Only this girl doesn’t belong to anyone. She’s stranded. And broke. And stuck in a blizzard with me. So all those ugly, stupid feelings I’m absolutely not having need an outlet. And new girl is into my brand of weird. She’s super competitive and wants to play games with me. And we just made a deal that’s basically a grown-up version of truth or dare. I’m in trouble. Because maybe… possibly ... I actually do have feelings. And this girl isn’t really stranded and broke, she’s just… broken . Just like I am. And if I don’t find a way to unbreak her—we’ll both stay broken forever.

Genres: Audiobook

460 pages, Hardcover

Published March 28, 2020

About the author

J.A. Huss never wanted to be a writer and she still dreams of that elusive career as an astronaut. She originally went to school to become an equine veterinarian but soon figured out they keep horrible hours and decided to go to grad school instead. That Ph.D wasn’t all it was cracked up to be (and she really sucked at the whole scientist thing), so she dropped out and got a M.S. in forensic toxicology just to get the whole thing over with as soon as possible.

After graduation she got a job with the state of Colorado as their one and only hog farm inspector and spent her days wandering the Eastern Plains shooting the shit with farmers. After a few years of that, she got bored. And since she was a homeschool mom and actually does love science, she decided to write science textbooks and make online classes for other homeschool moms. She wrote more than two hundred of those workbooks and was the number one publisher at the online homeschool store many times, but eventually she covered every science topic she could think of and ran out of shit to say.

So in 2012 she decided to write fiction instead. That year she released her first three books and started a career that would make her a New York Times bestseller and land her on the USA Today Bestseller’s List eighteen times in the next three years. Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie award in 2016 and 2017 respectively, her audiobook Mr. Perfect was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017, and her book, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Johnathan McClain is her first (and only) writing partner and even though they are worlds apart in just about every way imaginable, it works.

She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.

Reviews

[Toni · Rating 4 out of 5]

Who is Ford Aston? He had one type: rook and lots of pets. He’s an anti docile social freak who doesn’t like to be touched. After one wish upon Rook’s Christmas star and Ford ends up meeting his match by saving her from a blizzard. Ford was in a Sphere of privacy. He has erratic feelings for girl and her baby. One week changes everything with her baby. Ford is not trying to take away her freedom, but trying to take away her pain. He delivers a grand gestures that not only saves her but saves himself.