by Avery Sebastian Harper Abbott
THE STORM WAS ONLY THE FIRST TEST. James “JJ” Jones has spent years being admired and very little time being taken seriously. To the world, he is the ideal man: famous, handsome, marketable, and surrounded by people who seem certain they know exactly who he is. JJ is no longer so sure. When a brutal six-month off-road challenge gives him the chance to prove he is more than a face built for cameras, he takes it. What follows is a world where reputation means nothing: broken roads, rising floodwater, impossible terrain, rivals waiting for him to fail, and a mechanic who seems determined to remind him that celebrity is useless in the mud. But the story begins two years later, with JJ watching the life he thought was perfect collapse — and thinking about the masked woman he once let walk away. To understand what went wrong, he has to go back to the road that changed everything. The Damned Ideal Man is a contemporary adventure about survival, reputation, identity, rivalry, impossible choices, and what remains when the image everyone admires begins to fall apart. ROYAL ROAD EDITION: Official free preview containing the Prologue + Chapters 1–3. The complete novel continues in the Pre-Order Early Access Edition.
