Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Friday, February 14, 2014

*BLOG TOUR* "Coming Home" by Ann B Harrison






Coming home—but is the price too high for the Williams siblings? Their father drove them away, now the conditions of his will are forcing them home and they may not like the rules he’s set. 
The city hasn’t been kind to Doctor Russ Williams and he can’t wait to leave his broken marriage behind him. Superstar rugby player Cade, his career threatened by a crippling injury, has to face the fact that his glory days might be over. Rooney, carrying a secret she won’t be able to hide if she returns but lured by the promise of owning a vet practice. Three very different siblings with their own dreams, forced to face reality on the family property, confronted at every turn by their past. Will there be time for love?

Ann swears she was born with a book in her hands and has never put it down. A lifelong love of reader has finally culminated in achieving her dream of writing...and publication.

She lives in the beautiful Hunter Valley with her own handsome hero of many years. Ann has always loved the ups and downs of life in small communities and she shares this with readers in her rural romances.
Strong sexy heroines with a good dash of sass thrown in feature in her stories. Of course these women need an equally strong hero. Bring on the outback hero and watch the passion ignite.
When not writing Ann enjoys reading, gardening, walking her very large dog Hugo and fighting with her computer.





"How dare that old bastard dictate to us from the grave. Didn't he do enough damage while he was alive?"
"You are kidding, right?" Cade slapped his hands on his good leg and roared with laughter. "The big city doctor, divorced and locked in to the one place he couldn't wait to leave."
"Geez, I get it already. We can't sell the damn place." Cade brushed a lock of blond hair from his forehead.
"Yeah, and more fool me for being one of them." Kate walked in the back door throwing her Akubra on the hook on the wall.
"Do I have something on my face?" She licked her lips and wiped her hand over her chin.
Are you serious? Listen to yourself. You aren't her damned mother and if I want to ask her out I will."
"I told you to move your car, Cade. Give me the keys or do it yourself, but do it now or I'll hook it up to the tractor and pull it out."
"Oh, Cade, seriously. You don't know how to take no for an answer, do you?" She caught a lock of hair that had escaped her ponytail and tucked it behind her ear. "I run this place. I don't have to have your permission for anything. It's the other way around now."
"Well, well, well." Cade sat forward in his chair, resting his whiskey bottle on his good leg. "I knew something like this would happen. The way you and that boy disappeared down to the barn all the time…our sweet little sister wasn't so sweet at all."
"For fuck’s sake. This just gets better and better doesn't it? The old man must be laughing in his grave. He gets to bring us all back and we have to damn well pay to live there."

"Grow a spine for God's sake, Russ." Cade's voice rang out in the calm evening. "You're all about being fair and keeping the peace. Sometimes you have to put yourself out to get what you want."
"Hey, enough of the scrawny stuff. I'll have you know that now I'm a highly-honed athlete with abs of steel and a body most men would die for."



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Thursday, October 10, 2013

*BLOG TOUR* "Stripped" by Brenda Rothert

Stripped
Release Date: 05/27/13
New Adult Contemporary Romance
262 pages
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Abby Gillis is used to being called a promiscuous, uneducated whore. It’s all in a day’s work when you’re a stripper. Since her job allows her to support her siblings, 24-year-old Abby takes it all off in stride. She’s never had trouble keeping men at arm’s length – until she meets ER physician Chris Reneau, who is sexy, sweet and interested in more than what’s beneath her clothes. As their relationship unfolds, Abby becomes increasingly aware of the desire building in her for the first time, and of her yearning to be wanted by the one man who truly sees all of her.

Commitment-averse Chris finds himself in uncharted territory. He wants Abby, that’s clear, but he can’t accept not having all of her. As the distance between them erodes, he tries to convince Abby to give up stripping for a chance at something real.

As the two of them get closer, Abby realizes that truly baring it all has nothing to do with her body. Chris makes her feel more exposed than she ever has, and she has to grapple with what’s left when her notions about herself and those around her are stripped away, leaving only the naked truth.


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MY THOUGHTS

Stripped is definitely a good time read, mixed with a bunch of heaviness. And it works, ooooh it works so well! Abby is a strong independent woman with the weight of her entirely family on her shoulders. Chris is a successful doctor, who is immediately drawn to Abby. 

However, Abby, is a stripper. Yet, in some ways, she isn't your typical stripper-in-a-book, she has a day job, and a family that is counting on her. She also has ZERO interest in meeting a guy.. until Chris comes barging into her life unexpectedly. 

"She was an angel in devil's shoes."

Chris, is about as anti-relationship as Abby is, so when they decide to form a friendship and nothing else, both of them are thrilled. That is until feelings start getting thrown into the mix, and they both end up in over their heads with each other. 

"Usually, when he went out with a woman, the conversation pretense centered on getting them into bed. But he genuinely liked listening to Abby talk about her sisters, her love for dancing, and her distain for peanut butter."

But, Chris and Abby both have things they need to get past, in order to move on with someone else. Oh, and there's also the fact that she is a stripper, and that doesn't exactly fly with Chris.

The chemistry between Abby and Chris had me screaming at the book "Just give in already!!". But, at the same time, it was a ton of fun watching the two of them try to fight their feelings. There are definitely some unexpected curveballs, some that I definitely didn't see coming, and it added so much to their story. Yet again, Brenda Rothert has delivered a great book that keeps you turning page after page!

Favorite Quote:

"You have stars in your eyes, Abby, I didn't think that was possible."
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Brenda Rothert lives in Central Illinois with her husband and three sons. She was a daily print journalist for nine years, during which time she enjoyed writing a wide range of stories.
These days Brenda writes New Adult Romance in the Contemporary and Dystopian genres.

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