This is my stop during the blog tour for The Best Part of Me by Jamie Hollins. This blog tour is organized by Lola's Blog Tours. The blog tour runs from 10 till 23 October, you can view the tour schedule here.
The Best Part of Me (McKenna #1)by Jamie Hollins
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Age category: Adult
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Blurb:
He’s content to stay in the shadows…
Ewan McKenna’s days and nights are filled with drink orders, beer kegs, and noisy bar customers. Now that he’s put his tumultuous past behind him, he’s more than happy to live a solitary existence running his family’s pub. After years of walking the line between good and bad, Ewan now needs control and order to rest peacefully at night. What he doesn’t need is the fiery, intriguing woman who’s found her way into his thoughts and his bed.
She’s ready to step back into the light…
Spending the summer getting her hands dirty in her aunt’s garden in a tiny town outside Boston is exactly what Quinn Adler needs. She’s ready to shake off the grief of losing the people who meant the most to her and to start feeling again. What she doesn’t expect is to find a man who sets all her senses on fire. When the pieces seem to be nearly in place for a bright future, everything falls apart.
Will Quinn’s love be bright enough to cut through the darkness of Ewan’s past?
Excerpt:
Quinn
slowly ran her hand through his black hair. It was as soft and silky as she’d imagined. His eyes
opened, and he studied her as she let his strands slide between her fingers.
She rounded her hand to the back of his head.
“I wish you wouldn’t do that.” His deep voice rolled through her like a warm
ocean wave. It was one of those statements where you said one thing but you
meant the opposite. She lightly stroked the back of his neck, her touch moving
along his taut muscles.
“Quinn, stop.”
Her
eyes shot up to his face, and she quickly drew her hand away. She had been
tracing her fingers along his neck and shoulders like he was a shiny new sports
car. The memory of how she’d felt when that awful guy had run his unwanted fingers along her butt flashed in her head, and she immediately felt ashamed.
“I’m sorry.”
He
looked thoughtfully at her. As if he read her thoughts, he replied, “If you keep touching
me, then things are going to escalate.” He inhaled deeply and steadied his gaze on her.
“I want you.
God help me, I want you badly.”
Quinn’s heart leapt into her throat. He briefly
touched her cheek with his fingertips. Her pulse pounded at the way his eyes
drew her in like he had some sort of gravitational pull. The way her skin
heated under his touch.
Questions
started flooding her head as she watched him study her face.
Was
she ready for this? Could she be with him?
There
was no denying that she wanted him. She hadn’t realized it until now. She yearned for him so
much that her legs were shaking. She had no idea when her feelings for him had
gone from annoyed disapproval to all-consuming desire, but she didn’t really care. Even when
he was acting like an ass, she had to admit he was gorgeous. Add that to the
memory of his mouth and hands on her, and she knew that things might have
already tipped past the point of no return.
It
had been a long time since she’d slept with anyone. And at that moment, she
realized that she didn’t want anything more than for him to pick her up and carry her to his
bed.
Just
as she was about to lean into him, he let his hand drop. “Come on. I’ll walk you home.”
Momentarily
speechless, she watched him walk to the front door and pull it open. He looked
back at her expectantly.
She
blinked at him. She was an intelligent woman. She had graduated in the top ten
percent of her high school class and magna cum laude in college. She considered
her common sense relatively adequate. Yet she was having trouble wrapping her
mind around what was happening.
“I thought—” She stopped, blinked in
confusion, and tried again. “You said—”
He
gently shut the door and shook his head.
“You thought since I said I wanted you that we’d fuck?”
She
winced at his crudeness and at the hint of amusement in his voice.
He
exhaled slowly. “Believe me when I say that it’s probably for the best that we stopped when we
did. I’m not
right for you.”
“Why not?”
“You’ll have to trust me on that.”
She
frowned at him. “Why don’t
I get to decide what’s right for me?”
He
shook his head. “I could never give you what you want.”
“That’s awfully presumptuous of you, isn’t it? What makes you so
sure you know what I want?”
He
approached her slowly, his head tilted to the side as he regarded her. “Because I know your type.
You’ll be
fine with fucking for a while. But eventually you’ll want more. A commitment. A promise.
Something that would tie us together. I don’t do commitments, I don’t make promises I don’t intend to keep, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let any woman tie me down.”
She
stared at him with her mouth open. She wanted to call him a coward. Tell him he
was an ass. How dare he be so arrogant as to think he knew anything about her type? About what she
wanted?
What
she wanted was for people to stop telling her what was best for her. For the
past year, people had been telling her what to do and how to feel. She was sick
of it.
She
tilted her chin up and stepped around him before yanking the door open.
She
paused and looked back. “Suit yourself. Your loss.”
Then she walked out and slammed the
door behind her.
You can find The Best Part of Me on Goodreads
You can buy The Best Part of Me here:
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About the Author:Jamie Hollins was born and raised in rural Northeast Ohio. After graduate school, she embarked on a perilous career in Human Resources where she met plenty of real life characters. When she’s not writing or chasing after her toddler, she enjoys reading and golfing. Jamie lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, son, and their dog, Winston.
You can find and contact Jamie here:
- Website
- Goodreads
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