From the TBR Pile: Blog Tour: Excerpt of Blushing Kisses by Nazarea Andrews

Author: Nazarea Andrews

Publisher: Self

Date of publication: November 2018

You are cordially invited…
River City is a town full of secrets and family and love. Like any small town, they come together to celebrate their own.
To the wedding…
For one weekend, all eyes are on the town’s favorite couple. As their friends and family gather around them, new love is found, and some people muddle through their own complicated happily ever after.
Of Dempsey Jones & Taite Riddley…
Return to River City one last time, and for one weekend look into the lives of some of familiar--and new--characters, and see how their happily ever after ends…

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Enjoy this excerpt:

She closes her eyes as he carefully puts everything away, then he shifts, lifting her and settling her in his lap. He does this, sometimes. A lot, actually.

They have very few boundaries. Between their friendship and the hours they spend working together, Lola spends more time with Tiny than almost anyone, and sometimes—when he’s carelessly affectionate, drawing her into him on the couch when she’s half-asleep, when he carries her to the breakroom for sleep and makes her favorite on his nights to cook at the station, the way he always seems to be looking after her—it makes it very hard to remember that they’re friends, that Tiny doesn’t see her as anything more than the tomboy Dempsey befriended that never did go away.

She’s ok with that, with being the tomboy sidekick. She knows Dempsey and Tiny and even Cal adore her, knows she has a place in their little group—and she’s ok with that place being the one of the guys' friends.

Sometimes, though, moments like this when his hand strokes broad and warm protectively over her back and his chin nudges into her hair, and she feels small and sheltered—moments like this, she hates it. It’s hard to remember her boundaries, and what she isn’t, when he holds her like she’s precious.

“You ok, Lo?” he murmurs.

She nods against his chest. “We should go back,” she mumbles.

“Take your time. They’re not gonna miss us.”

“We’re half the groomsmen, Tiny. They’re gonna miss us.”

He laughs this soft huff that makes her belly squirm. Everyone says that Tiny is quiet—that he doesn’t talk, that he’s closed off.

And she knows a lot of it is just that she’s been friends with him for so long that she’s slipped past that silence and reticence, but she sees him, with Dempsey and Cal, with their other friends, where he’s content to be quiet and observe.

He’s talkative with her—laughs with her, his placid calm mask cracking to reveal the wide smile that’s sarcastic, warm, genuine, and soft.

She wants to believe that means something.

She knows she needs to get up and get some distance because the wedding and the hand still sweeping over her back is fucking with her head.

“You ready?” she asks, shifting away. His arms tighten for a moment, steadying her before he releases her entirely and Lola scrambles out of his lap.

Tiny is watching her, eyes dark and patient as he nods, standing. “Yeah, I’m ready. Let’s go.”

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FIREBALL (River Street Bar, #1)

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RUSTY NAIL (River Street Bar, #2)