Sunday 10 August 2014

Release Blitz Tour: Review, Excerpt + Playlist: All For This by Lexi Ryan #HereandNow + Lost In Me is #FREE





Released August 4, 2014

New Adult Contemporary Romance




1) LOST IN ME is FREE through the ALL FOR THIS tour!

2) ALL FOR THIS will be $2.99 on release day and $3.99 thereafter.


**ALL FOR THIS is book three in the Here and Now series. It is not a stand-alone and it’s intended to be read after LOST IN ME and FALL TO YOU.**

What if you would never remember the day you made the most important decision of your life?

That’s what they’re telling me about the day of my accident—the day I put on Max’s ring and chose him over Nate. I’m counting on the wisdom behind a decision I don’t remember making.

Max is amazing—sexy, sweet, and kind. I was starting to believe happily-ever-after might be in my future after all. Then the unthinkable happened and my world imploded. If I’m going to make this work with Max, I need my missing memories, or at least answers from about those five days before my accident.

But what does my future hold if those answers aren’t anything like I imagined?



EXCERPT


**SPOILER ALERT!**

The following excerpt from ALL FOR THIS by its very nature contains spoilers for the first two books in the Here and Now series, LOST IN ME and FALL TO YOU. If you hate spoilers and haven’t read the first two books, don’t read any further.


***



Hanna



“Where’s Hanna?” I know the voice, and an unwelcome thrill dances up my spine as Nate pushes into my kitchen and stalks toward me.


“Customers aren’t allowed back here,” Liz says behind him.


“Don’t do it,” he says, and those dark, broody eyes are all over me like he’s trying to take me in, memorize me.


I take a deep breath and look to my sister. “You should probably go.” Then I turn to Nate. “Don’t do what?”


“Um…” Liz looks Nate up and down. “Are you sure? Because I can stay to protect you. Or…try.” God bless her, she’s standing behind Nate with her hands on her hips, ready to swing on my behalf.


“Why don’t you give us a minute?”


She narrows her eyes at Nate. “Hurt her and I’ll cut off your balls in your sleep.” Then she pushes out of the kitchen, the door swinging wildly behind her.


“Don’t move in with him,” Nate says.


“What are you talking about?” I ask.


“I thought you said you weren’t moving forward with Max until after the babies were born. Don’t you think moving in is moving forward?”


“I don’t know where you get your information, but I’m not moving in with him.”


“You’re not?”


I shake my head. “He asked me to, and I said no.”


He must have been expecting a fight, because his shoulders relax and he drags a hand through his hair. “Thank you.”


I toss my washcloth into the sink. “Is that all?”


“No.” He lifts his eyes to mine. “I need to apologize.”


“For what?”


“For this.”


In two long strides, he closes the space between us and presses his mouth to mine. His lips are hot and hungry as his tongue sweeps inside—coaxing and demanding all at once. And it’s so good. So sweet and easy and safe that, for a breath, I forget how wrong it is. I’m back in the hotel in St. Louis, finding myself in the fire between us. For a breath, I forget that I’m wearing Max’s ring.


I shove at his shoulder and push him away. “Don’t do that again.” My stomach squeezes, and my heart is so battered and beaten that it’s unrecognizable.




***



Nate





Her eyes flash with anger, disappointment, and heat. “Do you think you can win me with a kiss? Did you think I’m so fickle that your mouth on mine is enough to convince me to break Max’s heart?”


I step forward, blocking her between me and the counter as I lower my mouth to her ear. “I thought maybe you needed a reminder.”


“What do you want from me? You want me to admit that I want you? You know I do. You want me to tell you I’m still in love with you? It’s true.”


My heart swells and hammers at her words. I don’t know if I’ll ever feel worthy of Hanna’s love, but that doesn’t change that I want it, need it like I need air.


“Isn’t that enough? Is it like this with him? When he’s whispering in your ear, does your body hum with need? We both know I could kiss you again and make you forget him. I could kiss you until you wanted me so badly you climbed onto that counter and let me touch you everywhere, let me do anything I wanted with your body.”


“You won’t,” she says, her voice shaking slightly.


“Are you so sure?”


“You won’t,” she repeats, “because I’m asking you not to. You won’t because you’re too good not to respect that.”


“I don’t want to be good,” I growl. I step back so I can see her face—her parted lips, her smoky eyes. “I want you.”


“I’m taken.”


“What happened?” I ask, scanning her face, trying to read her shielding expression. “Between when I left LA and when I came back to New Hope, what happened to make you take him back?”


She’s silent for a minute, and I wonder if she’s going to tell me the truth. “I found out he bought me the bakery—that all my worries and insecurities about our relationship were totally unfounded.”


“I’ll buy you a hundred bakeries.”


“But I don’t want a hundred bakeries. I only want this one.”


Here. In New Hope. I close my eyes because I can’t deny that geography still stands between us.


“Please don’t kiss me again.”


“What if you ask me to?”


She swallows. “I won’t ask.”








All for This Playlist



Justin Timberlake—Drink You Away


Rihanna—Stay


Muse—Madness


Ingrid Michaelson feat. A Great Big World—Over You


A Great Big World—Already Home


Sam Smith—Stay with Me


Pink, Nate Reuss—Just Give Me a Reason


Ani DiFranco—Falling Is Like This


Norah Jones—Come Away With Me


Train—Marry Me


Oh Honey—Be Okay





REVIEW


I have loved every second spent in New Hope with Hanna and the rest of the characters of this series, and although there has been plenty of heart ache, I've held onto hope that Hanna would make the right choice, and that she'd find her happiness with the man she truly loves and who truly deserves her in return.

Nate has had a large chunk of my heart since LOST IN ME, but Max grew on me a little in FALL TO YOU, so I knew this was going to be tough for Hanna. She seemed to be the luckiest girl in the world with two great guys wanting to love her, but it was tearing each of them apart - loving them both equally, all the turmoil and surprises that were around every bend, it wasn't good for any of them, and sometimes the right decisions were the hardest but they had to be made so that everyone involved could move on. 

There was still the mystery of what exactly had happened the day of Hanna's accident, and all fingers pointed to a certain blond psycho who couldn't take no for an answer. I was so sure Meredith had had something to do with it, but maybe she was just the obvious suspect. As Hanna tried to piece back together the lost memories, trying to figure out why she had chosen Max, and if their had been any foul play the day of the accident, I was riveted, wanting to help her. As the events of the past unraveled a very shocking truth was laid bare, and I wasn't sure if I should be angry or relieved.

The interesting thing about this story was how deeply, the events throughout this series, in fact, events that stemmed from the New Hope series, had wounded so many people. This story is from Hanna, Nate and Max's POVs, and I was always so focused on their heartbreak and happiness that I kind of missed what was going on behind the scenes. Meredith is not particularly my favorite character, but to see her so broken, and to be allowed to understand where some of her bitchiness came from was enlightening. I still don't like her, but I do feel sorry for her and I hope she will find peace and love. 

This book was a thrilling conclusion to an amazing series. It was filled with love and heartache, and the characters will latch onto you and never let go. I'm sad to see it end, but I was thoroughly excited to find out that Lizzy and Sam will get their own story!! So even though I am sad, I have something to look forward to and that lifts my heart.








About the Author


Once a college English professor, I now write full time. I live in rural Indiana, where, when I’m not writing, I get to hang out with my husband and two kids–a six-year-old boy and a two-year-old hellion, er, girl. Not surprisingly, reading and writing remain my favorite activities, though both come in bits and pieces these days, not the big hunks of time I enjoyed before I had children. When I’m feeling virtuous, I like to go running (I use that word liberally. I’m really, really slow) or do yoga. Don’t worry, I’m always careful to balance out such activities with a hearty serving of ice cream or a chocolate martini.





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