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Today I’m excited to participate in the Blog Tour of ‘Getting Off Easy’ by Erin Nicholas. This is an all-new sexy, single parent romantic comedy and it’s available now!
After reading several books in the Boys of the Bayou series by Erin Nicholas, I knew I would grab the opportunity to read more books by her. So when I got the opportunity to read ‘Getting Off Easy’, the fourth book in the Boys of the Big Easy series, I got super excited and started reading as soon as possible. Although this is the fourth book in the series, it can be read as a standalone.
In ‘Getting Off Easy’ we meet neighbors James and Harper. They are two very different people. James is a fire fighter who loves playing music in a Jazz band, and Harper is this well educated woman who loves reading. (Yes, she was definitely my kind of girl. ) But from the moment James saw Harper, he has been wanting to get closer to Harper. And the book starts right in the middle of his attempts to get her attention.
‘Getting Off Easy’ is definitely a fun, and easy to read book. Because it starts right in the middle of James trying to make Harper notice him, it took me a little while to get into this story. At first I wondered if this book maybe wasn’t a standalone.. but luckily for me this changed after reading several pages further. It threw me of a little, but not to much to really bother me.
The two main characters James and Harper where definitely fun. I loved how different they were, and how well they worked together. James was fun and sexy. And Harper was this tough woman who loved reading and teaching. I simple loved her. It was fun to read how they slowly grew closer and closer. And there was plenty of chemistry and romance to really make this a fun romantic read.
The whole ‘finding a child on you doorstep and just accepting it’ part didn’t really work for me. I mean, how can James not be freaking out about this? I just didn’t really feel like this was realistic. Also the part how they just bought ‘everything’ for a kid that might be taken away soon, I didn’t get that.
While reading ‘Getting Off Easy’ we get to see little bits of the characters that are part of the other books in this series, and it made me want to read their story too. So, while there might be parts in this book I didn’t like as much, it was a fun read.
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She froze.
“Professor?”
His voice was husky from sleep, low and gravelly, and Harper’s belly flipped, heat sliding from her stomach lower, between her legs. They were in his bedroom. One of them was in bed.
And that voice. And the nickname. She could hardly be blamed for her reaction.
“Hey,” she said softly.
“You okay?”
It was the middle of the night, and he was the one asleep with the thing that had just turned his life upside down, but he was asking about her? She never came to him with needs. He came to her. She nodded. “I thought I’d take him so you could get more comfortable.”
He looked down at the baby, and seemingly instinctively, his hand slid from the baby’s butt to his back. James’s hand was huge on the tiny baby, and Harper swallowed hard at the sweet picture. “He’s okay.”
“You sure? I don’t mind.”
He looked up at her. He was clearly still sleepy, maybe not fully awake. “You wanna help?” he asked.
She nodded. “Yeah.” She felt terrible for leaving earlier. It had gone against every instinct except the one that screamed at her to protect her heart no matter the cost. But she was afraid she was far past the point of that being possible.
“Then come here.”
Harper wet her lips. “Come… there?”
“Yeah.” He reached for her with his free hand and caught her around the wrist, tugging her forward.
She could have easily pulled back, broken free, resisted. But she let him urge her onto the mattress.
Harper knelt with a knee next to his hip. “How does this help?”
“Gets you up against me,” he said, his voice still sleep roughened.
Her heart skittered. “That’s helpful?”
“Can’t imagine how it will hurt.” He gave her a sleepy, but still devastatingly sexy smile. “This way you’re here if he does need something.”
Well, he had a point.
Harper stretched out on the mattress beside James. He put his arm up above his head again, not holding her, but definitely exposing plenty of surface area for her to be up against.
Oh, what the hell. She wouldn’t sleep well at her place now, wondering what was going on over here. This way she was very much here for whatever went on. And she’d wanted to be up against him for a few months now. Lord only knew what the next few days were going to bring with the baby and everything. She might as well enjoy this moment while she had it.
She scooted closer. His body was hot and hard. She swallowed with some difficulty.
Then the baby made a little grunting sound and curled and stretched against James.
This was so not how she’d ever pictured being in bed with James Reynaud. That was for sure.
This Blog Tour was organized by Social Butterfly PR.
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Maureen is a mom, wife, nurse, and Ravenclaw living in the Netherlands. She spends her days juggling mom-life, reading, blogging, planning date nights with her husband and working as a nurse. Maureen also is a big Anglophile, loves cooking, Gilmore Girls, Bridgerton and Harry Potter.. Always! Facebook | Instagram
