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Getting Off Easy is coming January 14th!
Getting Off Easy, Boys of the Big Easy book four, is almost here!!
No worries, you can jump in right here if this is your first trip to New Orleans to visit my hot single dads!
You're definitely going to want to check out the playboy firefighter who finds an abandoned baby on his doorstep! James is something special! And how is his across-the-hall neighbor, Harper, supposed to resist when he comes knocking and asking for help? She's a goner, folks. And she doesn't even really mind! :)
You know, this book almost didn't happen!
Book three came out last February and it was feeling like readers were more ready for the spin-off series, Boys of the Bayou, than they were for more from the Big Easy. So we headed down to the bayou and jumped in with the Landry family! And that was so much fun!
Then, when that series wrapped up and I was getting ready for my next series, there was just this niggling in the back of my mind. I'd had James and Harper's story with me for a very long time. I knew all about the baby boy that would show up on James's doorstep and about the buttoned-up professor that lives across the hall and the fluffy little dog they share custody of. I just couldn't shake their story. So I decided to start writing it and see how it went.
Well, it went amazingly well. The story just flew out of my fingers! And then I sent it off to my editor and she absolutely fell head over heels for James and Harper and everyone and well, obviously, we had to get it out to readers!
So, I'm thrilled to now be just two weeks away and to already have some early reviews in telling me that going back to the Big Easy and writing this book was absolutely the right thing to do!
I hope you'll check out Getting Off Easy on January 14th!
Getting Off Easy
No worries, you can jump in right here if this is your first trip to New Orleans to visit my hot single dads!
You're definitely going to want to check out the playboy firefighter who finds an abandoned baby on his doorstep! James is something special! And how is his across-the-hall neighbor, Harper, supposed to resist when he comes knocking and asking for help? She's a goner, folks. And she doesn't even really mind! :)
You know, this book almost didn't happen!
Book three came out last February and it was feeling like readers were more ready for the spin-off series, Boys of the Bayou, than they were for more from the Big Easy. So we headed down to the bayou and jumped in with the Landry family! And that was so much fun!
Then, when that series wrapped up and I was getting ready for my next series, there was just this niggling in the back of my mind. I'd had James and Harper's story with me for a very long time. I knew all about the baby boy that would show up on James's doorstep and about the buttoned-up professor that lives across the hall and the fluffy little dog they share custody of. I just couldn't shake their story. So I decided to start writing it and see how it went.
Well, it went amazingly well. The story just flew out of my fingers! And then I sent it off to my editor and she absolutely fell head over heels for James and Harper and everyone and well, obviously, we had to get it out to readers!
So, I'm thrilled to now be just two weeks away and to already have some early reviews in telling me that going back to the Big Easy and writing this book was absolutely the right thing to do!
I hope you'll check out Getting Off Easy on January 14th!
Getting Off Easy
Getting Off Easy sneak peek!
Here's a little bit from Getting Off Easy, the next in the Boys of the Big Easy series!
Playboy firefighter James Reynaud's whole world gets tipped upside down when a baby boy is abandoned on his doorstep. But that's nothing compared to the way he goes head over heels for his across-the-hall neighbor when he enlists her help with diaper duty!
* * * * *
Getting Off Easy
January 14, 2020
Harper reached out to lift the baby, but just as her hand touched his back, James stirred.
She froze.
“PǴڱǰ?�
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.
Grab it now!
Getting Off Easy
Playboy firefighter James Reynaud's whole world gets tipped upside down when a baby boy is abandoned on his doorstep. But that's nothing compared to the way he goes head over heels for his across-the-hall neighbor when he enlists her help with diaper duty!
* * * * *
Getting Off Easy
January 14, 2020
Harper reached out to lift the baby, but just as her hand touched his back, James stirred.
She froze.
“PǴڱǰ?�
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.
Grab it now!
Getting Off Easy
Bayou With Benefits
Bayou With Benefits
His phone dinged with another text.
It was his sister.
Naomi:𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴-𝘶𝘱.
Michael stopped walking and waited. Naomi was giving him a heads-up about something exactly when she knew he’d be getting home.
Naomi: 𝘈𝘮𝘪'𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯.
Michael felt his heart trip, his stomach flip, and his whole body get a little weak. He’d known she would come back eventually. He just hadn't known how long it would take. And he hadn't known if he would be ready.
But like a switch had flipped, everything in him was suddenly straining to find her, see her, touch her, tell her all the things he needed to say.
He dropped his bag to the ground and texted back simply, 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦?
He was already pulling his keys out of his pocket and preparing to head to her sister’s or grandmother’s house.
Naomi: 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦.
Michael froze. His heart squeezed. His eyes went to the front door of his house. She was 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦? Then he looked at the car. Pieces began slipping into place. Theo picking Andre up. The absence of Naomi and Donovan's truck.
He grabbed his bag and started for the front door. He heard another ding on his phone, but he ignored it. Nothing else mattered. Ami was here at his house. And no one else was.
He pushed the front door open harder than necessary, and it banged against the wall. He grabbed it as it bounced back, slamming it shut. He tossed his bag and was already to the kitchen doorway by the time she made it to the same spot.
She nearly ran into his chest.
She pulled up. And her eyes went wide. “Oh.�
He moved closer, and she took a couple of steps back. Michael could only imagine how he looked. His jaw was tight, his heart was pounding, and he probably looked like a man who was about to claim the woman he loved and hadn't seen in almost four months.
Because that was exactly what he was.
�
� friends to lovers
� firefighter
� single dad
� longing, pining, and slow burn goodness 🥰
� Ellie & Leo
� cameos!
� more Colin and JD! 😁
GRAB IT HERE�
ADD to your WANT TO READ shelf!�
His phone dinged with another text.
It was his sister.
Naomi:𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴-𝘶𝘱.
Michael stopped walking and waited. Naomi was giving him a heads-up about something exactly when she knew he’d be getting home.
Naomi: 𝘈𝘮𝘪'𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯.
Michael felt his heart trip, his stomach flip, and his whole body get a little weak. He’d known she would come back eventually. He just hadn't known how long it would take. And he hadn't known if he would be ready.
But like a switch had flipped, everything in him was suddenly straining to find her, see her, touch her, tell her all the things he needed to say.
He dropped his bag to the ground and texted back simply, 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦?
He was already pulling his keys out of his pocket and preparing to head to her sister’s or grandmother’s house.
Naomi: 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦.
Michael froze. His heart squeezed. His eyes went to the front door of his house. She was 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦? Then he looked at the car. Pieces began slipping into place. Theo picking Andre up. The absence of Naomi and Donovan's truck.
He grabbed his bag and started for the front door. He heard another ding on his phone, but he ignored it. Nothing else mattered. Ami was here at his house. And no one else was.
He pushed the front door open harder than necessary, and it banged against the wall. He grabbed it as it bounced back, slamming it shut. He tossed his bag and was already to the kitchen doorway by the time she made it to the same spot.
She nearly ran into his chest.
She pulled up. And her eyes went wide. “Oh.�
He moved closer, and she took a couple of steps back. Michael could only imagine how he looked. His jaw was tight, his heart was pounding, and he probably looked like a man who was about to claim the woman he loved and hadn't seen in almost four months.
Because that was exactly what he was.
�
� friends to lovers
� firefighter
� single dad
� longing, pining, and slow burn goodness 🥰
� Ellie & Leo
� cameos!
� more Colin and JD! 😁
GRAB IT HERE�
ADD to your WANT TO READ shelf!�
