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Making Sense
Author: Serenity
Woods
ISBN-13: 9781619211223
ASIN: B008TR5CUO
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Blurb:
One night can
loosen the grip of the past. Only love can break it completely.
Sensual Healing,
Book 2
Freya Fletcher longs
to travel and use her nursing skills abroad. But while her father keeps
gambling away her meager savings, she’s anchored to her hospital job and family
responsibilities.
When friends ask her
to a bar one evening to support a local band, Freya goes along reluctantly. But
she’s glad she took the night off when gorgeous Nate Taylor turns out to be the
lead guitarist and singer. Too bad there’s no room in her complicated life for
anything resembling love.
Following a car
accident at age fourteen, Nate awoke with an ability to heal. Now, hounded by
the family that used him, haunted by the memory of a boy he couldn’t save, he
is a man on the run. Although the promise of peace glows brightly in Freya’s
beautiful eyes, his past, weighing heavily on his soul, won’t let him reach for
it.
Luckily, the
delectable Freya doesn’t want a relationship either. They come together for one
night, just casual, no strings. But one night quickly turns into several.
Before long they’ve fallen in love, but until they can find a way to break free
of their pasts, a happy future will remain only a distant dream.
Warning: An unashamedly
romantic and sexy story guaranteed to make you laugh and cry. Please do not
read unless you like brooding heroes, fun and feisty heroines, and a touch of
the Twilight Zone.
Author Bio:
Serenity Woods lives in the sub-tropical
Northland of New Zealand with her wonderful husband and gorgeous teenage son.
She writes fun, flirty, and sexy romances in a variety of romantic sub-genres.
She’s won several writing competitions and is a member of the Romance Writers
of New Zealand. She would much rather immerse herself in reading or writing
romance than do the dusting and ironing, which is why it’s not a great idea to
pop round if you have any allergies.
Links:
Website: http://www.serenitywoodsromance.com
Twitter: @Serenity_Woods
Amazon Page: http://www.amazon.com/author/serenitywoods
Barnes & Noble Page: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/serenity-woods
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/SerenityWoods
Author Guest Spot:
Thanks
for having me on your blog today!
Making Sense is the second in my Sensual
Healing series from Samhain Publishing. These stories feature heroes with
unusual talents—in the first, An Uncommon
Sense, the hero is a medium, and in this book Nate is a healer. But what if
you don’t believe in that sort of thing, can you still enjoy the stories? Of
course! The books are first and foremost contemporary romances, but just
contain an added supernatural twist if the fun and humor, emotional
rollercoaster and sizzling sex isn’t enough for you ;-)
I love anything to do with the possibility of an “otherworld”, from
ghosts and psychics to vampires and werewolves to witches and wizards. I wanted
to write a series, though, that wasn’t “paranormal” as such, and was rooted
firmly in our world. My heroines are fascinated by these strong, alpha men who,
when finding themselves gifted with unusual talents, have to come to terms with
them and end up using them to help others.
There’s a dark streak to these stories as the heroes learn to cope with
their abilities, but the books are full of fun and laughter too, as well as
lots of sizzling sex! Making Sense is
a ‘one-night stand turns to more’ story, and follows the journey of Nate and
Freya as they come together for comfort one dark and stormy night, only to find
they are repeatedly drawn to each other, even though neither really wants to
get involved.
Here’s a snippet of the moment they first open up and tell each other
about their problems.
Freya looked at
the wine glass in her hand, turning it around to let the sun catch the white
liquid, and for a moment he thought she wasn’t going to answer him. Eventually,
though, she said, “My dad’s a gambler.”
He studied her,
surprised she’d opened up to him. “Ah.”
“Yeah. Always
has been. I’m trying to save up to travel, go to Africa and Asia, maybe work
there as a nurse, you know? But every time I get some money saved, he goes and
spends it.”
Nate relaxed
his gaze, seeing the aura around her head and shoulders swirl briefly with
dark, angry red. “Is that what happened when you got the text that night?”
She nodded.
“He’d spent the rent. Mum was asking me for a loan.” She snorted and took a
large swallow of the wine. “Like they ever pay it back.”
Nate stroked
her legs, his hands growing warm at his wish to soothe her. “I’m sorry.”
She shrugged.
“One of those things. I feel resentful sometimes because I tried so hard to
make it work, to go to university, to get myself a good job, but all I ended up
with was a shedload of student loans and a pathetic savings fund that my father
thinks he can dip into whenever he feels like it.”
“Does he assume
you’ll bail him out?”
She sighed.
“No, not really. He always tells Mum not to tell me when he’s lost at the
races. But he must know she’s going to. She can’t just magic the rent up out of
nowhere. He can’t help it—I know that. It’s an addiction, like being an
alcoholic. He’s not doing it on purpose to spite me. But I get frustrated
because he doesn’t want to find help for it. He likes the high he gets when he
wins. Same as any other addiction, I suppose. You’ve got to want to stop.”
He nodded,
taking a mouthful of the Pinot Noir in his glass, enjoying the rich taste of
the red. Freya watched him drink, and when he put the glass down, he smiled at
her, still finding her mismatched eyes unsettling. “What?”
“Are you going
to tell me about it?” she asked gently.
“Tell you
what?” But he knew what she was asking. His hand stilled on her legs, and he
waited for the usual wave of panic to rise at the thought of someone finding
out about him, finding out what he did. But Freya’s gentle gaze warmed him like
the sun, and for maybe the first time since he’d unburdened himself to Ash, he
felt nothing but pleasure that she was interested in him and wanted to know
more.
“I won’t badger
you, Nate,” she said. “But if you want to tell me, I’ll listen.”
He looked up at
the stage, where the current band played bluegrass music that fitted the heat
and the occasion perfectly. He glanced along the table, but nobody was paying
them any attention. Grace and Ash were dancing, Mia and Ross were deep in
discussion about something and everyone else was too involved with their own
conversations to be interested in what he had to say.
He looked back
at Freya, who watched him, seemingly happy to wait for him to speak. He should
change the subject, keep himself to himself. But the alcohol had relaxed him,
lowered his defences—not that he had many against this girl anyway. He sighed.
“When I was fourteen, I had an accident. A car crash.” He sipped his wine
again. “And I died.”
Review:
4 stars
Review:
4 stars
Nate Taylor has built a solid wall around himself, a gift
or a curse to heal has left him unable
to trust or commit to anyone. Enter
Freya Fletcher into his life, she is not looking for a relationship nor is she
the type to just jump into bed with someone, but something about Nate has her
wanting to throw caution to the wind.
What starts as two people needing one another after a rough night, ends up with both of them wondering if it’s
possible to depend on someone else as you anchor.
I thought this was a beautiful story, both Nate and Freya
are wounded souls who are trying to break free but are at a bit of a
stalemate. I thought Freya’s background
was fascinating and you see her as a confident woman, except when it comes to
her family. Nate is a swoon worthy hero,
he has faults but even so there is just something endearing about him. Excellent read.
Giveaway
Serenity will give one of her back list for each tour stop. She will also be doing a Grand Prize, $20 Amazon or B&N gift card, at the end of the tour, winner will be selected from all of the commenters throughout the tour.
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Giveaway
Serenity will give one of her back list for each tour stop. She will also be doing a Grand Prize, $20 Amazon or B&N gift card, at the end of the tour, winner will be selected from all of the commenters throughout the tour.
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Thank you for hosting me on my blog tour! And thank you for the lovely review :-)
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