Sunday, December 10, 2017

Review and Excerpt Tour: "No Reservations" by Kristen Proby

   

From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby, comes a sexy, new contemporary romance novella in her Fusion Series, NO RESERVATIONS, brought to you by 1001 Dark Nights! Grab your copy of this amazing novella today!

   

About NO RESERVATIONS:

New York Times Bestselling author Kristen Proby takes us back to her highly acclaimed Fusion series.

Chase MacKenzie is not the man for Maura Jenkins. A self-proclaimed life-long bachelor, and unapologetic about his distaste for monogamy, a woman would have to be a masochist to want to fall into Chase’s bed.

And Maura is no masochist.

Chase has one strict rule: no strings attached. Which is fine with Maura because she doesn’t even really like Chase. He’s arrogant, cocky, and let’s not forget bossy. But when he aims that crooked grin at her, she goes weak in the knees. Not that she has any intentions of falling for his charms.

Definitely not.

Well, maybe just once…

 

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Kristen Proby’s NO RESERVATIONS – Review & Excerpt Tour Schedule:
December 6th
Canadian Book Addict – Review & Excerpt
Nerdy Dirty and Flirty – Review & Excerpt
Romance as a first language – Review & Excerpt
Two Book Pushers – Review
Wickedcoolflight – Review & Excerpt
December 7th
Book Bitches Blog – Review
Coffee Books Life – Review & Excerpt
I Love Romance – Review & Excerpt
Literaray Gossip – Review & Excerpt
White Hot Reads – Review
December 8th
About That Story – Excerpt
Booked All Night – Review & Excerpt
Delish, Devine and All Mine – Review & Excerpt
E-Romance News – Excerpt
Gi's Spot Reviews – Review & Excerpt
I'm A Book Shark – Excerpt
Oh My Growing TBR – Review & Excerpt
December 9th
Book Angel Booktopia – Review & Excerpt
KDRBCK – Review
Novel Addiction – Review
Rachel Loren’s Love of Reading – Review & Excerpt
Shannon’s Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
December 10th
Addicted 2 Romance – Review
Crystal's Book World – Review & Excerpt
Renee Entress's Blog – Review & Excerpt
Roxy's Reviews – Review & Excerpt
STEAMY BOOKS LOVER – Review & Excerpt
The Butterfly Reads – Review & Excerpt
December 11th
One-Click Chocolate Chick – Review & Excerpt
Reading and funny – Review
Story Lover's Society – Review & Excerpt
December 12th
Cassandra’s Reviews – Review & Excerpt
Jax's Book Magic – Excerpt
Sweet Red Reads – Review & Excerpt
December 13th
Book Twins Reviews – Review
In Between The Pages – Review & Excerpt
Reviews from the Heart – Review & Excerpt
Sizzling Pages Romance Reviews – Review & Excerpt
December 14th
Bobo's Book Bank – Excerpt
Ripe For Reader – Review & Excerpt
Smutty Book Friends – Review & Excerpt
The Book Avenue – Review & Excerpt
December 15th
Love Drug Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Musings of the Modern Belle – Review & Excerpt
Once Upon a Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Pardon My Blurb – Review & Excerpt
Reese's Reviews – Review & Excerpt
TrashyBibloBlog – Review & Excerpt
Wicked Reads – Review & Excerpt
   


   
About Kristen Proby: New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kristen Proby is the author of the bestselling With Me In Seattle and Love Under the Big Sky series. She has a passion for a good love story and strong, humorous characters with a strong sense of loyalty and family. Her men are the alpha type; fiercely protective and a bit bossy, and her ladies are fun, strong, and not afraid to stand up for themselves. Kristen lives in Montana, where she enjoys coffee, chocolate and sunshine. And naps.      

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Excerpt:
Just then, I hear heels clicking on the hardwood of the outer entrance, and then Maura pokes her blonde head around the doorjamb.
“Hi.” She grins and walks into my office. She’s in heels, but rather than a sexy outfit, she’s as demure as can be in a long skirt and white button-down shirt.
Jesus, she’s in full-on teacher mode. I was never this attracted to any teacher I’ve ever known.
“Hello.” I clear my throat and think twice about standing from behind my desk. I’m already so hard I’m throbbing, and I haven’t even touched her. Saying I’m attracted to Maura is a steep understatement. I’d f*ck her every day of the week without even thinking twice.
And now that she’s in my office and the chemistry is sizzling between us, I want to boost her up on my desk and bury myself balls-deep inside her.
“Are you just going to stare at me or are you going to hand over my underwear?” She bites her lip and tilts her head to the side. Her blonde hair falls over her shoulder, her blue eyes are smiling at me, and just like that, my mind is made up.
“I enjoy looking at you,” I reply and stand, circle my desk and grin when her eyes widen as I approach her. “You’re a beautiful woman, Maura.”
“Thanks,” she says and swallows hard. “I’m sure you’re busy, so I’ll just collect my things and go.”
“I like this look on you,” I say and tug gently on a golden strand of hair. “Do you always dress so demurely for school?”
“I teach fifth graders, Chase. What would you have me wear, miniskirts and crop tops?”
“I’d prefer you save those for a more private setting,” I reply and lean in to kiss her cheek. She doesn’t pull away. My hand settles on her hip, my fingertips gripping her ass. “I like looking at you like this,” I whisper into her ear. “I want to mess you up.”
“We said we weren’t going to do this again,” she reminds me, but the words are weak, and her hand glides up my chest to the knot in my tie. “We pinky swore.”
“It’s only us here.” I kiss her ear. “No one will know that we broke that pinky promise.”
“I’ll know.”
My hand glides up her side as she loosens my tie.
“Are you going to sweep everything off of your desk and f*ck me here?”
Many thanks to InkSlinger PR for giving me a free review copy of this novella in exchange for my honest review!

I first discovered Kristen Proby's "Seduction" series around this time last year, and really fell in love with the concept of five best girlfriends going into business together and using their different talents to follow their dreams. "No Reservations" is a bit of a spin-off novella, in that it doesn't really involve any of the original five Seduction owners, except for Kat, who makes a brief cameo appearance. Instead, we've got Maura, a friend of Kat's, and Chase, Kat's husband's brother. 

I don't always enjoy novellas because they can be too short to show any character development. I thought Proby did a good job here in bringing Maura and Chase to life in such an abbreviated time span. At first, I was frustrated with the back and forth between these two. Even though they set up some ground rules in advance, they both kept breaking them, and I just wanted them to communicate their feelings and get over whatever it was that was holding them back. By the end of the book, however, I felt that I got to know and like these characters, especially once I was let in on the reason behind each of their hangups, and I ended up hoping they would get their happily ever after.

As with all of the other books in this series, the chemistry between Chase and Maura practically leaps off the page. If you haven't experienced the steam that is Proby's writing, then you really need to remedy that! And if you're not sure whether you're up to that spice level, then what better way to sample the heat than with a shorter book like "No Reservations"? 

My rating: 3.5 stars

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Kristen Proby's "No Reservations" - Release Day Launch!

   

From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby, comes a sexy, new contemporary romance novella in her Fusion Series, NO RESERVATIONS, brought to you by 1001 Dark Nights! Grab your copy of this amazing novella today!

   

About NO RESERVATIONS:

New York Times Bestselling author Kristen Proby takes us back to her highly acclaimed Fusion series.

Chase MacKenzie is not the man for Maura Jenkins. A self-proclaimed life-long bachelor, and unapologetic about his distaste for monogamy, a woman would have to be a masochist to want to fall into Chase’s bed.

And Maura is no masochist.

Chase has one strict rule: no strings attached. Which is fine with Maura because she doesn’t even really like Chase. He’s arrogant, cocky, and let’s not forget bossy. But when he aims that crooked grin at her, she goes weak in the knees. Not that she has any intentions of falling for his charms.

Definitely not.

Well, maybe just once…

     
Grab your copy of NO RESERVATIONS today!




Excerpt:

“I don’t love blind dates,” I remind my friend Kat for the fourth time since she picked me up at my place twenty minutes ago. “You really didn’t have to set me up with anyone.”
“I think you’ll like him,” she says with a shrug.
“Why are we meeting them there?”
“Because Mac just finished up with work, and having him come home to get me and then go back downtown seemed unproductive.”
I nod and take a deep breath. It’s not that men as a species make me nervous. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever met a man that gave me butterflies, which I guess is a sad commentary on the state of my love life.
“You do like men, don’t you?” she asks with a raised brow and glances over at me. Kat is one of the most colorful women I know. She has deep red hair, a full sleeve of beautiful tattoos, and the outfits she wears should land her on the cover of a pin-up girl calendar. She’s super pretty.
“Yes,” I reply with a laugh. “I’m into men.”
“Perfect.” Kat smiles and pulls into a parking space at a trendy sushi restaurant near the waterfront. “And there’s no pressure. If you don’t like him, no harm done.”
“True.” I nod and exit the car, meeting her on the sidewalk. “If nothing else, I get to spend some fun time out with you and Mac.”
“Atta girl,” she says with a wink and opens the door for me, following me into the restaurant. I immediately see Kat’s husband, Mac, sitting at a table in the back of the restaurant. His friend’s back is to me, but it looks familiar.
When Mac stands with a smile to kiss his wife like he hasn’t seen her in a month, his companion stands and turns around with a smile, and all I can think is, f*ck.

    



About Kristen Proby:
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kristen Proby is the author of the bestselling With Me In Seattle and Love Under the Big Sky series. She has a passion for a good love story and strong, humorous characters with a strong sense of loyalty and family. Her men are the alpha type; fiercely protective and a bit bossy, and her ladies are fun, strong, and not afraid to stand up for themselves.
Kristen lives in Montana, where she enjoys coffee, chocolate and sunshine. And naps.