Release Tour and Giveaway: Liars: Lucy Lennox and May Archer
Liars
(Licking Thicket #2)
(Licking Thicket #2)
Lucy Lennox and May Archer
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Release Date October 28, 2020
Parrish Partridge’s True Facts:
There’s nothing hotter than a tall, gruff, bewildered, tattooed mountain of a man cuddling a sweet, orphaned baby, so you can tell yourself that you’ll resist him...
But that’s a lie.
And when that man asks you to do him a favor and pretend to be his very temporary, very fake fiance to help him get custody of that adorable baby, you can pretend you know better than to say yes…
But that’s a lie, too.
And when you actually get to know your kind, strong, pullet-loving prince of a fiance, and all his crazy, lovable, meddling neighbors, you can tell yourself you’re not really falling for Diesel Church and the town of Licking Thicket…
But that might be the biggest lie of all.
All aboard the crazy train back to Licking Thicket! Actually this story is a little more serious than the first one, but still has all the humor and a whole lot of heart.
Tall, burly, and tatted Diesel Church is in a predicament. He is trying to fight for custody of his baby niece but the fact he is single and owns and lives at the junkyard does not look that great on paper. He is a loner and used to not having anyone to rely on.
Proper and successful Parrish Partridge is in need of a change. Leaving his broken life behind, he is moving to the Thicket to start up a new flagship restaurant for his family company.
They are both delightfully awkward in social situations and keep ending up face to face. Diesel needs another baby daddy (or fake fiance'). And Parrish just cannot seem to stay away from the adorable baby in need or her hot and sexy uncle. So they become liars and fakers, but the lines start blurring.
These two are opposites, but are so freakin' adorable together. They do not always see the potential in themselves that the other sees, so they often feel that they are not good enough. They try to resist getting in too deep, but are just so drawn together. Poor Parrish does not want to get too close and get his heart broken. And Diesel just cannot imagine anyone thinking he is worthy. They are vulnerable, sweet, self-deprecating, and love hard, but are also so afraid. They have hot chemistry and their personalities balance each other well. They are perfectly imperfect together. But they kind of live under this cloud of denial while being too afraid to fess up to what they really want and need.
And oh my, these two guys with little baby Marigold are just too cute. And they are both so afraid of losing her. And that just stirs up even more of their self-doubt and insecurities. Sometimes I just wanted to shake these two, but most of the time I just wanted to hug them.
They are both delightfully awkward in social situations and keep ending up face to face. Diesel needs another baby daddy (or fake fiance'). And Parrish just cannot seem to stay away from the adorable baby in need or her hot and sexy uncle. So they become liars and fakers, but the lines start blurring.
These two are opposites, but are so freakin' adorable together. They do not always see the potential in themselves that the other sees, so they often feel that they are not good enough. They try to resist getting in too deep, but are just so drawn together. Poor Parrish does not want to get too close and get his heart broken. And Diesel just cannot imagine anyone thinking he is worthy. They are vulnerable, sweet, self-deprecating, and love hard, but are also so afraid. They have hot chemistry and their personalities balance each other well. They are perfectly imperfect together. But they kind of live under this cloud of denial while being too afraid to fess up to what they really want and need.
And oh my, these two guys with little baby Marigold are just too cute. And they are both so afraid of losing her. And that just stirs up even more of their self-doubt and insecurities. Sometimes I just wanted to shake these two, but most of the time I just wanted to hug them.
This is a silly, sweet, sexy, and completely heartwarming opposites-attract, fake fiance', small-town love story. It's two men and a baby, a quirky town, meddling friends, unpredictable court opponents, and anything goes. We get to visit with the whole wacky crew we met in Fakers and get more of their continuing lives in the Thicket. After getting used to them, I think I kind of like them and kind of want to go live there too.
I am looking forward to more coming with Tucker and Dunn in Idiots. These two best friends are pretty clueless...bless their hearts.
A bloodcurdling wail echoed through the little stairwell, and I froze for a second, then rushed headlong down the steps two at a time, skidding to a halt halfway down the staircase when I found the source of the sound—a wriggling baby in a fuzzy pink sweater who was literally crying herself purple, possibly because the giant, tattooed mountain of a man holding her was growling down at her with a ferocious scowl on his face.
I gripped my folder tightly and opened my mouth to protest even though the guy was twice my size, when the baby’s cries quieted for half a second and I caught that the man wasn’t growling. He was… singing?
“Something… sunshine. Only sunshine. You make me happy. Something gray? Christ.” He heaved a frustrated sigh. “Marigold, you’ve got to stop now. You’ve made your point. Be reasonable, baby girl.”
Oh. Oh, good gravy. That changed everything.
I caught my breath and stared. The man looked like he’d been torn off the stage at a rock concert, transported to Nowhere, Tennessee, and stuffed into the outfit I once wore to a middle school dance. There was no other explanation for a guy with overlong brown-blond hair, graceful black inked scrolls emerging from the collar of his wrinkled, blue button-down shirt, shiny Dockers that clung to his tree-trunk thighs, and black steel-toed boots to have appeared in this stairwell. I sure as heck hadn’t seen any other guys in this neck of the woods who were so unapologetically themselves.
And if that weren’t enough to pierce my heart, the kidlet in his arms was gorgeous, despite her tears and wiggling. She had a head full of dark curls, way more than should have been possible for a baby her age, which I’d peg at somewhere around nine months—somewhere past the shriveled-potato stage of early infancy but not nearly at the terrifying walking age.
The baby wailed again, and the giant looked genuinely panicked. He held her flat across his outstretched forearms, like he was carrying a box of pizza or helping her learn the backstroke, and he bent his knees in a kind of next-level Oompa Loompa jig in time to his stammered singing. A pink-and-white striped tote bag sat on the floor next to the wall.
“Work with me, Marigold, okay? You’re not hungry, ’cause you just drank ten gallons of formula. You’re not stinky…” He lifted the kid gingerly. “Not stinky,” he confirmed in a deep, raspy voice that did things to me. “Are you having an existential crisis? Is that a thing kids do? Do you need alone time? Are your lips chapped? Do you hate my cologne?”
The baby fussed harder, flailing her tiny feet. The man groaned, and I belatedly noticed one of those pacifier stuffed animal things lying on the floor by the giant’s boot.
I scurried down the stairs and picked it up. “I think she might be looking for this,” I said, holding it aloft. It was a gray-and-white polka-dotted chicken with a green sucker on the end.
The guy shut his eyes and shook his head. “Ah, shit.”
His eyes popped open in shock as he realized what he’d said, and he looked from me to the kid guiltily. “Fuck, forget I said that,” he muttered.
His eyes widened further. “Goddamn it all.”
I snickered. “Maybe quit while you’re ahead?”
Brooks Johnson’s Words To Live By:
When returning to Licking Thicket, TN, for the first time in ten years to reunite with your nosy neighbors, heart-broken ex-girlfriend, and matchmaking mama who never quite believed you were gay, it’s best to bring a fake boyfriend as backup...
Just don’t be surprised when your ex-girlfriend does the same.
And when her incredibly hot fake boyfriend becomes the one island of calm in a sea of bovine-based insanity, it’s best to exercise caution… especially when he pushes you up against the rough barn wall to check you very thoroughly for splinters...
Just don’t be surprised if you fall head-over-hooves in love with him.
Flakes
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Expected January 12, 2021
Fools
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Expected January 12, 2021
Opposites attract in this fun prequel novella set during an unexpected Tennessee snowstorm. Enjoy forced-proximity and enemies-to-lovers tropes as this brand new couple find love among the zany, meddling residents of our beloved Licking Thicket.
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Expected February 28, 2021
Tucker Wright’s Clues for Life:
What’s a 4-letter word for an utterly oblivious, totally commitment-phobic, heartbreakingly gorgeous man with a pet pig named Bernadette?
That’d be D-U-N-N, as in Dunn Johnson, my very best pal and fishing buddy since I moved to Licking Thicket.
What’s a 6-letter word for a nerdy, crossword-loving town doctor who’s doomed to be hopelessly, thoroughly, irrevocably, in love with that straight best friend for the rest of his born days?
That’s T-U-C-K-E-R, as in me.
But when I agree to let Dunn be my 24/7 dating coach, and he decides to get our whole nosy town in on the act, there’s only one 5-letter word to describe the pair of us.
F-O-O-L-S.
Lucy Lennox
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After enjoying creative writing as a child, Lucy didn’t write her first novel until she was over 40 years old. Her debut novel, Borrowing Blue, was published in the autumn of 2016. Lucy has an English Literature degree from Vanderbilt University, but that doesn’t hold a candle to the years and years of staying up all night reading tantalizing novels on her own. She has three children, plays tennis, and hates folding laundry. While her husband is no shmoopy romance hero, he is very good at math, cooks a mean lasagne, has gorgeous eyes, looks hot in his business clothes, and makes her laugh every single day.
Lucy hopes you enjoy sexy heroes as much as she does. Happy reading!
May Archer
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May is an M/M author who lives in Boston. She spends her days raising three incredibly sarcastic children, finding inventive ways to drive her husband crazy, planning beach vacations, avoiding the gym, reading M/M romance, and occasionally writing it. She also writes MF romance as Maisy Archer.
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