BLOG TOUR/REVIEW: FINDING YOU BY ELIZABETH LEE

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Title: Finding You

Author: Elizabeth Lee

Age Group: NA

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Scheduled to Release: October 7, 2013

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Description:

Being the wild child has worked for Mallory Vandaveer for most of her life. She’s the good time girl, up for anything–and everyone in her small town knows it. But when her sister came home after years of being away, long hidden secrets came out. Turns out, Mallory isn’t who she thought she was. And now everything starts to feel like a lie. In order to figure out who she is she’ll have to set out on a journey to find the one man who holds the answers.

Everett Boone is in hiding. Hiding from his past and the press and the demands of a career he put on hold after tragedy struck. When a young woman with secrets of her own blows into town and rents the apartment next to his, he’ll have to face the past he was trying to escape in order to understand his feelings for her.

They’ll both have to dig deep inside themselves to discover whether or not they’re capable of being enough for one another. Finding the person you’re meant to love isn’t the problem. Sometimes the hardest person to find is yourself.

REVIEW:

Sexy, Wild and Untamed!

We met Mallory, Whitney's younger sister, in Escaping Me.  The bar hopping, trash talking feisty little southern girl who had her life change when she found out her mother had had an affair. That one night changed everything, her parents divorce and the little fact that the man she had thought all those years to be her father, wasn't.

This is her story. She has decided that she wants to get to know the man who fathered her, and why he just left town and never looked back.  She knows nothing about him and when she talks to her mom about him, she can see her mother struggle over the quilt of keeping it a secret all these years.

She goes to live in Savannah with Whitney and Cole and every few days makes the 3 hour drive to Charleston, SC to spy on Vince, trying to get the courage to go talk to him and tell him who she is.

"I could rent a place above Vince's shop and maybe that would make it easier to find out about him and meet him, for that matter. It was the perfect excuse to run into him without looking like a stalker. Or maybe that actually made me a stalker?"

When Mallory and Boone first meet, there is nothing but hostility. Mallory, trying to keep the secret of why she is truly in Charleston and Boone, thinking she is a reporter trying to get an interview with him.  He soon finds out that Mallory (he knows her as Molly, that's the alias she is using) doesn't even know who he is.

Mallory's take on Boone
"God, he was sexy. In that mysterious, cocky, really-good-at-angry-sex kind of way"

Boone's take on Mallory (Molly)
"Add that to the fact that she has the face of an Angel and sultry blue eyes that said she was anything but and.... What was I saying?"

Mallory
Got a job. Got an apartment. Got a demigod living next door to me that's more than willing to help feed my sexual appetite. Life was good. Now to just tell Vince who I really was and everything will be right as rain.

Mallory is a self proclaimed non attachable girl. She'd rather have a friend with benefits than a boyfriend. She had her heart shattered once and she wasn't about to let it happen again.  Boone carries a secret with him that has left him heartbroken and hasn't been with a girl in 3 yrs, he is not looking for a girlfriend.   But with them living so close to each other, the sexual tension only gets worse, so she offers that they become friends with benefits, just two adults blowing off steam.

Will they be able to keep their relationship with no strings attached?  Will Mallory (Molly) and Boone finally find out the truth about each other?  Will Mallory ever tell Vince who she really is and get the father she's always wanted?  To find out, get your copy today!  I highly recommend it.

EXCERPT

Looking around my small apartment at all the boxes I had to unpack and thinking of the chores that needed to be done to make this place comfortable—at least as comfortable as possible given the constant ball of nerves I'd be while this whole mess played out—I sighed.  I'd managed to get the bed made and a few of my clothes hung up in the closet after Cole left.  The rest could wait until tomorrow; I needed a good night's sleep and a clear head.

I flipped off the lamp next to my bed and snuggled down in the sheets that still smelled like home.  Like that undeniable, comforting, wrap-you-in-a-hug smell of home and I loved it.  Gave me a little relief to know that I still had at least a little part of my life from before the Vince bombshell was dropped on me and exploded my seemingly charmed life.  Sure Robert Vandaveer was a shitty dad, but at least I knew he was.  I'd accepted his flaws.  I hated them, but I accepted them. Vince was a complete mystery.  A few photos and old stories my mom had told me weren't enough to really know him.  His flaws may have been worse than Vandaveer's.

Just as I was about to drift off, dreams of small town peacefulness beckoning, a loud crash startled me.  Popping up like I'd just been shot, I clasped my hands over my chest and felt my heart beating.  I could hear it.  Or at least I thought I could.  It took me a few seconds to realize that the chaotic thumping I thought was my heart was actually a drumbeat coming through the brick wall that separated my apartment from Boone's.

Son of a bitch.

Not only was I living next door to a paranoid jerk, he was also apparently moonlighting as a drummer.  A cheesy wedding band drummer at that.  Playing some easy listening, soft rock bullshit that I'd only heard during a bad 80s movie montage.

I climbed out of bed and stomped my way over to beat down Boone's door and give him a piece of my mind.  Just as I was about to walk down the stairs and do just that, I realized that with the way the music was blaring there was no way he'd hear me knocking on the outside door.  My eyes shot to the window and the fire escape.  I'd explored it a little earlier when I was moving stuff in, but I hadn't ventured out onto it yet.  Looked sturdy enough.  Didn't fire escapes have to be safety rated?  I sure hoped so.   All I knew for sure was that it stretched across to Boone's apartment windows.

As I shimmied out the window and felt the cool metal grates beneath my bare feet, I was fuming.  I steadied my hands on the railing with a firm grip and tugged to see if they were secure.  A little loose, but it seemed strong enough—probably the last person to die on a fire escape's exact thoughts.  Holding my breath, I continued across.  The fact that he'd woken me up was one thing, but for me to have to risk my life to yell at him about it... He'd crossed the don't-fuck-with-Mallory line.  Or was it the don't-fuck-with-Molly line? Whatever it was, he'd crossed it.

I peered through his windows, the sounds of his drumming along to the music vibrating the panes of glass that stood between us, I readied my fist to knock—no, to pound.  Just as I was about to make contact, my eyes registered how much he was zoned in and playing the rhythm of the next song that began blaring through his speakers. 

Hello, drummer boy.

The primal look in his eyes.  The controlled movement of the muscles in his toned arms as he played.  The sheen of sweat that slicked his shirtless body and made the six-pack he'd been hiding practically glisten with an invitation to be licked.  I drew my bottom lip between my teeth and stared.  

Why did he have to be such a dick?  He seemed stressed out and pissed off.  I was pretty sure it had to do with the mysterious death he'd spouted off about yesterday.  I had no idea what he'd been through, but I just didn't see the point in being miserable all the time.  Life was meant to be lived.  To have fun.  Maybe my sister was right about him needing someone like me to put him in a good mood.  I had it on good authority that I was a pretty good roll in the hay.  Maybe one wild night was just what he needed. 

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Title: Escaping Me

Author: Elizabeth Lee

Age Group: NA

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Published: July 30, 2013

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Description:

All she wanted to do was forget. Forget the memory of walking in on her boyfriend in the middle of, well, another girl. Forget how she had her entire life planned out. And, forget about being perfect all the time. Unfortunately, she was Whitney Vandaveer and despite the fact that she moved to the middle of nowhere – she couldn't.

He always knew he would never be more than nothing. No job, no money, no future. Cole Pritchett had accepted the fact that he would always be the screw up and he was okay with it. Until he met her.

Here's the thing they quickly found out – sometimes we all need a little help escaping who we think we are.

REVIEW:

Raw, sexy and Irresistible

This was a fun, sexy read about two people from the opposite sides of the tracks, but they soon find out they have a little more in common with each other than they think and the chemistry between them is explosive.

Whitney has everything she thought she ever wanted.  Living with her rich lawyer Father and her step mother, going to a great college and has a very popular, handsome and athletic boyfriend.  She thought she had a great life. That is, until she finds her boyfriend of 4 years in bed with another girl.  Heartbroken, she decides to spend her summer with her Mom and sister, Mallory, on the farm and try to forget all about Wesley.

Cole has nothing and thinks he will never amount to anything, as everyone keeps telling him.  Coming from a broken family, his mother a crack addict, his dad in prison and his brother the town deputy.  When he gets into trouble and his brother uses his last favor to keep him out of trouble, thats when its time for him to leave town.  Thats when he meets her, she is about to turn his world upside down.

Cole
-I am trying to keep my nose clean and stay under the radar, and I can tell she is the kind of girl you get in fights over. The kind of girl that causes you to lose your ability to think straight. The kind of girl that deserves way better than I can ever give her. If she can drive me crazy with her back to me, imagine what would happen if I ever let myself wrap my arms around her. Kiss her. Or bring her to a point where my name rolls off her lips ecstasy. Can't do it.

Whitney
He looked like the kind of guy that said exactly what he was thinking, and judging by the way his hooded eyes were taking me in, I wistfully wished he'd tell me all the ways he'd make me scream his name.

They cant deny their feelings any longer, the spark between them is just too strong.  But, can Whitney convince him that he is worth loving and getting that chance?  Will Cole convince her that he is nothing like her piece of shit ex-boyfriend and would never hurt her?  Can they get over their own pasts and truly convince the other that they are meant to be?  And what happens when summer is over and Whitney is to return to college?

Guess you have to go get this book and find out for yourself.  You will not be disappointed.   I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants a love that can withstand bar fights, crazy ex's, family secrets and can still have a happily ever after

Author Bio:

Born and raised in the middle of a Midwestern cornfield (not literally, that would be weird), I’ve spent my entire life imagining stories. Stories where the right guy always gets the right girl, first kisses are as magical as they are on the big screen and anything is completely possible if you believe.

Although this journey began years ago, it recently took on a whole new life. After years of devouring hundreds of Romance, YA and New Adult novels, I had an epiphany... I should write a book. And I did it!

If I’m not reading, writing, enjoying drinks with my amazing group of girlfriends or chasing around a sarcastically funny kid, I’m probably watching television shows that were created for teenagers, while my husband teases that I’m too old to watch them.

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