Friday, October 3, 2014

Special Event ~ All Things Pretty by M. Leighton


Please join us in celebrating the release of All Things Pretty, the third book in the Pretty Series, by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author M. Leighton! 

What we have for you today is an excerpt. It's not just any excerpt, we want you to find the pretty in the excerpt. Your guess at what the pretty is, will be your entry for the giveaway! 

Ex: My mile high Louboutin's were killing my feet.
Guess: shoes



Title: All Things Pretty (Pretty #3)
Author: M. Leighton
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: September 30, 2014
Retailers: AmazonBarnes and Noble  | iTunes | Kobo | Smashwords

Pretending to be something they’re not, afraid to trust anyone completely, destined to tear each other apart– this is the story of unlikely love and unbearable consequences.

Sig Locke is a cop. He was raised by a cop and all his brothers are cops. He bleeds blue, believes in right and wrong, and sees in black and white, never in shades of gray.

But that was before he met Tommi.

Tommi, with her long legs and bright green eyes, she captured Sig’s interest from the moment he saw her. Even after he discovered who she was–the girlfriend of a drug dealer, the beauty behind a criminal–he still found her utterly irresistible. What Sig doesn’t know, however, is that she has a secret even a cop can’t uncover.

Tommi Lawrence hasn’t had an easy life, and it only got more complicated the day she met Sig. She learned long ago that she can’t trust anyone. Her gut tells her that Sig is no exception, her heart tells her that he is. But that was before she found out his real identity.

Can love be forged in a fire of lies? Or will the truth destroy them both?

EXCERPT

For two weeks, I shadow Tommi.  Sometimes she knows I’m close.  Other times she doesn’t.  I follow her to drop her brother off at school. I follow her to Tonin’s.  Sometimes she comes back out and runs a few errands, sometimes she doesn’t come out for hours.  I can only imagine what they’re doing in there those days.  Actually, I can imagine quite well.  Parts of those mental pictures are delicious as hell.  Parts of them are downright slimy.  Always, though, I’m left with the same kinds of wonderings–what the hell is a girl like her doing with a guy like him?
 
Day after day, I watch them together.  She never looks happy or engaged. At least not beyond this superficial smile that she wears.  If I hadn’t met her that one time before, I might not know the difference. But I can tell.  And I remember how nervous she was about being late and showing up in her “street” clothes.  It’s little things like that, things I’m starting to see more of, that make me wonder what he’s doing to keep her. And why she goes to such lengths to stay.

He hasn’t totally possessed her, though.  At least three days a week, I follow Tommi to some location that she says would make me uncomfortable to go into or to a building that’s locked for one reason or another.  It’s always near a public place, one that’s fairly easy to hide and remain anonymous in, and one that has Wi-Fi.  On each of those days, she carries a snazzy purse that will allow for her iPad, to hide whatever it is that she’s doing. 

Beyond the scope of my real job and my Tonin job, sometimes I wait outside, watching her place on nights when she doesn’t have plans with her disgusting boyfriend.  Her brother goes out on those nights and she stays inside doing…whatever.  I’ve thought several times of going to the door, of knocking and giving some excuse to be here or to stop by, but she’s not to a place where she’s open to trusting me yet. And I can’t afford to lose her this early on.  So I wait.  And I watch.


On nights that she’s with Lance, I watch her climb into his car, I watch her look stunning for him, I watch him parade her around like a prize bull.  That shit’s getting harder and harder to see. She’s better than that.  Better than him.  I’m just not sure she knows it.  But I do.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that this woman is something special.  And that she’s withering away here with Tonin.

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Series reading order:
All the Pretty Lies
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All the Pretty Poses
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All Things Pretty

About Michelle:
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, M. Leighton, is a native of Ohio. She relocated to the warmer climates of the South, where she can be near the water all summer and miss the snow all winter. Possessed of an overactive imagination from early in her childhood, Michelle finally found an acceptable outlet for her fantastical visions: literary fiction. Having written over a dozen novels, these days Michelle enjoys letting her mind wander to more romantic settings with sexy Southern guys, much like the one she married and the ones you'll find in her latest books. When her thoughts aren't roaming in that direction, she'll be riding wild horses, skiing the slopes of Aspen or scuba diving with a hot rock star, all without leaving the cozy comfort of her office.

About Michelle: I love coffee and chocolate, even more so when they are combined. I'm convinced that one day they could be the basis for world peace. I also love the color red and am seriously considering dying my hair.

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3 comments:

  1. So loved this book. Cannot wait for the conclusion.

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  2. Loved this so much. Can't wait for the second part.

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  3. Love the excerpt! Cannot wait for the next book, holy hell!!

    Naomi @ Nomi’s Paranormal Palace

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