Today we are
'Returning to Branton' right before the release of book #3 (SWEET RUIN)
on Thursday.
A note from the author:
University of Branton is a special place for me. It's a conglomeration of my hometown and the town I made my home when I got married and combines with it the small town feel of a college. College changed my life--and I wanted to share that in my stories. Each book focuses on a different romance--Atti and Avery, Dane and Scout, Megan, Asher and Luca--and challenges relationships pose, while circling back to the previous couples and friends you've made in earlier books. Each can be read as a standalone--much the way each family is a separate entity in a small town--while it still ties to the others. Which is my favorite thing about small towns.
So! Come spend a little bit of time in the sleep small Southern town. I hope you love the University as much as I do. <3 br="">
P.S- This attached bonus scene is set in the weeks after Beautiful Broken, after the fight that was never quite resolved between Dane and Atti.
This
Love by Nazarea Andrews
University
of Branton, #1
June 2013
BOOK
SUMMARY:
She wants a summer job and a ride to a wedding.
He wants an assistant and a distraction from the mess his life had
become.
They didn't know they needed each other.
Avery Emili needs two grand. Two grand and a plane ticket--her sister is
counting on her to get to Jamaica for her wedding. But the semester is over,
and tutoring college freshman and high school students has dried up until the
fall.
Atticus Grimes needs help--the messy split with his wife left the
twenty-eight year old professor scrambling to keep things together as the
semester winds down. Now he's got a research grant he has to actually do
research for and all he wants to do is drown himself in a tall bottle of
bourbon.
When Avery sees his ad for an assistant, all she's thinking is a summer job.
But as they spend time together, in the office and out, both of them begin to
realize something is there. Something that can't happen--he's a professor and
she's a student. And both of them have histories, pasts that won’t let go. Can
two broken people pulled apart by expectations find a way to be whole?
Beautiful
Broken by Nazarea Andrews
University
of Branton, #2
October 2013
BOOK
SUMMARY:
She's been broken by her past. He's been breaking for as long as he can
remember.
Together, they can make each other whole--or destroy each other.
When his best friend asks for something, Dane rarely says no. But
babysitting a newly sober Scout Grimes for three weeks isn't exactly a normal
request. And with their history, it's a recipe for disaster. Not to mention,
she's drop dead gorgeous and he can't touch her.
There are few people Scout trusts as much as Dane Guillot. He's always
been her safe place, where nothing can hurt her. He's also been the only man
she's never let herself want--screwing up their friendship isn't worth one
amazing night together.
They have too much history, and too much personal baggage to ever work.
But if they are willing to take a chance on love--it might be worth the risk.
SWEET
RUIN by Nazarea Andrews
March 13,
2014
University of Branton, #3
BOOK
SUMMARY:
It’s
good to be on top… Asher Knox has it all. Girls, wealth, a career most would
kill for. He’s just landed the biggest job of his career. And he’s miserable.
She’s
fighting her way from the bottom… Megan Beauchamp has no illusions about why she
was chosen to be Asher’s PA. She’s pretty, and down to earth, and everything
the Hollywood star always falls for. Too bad Megan is just paying her dues and
has no interest in anything but advancing at her PR firm.
He’ll
throw it all away…Luca James knows what he wants. And he’s waited a long time
for the window to open—when it does, he’ll walk away from the career he’s built
for a chance at something real.
When
Megan’s boss threatens to fire her, Luca and Asher convince her to leave town
with them. Between bad hotels and pit stop confessionals, the three are drawn
closer together. And the lines blur even more in Branton, where Megan is forced
to look at everything she left behind. But when the boys want more, Megan
will be forced to choose between the men she loves and the life she thought she
wanted. And in a town like Branton, the secrets she keeps won’t be hidden for
long.
It's fucking freezing. One of the nice things about Louisiana,
supposedly, is that it's warm. But this winter has been colder than a witches
tit. And I'm about over it. I blow on my hands, stomping the mud off my shoes.
The office is quiet, this early. None of my staff have shown up.
I don't mind--I wanted the quiet to get some work done before I was forced to
be the boss.
But leaving Scout sleeping in my bed was probably one of the
harder things I've done. I keep thinking leaving her will get easier, or the
sex would get a little less hot. That seeing her wouldn't turn me on.
But it does. Every fucking time. It would be annoying as fuck,
except I'm enjoying it too much.
Like last night...
Wait. Stop that shit right now. There will be plenty of time for
that later, but right now I have several cases demanding my attention and I'm
still too far behind.
Taking time off when she was in her accident was a no brainer. I
had come too close to losing her to want to be farther than her bedside. But it
didn't mean it was easy to leave the practice. I was still feeling the effects
of that and I had to get my shit together before Tripp decided to come back and
nose around.
There's a sharp rap on the front door and then Atti's voice,
"You here?"
It's an annoying question. Or maybe everything about Atti is
annoying me lately. I'm still pissed at him and he knows it.
"Office," I yell.
A few seconds later, he appears in the doorway to my office and
I stare at my best friend, not sure what to say.
Fuck it. This is his party--he came to me. He can decide what to
say. I glance back at my paperwork and Atticus curses. Walks into the office
and throws himself into one of the chairs across from me.
Scout sat in that chair, before I kissed her for the first time.
Hmm. Possibly not the best train of thought at the moment.
Atticus
He’s staring at me, a tiny smile on his face easing the scowl
I’ve seen too often in the past month.
“Avery bitched me out this morning,” I say, stretching my legs.
The scowl eases a little more, and Dane actually smirks.
“Is that why you’re out of her bed this early in the morning?”
I nod, “Pretty much the only reason.”
He laughs and I feel the tension in the room relax. “Look, I’m
sorry, man. I was wrong.”
Dane looks like he swallowed something insectile and it’s still
wiggling. He shakes his head slowly. “I don’t think you get how bad you fucked
up, Atticus.”
Avery said the same thing. I wondered, distantly, if they had
discussed it, then dismissed the thought—Avery and Dane tolerated each other.
They would never be friend, never be much more than they were now—cautiously
trusting because of me.
“Explain it to me,” I say.
“If you need to have it explained, you aren’t going to
understand.” He snaps, a hint of heat entering his voice.
“We’ve both made mistakes, Dane. You dumped coffee on Avery.”
“That,” he points at me, “was a fucking accident and you damn
well know it. You told Scout I wasn’t good enough for her. You told me she
wasn’t my business. You left her with me—time after time after time. And you
never once had an issue with it, until we fell in love. Do you know how fucked
up that is?”
He’s furious, and I don’t know why. I don’t understand why he’s
this mad. “Explain it to me.” I say again.
“Fuck you, Grimes.” He snaps. “I’m good enough to be friends
with her. I’m good enough to be the shoulder she cries on and to be her
surrogate brother. I’m good enough to carry her secrets, but I’m not good
enough to be with her? Fuck you to hell and back.” He stands and I sit still,
reeling.
Is that what he thinks?
Well of course it is. I haven’t given him no reason to think
otherwise.
“You know, I’ll do anything for you. Anything in the world. But
I’m doing this for me. Scout and me—we’re good together. I won’t give that up
because you think it’s a bad idea or I’m a douchebag.”
“I don’t want you to,” I say, hoarsely.
Dane hesitates, staring at me with narrowed eyes.
I sigh and shake my head. “She’s happier than I’ve ever seen
her, man. And I know it’s because of you. You’re happy—when you aren’t yelling
at me. Why do you think I’d want to take that from you?”
He gives me a flat stare and I nod. “Ok, so I get why you’d
think that.” I hesitate, and then say, “I’m a shitty brother, man. I get that.
I’m going to try to be better—Scout deserves better.”
“You are,” Dane agrees and I choke on my laughter. His eyes
sparkle when he grins at me, and the last of the tension vanishes. My best
friend is grinning at me, and I haven’t seen that—not really—in almost a month.
“She doesn’t need you to be her safe place,” Dane says. “She’s got me for
that.”
I nod, and stand. “She does. And she’s a lucky girl.”
Dane blinks, startled and I walk backward a few steps. “Think
you can leave her home alone tomorrow night?”
“Why?”
“I want your opinion. I need to go shopping.” I say, “For
Avery.”
A slow smile spreads across his face and I add, turning away,
“Don’t get any ideas, Guillot.”
He laughs, a low rumble that makes me grin as I leave.
BEAUTIFUL BROKEN: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18377638-beautiful-broken
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SWEET RUIN (this book will be released on Thursday)
About the author:
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Nazarea Andrews is an avid reader and tends to write the stories she
wants to read. She loves chocolate and coffee almost as much as she loves
books, but not quite as much as she loves her kids. She lives in south Georgia
with her husband, daughters, and overgrown dog.
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