Blog Tour Promo Post: The Accidental Assassin by Nichole Chase

THE ACCIDENTAL ASSASSIN is a New Adult contemporary romantic suspense that will knock your socks off! THE ACCIDENTAL ASSASSIN is on sale for $.99 during the tour only so grab your copy today!

Ava McKenzie is a creature of habit. Life is passing her by and she has nothing to show for it. She’s had the same job since she started college, she orders the same dish every time she goes to her favorite restaurant, and only reads books from authors she knows. There is nothing new or surprising in her life… until her best friend marries a man from London. When her newlywed friend asks her to house-sit while she honeymoons, Ava jumps at the chance. She thinks this could be the very thing she needs to shake up her life. Ava throws herself head first into her new lifestyle; she wants to try everything, go everywhere, and never get stuck in a rut again. Of course, offing a man in a car garage hadn’t been one of the things on her list to try.

Owen Walker spends every day in a new place with a new case. As one of the most renowned assassins in the world, he has his choice of marks—and he’s never failed in a mission. When a new hit takes him back to his hometown, he looks forward to spending time somewhere familiar. What he isn’t expecting is to help an attractive, confused American woman find out how she’s ended up on a hit man’s list.

As Ava and Owen dodge bullets, will they be able to escape their undeniable attraction to each other? Or will all of that chemistry blow up in a shower of hot and dangerous sparks?

Amazon ** Barnes & Noble ** Kobo** iBooks

Excerpt

“You should get some sleep. Mavis is downstairs and I’ll take the room next to yours. Nothing will get past us.” He moved toward the door and ice snaked through my body.

“No.” I stood up. “Stay.”

He turned to look at me and I wondered if he could see my blush in the dark.

“I’ll sleep better if you’re in here with me.” I bit my lip and forced my breathing to stay even. “Like at the hotel. That was the best sleep I’ve gotten since I arrived in England.” At the time I’d been nervous, but I’d also felt safe. And when I woke up that morning I’d felt good. It had felt right. Normal.

Maybe normal wasn’t such a bad word.

I kicked off my shoes and undid the button on my jeans. Carefully I slipped them down and stepped free. Without looking at him I pulled the blanket back on the bed and climbed in. I lay on my side, facing the windows, and counted my breaths.

“Please.”

He didn’t move for five more breaths and I almost turned to check and see if he was still there. After a moment I heard the sound of fabric shifting and the mattress dipped under his weight. His arm snaked out and pulled me against him. He’d taken his shirt off and his skin was warm against mine. So maybe not just like at the hotel. I shifted so that my head was resting on his good shoulder.

“How’s your arm?”

“Good.” I liked the way his voice rumbled out of his chest. Carefully I slid my hand across his stomach. He covered my hand with his as if to show me it was working just fine.

 “Thank you.”

“You don’t have to thank me, Ava. You never have to thank me.”

THE ACCIDENTAL ASSASSIN Review and Excerpt Tour Schedule:

June 15^th

Fandomly Bookish – Excerpt

Lustful Literature – Review

Short and Sassy Book Blurbs – Review & Excerpt

Paula M – Review & Excerpt

Confessions of a Y.A. and N.A. Book Addict – Review & Excerpt

June 16^th

Adventures in Writing – Review

Evermore Books – Excerpt

Wicked Babes Blog Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Books Can Take You There – Review & Excerpt

June 17^th

Inked in Chapters – Review & Excerpt

Angie's Lil Neck of da Author World – Review & Excerpt

The Book Trollop – Review

My Favorite Things – Review & Excerpt

June 18^th

Us GIrls&A Book – Review & Excerpt

Jen in Bookland – Review & Excerpt

KT Book Reviews – Excerpt

June 19^th

Mia's Point Of View – Review & Excerpt

CJ's Book Corner – Review & Excerpt

Mikky's World Of Books – Excerpt

I Read Indie – Review & Excerpt

Dayreader Reviews – Excerpt

June 20^th

Southern Vixens Book Obsessions – Excerpt

FMR Book Grind – Review

Sweet Reads: You're In For A Treat – Review & Excerpt

Nose Stuck in a Book – Excerpt

June 21^st

Vera is Reading – Excerpt

Roxy's Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Shanoff Says... – Review & Excerpt

The Phantom Paragrapher – Review

June 22^nd

The Consummate Reader – Excerpt

Books by Night, Mommy by Day – Review & Excerpt

A Pair of Okies – Excerpt

Southern Yankee Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt

June 23^rd

2 Greek Girls Reading – Review

Becky on Books – Review & Excerpt

We're Jumpin' Books – Excerpt

Lostbraincell's Bookish Blog – Review & Excerpt

June 24^th

Love Affair With Fiction – Review & Excerpt

Ellesea Loves Reading – Review & Excerpt

Renee Entress's Blog – Review & Excerpt

Garden of REden – Review & Excerpt

Love Affair with an e-Reader—Review & Excerpt

June 25^th

Collector of book boyfriends – Excerpt

Crazy, Chaotic Book Babes – Review

Jax's Book Magic – Excerpt

Grownupfangirl – Excerpt

Home.Love.Books. – Review

June 26^th

Naomi’s Reading Palace (Previously – Nomi’s Paranormal Palace) – Review & Excerpt

My Golden Reads – Review & Excerpt

Booklover Sue – Excerpt

Sexy Vixen Reader – Review & Excerpt

Between the Pages – Excerpt

About Nichole Chase

Nichole Chase is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Suddenly Royal, Flukes, The Dark Betrayal Trilogy, and several short stories. She is also the instructor of Say What? a dialogue class at the Romance Academy.

Nichole lives in Georgia with her husband, energetic daughter, superhero dog, Sulcata tortoise, and two cats. When not writing, you may find her reading, painting, crafting, or chasing her daughter around the house while making monster noises.

Website ** Twitter ** Facebook ** Author Goodreads ** THE ACCIDENTAL ASSASSIN Goodreads

Giveaway

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Blog Tour Promo Post: Flukes by Nichole Chase

Meena has a secret guarded closely by her family—a secret as dangerous as the sea and buried just as deep. When court-appointed community-service workers are assigned to Flukes, the family-owned animal sanctuary, everyone is on high alert. It doesn’t help that Meena finds herself attracted to sexy-as-sin Blake Weathering, one of the new workers. If he wasn’t so distracting, she might be able to land Flukes a much-needed cruise-line contract.

Blake Weathering, the first in his family to attend public school, has developed a tough image. Unfortunately, it lands him in trouble. Now banned from his high school graduation ceremony, getting his diploma is dependent upon a community-service gig cleaning up fish crap. No diploma, no trust fund fortune—and no way to escape his overbearing father. The last thing he needs is the distraction of a mysterious girl with teal eyes who pulls at his heartstrings.

When Blake discovers Meena’s secret, they are both thrown into a desperate search for information about her past. Two worlds pull them in opposite directions, and they will have to fight to hold on to all that really matters.

Buy Links

Amazon  |  Barnes & Noble  |  iBooks

Excerpt

It felt like forever before I heard the splashing that announced she was back. I sat forward and smiled when I heard her make a shocked choking sound. I picked up her shorts and held them up for her to see.

“You forgot a towel!” I didn’t get up. I wanted to watch her walk out of the water.

She sputtered some and thrashed around a bit more. I stood up, worried that she had managed to get attacked by a shark in three feet of water.

“Are you okay?” I started to walk down the beach. I didn’t want to be the asshole that sat under a palm tree while some girl was eaten alive in front of him.

“Stay where you are! I’m fine!” Meena’s voice was sharp and breathless.

“What’s wrong?” I froze in place, still worried she might need help.

“Nothing. I have to put my bottoms back on.”

My brain fritzed for a minute before my mouth tugged up in a grin. “Need some help?”

“No!” She pushed the wet hair out of her eyes and glared at me.

“Were you skinny-dipping? It’s a lot more fun when you have someone else with you.” Please ask me to go, please.

“Yeah, I bet you’d know.” Her voice drifted to my ears and made my smile grow even more.

“What was that?” I took a couple of steps forward, a laugh bubbling in my chest. “You want me to come help?”

“Nothing! No! I don’t need any help, thank you very much.” She stood up in the water and I felt my blood pressure rise. “I was not skinny-dipping. I just had sand in my bathing suit.”

She stomped angrily up the beach before coming to stand in front of me. Her teal eyes glowed in the moonlight as she glared holes in my chest and yanked her shorts out of my hand, before pulling them up over her long legs. Pushing the wet hair out of her face she stood back up but didn’t move away. My left hand tingled and I fought the urge to pull her against my chest.

“Are you a creeper?”

Her words pulled me out of my thoughts and I blinked my eyes. “What?”

“Are you a creeper? Following me around?” She put her hands on her hips and I fought the urge to smile. “I can have your job detail cancelled, you know.”

“You wouldn’t do that.” I reached out and brushed some of the hair from her cheek and watched her eyes grow bigger. She was going to call me a creeper? Well, I was staring at her like a boy that just had his first wet dream. I loved her spitfire attitude, but it was time to give her some of her own medicine.

“Why not?” Even in the dark I could see the blush spreading out under my fingers.

“Because you like having me around.” I shifted closer and heard her breathing pick up.

“What makes you think that? You’re a jerk. No one likes a jerk.”

“Because you watch me when you don’t think I notice.” Yep, she was blushing. When she bit her lip it made my body parts down south jump.

“I do not.” Her voice was a little less sure and I knew I was right.

“And because…” I leaned closer to her.

“Because why?” Her head tilted up, her mouth opening slightly in invitation. The smell of the ocean on her skin was intoxicating. Damn it if I didn’t want to taste her.

“You wouldn’t want me to have to do time just because I was waiting for you to unlock the shed so I could get my helmet.” Her eyes snapped up from my mouth and she glared at me. “I could have driven home without it, but if I died, you never would have forgiven yourself. And I didn’t want to burden you like that.”

“You could’ve just said that.” She jerked away from me and grabbed her shirt out of the sand. She pulled it on before digging in her pocket to find her keys. She slipped her feet back into her flip-flops after brushing the sand off and marched back up the trail. I didn’t mind following her angry footsteps. It gave me a great view of her ass.

“It was a lot more fun my way.” She grunted and I smiled some more. She might not want to admit it, but she had been just as excited as I was.

She undid the lock and opened the shed. I leaned in over her shoulder so that she was trapped between me and the door while she grabbed my helmet from the shelf. I shifted closer and moved my mouth down to her ear. This close, I had to fight my desire to bury my face in all that gorgeous brown hair.

“Good night, Meena.” She shivered against me and my hand clenched on the strap of my helmet. I wanted to touch her so badly but knowing her, she’d try to kick me in the nuts.

She turned her face and raised an eyebrow. From my vantage point, I could see all the bright blues and greens in her eyes. It was like staring into the Caribbean waters. Her eyes darted down to my mouth and she licked her lips quickly. She leaned closer and I felt my heartbeat pick up. Maybe she wouldn’t have kicked me in the balls if I touched her. Just as I was about to pull her against me, she moved the door just enough that the hinge pinched my finger.

“Shit!” I stuck my right pointer finger in my mouth. “You did that on purpose!” I stepped back and she closed the door and redid the lock.

“Good night, Blake.” She laughed as she sauntered away. And damn it, I still stared, even though I was seriously considering tackling her and finishing what she had started. Okay, I started it, but I still wanted to finish it. She looked over her shoulder once and I could see that she was laughing. She knew exactly what she had done and thought it was funny.

About Nichole Chase

Nichole Chase is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Suddenly Royal, The Accidental Assassin, Flukes, The Dark Betrayal Trilogy, and several short stories.

Nichole lives in Georgia with her husband, energetic daughter, superhero dog, Sulcata tortoise, and two cats. When not writing, you may find her reading, painting, crafting, or chasing her daughter around the house while making monster noises.  

Website  |  Twitter  |  Facebook  |Goodreads

Giveaway

a Rafflecopter giveaway