Blog Tour, Review, and Giveaway: Fly by TA Foster

Fly by T.A. Foster

Release Date August 28, 2014

Not everyone’s good at one-night stands.

Skye Stephens has the worst day of her professional career, and all she wants to do is shed her power suit and get lost in the sheets with the hot guy she met at the bar. The problem is, this uptight ad exec doesn’t know how to do one-night stands. She has strict rules about dating and when to let a man in her bedroom.

Fighter pilot Ben “Bolt” Hardcastle is used to lovin’ and leavin’. But, after he meets Skye, one night doesn’t seem to be enough.

When these two crash-land into each other, a connection strng enough to make the loner pilot and the sexy businesswoman shed their rules about love and relationships begins to burn deeper than either of them ever expected.

 "This girl was going to kill him, tame him or worse, both."

Ben "Bolt" Hardcastle was a Marine pilot who flew his plane hard and played his woman harder.  Travelling around the world on missions with his buddies, Hollywood, Eagle and Ranger; he was living his life as he always wanted.  Skye Stephens was as straight laced as they come; a hard-working advertising executive who had little time for fun and even less time for men.  A purely accidental meeting between these two polar opposites at a bar one night; leads to Skye inviting Ben to do one thing that was so unlike her; have a one night stand.  And it's once they are back at her apartment where the story begins to unravel.  I loved this book and gave it 3.5 stars. Anyone who love a good old fashion girl tames wild boy story with a hint of marine in there needs to add this book to their TBR list asap!

Lacking the protection necessary to actually have a one night stand, Skye and Ben do everything but and wake up to an extremely awkward morning after; with Skye practically pushing Ben out the door.  Ben is baffled since he is normally the one leaving the woman behind knowing he will never see him again but there is something different about Skye, she gets into his head.  I think it was fate that he left his dogtags at her house, forcing him to see her again and actually agree to her dating for 30 days before sleeping together rule.  Ben doesn't know how to be a boyfriend and Skye isn't always the best at letting her hair down and having fun, but together they are the perfect compliment to each other.

"Because if I can do this now, imagine what we'll feel like together."

Skye begins to let down her defenses and starts to fall for Ben, often questioning the validity of her 30 day rule.  She even opens up to Ben about her mother and the mental issues that she struggles with.  The caring way that Ben volunteers to spend time with her mom while she is at work when most guys walk away after knowing only makes her open up her heart more to him.  It's after they finally make smoking hot love to each other when the other shoe drops.  Ben has to deploy to Asia for 6 months; making Skye think that this relationship really was nothing more then sex to him.  He fights to get her back and prove that he cares about her like he has never cared about a woman before and she decides to wait for him to come home, even after he told her that he couldn't ask her to do that.  I actually swooned during that scene it was so completely romantic.

Although Skye worries about him flying, worries about him being faithful to her and worries if this is too much too fast; she loves Ben with all her heart.  And when she gets the call that he gets two weeks leave and they can vacation anywhere she wants to go, she is absolutely elated to spend that time with him.  The happily ever after was another completely romantically comical scene and fit this couple perfectly.

T.A. Foster met, fell in love with, and married her own Marine fighter pilot. Through deployments, trainings, and sometimes living oceans apart, their own love story continues every day.  

She grew up catching rays and waves along the North Carolina Outer Banks and now resides in the state with her husband, two children, and two canine kiddos.

T.A. has an undergraduate degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate degree in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University.  When she’s not chasing her two-legged and four-legged children or trying to escape for date night, you can find her reading, writing, or planning her next beach trip.

Blog: http://www.tafosterauthor.com/

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Book Promo: Can't Let Go by Michelle Lynn

Dex is many things, a college senior, the bassist for The Invisibles, a son, a friend, everything but a boyfriend. Everybody knows him as the shallow guy who’s up for a good time anytime. People rarely take the time to see the loyal guy lying just beneath the happy-go-lucky façade.

There are parts of Dex’s life he keeps hidden. Ones he believes no one would understand. Since he gave up on the idea of a dream girl long ago, he thinks he’s finally found the perfect balance of connection without commitment with Sam.

Chrissy used to know everything about Dex. When he left four years ago for college, she was left behind. Four years later, with nowhere else to turn, Chrissy calls the one person she’s always counted on, Dex. One glance at the sad eyes he’s tried to forget and Dex knows it’s out of his control.

With Chrissy's return, lines begin to cross from friendship to something more, but will Dex's secret force them apart forever?

(Can't Let Go is the fourth novel in the Invisibles Series)

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Already regretting my decision to call Dex in the first place, I keep my distance for the remainder of the night, allowing him to have fun with his friends. He doesn’t engage me very much, only telling me even more that he wishes I wouldn’t have invaded his perfect life. By the time we go to bed, we venture into the room that is reserved for the two of us. I guess when you come with so many couples, it negates the whole guys in this room, girls in the other equation.

I escape into the bathroom and change my clothes. By the time I return, Dex is already in his pajama pants, digging in his bag. He drops his phone and bends down to retrieve it. As he steadily stands back up, his eyes roam up my body and a warm current in my blood swirls, following the path of his eyes. He bites his bottom lip and takes a deep breath. “I’ll be back,” he says with a husky voice.

Once he rushes out, I climb under the covers to disengage any sexual urges neither one of us will entertain tonight. In this moment, I wish I could be one of those girls. The ones who could sleep with Dex only to feel the comforting arms of a man, but it’s the fear of after that keeps my hands pinned around my body. The fear that he would sleep with me out of pity, or worse, that he would only do it for his own pleasure and release.

He opens the door, and his blue eyes focus on the television and anywhere but at me. “I’ll sleep on the floor,” he murmurs, never casting a glance my way.

“Don’t be silly. We’ve done this before.” I flip to my side.

“When we were fourteen, Chris.” He grabs the pillow.

“Really, Dex. I trust you,” I tell him, facing him head on, and oh my lord, his muscles are everywhere. He’s always been built, but holy mackerole, he’s insanely big now.

He looks at me long and hard for a few seconds and then pulls back the covers. As he’s sliding under the crisp white linen sheets, the mattress dips next to me. I turn around so my back faces his. We both reach over and turn off the lights on our respective sides. The funny thing is if someone walked in right now, they’d think we were two elderly people, who have been married for years, instead of hot-blooded early twenty-something’s.

Minutes of silence fill the room, and even with me shutting my eyes, visualizing what I imagine the beach must feel like, sleep won’t come. Dex’s close proximity has my body hyperaware of his breathing and his body. “Do you want to tell me?” he whispers.

“I’m okay. Like I said, I just needed a break. Thank you for bringing me. I hope I wasn’t too much of an inconvenience for you,” I lie, and a huge breath releases from him.

“You’re never an inconvenience to me. If you don’t tell me, I can’t help you,” he adds, and I roll over, although, he keeps his back to me.

“Nothing. Like I said I needed a breather.” If I admit to Dex the real reason, he’ll try to fix it and save me like normal. Being here with his friends and the people that care about him, he deserves normality and that’s not in my life’s course.

My hands itch to touch the grooves and contours of the muscles that spread across his back, displaying how hard he works out at the gym every day. “Just wanted to feel normal. So, thank you again.” The lies just continue to flow. He doesn’t need my drama in his life. He has his together, why should my fucked-up past screw with it?

The pillow shifts from the slow shake of his head. “You’re welcome,” he says, and the silence encompasses us once again. Eventually, the light whistling of his breathing signifies he’s fallen asleep. I lie awake, observing the rise and fall of his back until my eyes relent to the exhaustion of the day.

Michelle moved around the Midwest most of her life, transferring from school to school before settling down in the outskirts of Chicago ten years ago, where she now resides with her husband and two kids.  She developed a love of reading at a young age, which helped lay the foundation for her passion to write.   With the encouragement of her family, she finally sat down and wrote one of the many stories that have been floating around in her head. When she isn’t reading or writing, she can be found playing with her kids, talking to her mom on the phone, or hanging out with her family and friends.  But after chasing around twin preschoolers all day, she always cherishes her relaxation time after putting the kids to bed.

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