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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Excerpt Reveal for SWEET UGLY LIES by Nazarea Andrews

Today we are sharing an excerpt reveal for SWEET UGLY LIES by Nazarea Andrews. Sweet Ugly Lies is an adult contemporary romance, standalone novel, that is the third book in the Green County series. The book will be released on May 2nd!

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SWEET UGLY LIES

(Green County, #3)

by Nazarea Andrews

Releasing May 2, 2017

Blurb

Gabriel Delvin is three things: a problem, a liar and irresistible. Elijah Beasley’s known that for years. He knew before they slept together, and he knew when he walked away from Gabe, unwilling to put up with more lies. The problem is he keeps going back.

Elijah Beasley is three things: a cop, a fucking problem, and Gabe’s. Gabriel Delvin’s known that for as long as he can remember. It’s why they fell into bed together, and why Gabriel stayed in Green County, when all sense said to get out.

But as the underbelly of crime in Green County comes boiling to the surface, Gabe is forced to chose between the man he's always loved and the family he can't help but be loyal to.

Love has never been the problem, for these two.
It just might not be enough, this time…

EXCERPT

I like running.

Which is really ironic because I’m the one who never ran. I stayed here, got the degree and the good job and did what #foster mother’s# asked on weekends, filled up my time and my loneliness with all the shit that kept me from thinking too much.

It was loud in my head, and I didn’t like the shit that happened there, when I slowed down enough to hear it.

So I run. Every morning. Archer calls me a freak and Hazel smirks but occasionally she’ll run with me. Gabe curses me when I crawl out of his bed, tries to drag me back with wet kisses and obscene promises—and it works, sometimes.

Gabe is very good at shutting up the voices in my head too.

Except the days when I’m running from him.

The problem with Gabe is that every time I ran, I came back.

Gabe was my touchstone. He’s the one who never left, and it was as reassuring as it was terrifying.

Hazel and Archer should be my touchstones. They’re the ones who wrapped themselves around me in the aftermath of the plane crash. Gabe was a laughing, lying joke. He took nothing serious, worked in his pajamas in his kitchen, lied almost as often as he opened his mouth, and fucked like a god.

And he stayed.

I should go to him. It’s been two months and six days since I left his bed, too angry at another lie to stay. And he’d let me, hadn’t explained or fast talked his way back into my good graces. He hadn’t gone out of his way to avoid me, but he didn’t engage either.

No jokes.

No smiles.

No, “Heeeeey, Officer,” with a lewd smirk.

Nothing.

And I missed him.

So I ran and I tried not to think about why my path took me past his house, or why it bothered me that his truck was missing. Tried to not think about how much I wanted to jog up and use the key in my sock to let myself in and crawl into his bed.

I turned away and I kept running.

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