Blog Tour: Exclusive Excerpt + Giveaway: ALL BROKE DOWN by Cora Carmack
YA'LL!! Tomorrow is the release day for ALL BROKE DOWN by Cora Carmack!! I can't wait for you guys to read it! Seriously. One of my favorite series!!! I've got a super special excerpt today to hold you over til tomorrow though....you'll thank me!
ALL BROKE DOWN is a New Adult Contemporary Romance novel being published by HarperCollins, and it is the 2nd book in The Rusk University Series.
ALL BROKE DOWN is a New Adult Contemporary Romance novel being published by HarperCollins, and it is the 2nd book in The Rusk University Series.
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About ALL BROKE DOWN:
In this second book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack’s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with ALL LINED UP, a young woman discovers that you can’t only fight for what you believe in . . . sometimes you have to fight for what you love
Dylan fights for lost causes. Probably because she used to be one.
Environmental issues, civil rights, corrupt corporations, and politicians—you name it, she’s probably been involved in a protest. When her latest cause lands her in jail overnight, she meets Silas Moore. He’s in for a different kind of fighting. And though he’s arrogant and infuriating, she can’t help being fascinated with him. Yet another lost cause.
Football and trouble are the only things that have ever come naturally to Silas. And it’s trouble that lands him in a cell next to do-gooder Dylan. He’s met girls like her before—fixers, he calls them, desperate to heal the damage and make him into their ideal boyfriend. But he doesn’t think he’s broken, and he definitely doesn’t need a girlfriend trying to change him. Until, that is, his anger issues and rash decisions threaten the only thing he really cares about, his spot on the Rusk University football team. Dylan might just be the perfect girl to help.
Because Silas Moore needs some fixing after all.
Excerpt:
“You didn’t answer my question. What
did you do for your twenty-first?”
She does another one of those
deep-breath things where her whole body moves, and she looks out at the party,
her eyes flitting between groups of people talking, drinking, and smoking. “Honestly?
I went to dinner with my boyfriend.” Her eyes flick to mine. “My ex now. We had
dinner and then went back to his place. That was about it.”
“No big party? No night out on
the town with friends?”
She shrugs. “We weren’t really
party kind of people.”
“You weren’t? Or he wasn’t?”
“You know,” she laughs. “I don’t
actually know.” Her laugh is this pure, perfect thing. Everything about her is
light. She makes it seem so easy, like I could just toss off all the bullshit
and live in a bright shiny world just because she’s in front of me and that’s
the world she lives in.
I want to forget myself in her,
and maybe help her do the same with me.
“Well, you’re in luck, Pickle. Because
you happen to be with an expert partier.”
I stand and slip one arm beneath her
knees and band the other around her middle before lifting her up. She squeaks
and wraps her arms around my neck.
“Excuse me,” I call out on my way
to the kitchen. “Novice partier in the house!”
“Silas,” she groans. I dig my
fingers into her side, and she jerks, squirming and squealing in my arms. “Oh
my God, stop!”
“No groaning then. At least not
that kind.”
She stills and the pink blush on
her cheeks brings out her eyes even more, and who would have thought getting
arrested would put me in a better mood?
I keep shouting until my way into
the kitchen is clear, and then I sit her right onto the counter. People are
staring, and I can see her noticing them all. Intent on distracting her again,
I lean against her knees and am surprised when her legs move to let me rest
between them.
Not
so nervous anymore, are you?
I end up being the distracted
one, too caught up in how I like the feel of her knees pressing into my sides. It
makes me want to really be between her legs, to be pressed right up against her.
Up on the counter, she’s the perfect height so that my head is just a few
inches above hers. And if I tugged her to the edge, she’d be at the perfect
height there, too. I plant my hands on the countertop beside her and lean in
until all I can see are those wide, nervous, excited eyes.
“What’s your poison, Pickle?”
She frowns. “What will it take to
get you to stop calling me that?”
“Stop answering my questions with
other questions. Tell me how you want to belatedly celebrate your birthday.”
And don’t forget to grab your copy of ALL LINED UP Today!
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About Cora Carmack:
Cora Carmack is a twenty-something writer who likes to write about twenty-something characters. She's done a multitude of things in her life-- boring jobs (like working retail), Fun jobs (like working in a theatre), stressful jobs (like teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). She enjoys placing her characters in the most awkward situations possible, and then trying to help them get a boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too. Her first book, LOSING IT, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.
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