Spotlight & Giveaway: Asking For Trouble by Amy Andrews

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome romance author Amy Andrews to HJ!

Hi Amy and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Asking For Trouble!

 
Hi everyone at HJ!
 

Please summarize the book a la Twitter style for the readers here:

Book 3 in my small town romcom series is out now!
 
#Hotbartender #Dellasgettinghergrooveback #Tinderdisasters #reluctantwingman #BFF’slittlesister #sexshopshenanigans

Please share the opening lines of this book:

Della Munroe hadn’t known it was possible to become a virgin again. And then she’d moved to Credence and discovered just how wrong a woman could be. Between her overprotective brother and every single citizen wrapping her in Bubble Wrap, she was going to die in this town with her hymen fully regrown.

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

• FUN fact #1 I joined Tinder as part of my research for the book – man, was *that* interesting!
• FUN fact #2 My editor and I went on an eastern Colorado road trip a couple of years ago when I was with her in Denver so I could familarise myself with the region.
• FUN Fact #3 The red barn on the cover has been written into the book.

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

My hero, Tucker, has been attracted to Della for a long time. He knows she’s damaged but he’s watched her come out of her shell and fight for a normal life and his feelings have deepened accordingly.
Della has also been attracted to Tucker for a long time because he’s always had her back not to metion being hella sexy!
 

Using just 5 words, how would you describe Hero and Heroine’s love affair?

Messy, complicated, high-stakes, slow burn, secret longings.
 

The First Kiss…

comes out of nowhere in the darkened cab of a truck in the middle of a storm.
 

Without revealing too much, what is your favorite scene in the book?

One of my fave scenes in the book is where Tucker confesses to Arlo that he’s in love with Arlo’s sister.

“I’m in love with your sister. I’m not asking for your approval or your permission. I’m just stating the facts.”
Arlo’s swift intake of breath was loud as a hurricane, and Tucker’s gut dropped to his knees. Drew broke into a broad grin. “Attaboy. Doesn’t it feel better to get it off your chest? You’ll thank me for it one day.”
Tucker sincerely fucking doubted it right now. Arlo had gone very still, which was not good. Like a venomous snake poised to strike. His jaw clenched, the angle blanching a terrible, bloodless white.
“By in love do you mean a courtly kind of thing where you pick her flowers and write poems about her hair and if there happens to be a dragon around you’ll slay it for her, but otherwise it’s all very platonic and sweet and absolutely nothing at all whatsoever to do with getting naked together?”
Tucker shook his head. “No.”

If your book was optioned for a movie, what scene would be absolutely crucial to include?

Definitley the above scene – where Tucker confesses to Arlo – would be absolutely critical.

Readers should read this book …

for some laughs, some swoons, some tears and the satisfaction of a happy sigh ending!

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have planned?

I’m currently working on a cross over between the Credence series and my Sydney Smoke rugby series. After that its on to Credence book 4 currently titled Trouble With A Capital B.

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

Giveaway: A digital copy of the first book in the Credence, Colorado series – Nothing But Trouble.

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Excerpt from Asking For Trouble:

“Tucker,” she said on a whimper this time.
“Did you take care of things?” he asked, his breath hot as it whispered over the hollow at the base of her throat. “Last night. After I left?”
The question rumbled out of his lips and was shocking and titillating all at once. How it was possible to be any more turned on, she didn’t know, but his intimate question took her to a whole new plane of arousal.
“Did you?” His hot tongue flicked across her skin.
Della panted, the walls of her sex clenching at the roughness of his voice. “Yes.”
“How.”
“Vibrator.” She hoped he wasn’t after the details of which one, because she wasn’t sure she could string enough words together to adequately explain The Suck-u-buzz.
“Did you think about me while you were getting off?”
Another roughened query as his teeth scraped the point where her neck met her shoulder, and Della felt the pull of it deep in the muscles of her pelvic floor. “Yes.”
“Was my name on your lips when you came?”
“Yes.” She stretched her neck as his mouth scorched a path to her ear.
“How many times?” His silky question whispered straight into her ear canal as he sucked her lobe into the warm cavern of his mouth. “How many times did you call my name, Della?”
God…her brain was buzzing with arousal. How was it possible to be even more turned on? “T…two.”
“Yesss,” he hissed, nipping her earlobe as it slipped from his lips.
The jolt zapped her nipples, which were taut and aching for his touch, and went all the way to her clitoris, where Tucker’s cock was a hard, steady presence, and she whimpered at the potent stimulus. She tried to move, rock her hips, but his hand clamped tighter.
“Please…” She moaned. “Tucker.”
“What, baby?” he asked, all low and rough. “What do you want?”
Something. Anything. Her arousal was obliterating everything in its path, stoked by the constant press of him through their clothes. She wanted to come. She wanted to be naked. She wanted him naked. She wanted to touch him, to explore his body, to feel the hardness between his legs in her hand, to map the contours of that enticing bulge. She wanted to know him.
She wanted him to come.
“Please, Tuck. I need to touch you.”
Tucker’s cock almost burst through his fly at the streak of desperation giving her softly spoken request the impact of a sledgehammer. It was completely in favor of Della’s wishes. Unfortunately for it—this was not a democracy. It didn’t get a vote.
He’d stopped being ruled by that disruptive little fucker a long time ago.
Stopping her hand from going where she clearly wanted her hand to go was an act of self-denial that should earn him a fucking sainthood. Here lies St. Tuck. He died from exploding testicles.

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Book Info:

After three years in Credence trying to fade into the background, Della Munroe is sick of being invisible. She’s ready to take back control. To live a little. Hell, she’s ready to see what this dating fuss is all about. And if that means she has to download Tinder and date every guy in Colorado, then she’s up for it.

After her first disastrous attempt, she decides navigating online dating would be better with a wingman, and there’s no better person for it than Tucker Daniels. After all, he is a man. And he owns a bar, which practically makes him a relationship expert. He’s also her older brother’s best friend. Yes, she may have the teeniest tiny inconvenient crush on him, but he’s always had her back.

Tucker Daniels would rather eat broken glass than watch Della go out with a bunch of douchebag dudes only out for one thing. Unfortunately, he’s never been able to say no to her, and before he knows it, Tucker’s not only vetting her dates—he’s teaching her to drive, helping her move out, and buying her a puppy!

But when Della wants him to tutor her in more intimate arts, he freaks out. Because this little sister is strictly off-limits, and saying yes to Della is asking for a whole lot of trouble.
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Meet the Author:

Amy Andrews is an award-winning, USA Today best-selling Aussie author who has written seventy plus contemporary romances in both the traditional and digital markets.

She’s sold three million books and been translated into over a dozen languages including manga. Her books bring all the feels from sass, quirk and laughter to emotional grit and panty-melting heat. She has won three Ruby awards and is a triple RITA finalist.

In her other life, she was a paediatric intensive care nurse for twenty-one years. Amy lives near the sea with her husband of 30 years.
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