Spotlight & Giveaway: Breaking All The Rules by Amy Andrews

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

Hi Amy and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Breaking All The Rules!

 
Thanks so much for having me. I always love visiting HJ!
 

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

Breaking All The Rules is about Beatrice who’s been screwed over for the last time by corporate-landia and incompetent men. She’s done with it all! So, she up-sticks, moves to a small town (Credence, Colorado – this is book 4 in that series) on the whim of a thrown dart and refuses to live by a bunch of stupid rules made up by men.

Bea finds an unlikely ally in small town cop, Austin, (10 years her junior) who is keen to help her break a bunch of town ordinances. And extra keen to be used in any other way she might like. Hell, he might even be falling in love with her.

But, when her old life intrudes, Bea’s convictions are sorely tested. Can she go back to corporate-landia on her own terms? And does she even want to?
 

Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:

Oh my…there are so many…

Here’s three –

1. “You should eat pie more often,” he said, his voice a low kind of rumble that wrapped around her waist and urged her closer. “It looks good on you.”

2. “Beatriss…” His fingers tightened on her hips again as his eyes took in his hat and her mouth and her breasts and her belly button and continued all the way down to where they were joined. It was a slow and thorough perusal Bea felt all the way to the bottom of her heart. “You belong on top of me.”

3. There was a drum beat in his chest and a cyclonic roar inside his head and a furnace between their slicked-up bodies and Austin felt like the Lord of Orgasms as she flew apart in his arms.

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

• The book was originally called Trouble with a Capital B
• It’s been through five different cover iterations
• To find some of my other inspirations, check out my Pinterest page – https://www.pinterest.com.au/amyandrewsbooks/trouble-with-a-capital-b/

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

Austin is blown out of the water by Beatrice. She’s in her pajamas and bunny slippers in downtown Credence eating ice-cream in the middle of the day and ranting about being a rule breaker and demanding to be put under arrest. He’s instantly smitten.

For Bea, it’s the way Austin says panties that has her motor running!

Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?

I didn’t cry during this scene but it got me in all the feels, with Bea trying so hard to do the right thing even as she’s trying to be this big rule breaker. It’s really telling of who she truly is.

And then, the sweet smell of pie and the heady effects of adrenaline still sizzling through her system joined forces, goading her to do it. To forget the past and live in the moment, just this one moment.
Kiss that cream off his mouth. Enjoy every sweet second.
And, for once in her life, she forgot about being the daughter of a woman who had run away with a younger man – abandoning her kid and ruining her marriage in the process – and just did it.
Leaning swiftly in, she closed the gap between their mouths as if she’d been doing it forever instead of for the first time. Her hand slid into the back of his hair as her mouth landed on the corner of his and settled there, her tongue automatically lapping at the seal of his lips.
She heard herself sigh and a noise coming from the back of his throat which may have been a strangled kind of groan. But neither of them pushed to deepen the kiss. Frankly, Bea’s pulse was hammering so hard, her cardiovascular system couldn’t have taken the extra stimulation. She just sat there, holding his head in place, enjoying the soft yield of his mouth and the taste of his lips and the utter thrill of being in the moment.
She’d met Austin three days ago and now here she was, breaking all the rules with him.
Pushing all her limits, tangling herself up with a younger man.
It was just the thought she needed to bring her back to reality and she withdrew, sitting back in her seat. “I’m sorry.” She grimaced even as she fought the urge to go back for more. “I should not have done that.”
“Because you’re going to want to keep doing it?”
Bea laughed despite her inner turmoil. “You have a very healthy ego, anyone ever tell you that?”
“I have been told, yes.”
He grinned completely unconcerned by the character assessment. Officer Hot ‘n Tot, Bea decided, was what her grandmother called incorrigible.
“Also, and this is just a thought, I’m just…putting it out there while my ego is still all puffed up. I could be that outrageously unsuitable guy you were talking about.”
Oh yeah. That he could. He was the very definition of outrageously unsuitable in ways he couldn’t even begin fathom. Bea’s pulse fluttered despite her brain shutting the idea down. “You want to be a check mark on someone’s shitty list?”
“Sure? Why not?” He grinned. “Besides, maybe I have a list too? And on my list is be someone’s outrageously unsuitable guy?”
Man, he was so damn cute she wanted to take him home and pet him. Amongst other things. But Bea wasn’t going to go there. “Austin…I’m very flattered that you’re flirting with me but I don’t want to take advantage of you –”
“You should totally take advantage of me.”
Bea rolled her eyes. “Or objectify you.”
“Objectify me. I’m up for that.”
“Austin.” She shot him an impatient look even as a million ways she could objectify him battered against her brain like a ram. “I like you. But –” There was no way Bea was unloading the reasons why she wouldn’t get involved with a younger man. She’d known him three days and already told him too damn much. “I’m not here forever, you know? It’ll just make things weird between us.”
“Why would they be weird?”
She gave a half laugh. Oh, the innocence. “Trust me…they would.”
Bea had always marveled at people who could have normal interactions after a sexual interlude. She’d never quite mastered that trick. Advertising was a small world and it always felt awkward knowing that someone sitting across the table or at an industry party knew intimate things about her. That she knew intimate things about them.
And Credence was waaaay smaller.
His jaw tightened. “Beatrice, I might be twenty-five but I’m a big boy. I can deal.” Then he sighed, a slow smile ironing out the tension. “However…your wish is my command. Just know that the offer is always open.”
Bea laughed. “Thank you. I will…keep it up my sleeve.”
Like she was going to think about anything else.

Readers should read this book….

for some belly laughs and swoony, sexy goodness!

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?

I’m currently working on the 8th book in the Sydney Smoke rugby series which will be out some time this year. My next release is a Harlequin medical romance – The Nurse’s Outback Temptation. It will be on shelf in August!
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

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Book Info:

A fun, sexy romp through the trials of starting over, and finding what you didn’t know you needed in the last place you expected, from USA Today bestselling author Amy Andrews.
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Meet the Author:

Amy is an award-winning, USA Today best-selling, double RITA nominated, Aussie author who has written eighty plus contemporary romances in both the traditional and digital markets. Her books bring all the feels from sass, quirk and laughter to emotional grit and panty-melting heat.

She loves good books and great booze although she’ll take mediocre booze if there’s nothing else. For many, many years she was a registered nurse which means she knows things. Anatomical things. And she’s not afraid to use them!

She lives in a pretty little coastal town where she gets to look at the ocean all day.
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