Saturday, June 24, 2023

Blitz: Broken Notes (The Bar Lies Series #1) by Staci Santoro with an excerpt and a giveaway

Broken Notes

Series: The Bar Lies Series, #1

by Stacie Santoro

Release date: June 20th, 2023

Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance




Blurb:

Troy
I was the walking tragedy she couldn’t even remember.
It had been almost fifteen years since I’d seen Alessa Crawford. The last time seared into my memory with the strongest pain and hatred a person could possess.
Seeing her again was like a shot of adrenaline and made those previous feelings seem minor in comparison.
A plan took shape quickly when I saw her sitting at a table in my bar.
A plan that would finally give me peace.
Until I wasn’t so sure anymore.
I fought against her being different from the girl who had become the villain of my story.
I refused to let her win that fight.
I had resolve.
Surprisingly, I also had second thoughts.
Hindsight’s always 20/20.
And always too late.


Alessa
I was sleeping with an enemy I didn’t even know I had.
After my marriage collapsed, I moved back in with my dad. Back to my childhood home, a place weighed down with sadness and loss.
I had work, my best friend, and my sister and her family.
And then Troy made me an offer I didn’t want to refuse.
It was good timing. I was ready to move on.
So, for once in my life, I took the good offered to me.
My body came alive under his touch, and I saw a glimpse of a life I hadn’t had the chance to live.
Troy was taking, too, and with sweet lies and a hard body, he took parts of me I never planned to give.
It’s true what they say about there being a thin line between love and hate.
I just didn’t know which one would save me.


Purchase:
Will be found here come release day: https://amzn.to/3JhIuni




Excerpt: 

ALESSA

Soon enough, though, I would walk out of here and crumble. Be a mess in private. I’d go to sleep alone and devastated, but I would have no regrets. In a world that could be so, so cruel, I would sleep soundly, knowing that hadn’t added to that cruelty. I’d given myself an experience, and it turned into me giving him love.
And I loved him. Fiercely. I wasn’t sure right now how I’d survive this, only that I would.
I dropped the key to the floor and soaked up Troy’s flinch, making it part of my armor. 
My love for him went to the background.
My anger flared to the forefront, and a twisted smile tugged on my lips.
“What’s. So. Funny? The pathetic music boy you went back to see?”
God, his tone was cruel. But I knew, deep down I knew, where it stemmed from. It was still no excuse. He wanted to hurt me because he could.
“Nothing is funny, Troy, especially not that boy.” I took a deep breath and clung to my anger that wasn’t so much directed at him but at the situation itself. “Feel free to get back to the comfortable position I found you in for story time.”
Petty? Yup. But fuck him.
“Why, baby?” His voice was a low gravelly rumble. “Like what you saw?” Venom dripping from his words would have been more pleasant.
His face and neck were blotchy with all the various shades of red. And if those veins in his neck and across his head popped, it would make the vault look like a murder scene.
I shook my head. “No, I don’t like seeing the man I love with another woman.”
Ah, but that little flinch of his told me how very little he expected that from me. Guess he was forgetting the all-important point that I wasn’t the asshole in this scenario.
“Love?” he ground out.
We stared at each other for a beat. Even if he was truly questioning my love for him, I wouldn’t answer. No words were needed for something I had already and constantly showed him. Proven to him. I wouldn’t soil the love I gave him in a fight about it now.
“Love from you is nothing but poison. So, you can keep it because you sure as fuck don’t deserve mine.” The urge to vomit gave me pause, and I swallowed once, twice, three times until I regained control. 
I’d mourn the loss of the man who exposed my wounds without even knowing and helped me become whole, later. Right now, I had things to say before I left him to the life he chose.
A deep breath in and long exhale out and the lighter feeling began to creep in. Along with a genuine smile. Because this was it.

GIVEAWAY
Blitz-wide giveaway (INT) ends June 29
  • $10 Amazon gift card + 5x ebook copies of Broken Notes


AUTHOR BIO:
Stacie Santoro lives with her family in New York, in the town where she was born and raised. She is the mom to three amazing boys and wife to a great man (who swept her off her feet with his basketball skills). 

When she’s not running with her family, you can find her enjoying a glass of wine or cup of tea, reading a book or daydreaming about a million things; like stories to write, putting her toes in the sand or owning every lip gloss created. Or maybe having one created just for her.

She’s also smiling big from the release of her debut novel, The Real Devil; Journal One, and a firm believer that it's never too late to make your dreams come true.


 

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