Friday, January 11, 2019

Enticing Journey Promotions presents a Release Blitz for Third Strike (Chances #3) by BJ Harvey



Title: Third Strike 
Series: Chances #3 (Interconnected Standalone – Final Book in Series)
Genre: Angsty Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 9, 2019

Blurb:

Falling for your best friend's sister has never felt so bad yet so damn right.

From USA Today Bestselling author BJ Harvey comes the third and final standalone in the Chance series, this time it's the much anticipated story of Drew and Ashley.

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I have a long history of acting first and thinking it through later. In fact, I'm the definition of a screw up.

Case in point - I’m having a baby with a woman I can’t stand, my ex is now my best friend’s wife, and I’m in love with a woman I can never have.

My biggest secret is falling for my best friend’s sister twelve years ago.

My biggest mistake is thinking I could live without her.

And now my biggest regret is the look on her face the moment I tell everyone I’m already married to the woman they hate most.

Goodreads:


❤❤❤❤❤

OMG I can't believe this is the last book in the series. I could not wait to read this book because Drew captured my heart since book one. I knew there was a reason why he was the way he was but I never imagined what went down because I just figured he was an arsehole for no reason. Why he acted so weird around Ashley. I mean he and Millen are best friends and Ashley is Millen's sister so I thought he would be cool to Ashley but he acted weird around her and to find out that he loved her all those years was amazing!

The journey Drew and Ashley went on through the years really broke my heart. Ashley loved Drew and she held back just like Drew did. Only Drew went on to get in a relationship that he hated and things went down that almost broke him. Thank God Ashley was their for him because he needed someone to be strong for him. Their love story has lasted 12 years and the ups and downs they go through was worth it in the end. When they finally come together as a couple was amazing and made me cry. I wanted more of them because this story was so amazing!


Buy Links:
Amazon (Universal) - http://getbook.at/ThirdStrike

Teaser: 


Free three chapter preview here

Excerpt: 

“You don’t want to hear about my drama,” she says, forlorn. There’s a twinge in my chest, not only from the dejection in her voice, but the vulnerability in her eyes. God, I wish I could bring myself to touch her.

“If it matters to you, why wouldn’t I?”

She tilts her head slightly, her eyes lifting to mine as if to see if I’m being sincere. “Because you’re you—a hot twenty-year-old college guy, staring up at the stars with more interesting things to talk about.”

“Hot?”

She narrows her eyes, a small curve of her bee-stung lips capturing my attention. “You know you’re hot. Don’t deny it.”

Even upset, with slightly smudged makeup and a tinge of sadness marring her features, she’s breathtaking in the dim light.

“C’mon, mini Ross. Spill it.”

She cocks a brow. “Does that work on my brother?”

I shrug, my smirk all the answer she needs.

We sit there, eyes locked, acting like we have all night. Her eyes widen slightly before she breaks my gaze and lies back on the lounger, moving her attention to the sky. I copy her and return to the stars as I wait for her to talk.

Whatever she says will determine whether I need to run to the guest suite to wake Millen and go on a douchebag ass-kicking rampage. And if, for some miracle, he wasn’t the cause of her tears, I can’t make it better if I don’t know what happened.

Where did that come from?

A few minutes of both of us lying there is all she needs to open up. “Everything was fine until after prom king and queen were announced,” she says quietly.

“You didn’t win?” If that’s the case, then the vote must’ve been rigged because, until tonight, I’d never seen a more worthy prom queen than the girl beside me. Poise, grace, confidence and goddamn gorgeous to boot. Any guy with a dick and any girl with a conscience should’ve voted for her.

She laughs, but there’s no feeling behind it, a hollow sound that belies the action entirely. “I did. So did Dane. Then we danced the first dance together, and it was everything a senior prom experience should be… until it wasn’t.”

I clench my fists at my side. “What happened, Ash…?” My voice is low and rough, edged with tension. I’m poised to act against anyone who did her wrong.

“I really don’t want to—”

I snap my head toward her. “Ash…” I near on growl.

She holds her hands up in surrender. “Alright, already. Down, Hulk.”

If it were any other time, I’d laugh at that.

“Let’s just say that although I was going to dump Dane, he decided to get in there first and do it by making out with Lisa in the girl’s bathroom, just as I walked in. Then he made a big show of leaving with her in the same damn limo he hired to take me in.”

That motherfucker.

Before I can respond, she keeps going, sitting up to face me and hitting her stride. “I mean, one of my best friends, really? That’s so fucking cliché, right? He wasn’t man enough to pick up his balls and tell me to my face that he was dumping me, so he decided to let his dick do the talking instead. What a fuck-nugget!” She’s whisper shouting by the end of her rant, and it takes everything in me not to smile—something I fail at the moment I mirror her sitting position and catch her own lips twitching. The more I fight it, the more her eyes shine. The longer I don’t say anything, the harder it is not to pull her into my arms and give the girl a hug.

What I definitely don’t tell her is that at my senior prom, I was the Dane in a very similar scenario, but only because I’d had half a hip flask of Jack in the limo before prom. And the Lisa in my situation was the sluttiest, most ruthless girl in school who had been cheating on my best friend at the time, so that was my way of saving him a whole lot of heartache down the line.

My methods may have been flawed, but my intentions were good. Nonetheless, things were never the same between him and me again.

“You’re not hurt about him; you’re more hurt by her,” I surmise, her tear-filled nod confirming it. “You deserve better, Ash.” I rise to my feet and fish my iPod out of my pocket. I scroll through the songs in my favorite playlist until I spot the perfect soundtrack for a moment like this.

An idea forming in my brain, I quickly scan the house to make sure it’s still dark. I may kick myself for this later, but all I want to do is make things better for her. No teenage girl needs to remember her senior prom and have it marred by the recollection of her best friend leaving with her boyfriend.

Meeting her eyes, I reach out my hand for hers. Her brows furrow adorably. Don’t think of her that way. She’s still Millen’s baby sister.

I push those thoughts aside and wiggle my fingers. “Stand up, Ash. Every girl needs a good memory to erase the bad, and I know just how to do it.”

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In The Series: 

One Shot (Chances #1) 

My Review:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

First I have to say that this is the first book I have read by B.J. Harvey and it will not be the last because I was completely blown away by this story. I mean this story had me yelling at my kindle then swooning over this couple and then angry wondering why things were going the way they were going. But I stuck it out and I am so glad I did because this story is a gem. I will say that if you do have triggers regarding cheating men then know that there is that in this book. But in the end things get better and you'll understand why things were the way they were.

Millen meets Kenzie and sparks fly between them. When he sees Kenzie he is instantly attracted to her. The two have one night of pleasure and he's gone in the morning. Kenzie is not sure what happened because sparks were flying between them and she thought he was going to stay around. Fast forward three months later and Millen walks into her bar with a woman on his arm wearing a ring on her ring finger and Kenzie is floored. At first she sees red and wants to give him a piece of her mind but Millen talks to her and says he can explain. 

This is where the story starts to pop off and I mean pop off. I wanted to reach in my kindle and knock the eff out of Millen but he reasoning behing everything made sense in the end and I forgave him and was happy with the ending. This is a must read and I hear it is going to be a series so I will be reading the other books. 


Second Chance (Chances #2)

My Review:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I am really loving this series because with each book it gets better and better for these couples. B.J. makes it so real that you feel like you are right there with each character feeling each emotion. I really loved the chemistry between Bruno and Gaby. The chemistry was so strong it jumped off of the pages at you while you are reading.

Gaby and Bruno's story is so amazing. You have two people who have been hurt in previous relationships but they are not bitter. They both have an open mind when it comes to being together. They go very slow which is what I loved because they have both been hurt and want to protect their hearts.

Your waiting for the ball to drop with these two because you know that their pasts are coming back and they are going to have to deal with it. So when it does come I was very proud of Bruno and Gaby as to how they handled the situation. They were both strong and firm in what they wanted and how they wanted to move on from what they had in the past to move on to the future.


Giveaway: 

About the Author:
BJ Harvey is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the Bliss Series. She regards herself as a smut peddler, suspense conjurer, and a funny romance thinker upper. An avid music fan, you will always find her singing some hit song badly and loving every minute of it. She’s a wife, a mom to two beautiful girls, and hails from what she considers as the best country in the world—New Zealand—although she currently lives in Perth, Australia.

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