I would like to welcome Avery Flynn to The Avid Reader today. Thanks for stopping by Avery. Please be sure and check out Avery's novel: Passion Creek. Check out Avery's guest blog: Read Romance, Be Subversive.
Book Title: Passion Creek
Series: Layton Family Series Book Three
Author: Avery Flynn
Genre: Steamy romantic suspense
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-77130-104-6
ASIN: B00947WLUC
Number of pages: 164
Word Count: 52,886
Cover Artist: Sour Cherry Designs
PURCHASE
Passion Creek
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Passion Creek
Uptight history professor Sam Layton may have the abs of a movie action hero, but he stopped believing in the joy of adventure a long time ago. However, when a one-night stand with a tattooed bombshell leads to a treasure map for the long-buried Rebecca's Bounty, the call to action is too strong to ignore.
All Las Vegas cocktail waitress Josie Winarsky wants to do is paint. But when she lands smack dab in the middle in a mob plot, she has to push aside her dreams to find a treasure in Dry Creek, Nebraska and save her family from harm. With Sam at her side and a Vegas loan shark on her tail, the treasure she finds turn out to be much more valuable than emeralds and rubies.
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Passion Creek
EXCERPT
Passion Creek
Sam followed Chris' gaze and spotted Josie on the dance floor wrapped in the arms of an older cowboy. A lightning bolt of want slammed through Sam with so much force he dropped his beer. The glass bottle shattered into a million pieces and people jumped to avoid the mess. Everyone in the vicinity turned to stare and, for once, he couldn't have cared less that he was the center of attention. The dance floor had emptied out somewhat giving him a clear view of Josie and her partner.
Willie Carson had his right arm snug up against Josie, his palm resting on her hip. He held her left hand in his as they two-stepped. His suspiciously black handlebar mustache kept moving up and down to the beat, no doubt he was telling her when to step. Despite Willie's direction, Josie faltered, thrown off by her partner's double fancy spin. She tossed her head back and laughed, the live band covered the sound, but Sam heard it anyway. His hands curled into fists. He didn't care if Willie Carson was old enough to be his father, he was going to knock him on his ass if he didn't stop touching her.
"You'd better clean up your mess or they'll kick us out." Chris swiped a rag from the bar and tossed it to Sam.
Brought back to reality, he gathered up the bigger chunks of glass right as one of the bartenders rounded the bar with a plastic bucket and a broom. "Sorry about that."
Sam dumped the glass into the bucket.
"Shit happens, man. I got it." With a few flicks of the bartender's broom the glass disappeared into the bucket.
An ear-splitting whistle blared. "Josie!" Chris waved at Josie who had just exited the dance floor.
Her face flushed, she whispered something into Willie's ear, then made her way through the crowd to them. How she managed to move in those tight jeans Sam had no idea.
His gaze roved higher to the black Western-style shirt unbuttoned to the third button and his fingers itched to test the strength of that third button, an impulse he stuffed down. Josie was the enemy. No matter what she'd told him in the office earlier, he knew she was holding out on him. Treasure hunters had been after Rebecca's Bounty for years, he wouldn't help - not even if the hunter in this case was more intelligent and sexy than the others.
GUEST BLOG
Read Romance, Be Subversive
I have a new favorite quote:
"Romances are, in fact, subversive literature: They encourage women to be dissatisfied with inequality, and to set higher expectations for themselves, and they show them ways to achieve those expectations, largely by taming men and, in a way, usurping their power. Romances are arguably the only art form of any kind that portrays women as equal partners with men." -David Pollard
Fight the patriarchy, indeed.
I believe in writing heroines who have agency. Agency is the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power and it's what every heroine needs to have. She is not just meekly letting the world have it's wicked way with her, the true romance heroine finds a way to control her destiny. Face it, the romance heroine is a badass.
They don't just sit back and wait for the world to come to them, they go out and do what needs to be done. Let's face it ladies, isn't that what we find ourselves doing every day in the real world? Sure we may not be tracking down a buried treasure and going toe-to-toe with a Vegas loan shark like Josie Winarsky in my latest release Passion Creek, but we always find a way to get it done.
So who are some of your favorite badass romance heroines?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Avery Flynn has three slightly-wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband and is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip. Find out more about Avery on her blog, follow her on Twitter, like her on Facebook or friend her on Facebook. Also, if you figure out how to send Oreos through the Internet, she'll be your best friend for life.
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