Book Blitz: Bring Me Back by Jennifer Collin

Posted February 9, 2015 by Lola in Blog Tour, Contemporary, Romance / 6 Comments

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This is my stop during the book blitz for Bring Me Back by Jennifer Collin. This book blitz is organized by Lola’s Blog Tours. The book blitz runs from 6 till 12 February, you can view the complete blitz schedule on the website of Lola’s Blog Tours.

This series contains 3 books: Set Me Free (The Evans Trilogy #1), Open My Eyes (The Evans Trilogy #2) and Bring Me Back (The Evans Trilogy #3). Jennifer Collin’s Evans Trilogy has been a runaway success in the UK, and US audiences are quickly discovering it’s charm. The third and final book in the series has just been released. Bring Me Back features the grittiness the trilogy is famous for, as the hunt for missing rock star and drug addict, Andy Evans, continues.

Bring Me Back CoverBring Me Back (The Evans Trilogy #3)
By Jennifer Collin

Genre: Chick Lit/ Romance/ Women’s Fiction
Age category: Adult
Release Date: 6 February, 2015

Blurb:
Andy Evans is on the move. For six long, lonely years, he’s been running from his past, leaving his family and his life as a drug-addicted rock star far behind. His latest move takes him to the sleepy seaside town of Oamaru, New Zealand, to sell cigar-box guitars to tourists. The only running he’ll need to do will be training for half-marathon in nearby Dunedin. But when Andy sets eyes on Steampunk HQ, Oamaru’s main tourist attraction, he realises his days of running might not be over, especially if a certain Steampunk fan from his past catches up with him.

Annie Martin is on the cusp of great success. Her career as a Steampunk academic is about to take off, as long as she can convince one disagreeable, New Zealand-based Professor to sign up to the anthology she’s putting together. Thankfully, Annie is a master at maintaining her poise and few people, no matter how nasty, can rattle her. Not any more. In fact, it’d been a good six years since anyone had gotten under her skin, after her best friend’s brother had vanished into thin air.

When Annie finds her future career on a collision course with her secret past, Andy Evans is the last person she expects to find tangled up in the mess. With a vengeful drug-dealer or two hot on his heels, and a vindictive academic determined to ruin her credibility, can Annie bring Andy back to his family before it’s too late? Annie and Andy are used to being alone, but if they don’t work together, there’ll be much more at stake than her livelihood and his sobriety.

You can find Bring Me Back on Goodreads

You can buy Bring Me Back here:
Amazon
Amazon UK

Excerpt
Annie charged down the park, running parallel to the competitors and dodging the spectators. As the finish line came into view, the crowd thickened. She slowed and pushed her way through, determined this time. When she reached the recovery area, where the runners who’d finished were pacing, an official held up a hand to stop her.
‘Not that way, miss,’ he said. Behind him a temporary fence separated the competitors from the crowd.
Annie followed his direction, scanning for a way to slip past. The second the official was distracted by another punter, she jumped the fence and dashed into the gathering group of runners. She didn’t have much time. Even in regular clothes she would’ve been conspicuous, but in her Victorian skirts and corset, she stood out like, well, like someone from Victorian England had been dropped at the finish line of a twenty-first-century marathon. Most of the runners were walking in circles, shaking their legs, breathing heavily. Some were lying on their backs, chests rising and falling, eyes closed. One was bent over, hands on his knees, head down. The only runner with a beard.
Annie looked around to make sure she was still unseen by the officials. In the clear, she inched closer, careful to stay behind him so he couldn’t see her.
When she was close enough to reach out and touch him, she clasped her skirts with her shaking hands. ‘Andy?’ she said.
‘Yeah?’ He looked up and saw her.
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Andy Evans watched Annie’s eyes widen and her face whiten. Then he straightened, cursed, and bolted.
Behind him, Annie cursed as well and started chasing him.
He dodged through the crowd, leading her to the end of the park and down the beach. He was running on pure adrenalin – there was no strength left in his legs. He glanced over his shoulder to see he was getting away as Annie stumbled in the sand in her boots.
‘You’re such a jerk, Andy Evans!’ she called after him. ‘Don’t you run away from me!’
Andy was doing his best, but it was looking more and more like he’d have to obey her command. His legs weren’t promising to carry his weight any further, and at any moment they would give out beneath him. Still, he pushed on and somehow managed to increase the distance between them.
Something slammed into his back and he broke stride to see what had hit him. A leather ankle boot fell to the sand behind him. She must’ve taken off her boots and decided to throw them at him. He spared her a glance and tried to recover his pace. A knock to the back of the head told him she’d thrown the second boot. He stumbled and crashed face first into the sand. Annie reached him in seconds, jumping onto his back and pinning him with her knees.
‘You bloody shit,’ she gasped. She grabbed his wrists in each of her hands and pushed them into the sand. ‘You bloody shit.’
Andy couldn’t breathe. She was crushing his already spent lungs. He tried to tell her as much.
‘I don’t care,’ she said, and ground her knees into his back.
Desperate, Andy mustered his remaining strength and lifted himself, with Annie on top. He flipped over onto his back and she landed on his chest for a split second, before rocketing to her feet and stepping away.
She searched around for her boot, picked it up and threw it at him again. It hit him in the chest.

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Earlier books in the series:
Set Me Free coverSet Me Free (The Evans Trilogy #1)
By Jennifer Collin

Genre: Chick Lit/ Romance/ Women’s Fiction
Age category: Adult

Blurb:
Disastrous love life aside, Charlotte Evans is rather content with her life. Her quaint little art gallery is plodding along nicely, and her sister Emily’s artistic career is about to take off, thanks to her tireless promotion. She even gets to see her best friend every day and drink his delicious coffee in the café next door.

But when dastardly property developer Craig Carmichael comes along, threatening to demolish her gallery and take everything away, Charlotte has an unexpected fight on her hands. Not only is she battling to stop Craig’s development, she’s also struggling against the mysterious magnetic pull that has her on a collision course with Craig himself.

Craig Carmichael is fighting the Battle for Boundary Street on more than one front. The tenants of the building he wants to knock down are mounting a strong case against him and in a hot-headed moment he put his career on the line for a project that is threatening to fail. If the project doesn’t succeed he will lose everything, but for some reason he’s having trouble maintaining his focus.

As their worlds begin to unravel around them, anyone could win. It’s what they might lose that has Charlotte and Craig wondering what it is they really want.

You can find Set Me Free on Goodreads

You can buy Set Me Free here:
Amazon
Amazon UK

Open My Eyes coverOpen My Eyes (The Evans Trilogy #2)
By Jennifer Collin

Genre: Chick Lit/ Romance/ Women’s Fiction
Age category: Adult

Blurb:
Everything happens for a reason, they say. And sometimes the reason is you’re stupid and make bad decisions. Sleeping with her sister’s best friend is one of the dumbest things soon-to-be divorcee Emily Evans has ever done. But she’s determined to put it behind her and move on. She’s walked away from her cheating husband, managed to make a new friend, and found herself a real job and somewhere to live so she doesn’t have to couch-surf any more. Everything should be falling into place but for one problem – there are some mistakes from which you can’t move on.

Meanwhile, Ben Cameron is getting on with his life. After all, it’s the only thing to do once your heart has been stomped on by the woman of your dreams. Expanding his business and getting cosy with the girl next door are proving welcome distractions. He’s even happy to babysit his nephew, as long as he can to hand him back when he’s done! And thankfully, Emily Evans, the woman with the heavy boots, is avoiding him like the plague.

But Emily can’t avoid him forever, and when she drops a bombshell that turns Ben’s world upside-down, suddenly, getting on with his life takes on a whole new meaning.

You can find Open My Eyes on Goodreads

You can buy Open My Eyes here:
Amazon
Amazon UK

About the Author:JenCollin Author photo
Jennifer Collin writes quirky, and sometimes gritty, love stories about ordinary people dealing with what life throws at them.

She lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband, two noisy children and a cantankerous cat.

She used to party, but now her idea of a good time is an uninterrupted sleep. These days, her characters do her partying for her, and she doesn’t necessarily let them sleep.

You can find and contact Jennifer Collin here:
Website
Facebook
Twitter
Goodreads
Pinterest

There is a tour wide giveaway for the book blitz of Bring Me Back. These are the prizes you can win:
– First three books in the Evans Trilogy by Jennifer Collin: Set Me Free, Open My Eyes and Bring Me Back
– Amazon gift card of 15$

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6 responses to “Book Blitz: Bring Me Back by Jennifer Collin

    • When the author contacted me about organizing this blitz for her it was the first time I heard about it as well. It sounds like a fun series and I like the unique style of the covers.

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