CELTICLADY'S REVIEWS: Release Tour for UNBREAK ME by Michelle Hazen!

Release Tour for UNBREAK ME

by Michelle Hazen

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Find out what a big city musician and a lonely cowgirl have in
common in Michelle Hazen’s UNBREAK ME from Berkley Publishing.
Andra Lawler must decide if she’s brave enough to leave the shelter
of her family’s ranch

for an uncertain future with Haitian-Creole cowboy, LJ Delisle. Fans of

Emily Giffin and Colleen Hoover will devour this sweet, heartwrenching

yet hopeful diverse romance.

UNBREAK ME was named one of Amazon's Best Books of the month of
August and was the winner of RWA’s Lonestar Award.

“A seductive, slow-burn romance brimming with tenderness, hope,

and transformation.”—Tammara Webber, New York Times

bestselling author

“Hazen writes with grace and compassion about life after trauma,

smoothly addressing racism, sexual assault, and large-scale disasters

without pat answers or platitudes.

This is a sure tear-jerker for any romance fan.”

—STARRED Publisher’s Weekly review

What could two troubled souls from different walks of
life have in common? Maybe everything.
Andra Lawler lives isolated at her family’s horse ranch, imprisoned
by the memories of an assault in college. When she needs help
training her foals, she hires a Haitian-Creole cowboy from
New Orleans with a laugh as big as the Montana sky.
LJ Delisle can’t stand the idea that Andra might be lonely—or
eating frozen TV dinners. He bakes his way into her kitchen with
a lemon velvet cake, and offers her cooking lessons that set them
on the road to romance. But even their love can’t escape the
shadow of what they've been through. Despite their growing
friendship and his gentle rapport with the horses, LJ is still an
outsider facing small-town suspicions. Before they can work
through their issues, LJ is called home by a family emergency.
In the centuries-old, raggedly rebuilt streets of New Orleans,
he must confront memories of Hurricane Katrina and
familiar discrimination. And Andra must decide if she’s brave
enough to leave the shelter of the ranch for an uncertain
future with LJ.

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Excerpt from Unbreak Me

Copyright @ Michelle Hazen 2019

Andra opened her front door, and the frown froze on her face as LJ’s
shoulders filled the doorframe.

He was holding . . . a cake?

“Um, hi,” she managed.

Oh crap, she’d promised to talk to him about the horses.
“Look, I’m sorry. I know I said I’d come talk to you a couple
days ago, but then Socks kicked one of the grooms, and
Mary Kay lost a shoe, and I completely forgot.” She hadn’t
forgotten, so much as she was . . . working up to it. Giving
him a few days of seeing her around the ranch when she
was in control of herself, before she got close enough she’d
have to see his opinion of her in his eyes. He shrugged,
careful not to tip the tall cake off its platter. “I think we got
off on the wrong foot the day we met, and our do-over didn’t
really stick.”
Oh God. Apparently, he wasn’t tiptoeing around anything today.
LJ grinned—a playful, twinkly-eyed one that made him look
like he was just having more fun than everyone else. “Besides,
nobody’s afraid of a guy with a cake.”
A smile tugged at the edges of her mouth.
“I’ve never heard that.” “No? It’s completely true. Not to
mention, bringing a cake is the best excuse to eat some. I mean,
it’s yours. You don’t have to share. Of course, if you don’t, you
may want to pass a tissue or two my way, is all I’m saying.”
He widened his eyes mournfully.
She glanced at the cake, the white icing whipped into gorgeous
swirls.
“Did Stacia make that? She used to be terrible at baking.”
She gripped the edge of the door a little tighter.
Maybe her friend had been practicing.
It wasn’t like she knew what Stacia was up to these days.
“I’m a little offended. A man doesn’t bring a borrowed cake
for an apology.” He lifted the platter and gave it a waggle.
“We’ve got lemon
velvet with French buttercream here.

You oughta get it out of the heat soon, though. The sun melted
the frosting some on the way over. It’s a hike to get up over here,
you know it?”
Oops, he was feeling around for an invitation. Duh, and she was
still standing in her door like some kind of freak. “Um, come in.”
The least she could do was feed him some cake and try to act like
a normal person. She stepped aside and racked her brain for small
talk that didn’t involve anything on four hooves. “You know, I can’t
quite place your accent. You said you were from Louisiana, but I’ve
met lots of people from there at rodeos, and they didn’t sound
quite like you.”
“Well, you can tell I’m from the South because I interrupted your
workout with dessert.”

He tipped his head toward the yoga mat she’d left by the couch.
She smiled, and his grin brightened a couple more watts.
“Seriously, though, I think I’ve got a little bayou country from
my days on my uncle’s horse ranch,cut with the rhythm of the
Lower Ninth, maybe some southern drawl creeping in from the
Mississippi border. And New Orleans has a sound all its own,
always has.” Between one word and the next, his words
straightened to all square corners instead of luscious curves.
“Then again, if my mother is listening, I sound strictly like
the Yankee university she helped pay for.”
“Your mom doesn’t like your accent?” Andra frowned.
“Doesn’t she have one?”

“Mama thought I wouldn’t get a decent job unless I talked
like a white banker from Wisconsin.” He shrugged.
Her eyes widened. “That’s not fair. Why should you have
to fake an accent to get a job?”
“That’s the way the world works. People have ideas about
what intelligence should sound like, and I don’t expect I’m
going to change all of them on my own.” He winked.
“I tutored English composition for
work study all through college, so I can play the game.
I have to admit, though, sometimes it’s nice to sound like home.”
Andra laughed, a little self-consciously. “I don’t think I even
realized we had an accent up north until you imitated it.”
“Oh, it’s an accent all right, sweetheart.
And you’ve got it thick as anything.”
Heat crept into her skin at the endearment, though she didn’t
get the feeling he was really flirting with her. She glanced away,
the afterimage of him seared on her lids. His deep-brown eyes
were a couple of shades darker than his skin, and they
always seemed to be laughing. He was handsome, with high
cheekbones and sensual lips. The kind of man she would have
looked twice at, once.
ABOUT Michelle Hazen

Michelle Hazen is a nomad with a writing problem. Years ago,
she and her husband swapped office jobs for seasonal gigs and
moved out on the road. As a result, she wrote most of her books
with solar power in odd places, including a bus in Thailand, a golf
cart in a sandstorm, and a beach in Honduras. Currently, she’s
addicted to The Walking Dead, hiking, and Tillamook cheese.
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