Excerpt Reveal: ‘Beautiful Crazy’ by A. James
Beautiful Crazy
(Blossom Beach #1)
Author: A. James
Publication Date: January 6, 2025
Add to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215801867-beautiful-crazy
As a single mom with my hands and heart full, finding love is the last thing on my mind.
Then Everett Windward comes along.
My new neighbor is charming, handsome, and sexy—and before I know it, I have a new friend…with benefits.
Fun and filthy benefits.
There’s just one problem—He’s also my son’s teacher.
That alone should have me pumping the brakes… except it doesn’t. I’m drawn to him and to the way he makes me feel. Everett has a filthy side that has reignited something inside of me that I haven’t felt in years.
Something I thought I lost.
But there are rules…
My son can’t know.
No sleeping over.
And absolutely no feelings involved.
But as time goes on, it becomes impossible to ignore the butterflies in my stomach when I catch him looking at me, or when I watch him play ball with my son day after day.
Before I know it, he’s so intertwined in our lives, and I can no longer deny the desire to break the very rules that I put into place to begin with.
But it’s not just my feelings I have to consider.
I can see how quickly my son is becoming attached to him. See the way he yearns for that father figure in his life.
We have experienced enough hurt and loss to last a lifetime. Can I really open up our hearts, knowing the risk I’m taking?
PreOrder Now: https://geni.us/beautifulcrazy
A crooked grin slides onto his face as Everett sits back in his chair and pats his thigh. “C’mere,” is all he says, but my thighs clench anyway.
On shaky legs, I stand and take the two steps it takes to reach him. Spreading his thighs to allow my legs to fit between them, he gazes up at me with a look of lust and something else entirely as I lower myself into his lap. One of his hands finds its way to my hip, the touch sending electricity through my veins and molten heat to my core. Bringing his other hand up to my cheek, he cradles it as our eyes meet. Just an inch away, we breathe each other in. Something sensual passes between us before he pulls my head down until our lips meet.
Holy shit.
We’re kissing.
Everett is kissing me.
His palm slides from my cheek to the back of my neck, nails grazing the flesh on my nape, sending a layer of goosebumps all over my body. Parting our lips, his tongue licks into my mouth, rolling with mine, the flavor of him exploding on my taste buds. Every inch of me is on fire as our lips move together, as we savor one another. My skin tingles, my head fuzzy, and I can feel myself getting wetter by the second, a reaction I haven’t had to another person in many, many years. I almost forgot how fucking good making out feels.It doesn’t take long for us to lose ourselves to each other. I shift in his lap until I’m full-on straddling him, both of his hands coming down to grab ahold of my ass as my hips rock against him, feeling his hard length under me, the throb settling deep in my core becoming stronger by the moment.
My obsession with reading started over 30+ years ago when I went to my first Scholastic Book Fair and found R.L. Stine's Fear Street series. Later, I came across Anne Rice's novels at my public library when I was fourteen when my obsession with vampires started. I was the girl who preferred to be a vampire over a princess any day. My husband says I would leave him a heartbeat for a vampire that looked like Spike or Angel (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries. (It's true, though, and he's accepted it.)
- ARC Review: ‘Salvatore’ by Eden Summers - May 30, 2025
- Happy Release Day + Giveaway: ‘Bracing The Storm’ by J.C. Reed - May 27, 2025
- ARC Review: ‘Restless Hawke’ by Gwyn McNamee - May 26, 2025