Getting Off Easy (Boys of the Big Easy #4) by Erin Nicholas-Review & Excerpt Tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 14, 2020
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New Orleans firefighter, James Reynaud’s true love is hanging out in the jazz clubs on Frenchmen Street and playing piano with some of the best musicians in the city. But driving his cute, bookworm neighbor Harper Broussard crazy is right up there on his list of favorite things.
The buttoned-up linguistics professor across the hall is a little older, a lot smarter, and way too good for him. And she knows it. But wow is she beautiful when she blushes.
She’s equally gorgeous when she’s saving his butt. Because now things just got serious. A baby has been, literally, dropped off on his doorstep and to say he’s in over his head is an understatement. Not that Harper knows anything about babies either. But at least they now have something in common.
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REVIEW:GETTING OFF EASY is the fourth instalment in Erin Nicholas’ contemporary, adult BOYS OF THE BIG EASY erotic, romance series focusing on a tight knit group of friends, and their single parent support group. This is twenty-seven year old, firefighter and jazz pianist James Reynaud, and thirty-two year old, professor Harper Broussard’s story line. GETTING OFF EASY can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual third person perspectives (James and Harper) GETTING OFF EASY follows the friends and neighbors to lovers, single father relationship between twenty-seven year old, firefighter and jazz pianist James Reynaud, and thirty-two year old, professor Harper Broussard. Harper and James are neighbors and for several months James has asked Harper for ‘help’ when he finds himself the recipient of newly orphaned pets. But the day an infant baby lands on James’ doorstep, our heroine finds herself sharing the parental responsibilities of raising a baby, a baby whose parentage is questionable and unknown. What ensues is the building relationship and romance between Harper and James as they begin a search for the infant’s mother, and the potential fall-out when the inevitable happens, and Harper walks away believing she is no longer needed in James’ life.
Professor Harper Broussard is a by the books woman who struggles with her attraction to her younger, next door neighbor but a series of well-ordered events pulls Harper into James’ life forcing Harper to let go of her proper attitude. James Reynaud has been attracted to his neighbor as long as he can remember and uses his feigned helplessness in an effort to get closer to Harper Broussard but a new born infant requires more help than James expected, as he and Harper find themselves co-parenting an infant they believed is fathered by James.
The relationship between James and Harper is one of immediate attraction but Harper battles between head and heart knowing James is five years her junior. A sexy fire fighter who also moonlights as a jazz musician, James is hoping for a chance to win the heart of his next door neighbor, a woman who appears to be a little rigid in the ways of the world. The $ex scenes are intimate and erotic, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
Most of the previous story line couples play secondary and supporting characters as they offer ‘advice’ to our newly minted father. We are introduced to Harper’s fellow professor Dr. Celia Ownsby, and student Sophie Duncan.
GETTING OFF EASY is a story of family, friendships and neighbors; mistaken beliefs and assumptions; co-parenting and the inevitable loss. The premise is playful and intriguing ; the romance is passionate and tender; the characters are energetic, colorful and animated. There are a number of humorous moments especially the diaper changing scenes and the shower required to clean up the mess !
Reading Order and Previous Reviews
My Best Friend’s Mardi Gras Wedding
Sweet Home Louisiana
Beauty and the Bayou
Copy supplied for review
Reviewed by Sandy
She froze.
“Professor?”
His voice was husky from sleep, low and gravelly, and Harper’s belly flipped, heat sliding from her stomach lower, between her legs. They were in his bedroom. One of them was in bed. And that voice. And the nickname. She could hardly be blamed for her reaction.
“Hey,” she said softly.
“You okay?”
It was the middle of the night, and he was the one asleep with the thing that had just turned his life upside down, but he was asking about her? She never came to him with needs. He came to her. She nodded. “I thought I’d take him so you could get more comfortable.”
He looked down at the baby, and seemingly instinctively, his hand slid from the baby’s butt to his back. James’s hand was huge on the tiny baby, and Harper swallowed hard at the sweet picture. “He’s okay.”
“You sure? I don’t mind.”
He looked up at her. He was clearly still sleepy, maybe not fully awake. “You wanna help?” he asked.
She nodded. “Yeah.” She felt terrible for leaving earlier. It had gone against every instinct except the one that screamed at her to protect her heart no matter the cost. But she was afraid she was far past the point of that being possible.
“Then come here.”
Harper wet her lips. “Come… there?”
“Yeah.” He reached for her with his free hand and caught her around the wrist, tugging her forward.
She could have easily pulled back, broken free, resisted. But she let him urge her onto the mattress.
Harper knelt with a knee next to his hip. “How does this help?”
“Gets you up against me,” he said, his voice still sleep roughened.
Her heart skittered. “That’s helpful?”
“Can’t imagine how it will hurt.” He gave her a sleepy, but still devastatingly sexy smile. “This way you’re here if he does need something.”
Well, he had a point.
Harper stretched out on the mattress beside James. He put his arm up above his head again, not holding her, but definitely exposing plenty of surface area for her to be up against.
Oh, what the hell. She wouldn’t sleep well at her place now, wondering what was going on over here. This way she was very much here for whatever went on. And she’d wanted to be up against him for a few months now. Lord only knew what the next few days were going to bring with the baby and everything. She might as well enjoy this moment while she had it.
She scooted closer. His body was hot and hard. She swallowed with some difficulty.
Then the baby made a little grunting sound and curled and stretched against James.
This was so not how she’d ever pictured being in bed with James Reynaud. That was for sure.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Erin Nicholas has been writing romances almost as long as she’s been reading them. To date, she’s written over thirty sexy, contemporary novels that have been described as “toe-curling,” “enchanting,” “steamy,” and “fun.” She adores reluctant heroes, imperfect heroines, and happily ever afters.
Erin lives in the Midwest, where she enjoys spending time with her husband (who only wants to read the sex scenes in her books), her kids (who will never read the sex scenes in her books), and her family and friends (who claim to be “shocked” by the sex scenes in her books).
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Erin Nicholas is the New York Times bestselling author of sexy contemporary romances. Her stories have been described as toe-curling, enchanting, steamy and fun. She loves to write about reluctant heroes, imperfect heroines and happily ever afters. She lives in the Midwest with her husband who only wants to read the sex scenes in her books, her kids who will never read the sex scenes in her books, and family and friends who say they’re shocked by the sex scenes in her books (yeah, right!).