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~**~ Blog Tour for Praying For Rain (Praying for Rain #1) by BB Easton w/ Excerpt & Review ~**~

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"BB Easton is a masterful storyteller at her very best with Praying for Rain. It's easily in the top five books I've EVER read. Unique, sexy, and wonderfully written, Praying for Rain is a story I'll remember always and reread often." -- T.M. Frazier, USA Today bestselling author

Praying for Rain, an all-new powerful and emotional love story from BB Easton, is available now!

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With only three days left until the predicted apocalypse, the small town of Franklin Springs, Georgia, has become a wasteland of abandoned cars, abandoned homes, abandoned businesses, and abandoned people. People like Rainbow Williams.
Rain isn’t afraid of dying. In fact, she’s looking forward to it. If she can just outrun her pain until April 23, she’ll never have to feel it at all.
Wes Parker has survived every horrible thing this life has thrown at him with nothing more than his resourcefulness and disarming good looks. Why should the end of the world be any different? All he needs are some basic supplies, shelter, and a sucker willing to help him out, which is exactly what he finds when he returns to his hometown of Franklin Springs.
As society crumbles, dangers mount, and secrets refuse to stay buried, two lost souls are thrust together in a twist of fate—one who will do anything to survive and one who can’t wait to die.
Perhaps, together, they can learn how to live.
Before their time runs out.
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Excerpt:

Just like in my nightmare, her touch is all it takes for me to lose complete control—of the situation, of my willpower, of my own damn body. Instead of giving her a swat on the ass and sending her home like I know I should, I watch like a prisoner in my own mind as my arms wrap around her tiny shoulders and pull her in closer.

  No! What the fuck are you doing, pussy? Cut her loose!

  I scream at myself, call myself every name in the book, but the voice in my head is drowned out by the euphoric rush I get from holding this girl. She coils my shirt in both fists. Burrows her face into my neck. Her breath comes in short, hot bursts as she giggles against my skin. Her nose is cold. And all I can do is watch in humiliation as the meat puppet I live inside of tips its face down and smells her fucking hair.

  Oh my God, you’re pathetic.

  Sugar cookies. She laughs like a farm animal. She looks like a discarded porcelain doll that raided a teenage boy’s closet. And she smells like fucking sugar cookies.

  Let her go, dipshit! Supplies! Shelter!

  Self-defense! That’s what you need!

  But the warning falls on deaf ears because now my stupid fucking cock has gone rogue, too. Why not? Nothing else is listening to me. It springs to life and rams itself into my zipper, seeking Rain’s attention as well. I take a small step back, just enough to keep from shoving my hard-on into her belly like a full-fledged creep, but she responds to my step back with one of her own.

  And that’s it.
  The moment is over.
  The laughter is gone.

We drop our arms, and we begin walking.


***5 ‘You Were My Mission’ Stars***

I’m honestly not entirely sure where to start this review, but the best place my brain is suggesting is to state that I was hooked from the very first page.

And I was.

I wanted to find out not only what started this apocalypse is on the horizon frenzy, but also what the hell was going on with Rain because she most definitely had things going on that would not be put to rest any time soon.

And then there was Wes…

He wants to be a lone wolf with an intense desperation, and for the most part succeeds, but also has this spark of need in him that takes him a while to figure out what to do with.

As for Rain and Wes together..well, I loved them for a plethora of reasons, even though there was a whole bunch of push/pull going on for the mass majority of the book, and am happy that this was simply the first installment of their story because they have quite a few things to work through before they can have anything close to a HEA ~ something they both definitely deserve, even as the world goes crazy.

And as for the story/backstory… I have to admit that I was all kinds of confused (and still kind of am) even after the big reveal of what may or may not be going on, but I’m definitely looking forward to when all of those pieces of the puzzle are revealed.

This is my first read by the author and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The writing is engaging and I was sucked into the story, willingly fell down the rabbit hole and had no desire to claw my way out. The dual first person POV’s were well done and the pacing of the story was good. As this is pre-apocalypse the crazy is high and there are things that could possibly triggers for some, so be prepared. This is a trilogy, something that escaped my notice (How, I have no clue, but…), so the end of this one has a cliffy of sorts, which was done well, and has me wanting/needing to know what will happen next. So, it’s time to #practicepatience until book two is released.

~ Copy provided by Social Butterfly PR & voluntarily reviewed ~
About BB Easton

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  BB Easton lives in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, with her long-suffering husband, Ken, and two adorable children. She recently quit her job as a school psychologist to write books about her punk rock past and deviant sexual history full-time. Ken is suuuper excited about that. Praying for Rain is BB's first full-length work of fiction. The idea, fittingly, came to her in a dream. If that sounds like the kind of person you want to go around being friends with, then by all means, feel free to drop her a line. You can find her procrastinating at all of the following places:


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