Sassy Mum Book Blog: BLOG TOUR + REVIEW + GIVEAWAY: Rare & Precious Things by Raine Miller

2 March 2014

BLOG TOUR + REVIEW + GIVEAWAY: Rare & Precious Things by Raine Miller

Title: RARE AND PRECIOUS THINGS

(The Blackstone Affair Book 4)

Author: RAINE MILLER

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The fourth part in the New York Times bestselling series, The Blackstone Affair: A bright beginning for two damaged souls fighting for their hard-won love, and the promise of a new hope to secure their happily ever after.

Fresh from an idyllic honeymoon along the Italian coast, the Blackstones prepare for the birth of their precious baby and the challenges of settling into a new home. But things get complicated when specters from the past reappear to threaten the very foundation of their relationship. Ethan and Brynne will have to fight harder than ever for each other. Rare and Precious Things is the story of two people who both need the other in order to be complete, but learn just how "rare" their brand of love is when they have to risk everything in order to hold onto it.

You know that feeling when you get from a book, that heartwarming feel good moment when you can close a book and say, "WOW what an amazing finish", well that's how it felt for me, a flawless complete story about two of my all time favourite characters. Both who have struggled through their past demons, both who have now found that one person in their life that makes it complete. With the final installment into the Blackstone Affair Series, I honestly was sad seeing it to come to an end.

When the Blackstone Affair Series first arrived on my Kindle from Naked then All In, I waited ever so impatiently for Eyes Wide Shut it killed me. However with Rare & Precious Things, it was the total opposite. I didn't want it to end because i knew that Ethan & Brynne's story was coming to a close but not what i felt was definitely forever.

Raine's amazing journey she brings us was brilliantly captured through Brynne & Ethan's Point of View. Finally solving those unanswered and left open questions for Ethan & Brynne to fulfill closure, to move on together as one and onto better things now along with the new addition to their family, Peaches.

With the birth of their new born baby, this certainly brought memories close to my heart to the delivery of my special first born as well. The first experience of the first child will always be memorable in good and bad ways.

Ethan & Brynne will forward always hold a special place in my heart as my all time favourite series.

We both stood there panting, our faces so close, but yet, not touching; him in his tux with the purple brocade vest, me in my vintage inspired lace wedding dress, the sexual tension crackling in the air between us like a raging electrical storm about to go nuclear.

I told Ethan what I wanted.

“I n-need to get ready for you,” I managed on a shaky breath, hoping he understood this was something important to me.

He swallowed hard, making his Adam’s apple flex at his throat. “All right,” he said slowly. “I’ll do the same.”

I looked back to where the glow from the en suite bathroom showed me the way. “Where will you go?” I asked him, feeling slightly guilty about kicking him out, even if for just a short while.

“The adjoining bedroom is also very nice.” He gestured toward a door in the wall to the left of the bed. “These old manor houses always had lord and lady connecting bedrooms so they could meet up for the real important, private stuff that happened in the night.” He drew a finger across the low neckline of my bodice, moving especially slow over the swell of my breasts sitting against the lace of my gown.

“Oh? The important private stuff you say.”

“Undoubtedly, baby. The shagging…is…very…very…very…important.” He gave me soft, seductive kisses between each of the words.

“Which room are we in right now? Lord’s or lady’s?” I asked breathlessly.

He shrugged. “No idea. Don’t care either. I shag and sleep wherever my lady is, and I always will. Pick a room, Mrs. Blackstone.”

I sighed with need and forced myself to take a step backward, creating some distance between our bodies. “Okay…how does this room in fifteen minutes sound?” I stepped backward again, moving closer toward the bathroom door, my eyes never leaving his blues as they tracked my movements.

Those same beautiful blue eyes also glittered at me with all the shuttered heat of a man who would be ravishing me very soon. Please, and thank you.

He gave me the serious Ethan-stare, the one I’d seen many times and was well familiar with—the one raw with male prowess…and the overpowering sexual dominance.

“Like fifteen minutes too fucking long, my beauty.”

Raine Miller has been reading romance novels since she picked up that first Barbara Cartland book at the tender age of thirteen. And it's a safe bet she'll never stop, because now she writes them too! Granted Raine's stories are edgy enough to turn Ms. Cartland in her grave, but to her way of thinking, a hot, sexy hero never goes out of fashion. A part-time teacher and writer of sexy romance stories every other chance she gets pretty much fills her days. She has a handsome prince of a husband, and two brilliant sons to pull her back into the real world if the writing takes her too far away. Her sons know she likes to write stories, but gratefully have never asked to read any, thank God! Raine loves to hear from readers and to chat about the characters in her books.

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