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WHISKEY, WORDS, AND WHISPERS (SWEET TEA & TROUBLE #1) by @sawyerbennett123 is #NowLive!
Why you will love this book:
Penny Pritchard thought she’d traded in small-town chatter for political banter when she left to build a big career in Washington, D.C. But when her beloved Aunt Muriel needs help running Central Café—the local hotspot for gossip, grits, and good intentions—Penny comes home with a suitcase full of high heels and denial about just how much she’s missed this place.
Enter Sam-Pete Rochelle, the easygoing bartender at Chesty’s with a smile that could make a girl forget her rules and a secret bigger than the town itself. Everyone thinks he’s just the guy pouring whiskey and fixing the jukebox. No one suspects he’s actually a wildly popular, very rich, and very anonymous author of steamy fantasy romance novels.
When the truth is revealed and it’s time for Sam to stop hiding behind his pen name, Whynot loses its collective mind. The church ladies are clutching their pearls, Floyd’s hosting a “Banned Books & Bourbon” club, and the mayor’s calling an emergency meeting about moral decay. And Penny? Penny is learning firsthand that Sam doesn’t just talk the talk where his books are concerned. Sam excels at walking the walk, if you know what I mean.
Now, Penny is torn between her two worlds. Does she go back to the career that provides a sense of fulfillment and purpose or stay in the small town with the man who writes about epic love stories and might just be her own real-life happily ever after?
A laugh-out-loud, heart-swoony friends-to-lovers romance about second chances, southern charm, and finding the courage to write your own story—one rumor at a time.
Whiskey, Words and Whispers by Sawyer Bennett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Humor and heartache collide in the sweetest explosion of temptation. Bennett brings big personality to small town drama. From unpredictable to inevitable, Sam and Penny are irresistible. No one can shake up the senses with heartwarming results like Sawyer Bennett.
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#Excerpt
The fabric of Sam’s T-shirt is bunched in my fists and I don’t want this kiss to break. I mean… who needs oxygen anyway?
“Penny…,” he warns. He’s thinking the same as me. This feels like it’s getting ready to become very dangerous between us.
“Stop thinking,” I whisper against his mouth. “Just feel.”
“Oh, I’m feeling, all right,” he mutters before his mouth captures mine again in a bruising kiss.
I swing a leg over his lap and straddle him, putting us face-to-face. Sam groans, his hands catching me at my hips like he means to stop me. For one long heartbeat, he holds me there, breathing hard, caught somewhere between don’t and please. Then his grip shifts from resistance to permission, as he leans back just enough to make room for me.
The couch creaks as I shift, knees on either side of his hips, and he makes a rough sound at the back of his throat that goes straight through me.
“Penny, I’m not gonna lie… you straddling my lap has my brain close to short-circuiting and I’d be a fool to tell you to stop. But… I’m going to tell you to think about it.”
“I know what I’m doing,” I whisper, not sure which part I’m agreeing to—go slower, don’t spook him, keep kissing him until we both forget our names. Maybe all three.
My grip on his shoulders, I lower my head so my mouth can meet his. Sam’s hands hesitate at my waist like he’s afraid of being greedy, then settle there, fingers splayed, both reverent and possessive in the same beat.
His mouth moves over my jaw, down the line of my neck, where his teeth scrape deliciously against my tender skin. His fingers flex into my hips, pushing me down to feel every inch of him. He pins me there, head pulling back slightly to stare at me.
“Tell me to stop,” he says, “and I will.”
I circle my hips, creating friction between our bodies that almost makes me lose any shred of restraint I have. “Tell me to stop, and I absolutely won’t.”
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