A warm Love Bytes welcome to Lisa Henry & Heidi Belleau visting today for their blog tour on newest release “Tin Man”

Welcome Lisa and Heidi 🙂

Hi! Welcome to Lisa Henry and Heidi Belleau’s blog tour for our new release, Tin Man. We’re visiting some of our favourite blogs around the place to talk a bit about writing Tin Man, and sharing some of our influences, our ideas, and even an excerpt or two! Don’t forget to leave a comment, for your chance to win prizes!

 

An enemies-to-lovers story is one of our favourite tropes. In Tin Man, we start with the ultimate enemies. In fact, in the scene where they meet, the first thing Ace and Soren do is try and kill each other. They don’t know each other, but they are on very different sides in a society where there is a literal war against criminals, and they both know believe that only one of them can survive their meeting.

 

What’s so interesting in the enemies-to-lovers trope is that it takes a shift in perspective from both the men involved. It’s an act of trust when one of our guys sees an opportunity to kill the other, and doesn’t take it. Because ultimately he knows that the man he’s saved might just turn around and kill him in return. It immediately changes the rules of the game, for both of them.

 

In Tin Man, we worked a little of the theory of mutually assured destruction. Ace and Soren, by breaking the rules of the game and by breaking their government’s morality laws, are both equally in danger of discovery and punishment. They’re risking everything and yet, in that moment when they’ve come so close to killing each other, they also have nothing left to lose.

 

The idea of mutually assured destruction might seem like a strange one to base a love story on, which is why we want to actually put it out there that while this is a love story, we don’t feel it’s particularly a romance. Ace and Soren are both desperate men, who fall into a place where the old rules don’t apply, and they make the decision to trust each other. From that trust, anything is possible.

 

Blurb:

Petty thief Ashoka “Ace” King knows better than to get in the way of Tophet’s Anti-Terrorist Unit. Rightfully feared in Tophet’s crime-ridden underbelly, a face-to-face encounter with an ATU is almost certainly a death sentence. But Ace has never been one to follow the rules.

Soren Lau might be an ATU rookie, but he’s not naive enough to believe everything his superiors tell him. Then again, he’s not stupid enough to disobey them, either. If he doesn’t shoot and kill as ordered, he might be next on their list.

But when Soren meets Ace, a moment’s hesitation is all it takes to put both their lives on the line. They don’t know each other, they don’t trust each other, and there’s no way in hell they can both walk away from this alive. But with suspicion and mortal danger mounting against both of them—and the forbidden attraction blazing between them—there’s nothing they can do but try.

 

Tin Man is out on July 20. You can order it now at Riptide. Amazon

Check out Jenna’s review on Tin Man HERE!

Lisa Henry

Lisa likes to tell stories, mostly with hot guys and happily ever afters.

Lisa lives in tropical North Queensland, Australia. She doesn’t know why, because she hates the heat, but she suspects she’s too lazy to move. She spends half her time slaving away as a government minion, and the other half plotting her escape.

She attended university at sixteen, not because she was a child prodigy or anything, but because of a mix-up between international school systems early in life. She studied History and English, neither of them very thoroughly.

She shares her house with too many cats, a green tree frog that swims in the toilet, and as many possums as can break in every night. This is not how she imagined life as a grown-up.

Connect with Lisa:

Blog: lisahenryonline.blogspot.com

Twitter: @lisahenryonline

Goodreads: goodreads.com/LisaHenry

 

Heidi Belleau

Heidi Belleau was born and raised in small town New Brunswick, Canada. She now lives in the rugged oil-patch frontier of Northern BC with her husband, an Irish ex-pat whose long work hours in the trades leave her plenty of quiet time to write.

She has a degree in history from Simon Fraser University with a concentration in British and Irish studies; much of her work centred on popular culture, oral folklore, and sexuality, but she was known to perplex her professors with unironic papers on the historical roots of modern romance novel tropes. (Ask her about Highlanders!)

When not writing, you might catch her trying to explain British television to her newborn daughter or standing in line at the local coffee shop, waiting on her caramel macchiato.

Connect with Heidi:

Blog: www.heidibelleau.com

Twitter: @HeidiBelleau

Goodreads: goodreads.com/heidibelleau

Email: heidi.below.zero@gmail.com

Each comment on this blog tour enters you for a chance to win a $20 Riptide credit and an ecopy of Bliss, the first book set in this universe. Entries close July 25, and contest is not restricted to US residents. Remember to leave your email address in the comments so we can contact you if you win!