A warm welcome to author Andy Gallo for joining us today to talk about new release “Better to Believe” , book 4 in the succesful Harrison Campus series.
Andy shares an exclusive excerpt with us and brought a giveaway for our readers!
Welcome Andy 🙂
Thank you to Dani and Love Bytes for having me today.
I’m Andy Gallo, and I write mostly sweet, low angst, contemporary romance, often with a side of sports tossed in. If my name sounds familiar, I write a monthly guest post on Love Bytes on the 28th of each month.
My new release, Better to Believe, Harrison Campus #4, is a Best Friend’s Brother romance.
Coury has dreamed of playing professional baseball most of his life. Liam has dreamed of being Coury’s boyfriend for almost as long. They both end up at the mythical Harrison University, name for the real, but very forgettable, U.S. President Benjamin Harrison. When Coury needs a tutor so he can pass a class he needs to graduate, Liam steps up to help. Neither expect what happens next.
Blurb:
Fall for your best friend’s brother, just don’t break his heart.
Coury Henderson has wanted to play professional baseball since he threw his first pitch. If he’s drafted, he’s off to Tiny Town, USA to earn his ticket to the majors. But a freak injury threatens to derail his dream. If that weren’t enough, his graduation is in jeopardy. Physical therapy might solve the first hurdle, but he’ll need a tutor who is aces in science to solve the second.
A tutor like Liam, his best friend’s little brother.
But when did Liam grow up to be such a hottie?
Liam Wright has crushed on his brother’s best friend since he was twelve. He jumps at the chance to tutor Coury and spend time alone together.
Not that anything could happen between them . . . as nice as Coury is to him, jocks don’t go for nerds.
So why does everything they do feel like a date?
“Better to Believe” is a best friend’s brother-to-lovers, nerd-jock, slow-burn M/M romance with a guaranteed HEA. This new adult, college age novel can be read as a standalone. The Harrison Campus series can be read in any order.
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Coury dropped his phone on the passenger seat with a fond shake of his head. Beckett was running late. Coury was early. The story of their lifelong friendship.
He killed the engine and grabbed the cupcakes he’d bought at the supermarket. Lame, but he’d been raised never to show up empty-handed.
A blast of icy air greeted him. He yanked his hood up and burrowed into the warm down for the short walk to the white Cape Cod. It had been years since he’d been to the house. Before he and Liam started college. When Beckett’s grandmother was still alive.
He pulled his free hand from his coat and rang the bell. No answer. Second attempt. Still nothing.
He rapped his freezing knuckles against the hard wood, and a dog barked.
A gust of warm air puffed around him as the door parted. Coury glimpsed short caramel hair, high cheekbones, and a dimpled grin. Liam angled his leg, keeping the excited white-and-brown terrier inside. “Slider, sit.”
Slider obeyed, for a nanosecond. The moment Liam looked up, he pounced again, soft ears flopping. A lofty laugh bounded out of Liam; his eyes glittered. “Slider!”
“Hey, Liam.” Coury smiled and quickly stepped inside. The warmth felt good. He toed off his shoes. “How’s it going?”
“It’s . . . going.”
As kid brothers went, Liam was cool. He had a smart bookishness about him, like he was constantly thinking about Pi—the mathy one, not the one filled with apple and cinnamon—and he tended to study a lot when Coury was around. In fact, Coury couldn’t recall a time Liam hadn’t run off to his room with assignments to do.
One thing Coury knew for sure, Liam was the least pretentious straight-A guy he knew.
Just the thought of someone being a dickhead to him pissed Coury off. He didn’t even get it.
Okay, sure, Liam had a lean build, but he had a clearly masculine shape. Just an inch shorter than Coury and feet at least the same size.
“You’re frowning. Something wrong?”
Coury snapped his head up. “No, I was just staring at your feet.” That sounded sane.
“My feet.”
“They’re big.”
“Well . . . this just got awkward.”
Coury busted out a laugh, shaking his head vigorously. “Just take these.” He handed over the chocolate cupcakes. “I wasn’t sure what to bring.”
“Nothing would have been fine. Pop baked today.”
No surprise there. Pop had always been the cook, and a damn good one if he remembered right. He shrugged out of his coat. “Keep ’em for the weekend. Beckett loves sweets.”
“If Slider doesn’t smash them out of my hands first.” Liam pointed to the closet. “Hang your coat there.”
Free of the heavy parka, Coury followed Liam—and Slider—past the archway off the hall into the joint living and dining room, and toward the kitchen where a familiar, gray-bearded man removed a baking dish from the oven and set it on the granite countertop.
Pop had aged—a touch more weariness around the eyes—but not more than expected.
“Coury!” Pop opened his arms and Coury went in for the hug. “Good to see you again. You look . . . fit. How’s the oblique?”
“Better. I started rehab two days ago.”
“Don’t rush it, or you’ll miss the season.” Pop had played minor league ball and knew all about injuries from experience. “When you’re ready to throw, come around. You can pitch to Liam.”
“What?” Wide-eyed, Liam shook his head. “No way. I’m not catching for him.”
Coury smirked and didn’t comment.
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Andy Gallo:
Andy prefers mountains over the beach, coffee over tea, and regardless if you shake it or stir it, he isn’t drinking a martini. He remembers his “good old days” as filled with mullets, disco music, too-short shorts, and too-high socks. Thanks to good shredders and a lack of social media, there is no proof he ever descended into any of those evils.
Andy does not write about personal experiences and no living or deceased ex-boyfriends appear on the pages of his stories. He might subconsciously infuse his characters with some of their less noble qualities, but that is entirely coincidental even if their names are the same.
Married and living his own happy every after, Andy helps others find their happy endings in the pages of his stories. He and his husband of more than twenty years spend their days raising their daughter and rubbing elbows with other parents. Embracing his status as the gay dad, Andy sometimes has to remind others that one does want a hint of color even when chasing after their child.
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Harrison Campus:
The blurb and excerpt are wonderful.
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THis looks good. I want toread more.
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love the blurb and congrats
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Sounds good!
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Love this series! Can’t wait for this one
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Sounds interesting. The cover looks great!
The excerpt is so much fun!
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Thanks to everyone who commented. Congrats to Debra Guyette! The super scientific random number picker picked you as the winner of this give away. Email me at Andy @ Andygallo [dot] com and let me know which backlist book you’d like.