Kasey “Tuff” Tuffman just told Nashville to kiss his you know what. After winning Best New Artist at an award show, he knows it’s time to head back home to Texas. So after a very public meltdown, Tuff makes his way to Austin, where the Red Dirt music lives large.
Jonah Littlejohn once loved KT more than anything in the world. When KT loses it on national TV, Jonah knows he has to reach out and offer his home studio as a place to heal and make music. A bad relationship has left Jonah broken and wary of romance, but he wants to help his old lover out.
Seeing Jonah again proves to Tuff that he’s made the right decision. Now all he has to do is convince Jonah that they’re the most perfect duet there’s ever been.
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Cat gives this one 4 Meows...
Kasey Tuffman or KT was a big country star in Nashville he was nominated for Best New Artist. Things happen, and he has a meltdown on national TV cussing and all. Needless to say, he was fired and came hoe to Texas. Where he wanted to be.
Jonah saw everything go down on TV and left a message with Tuff's mom to have him call if he would like to stay at his compound. It was safe from reporters, and he could stay in the guest house, chill and use his studio to write. KT takes him up on it hoping to rekindle an old romance as well. However, Jonah has been through something bad in his past and had his heart and body on lockdown.
Best New Artist is a good second chance story. As usual BA Tortuga writes a story full of heart and soul. I loved both KT and Jonah and also some of Jonah's friends and KT's family. As for plot that is mainly the romance between KT and Jonah. There was no real action. I had expected more.. I would have liked to have known more about the other man in Jonah's past and seen more of that. The way it was told made me feel like this was part of a series and I missed that story.
Having said that...Best New Artist is a great romance, has interesting characters, lots of fun dialogue and cute dogs. If you like second chances, country singers, musicians, and an allover sweet romance you will like this story.
Jonah hated the new frosted haircut, the lack of hat, the superpointy boots. KT was a freaking cowboy from Alpine, Texas, not the newest sensation from Georgia or Tennessee. Looked like maybe KT hated it too.
They watched it again. Then again. Then once more, Christian starting to lip-synch along with KT this time.
“Shit, man. Tuff’s done lost it.” Levain’s gold tooth glinted in the light, just bright as all get-out.
“You know it.” Ben waggled his eyebrows, the damn things gyrating madly.
“Yeah, Nashville’ll do that to a guy, I guess.” Jonah couldn’t decide whether he was sad or tickled as a pig in shit. He didn’t wish KT no harm, but he wasn’t sure the big machine was too big for the man.
“You know it.” Levain ought to know. He’d gone there for a pretty little blonde, and when Crazy Town had spit him out, he’d come home to Texas and not touched his guitar for two years.
“’Scuse me, guys.” Jonah climbed to his feet and grabbed his cell so he could head to the kitchen. He keyed up Pam Tuffman’s number, because he had a message to leave for a certain fancy Nashville man.
He leaned back against his fridge, not sure whether to scratch his watch or wind his butt for a second, because he’d managed for ten years not to deal with KT and the drama of Mr. Best New Artist.
Did he want to poke that bear?
Then again, KT had just burned his Nashville deal to the ground. There was no way to spin that rage, which had been so obvious. Kasey Tuffman would need help when he came back to Austin.
There was no doubt this would be where KT landed. This was home. This was where the music happened. KT would go see his momma in West Texas and then come back to where they kept it weird.
Jonah pushed the button. He’d let KT’s momma know his number and that he was interested in chatting. If KT called, so be it.
He’d do like he’d been doing his whole life. He’d fucking wing it.
Texan to the bone and an unrepentant Daddy's Girl, BA spends her days with her basset hounds, getting tattooed, texting her sisters, and eating Mexican food. When she's not doing that, she's writing. She spends her days off watching rodeo, knitting and surfing Pinterest in the name of research. BA's personal saviors include her wife, Julia, her best friend, Sean, and coffee. Lots of good coffee. Y'all know that song, The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA? That's me, down to the bone.
Having written everything from fist-fighting rednecks to hard-core cowboys to werewolves, BA does her damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which was raised in Northeast Texas, but has heard the call of the high desert and now lives the good life in the Sandias. With books ranging from hard-hitting GLBT romance, to fiery menages, to the most traditional of love stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her head.
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