Past the Breakers by Lucy Archer blog tour | Spotlight, Excerpt $ #giveaway @Dreamspinners @Lucie_Archer

Casey North lost everything when his restaurant burned to the ground: his hopes, his dreams, his reason for living. With nothing tying him to LA, he packs up and moves back to his hometown of Land’s End. He takes up residence in a beach house and attempts to shake the depression he’s fallen into after his life collapsed. There’s just one tiny problem: the ghost haunting his kitchen.

Myles Taylor wasn’t always trapped in the Between. One minute, he was about to propose to his boyfriend of five years as they sat out on their surfboards, and the next, he woke up on the beach to find his long-dead uncle walking toward him. After his shock fades, he must learn to navigate his new reality as he searches for a way to move into the Great Beyond. But first he must deal with the man who’s invaded his territory.

With Myles tied to the beach house and Casey unwilling to leave it, the two must learn to cohabitate as the lines separating them begin to blur. They grow closer than either expected, but what will become of them once Myles finally escapes the Between?

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Excerpt from Past the Breakers...

Hey everyone! I’m approaching the end of my Past the Breakers tour, so I thought I’d wind down by sharing an excerpt from my latest WIP. It’s set in an aquarium, which means lots of fun aquatic animal shenanigans, and it may or may not star a mischievous octopus and his best friend, Cory. I’m having so much fun with it, and hopefully after this sneak peak, you’ll understand why. Enjoy!

Cory felt a tentacle snaking its way around his ankle. Suckers latched onto his calf as another dexterous appendage secured itself around his foot, the tip worming its way into his flipper. All of a sudden, he began to thrash, his arms splashing the surface of the water as he playfully yelped, “It’s got me! Oh my God! He’s got me!”

Only two minutes into his educational presentation half submerged in a salty tank at the Oceanview Aquarium and a few of the children on a behind-the-scenes tour started to scream. A new record. The youngest—a small blond boy about six—almost descended into tears. Cory knew he shouldn’t get such a kick out of scaring grade-school children to death, but he couldn’t help himself sometimes. Especially since one of the kids had heckled him before he even started.

“Aww, don’t worry, Noah,” Cory said, attempting to reassure the small blond. He stilled his movements and lifted his leg out of the water to show off the giant Pacific octopus dangling from his ankle. “It’s just my little buddy, Levi. Everybody say hi to Levi.”

As he detangled the reddish brown octopus from his ankle, he went into his usual spiel about the importance of octopuses in the food chain while also reiterating how smart and wonderful they were. He gave the same speech several times a week as he wrangled Levi’s many limbs, so he had it down pat, but the way the kids hung onto every word he said always put a smile on his face.

And after giving them such a fright, he knew he had to make sure they left with a sense of wonder not fear when it came to the resident sea creatures entrusted to his care. But he liked the challenge.

“As you can see, Levi’s really friendly and loves people. I found him a few months ago when I helped some friends release a sea turtle we rehabbed here. Levi washed up on the beach missing three of his eight arms. I put him in a cooler, brought him to the aquarium, and fed him all the shrimp he could eat, so now he’s in love with me.” Cory smirked at Pamela, his coworker leading the tour. She rolled her eyes like she had the previous hundred times he’d retold the story.

“He only as five arms?” one of the children asked.

Cory smiled at the girl and shook his head. “See that’s the interesting part. He grew all three of them back, so he is once again, an eight-armed octopus.”

The kids’ faces lit up with wonder. “Whoa!”

“Pretty cool, huh?”

“I want an octopus,” one of children said.

“Me too!” shouted another.

“Okay, kids, it’s time to move onto the penguins,” Pamela said.

“Aww, but I wanted to pet the octopuses,” little Noah pouted.

Cory smiled and waved good-bye to the children as they exited, ignoring the creep of tentacles up his neck. “Okay, big guy, you’ve had your fun, but I have to get out now.” Extracting himself from the muscular octopus took some work, but he eventually freed himself from Levi’s clutches and climbed out of the tank. “I’ll bring you some shrimp after lunch,” he promised. His stomach rumbled at the thought of food reminding him he’d skipped breakfast that morning, but he still had work to do before he could take his lunch break.

Lucie Archer is a student of the universe who is obsessed with the stars, in love with beaches, and crazy about dudes falling in love. She tells stories of romance, love, and life, with a little bit of passion thrown in for good measure. Because what’s life without a little pop and sizzle?

When she’s not writing, she can be found tending to her garden, playing with her four-legged children, or procrastinating. Although, she spends a lot of time fending off random plot bunnies that threaten to derail her WIP’s.

Website & blog: www.luciearcher.com

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