BLOG TOUR: POTION PERFECT

Title: Potion Perfect

Author: Billie Dale

Genre: 2nd Chance Romance / RomCom

Release Date: August 18, 2017

She fled here to start over, reinvent herself. Running has its perks. She learned that when she met him, fell for him, then used that same skill to run from him.

She was smart, a seventeen-year-old college sophomore. A viral photo made her trusting and naïve heart more cautious until an old gypsy made her believe love might be possible.

As her friendship bloomed with Kohl, deeper feelings followed. But the basketball star and the geek only ends well in a fairy tale. He crushed her heart and showed her that everything she thought she believed and trusted was a complete lie. He was a lie.

She made many mistakes over the years, but the biggest was seeing Kohl Black again.

Her beauty stunned him, but what was inside owned him.

Being a star basketball player and a part of campus royalty, you have certain expectations. Expectations he couldn’t give a damn about when he finally spoke to her. 

He wanted her back then just as much as he wants her now.

He didn’t get a chance to fight for them before. Now, nothing will stand in the way of getting Tensanne Craig back into his arms.

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 Potion Perfect is a beautiful story of second chance love and acceptance of who you are.  This is my first read from Billie Dale and to say I was hooked would be an understatement.  This was a highly emotionally charged read and it definitely tugged at my heart strings.

The story is told as a flashback to twenty years in the past when the main character Tesanne Craig, a bright brilliant mind, attended college at the tender age of 17.  Tesanne has suffered loss for one so young, and is determined in her quest to understand the human brain to come to grips with what happened to her mother.  Left to her own devices being ignored by her father, Tesanne never really matured into a young woman.  She hides behind loose, ill fitting clothes, and thick glasses. Being young and naive, Tesanne finds herself at the centre of a cruel joke played out by the star of the college basketball team as revenge.  Having been warned to be more careful and use her head, question everything, Tesanne becomes wary.  Especially when another basketball player, tall dark tattooed Kohl Black.  Kohl sees past all of Tesanne’s supposedly ‘ugly’ exterior.  He thinks she is the nicest sweetest girl he has ever met, it also helps that the girl has some rocking curves hiding under her clothes.

The love that develops from friendship between these two is so endearing and sweet that it brought tears to my eyes.  As the relationship deepens so does Tesanne’s belief in herself, she believes she must be worth loving if she has managed to capture the Kohl Black.  Using a love potion everyday given to her by a very cool little gypsy woman also helped to unlock that belief in herself and she is learning to accept and love herself.

Unfortunately, before long that love is tested in the worst possible way.  Heartbreak is a cruel and punishing master, it is however the feeling that Tesanne has lived with for so long that it makes it easier to be blind to the truth.  Only this time it is not only her heart that has been broken.

Twenty years of suffering have come full circle can another potion bring heartache to an end for good?

I received an ARC for an honest review and can honestly say that I am so thrilled not to have missed the opportunity to read this incredible story.  A 5 star must read.
 

Chewing on the fingernail on her index finger, she ponders for a moment. “Do you want the truth?” “Always,” he says. “It was painful and the reality is I don’t see what all the hype is about. He said we needed to do it again to get it right but I was done after the first time.” Laughing to myself, I bet he did want to do it again. All those tits, bare, in my face and I wouldn’t climb out for days. That’s probably what part of his problem is, he didn’t get to enjoy any of the many perks of Tensanne naked. Those tits are going to be my first stop on the road to the promised land between her legs. “So, you don’t understand what is great about sex?” “No, it’s messy, difficult and takes very little time. The romance novels I read make it sound so romantic and hot but it was painful, awkward and I would rather read it than do it.” Laughing out loud, I make sure her eyes are on me. I want her to feel my words. “When it’s done right, Tennie Girl, you will see what all the hype is,” I joke but the laughter dies when thoughts of touching her fill my mind. “There is nothing quick about it. It’s bodies slapping, pulse-pounding glory right up until the explosion at the end. Touching, tasting, feeling someone’s body is the most exquisite action there is and that release at the end is as close to heaven as we ever get while were still alive. Someday, someone will show you the way it should be.” Thinking that someone had better be me and I wouldn't let her out of my bed until every inch of her body had been pleased beyond her wildest dreams. Pleasured better than any words she has ever read. Hell, when I’m done she will be waxing poetic with her own words.

A stay at home mother of four who loves to read, blog, and write. Billie Dale is from a small blip of a town in no where Indiana. When she doesn't have her nose buried in a book or glued to a keyboard she can be found cuddled up with her amazing husband of 14 years, loving on her sweet, sweet grandbaby or cheering for her kids sports.

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