Review / Release Blitz: Whiskey Nights and Neon Dreams by Ashley James

Release Date: October 27

The memory of Josiah DeMille has haunted me for close to a decade.
The way he looked.
The way he smelled.
The way his lips felt pressed against mine, even when they shouldn’t have been.

The one person I’ve never been able to get over.
The one singular part of my past I’ve never been able to move on from.

In every lyric sung into the microphone, in every chord strummed on the guitar, in the bottom of every single whiskey bottle, he’s there.
His memory has me in a chokehold.
His absence a gaping hole in my chest.
I gave up years ago wondering if I’d ever stop thinking about him.

Josiah DeMille is the ghost of my past. A past I left behind after my rock bottom.

Now he’s back, and he’s everything I remember him to be and more.
As mesmerizing as ever, a malt perfectly aged in an oak barrel.

But there are dark secrets and shameful lies between us, blurred lines, and an underlying temptation that we’ve never been able to ignore.
It’s a recipe for disaster, an imminent train wreck.

Where will we sit once the dust settles and the truth comes out?

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MY REVIEW

Segan's finally made his music dreams come true. He's been touring for years, and it's every bit as good as he had thought it would be. But there's one face that still haunts his dreams, one he figures he'll never see again - Josiah, his former girlfriend's uncle. And then he sees him again and it's as if time has stood still. Is it possible for two men who have never had the right timing to finally be together?

Josiah knew it was wrong, having feelings for his niece's boyfriend, but he couldn't help having those feelings. What he could do, was get out of town, away from the temptation, and away from the small minded, religious town they both lived in. In the years since, he's never forgotten Segan, but has moved on. Or has he? One look at him on the stage, living out his dreams, and he knows he definitely never got over him. But is now the right time? They've never had the right time before, but this time they can, if they can finally heal from their shared loss.

Angsty, emotionally complicated, and quite beautiful in its own way - Whiskey Nights and Neon Dreams made me even more of a fan of Ashley than I had been. Segan and Josiah's story is pretty heartbreaking, they're both carrying around a lot of baggage and damage, especially Segan, and needed the comfort and healing they were finally able to find with each other. Their chemistry is downright incendiary, and the way Josiah helped Segan come to terms with himself - whew! I want to read a lot more about these two, I hope Ashley has more planned for them.

Meet Ashley James

Ashley James is a romance author who enjoys writing (and reading) LGBTQIA+ books. She is from Washington State—and no, not Seattle—and currently resides in South Carolina with her two kids and hairless kitties, Goose, Maverick, and Houston.

Ashley is introverted and slightly (okay, majorly) awkward. She refuses to make this section sound like a tacky dating app profile, so she won't be telling you how much she enjoys music, how she thoroughly enjoys dancing and singing in her kitchen, despite not being able to carry a tune, and she won't be telling you about her love of toxic and broken fictional men.

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