We are excited to be one of today's stops on the Blog Tour for "Missing Dixie: A Neon Dreams Novel" by Caisey Quinn. We absolutely LOVE this series and Missing Dixie is our favorite. Check out all the book and author info below, teasers, excerpt, pre-order links, our review and then enter the giveaway. Good Luck & Happy Reading!
Synopsis
Fighting for redemption . . .
I've lived most of my life in darkness, beneath the shadows of secrets and addictions. The last thing I ever wanted to do was hurt the only girl I'd ever loved—the one who brought me into the light. In my entire life I'd made one promise—a promise I'd intended to keep. I've broken that promise and now I have to live with the fallout. Dixie Lark hates me, and I have to tell her that I love her. I also have to tell her a truth that might destroy us forever.
Can she love me, even if she can't forgive me?
Learning to move on . . .
Gavin Garrison broke his promise to my brother and he broke my heart in the process.I may never love anyone the way I've loved him, but at least I won't spend my life wondering "what if." We had our one night and he walked away. I'm beginning to move on, but my brother's wedding and a battle of the bands are about to throw us together again.
Our band is getting a second chance, but I don't know if I can give him one. How do you hand your heart back to the person who set it on fire once already?
Purchase Links
Missing Dixie buy links:
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MY REVIEW
Four Star ****
Missing Dixie is the
perfect conclusion to this series. Everything is on the line: the success of Leaving
Amarillo, Gavin and Dixie’s relationship, and the
fate of young Liam a boy living the life that a young Gavin once did. It’s a
rollercoaster. There will be tears and laughter and heartbreak. You will love
it all.
EXCERPT
Four Star ****
This is going to be a short and sweet review. I loved this
book. I loved this series. I love this author. Caisey Quinn is quickly becoming
one of my “go to” writers. She can weave a story so rich with real life
struggles, pain, angst, humor, intellect, growth, romance and intense love that
it has you wanting to heal the main character and smother him with love while in
the same breath wanting to ring his neck (for you non-southerners that means
beat some sense into him).
Gavin is broken and battered soul. His life has been an
endless cycle of abuse. He was powerless against it when he was a boy but now
that he is a man his greatest abuser is himself. The only light in his life has
been his best friend Dallas Lark and his baby sister Dixie.
She is the balm for his pain but can he be the man she needs and deserves? How
can he have her without breaking and battering her soul too? It’s time to man up… for himself… for his
band… for his bluebird… and for a little boy that only he may know how to
reach. The old saying goes “If you can’t beat’em, join’em”. Well eff that!!!
Time to put on those gloves and fight Garrison!
EXCERPT
I lost
a lot of time focusing on the pain and the past. But when I stopped letting it
consume me, I found myself in the same place where I always find myself. In
music.
When I stopped moping and feeling
sorry for myself, I made some changes in my life. I’ve found happiness and joy
in giving piano and violin lessons to underprivileged local kids and it’s been
such a successful program that I had to get a business license and name it.
Over the Rainbow is my passion project and I’ve formed friend- ships with many
of the parents of the kiddos I teach. Maybe it’s not performing onstage or
coming to life beneath the lights, but I love it just the same.
If there is anything I’ve learned
about gifts, like the gift of being able to play an instrument, it’s that they should
be shared with the world one way or another. I also learned a valuable lesson
from my grandparents that it took traveling around the country living their
dream to fully comprehend. They didn’t get to live their dream but it didn’t
mean they weren’t happy. Together they lived a full, satisfied life and they
had plenty of love leftover to give to the two orphans they ended up raising.
Life doesn’t always turn out how you expect and sometimes parts of you get
broken along the way, but there is always hope and even broken pieces can be
rebuilt into something beautiful. My heart is a piece of mosaic art at this
point.
Standing there, staring at myself
in the glass, I vow to focus on the music, on grabbing hold of what joy I have
in my life and not letting go.
Most important? I vow never again
to hand my heart over to Gavin Garrison.
At least not until he hands me
his first.
TEASERS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Caisey Quinn lives in Nashville, Tennessee and is the bestselling author of the Kylie Ryans series and several other New Adult Romance titles. Her Neon Dreams series about a country rock crossover band paying their dues in life and in love on their rocky road to fame is now available from Avon/William Morrow.
Connect with Caisey
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorCaiseyQuinn
Twitter: @caiseyquinn
Website: http://www.caiseyquinnwrites.com
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/CaiseyQuinn
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