{Release Blitz & Book Review}: QUARTER MILES by Devney Perry

QUARTER MILES (Runaway #3) Release Date: July 21st Purchase Details: www.devneyperry.com/books/quarter-miles

Katherine Gates has been in love with Cash Greer since the moment he saved her life from a runaway goat. According to Cash, she’s the little sister he never had, the greatest roommate in the world and his favorite coworker. They’re friends—best friends. In the dark days of her youth, it was her friendships that kept her alive and made life in a junkyard worth living. So she’s learned to shove her feelings for Cash down deep, even if that means ignoring eyes that shine brighter than the Montana summer sun and the smile that illuminates the snowiest winter day. Except with every passing year, the denial takes its toll on her wounded heart until one day Katherine decides to take an impulsive road trip to the Oregon coast. Alone. That is, until Cash cons his way into the passenger seat. The farther they travel, the harder it is to pretend. And when she confesses her feelings, she learns that Cash has some secrets of his own. Secrets that will either bond them together.  Or rip them apart.

EXCERPT “Why did you turn the air on?” she asked, looking above us to the open air. “I’m hot.” Desperate. What would it take for her to put on a goddamn sweater? “Are you wearing sunscreen?” “Uh, no.” She gave me a sideways glance. “Why?” “You’re going to get burned.” Get the sweater, Kat. You know you want to. “I’ll be fine. At the next gas station, I’ll grab a bottle for us.” Us. Why did that word sound so serious? It wasn’t the intimate kind of us. There was no us. Not in the couple sense of the word. Did I want there to be an us? Yes. That lightning-fast internal response nearly had me slamming on the brakes, turning this car around and going back to Montana, where the world was normal. Kat was my friend. My best friend. Roommate. Coworker. Pseudo sibling. There were days when I’d trade Easton for her permanently. Okay, any day. There were plenty of ways to label our relationship and us was not one. I could not—would not—tear down the boundaries that nearly a decade and firm family reminders had put in place.

The Daisy Chain of Love rolls on the highway yet again in this third episode of Temecula Kids Adventures. It's a storm of emotions trapped in a car, that rolls from the pages, right through your heart, leaving indelible tread marks. 
"It was a beautiful day outside, bright and clear. But the storm brewing inside the car was as black as midnight." 
Katherine Gates needs to put some distance between her heart and its nemesis, Cash Greer and he needs to companion her on this journey. 
She's at the crossroads of her stagnant life and has to make a tough choice between staying and watching her heart deflate with every smile of cash or go find her own HEA



""Why did it feel like I’d just been kicked out? Why did it feel like I’d just been given an ultimatum? Get over Cash or go somewhere he’s not." 
Devney writes this Romance travelogue on a road of soul-search with so many feels, I was teary eyed and frustrated no end. Central theme being A woman's desire to nest playing tug of war with her craving to fit in her adoptive family. It's poignantly etched in this vividly emotional tale of Unrequited love. The setting is bursting with colors of nature, rolling hills of Montana to crashing waves on the Oregon beach and all the motel stops in between.



"Eight hundred and thirty-one miles of space, to be exact. That was how far it was to Heron Beach, Oregon, from Clear River, Montana." 
Cash and Kat are on opposite sides of the relationship spectrum at the start of the journey and many breathlessly passionate encounters later, are still an inconclusive mess of sentiments, as the Red Cadillac Convertible reaches its intended destination. Matters of the heart aren't an easily decipherable puzzle and this couldn't be more obvious between this fated-unfated couple. With the entire Greer clan between them, and then some, it takes a fake mountain Lion to get the ball rolling
I've immensely enjoyed this series so far, eagerly anticipating the next book with childlike enthusiasm. Only my tongue hanging out at the drool worthy, lickable men devney conjures up, is very very Adult!!!!
5 stars for Coin Toss decisions