HARMONY and HIGH HEELS (Fort Worth Wranglers #1) by Tracy Wolff and Katie Graykowski-Review and Excerpt Tour
HARMONY AND HIGH HEELS
Fort Worth Wranglers #1
by Tracy Wolff and Katie Graykowski
Genre: adult, contemporary, erotic, romance
Release Date: November 8, 2016
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 8, 2016
Harmony Wright is a bad girl living a good girl’s life. From the time she was born, she’s always been the good twin. The ladylike twin. The twin her high society (or at least as high society as you can get in San Angelo, TX) mom likes to parade in front of all her garden club friends. She’s gone along with it, too—wearing pearls and Chanel when ripped jeans and motorcycle boots are more her speed. But when Harmony takes off for an extended visit with her twin sister, Lyric, she leaves her good girl persona in the dust …
Dalton Mane knows what it is to be bad and he’s more than ready for the peace that comes with living the good life. Once the crown prince of a powerful biker gang, Bastards of Hell, he walked away from it all when tragedy struck. Now the general manager of the Fort Worth Wranglers, he spends his time wheeling and dealing in the sports world and all while keeping an entire team of football players in line.
When Harmony crashes into Dalton, his tidy little life is over. Will he give up everything to keep Harmony out of trouble?
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REVIEW: HARMONY AND HIGH HEELS is the second instalment in Tracy Wolff and Katie Graykowski’s contemporary, adult FORT WORTH WRANGLERS erotic, romance series focusing on the men and women of the Fort Worth Wranglers professional football team. This is Fort Worth Wranglers general manager and former biker Dalton Mane, and bakery owner Harmony Wright’s story line. HARMONY AND HIGH HEELS can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty although I recommend reading the series in order for cohesion and backstory. Harmony is the twin sister to Lyric Wright whom we met in Lyric and Lingerie.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Dalton and Harmony) HARMONY AND HIGH HEELS follows the building relationship between the Fort Worth Wranglers general manager Dalton Mane, and baker Harmony Wright. Dalton Mane is friends with Fort Worth Wranglers former quarterback Heath Montgomery (Lyric and Lingerie #1), and Heath’s sister in law is Harmony Wright. Harmony is a bit of an enigma-reality star, bake-off champion, and tattooed bad girl hiding behind Chanel suits and a string of pearls. When Harmony is offered an opportunity to star in her own Food Network baking show, she sets out to destroy her good girl reputation when her mother refuses to sign off on the use of their co-owned bakery. What ensues is a series of outrageous and not well though out events that focuses on Harmony’s attempts to damage her lady like image, and Dalton’s pursuit of Harmony Wright. The $ex scenes are erotic, seductive and graphic using whipped cream and tequila as part of the sexual imagery.
Heath and Lyric Montgomery play secondary and supporting roles as well as the return of flight attendant Tre (Lyric and Lingerie) who is a little flamboyant in the fashion design department-Tre’s emergency go to fashion item is Duct Tape. Lyric and Harmony’s mother Livinia Angleton Wright is the requisite evil akin to the ‘wicked witch’ and ‘evil incarnate’ as it pertains to her daughter’s choices in life.
The world building continues to focus on family and friendship but there is little to no ‘football’ or sporting reference as it is the off season, and our hero is going about his business on a day to day basis. There are plenty of outrageous antics and shenanigans as Harmony sets out to ravage her good girl persona but as an identical twin nothing goes according to plan.
HARMONY AND HIGH HEELS is a fast paced, romantic comedy with plenty of erotic and provocative sexual imagery. The over the top absurdity of Harmony Wright is questionable under the circumstances as her actions affect more than her own reputation and life-I think a lawyer or PR consultant would have been the better option. The premise is entertaining and humorous; the characters are colourful, impassioned and eccentric; the romance is captivating and passionate.
Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one-Lyric and Lingerie
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Reviewed by Sandy
“Dalton Mane, I’m a friend of your brother-in-law.” He didn’t say any more. There’d be time for explanations later, when he wasn’t terrified BA, head of the outlaw biker gang she was currently facing off with, was going to murder this woman. But now that he had Harmony’s attention, he continued, “I’d hold out my hand for you to shake, but you look a little busy at the moment.”
Heath’s sister-in-law was really something else. Dalton tried not to notice how sexy she was, but it was difficult to notice anything else, even as she waved that club around. She was built. Really, really built. Large, full breasts, a tiny waist, and legs that would have made a supermodel jealous—especially when encased in those black leather bitch boots.
And her tattoos—he’d spent years dating women with pale, perfect skin, years telling himself that tattoos didn’t do it for him. Looking at Harmony Wright, he couldn’t help thinking that he’d been lying to himself all those years. Because her tattoos were gorgeous. Vibrant, exotic, and dangerous, they added a whole lot to her already prodigious sex appeal.
Then again, he’d always had a thing for dangerous.
“And why are you here?” Harmony’s eyes darted from man to man, clocking everyone’s movements, even as she spoke directly to him.
“Stay out of this, little brother.” BA’s voice was slow and even, which Dalton knew from experience was a very bad thing. It meant that he was about to lose his shit. “She broke my goddamn nose. She has to pay.”
“Don’t you think you’d be better off taking care of it than standing here hassling a frightened woman?”
“I’m not frightened,” Harmony squawked. “I’m pissed. If he comes any closer he’s going to see just how pissed I am.”
Goddammit. Didn’t this woman see what kind of danger she was in? Dalton shot her a look that told her to keep her mouth shut so he could get her out of this. He could tell the look had been received—and rejected—by the fact that she got even more pissed off. And when she opened her mouth to say God only knew what, he decided to hell with it. There was only one way to stop this, and it was time to take matters into his own hands.
“I’m not your brother. I never was.” Dalton waited until BA was looking straight at him, then he punched his stepbrother in the kidneys, grabbed his hair, and smashed his face into the pool table. Quick as lightning, he wrenched the club from Harmony’s grasp, scooped her up, and threw her over his shoulder in a fireman’s carry.
“Put me down.” Harm wriggled and tried to kick her way free, but he held on tight.
He headed out the front door. Once in the parking lot, he yelled back to Rooster, “Tell them not to come after me. I don’t want to hurt anyone else.”
He might not be in a biker gang anymore, but fifteen years of Krav Maga had taught him the most efficient way to hurt someone. And for some reason, seeing his old family circling Harmony like a bunch of hyenas definitely put him in the mood to hurt a lot of someones.
“Put me down. Now.” Harm punched and kicked.
“Not until you settle down.” He carried her over to Cherry Cherry. “You need to learn not to pick fights you can’t win, little girl.”
“What the fuck did you just call me?” Harm demanded, redoubling her efforts to beat the hell out of his back and kick him in the balls.
“Stop it,” he ordered again, delivering a swift smack to her leather-clad ass. The sound made a nice pop in the night air.
It must have done the trick, because Harm stopped kicking and punching. He was just about to congratulate himself when a burning pinch came from his lower back. The burn quickly turned into flaming pain.
“What the hell?” He dropped Harm on her ass. “Did you just bite me?” He looked over his shoulder, trying to see if she’d drawn blood.
“You’re lucky I didn’t kill you.” With that proclamation, Harm popped up onto her feet and nailed him with a mean right cross.
Jesus. She wasn’t a firecracker, she was a hellcat.
He grabbed her, went to put her in a restraining hold, and she easily twisted out of it.
“Krav?” Dalton choked out as she twisted his arm behind his back. If she didn’t stop, she’d break his wrist.
“Level-four black belt.” Harm released his arm. “You?”
“Level two.” Dalton stood, ears ringing as it registered that she could kick his ass.
“You shouldn’t bite people.” He rolled his shoulder—she’d damn near dislocated it.
“You shouldn’t pick up strangers in a bar.” Harm crossed her arms and smirked at him.
But before he could say anything else, Heath ran out of the bar, pulling Lyric behind him. “Time to go.”
Dalton tried to open the passenger door, but it was locked. “Unlock it.”
“It is unlocked.” Heath didn’t slow down until he was next to Cherry Cherry. He hit a button on the remote, but the doors didn’t unlock. “Come on, Cherry Cherry. This is an emergency. We need to get out of here now.”
Nothing happened.
“Come on, baby. Harmony needs a ride, just his once.” Lyric was cajoling. “I promise I won’t let her hurt you.”
Cherry Cherry’s trunk popped open.
“I’m not riding in the trunk of that possessed car.” Harm rolled her eyes when the doors remained firmly locked. “Screw it. I’m going back inside.”
“That’s not a good idea.” Heath leaned over and whispered something close to the car window and the doors unlocked. “We gotta go now. I set a little fire in the bathroom to distract them so we could get away.”
“How big of a fire?” Dalton wrenched open the back passenger’s door and practically threw Harm inside before he jumped into the front seat. Then he pulled out his phone to call 9-1-1. He might have walked away from them, but the Bastards were the closest thing he had to family. The last thing he wanted was for one of them to get hurt. Well, except BA. A little smoke inhalation could only improve his attitude.
Cherry Cherry peeled out of the parking lot and onto the road.
“I’d say a solid two alarm, but since the building is cinder block, the damage should be contained to just the bathroom.” Heath drove like the devil was on his ass—or like the Bastards of Hell were.
New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff lives in Texas and teaches writing at her local community college. She is married and the mother of three young sons.
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Tracy Wolff also writes as Tessa Adams
Katie Graykowski likes sassy heroines, Mexican food, movies where lots of stuff gets blown up, and glitter nail polish.
She finished her first novel in the parking lot right before her first Romance Writers of America meeting. Since then, she’s finaled in or won almost every romance writing competition in the United States.
Katie has been married for over 19 years to a very loving, patient, and tolerant man. She has one human kid and three K-9 kids. She lives on a hilltop outside of Austin, Texas where her home office has an excellent view of the Texas Hill Country. When she’s not writing, she’s scuba diving.
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