BABY BLUE (Small Town Southern Boys 2) by Deanndra Hall-review tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 15, 2025
Luckless. If ever there was a word that describes Brent “Blue” Wallace, that’s it. Abandoned by drug-addicted parents as a toddler. Abused and mistreated in foster homes. Runaway teen. Working for a man who treats him like garbage and pays him next to nothing. Blue’s only joy is playing in a little cover band in rundown watering holes outside Macon, Georgia, on the weekends and writing the occasional song. Oh, and finding a woman at the bar to spend a night with. His boss hates him. His neighbors hate him and his crappy little house with the overgrown yard and beer cans lying about. Nobody hates him more than he does.
But when an unexpected “gift” turns up on his doorstep, it spins his world upside down. In his eyes, Indigo Darling Wallace is a blue-eyed, shrieking alien life form who leaks from every orifice in her body and terrifies him. He doesn’t want a baby; he can’t take care of one. It feels best to offer her to the neighbor who wears scrubs and already has two kids, until she explains to him that if he doesn’t keep her, she’ll go into the foster system.
Over Blue Wallace’s dead body.
In a six-month time span, Blue learns a lot about life and about himself. And just when he thinks things are finally going right for him, a demon from the bowels of Hell comes knocking to rip his world apart. It’s the challenge of Blue’s lifetime. If he wins, he takes it all. But if he loses, the chance at a happy life with a good woman and three precious kids slips away forever. So, fight or run? It’s time for Blue Wallace to make his own luck. And for the first time ever, he won’t be fighting alone.
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REVIEW: BABY BLUE is the second instalment in Deanndra Hall’s contemporary, adult SMALL TOWN SOUTHERN BOYS romance series. This is mechanic/ musician Brent ‘Blue’ Wallace, and thirty-five year old single mother / registered nurse Anne Black’s story. BABY BLUE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty.
Told from dual omniscient third person perspectives (Blue and Anne) BABY BLUE follows in the aftermath of Blue’s discovery he is the father of a six month old baby girl. Brent ‘Blue’ Wallace has been struggling all his life, in and out of the foster care system, uneducated and the proverbial boss from h*ll but a one-night stand months earlier resulted in a pregnancy he knew nothing about, and a surprise basket on his front step changed the course of his life forever. Desperate for help, Blue begs for help from his neighbor Anne Black, a single mother of two who is about to give Blue a crash course on child rearing but things go from bad to worse as Blue’s life begins to spiral out of control, until the day a music producer hears his songs, and the offer of a lifetime comes from a former client.
The world building follows the growing relationship between Blue and Anne as Blue must traverse a minefield of personal struggles from disrespect and job loss, to child services and combative bosses and neighbors but the ultimate betrayal are the lies inflicted by someone he does not know, and the return of the child’s mother who is determined to take back the child from whom she walked away.
The relationship between Anne and Blue begins acrimoniously as their friendship is nothing more than embattled neighbors but Anne recognizes a man in trouble, and takes control when our hero is struggling to survive under the pressure of instant fatherhood. Time spent together feels like a growing family, and Blue is determined to make Anne his own. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
We are introduced to Anne’s children Polly and Toady, as well as both Anne and Blue’s co-workers, musicians, lawyers, clients, as well as Blue’s ex-Cindy.All of Anne’s friends are very supportive; Blue’s friend’s are questionable until he meets a man who is willing to give him a chance.
BABY BLUE is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, family and friendships, relationships and love. The premise is engaging but more telling than showing, and the writing style feels different from her other series; the characters are charismatic; the romance is subtle and fated.
Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one MORE THAN ANYTHING
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Reviewed by Sandy
Deanndra Hall is a working author living in the far western end of the beautiful Bluegrass State with her husband of over 35 years and small menagerie of weird little dogs. When she’s not writing, she’s editing. When she’s doing neither of those two things, she’s having dinner with friends, spending time with family, kayaking, eating chocolate, drinking beer or moonshine, or looking for something that she put in the wrong place and can’t seem to find (which is pretty much everything she owns).
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