The Pleasure of Reading Today: Blog Tour: Escaping Me by Cat Mason

Title: Escaping Me (Shaft on Tour Series)

Author: Cat Mason

Genre: Adult Romance

Publication Date: December 20, 2013

Tour Host: Dreams Come True Promotions

Daisy Shayne has a list. Her life has been planned out on a legal pad that she carries in her purse since she was sixteen years old. Now her list is nearly complete, she is about to marry her fiancé Landon, start her new job in the fall and be completely settled. Or is she? Landon is going on tour with his brother Grayson’s band for the next six months as the assistant to the new manager, Tad and is bringing her with him as an extra pair of hands to help the band.

Daisy is now stuck on a crowded tour bus with six men when her plans start blowing up in her face. Things are not what they seem and nothing is making sense. Landon is pushing her away and Grayson is pulling her close. Daisy feels pulled to Grayson which doesn’t go unnoticed by him. Amused and unable to control himself around her Gray decides to hit on her the first moment he sees her. Gray’s new obsession is Daisy, who he deems his own little Widlflower even after he finds out she is to be his sister-in-law. Whatever it is about her he can’t help himself. He is desperate just to be near her.

Temptation, betrayal, and lies on top of booze, tattoos, sex, laughs and love. While making friends and traveling the country Daisy must come to terms with what she wants in life. All while she learns to deal with the rough and rowdy of taking Shaft on Tour. It’s going to be a long hard ride.

***This book is not a normal romance. Things happen fast and with no*** regret. Rockers and all. There are M/F scenes of course but there is M/F/M, hints of M/F/F, possibly a little M/M and plenty of vibrator discussion.

GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19301892-escaping-me?from_search=true

So, I have to admit that I had a hard time getting into this book, but once I got going...holy mother of goodness, I couldn't put it down.

Daisy had her life planned to a T, the fiancé, the perfect job, the white picket fence, and then, Shaft happes. She goes on tour with her fiancé and his half brother's band and that's when the adventure begins.

Landon, Daisy's fiancé, seems to be the perfect guy from a distance, but appearances can be deceiving and he's a prime example of this.

Grayson is Landon's half brother and the guitarrist of Shaft, he's a so called bad boy covered with tattooos, and from the moment he sees Daisy his attracted to her, and her to him.

Daisy tries to fight her attraction to Grayson but the more Landon pulls apart from her the closer she gets to his half brother.

I really liked the book, the storyline is compelling and full of sass, all the twists and turns will keep you glue to your e-reader without a doubt. The main character as well as the secondary characters are well written and they all seem to play a strategic part in the story.

Betrayal, lust, laughs and love, they all form part of this story. The author did an excellent job and I can't wait to read more stories about the other guys in the band. Well done Cat!

Introduction

Daisy’s fall

How did this happen to me? Just months ago I was in a loving, committed relationship with a man who I believed adored me. Nothing was standing in our way of being married and having the white picket fence, babies and all the happiness I could stand. Now I sit here on the edge of a bed in a shitty tour bus crying into my hands while a dozen little white sticks lie all over the floor laughing at me proving that I am a total fuck up.
The diamond on my hand does nothing but make me angry as it glistens, wet with my tears. I’ve screwed everything up. I let myself believe for a while that I could have a happy ever after. I let myself think that I was worthy of something as precious as love. Instead, I have ruined at least four lives in the ashes of my monumental lapse of rational thinking.

I always think things through. Daisy Shayne never jumps without looking where she would land. I had a plan. I mean literally, I write the shit down and check it off as I complete it. I was nothing if not meticulous in my calculating of my life this far.

My parents planned nothing. I watched them constantly bailing water from the boat, borrowing from Peter to pay Paul and getting nowhere in life because of not having a plan. Well I had a plan damn it! Now as I look at my list all I want to do is jump from my boat and let myself drown. It would be so much easier than to face what is coming when those bus doors open and my life comes to an end. There is no hiding this. There is no fixing the situation. It’s going to destroy everyone involved, including myself in the process…

Wait! I am getting too far ahead of myself. You need for me to start from the beginning to get the full picture here. You need to know everything and then you will understand.

Cat Mason is thirty years old and a mother to three children. She was born and raised in Granite City, Illinois which is just across the Mississippi river from St. Louis, Missouri. She currently lives in Virginia with her husband and children. Previously publishing Contemporary Romance under her real name, Amy Cox until she decided to lose the filter and let it all hang out. When she isn’t writing, she is reading or spending time with her friends and family.