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Watch Me Fall by Riley Parks Blog Tour, Exclusive Excerpt & Giveaway!

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Hi peeps! We have Riley Parks stopping by today with her new release Watch Me Fall, we have a great exclusive excerpt and a fantastic 2x $15 Boroughs Bucks giveaway so check out the post and enter the giveaway! ❤ ~Pixie~

Watch Me Fall

(Start Something 01)
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Riley Parks

Having it all is hard work, and Elijah Tucker has no problem 24/7-ing to keep himself on top. But life has a sense of humor and a big-ass mirror that reminds Eli where he came from, and shows him what he’s really made of when he meets Gideon Valsecchi.

Gideon Valsecchi has one life goal – get out of the shithole where he lives on the South Side of Chicago. To say life has been unkind is a joke he can’t even laugh at; to say he’s going to have to claw his way out is a reality that nearly crushes him every day. But…he has a secret weapon, and he’s learning how to hone his skills. Yet, hope is a feeling he won’t indulge in until he gets to know Elijah Tucker, who shows Gideon there is an out, and it can include love.

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Bleeding Like Me by Riley Parks Blog Tour, Exclusive Excerpt & Giveaway!

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Hi guys, we have a debut author Riley Parks popping in today with the tour for her debut novel Bleeding Like Me, we have a great exclusive excerpt and a brilliant giveaway, so check out the post and enter that giveaway! <3 ~Pixie~

Bleeding Like Me

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Riley Parks

Being gay in their neighborhood is perilous. Being gay in a street gang is unheard of. Being gay and in love with a man in a rival gang is a death wish. Through drug addiction, brutality, and seemingly endless peril, they remain; finding stability within each other that shouldn’t exist in their volatile world.

BEAUTIFUL CONTRADICTION

He didn’t paint people; the curves of their bodies and angles of their faces never interested him as much as cityscapes. The circumstances of his life had compelled him to create new worlds that he could get lost in rather than reflect the features of the people he ran from. He constructed buildings from their foundations, making them taller and stronger than he was. He adorned the edifices with countless windows, always left open or cracked so hope could pour in and fears could seep out. Tree lined streets reminded him how to breathe, pumping oxygen through the atmosphere, off the canvas, and into his lungs.

He didn’t paint people until the day he no longer desired the anonymity of his cities. The streets didn’t feel like his escape anymore, not like him. Cerulean skies gave way to pale blue eyes and bus routes to pink pouts. Evan didn’t paint people until he painted Jackson.

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