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Blurb

I met Adam Nova under the twinkling lights of a nighttime sky.
He was hiding, but that gorgeous boy didn’t belong in the dark.
Nevertheless it was where he lived; a different world than mine.

I was Livingston Montgomery, Southern debutante.
With the world at my fingertips, I was well on my to being another spoiled socialite.

But I didn’t want money.
I didn’t want social status.
I wanted him; tattoos, sarcastic smirk, bad boy reputation and all.

It didn’t matter that he was from the wrong side of the tracks.
It didn’t matter that my family forbade me from seeing him.

I just wanted to be Beneath His Stars.

 

 

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Review

4 stars!

I really enjoyed this one! A sweet yet intense YA romance between a sweet girl who is lost and lonely, and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks. The first in the Stars Duet, it’s a great beginning for what has the potential to be a truly epic romance!

16 year old Livingston ‘Liv’ Montgomery is living a difficult life. She may be beautiful, smart and wealthy, living in a mansion on the beach in an exclusive island neighbourhood, but in reality she is lonely and sad. Her parents are both dead and she lives with her step-mother who either controls or ignores her and a step-brother with creepy intentions. The only peace she gets is when she escapes each evening to lay in the park and stare at the stars, where she talks to her parents and feels free.

Adam Nova lives one bridge away from Liv on the mainland, but his world could not be more different from hers. Poor and living in a dangerous neighbourhood, he has endured things that have left him broken, and though he is close to his loving father and his best friend, to everybody else he is cold and standoffish. He knows this, and it’s a conscious decision he’s made to never let anybody in, and at this point he doesn’t even know how to.

Liv and Adam meet unexpectedly, but their subsequent encounters are definitely not an accident. Adam sees Liv in the park, he’s immediately entranced and he just can’t stay away, and Liv is captivated by the tattooed bad boy. And their mutual love of the stars and the peace and solace that they find together draws them together even further. They share something special, and as they slowly begin to open up and spend time together, they find themselves falling into dreamy, blissful, all-consuming first love.

“Close your eyes, Nova.” Her words snapped me out of whatever lust-induced daze she’d put me in. Her eyes were still closed, but her lips were smiling.
“Why?” I wanted to watch her. She knew how I liked to watch.
Her grin widened at my question. “Because you can’t dream with your eyes open.”
I lifted up onto one elbow until my face was right above hers. I could practically taste her sweet breath. “I’m pretty sure I can,” I whispered. Because my dreams had never compared to a moment I’d spent with her. She was the dream. She was it for me.

Liv and Adam’s romance is slow and easy, and beautifully sweet. Despite his looks and bad boy persona, Adam has the biggest heart and he’s so incredibly gentle. He knows that Liv is special, and he treats her as such, but he struggles with the differences between them. In return, Liv opens herself completely to him, she gives herself honestly and unreservedly and I loved her boldness and bravery in going after the boy she wants without fear.

“You and I, Liv? We’re just not written in the stars,” I choked out the lie. It left a horrible taste in my mouth.
But she had an answer for everything. “Then we’ll rewrite them.”

Their love is honest and fierce, and they come to mean everything to each other, but not everybody is happy with their relationship. And as they battle cruel stereotypes and controlling social politics, they are faced with losing everything.

This is a great read. It’s a quick one and the story moves at a fast pace, and though initially Liv and Adam’s feelings for each other were developing faster than I could keep up, the more we got to see of them together – their sweet moments and tender touches – I fell right along with them.

“We’re gonna be fine as long as we stick together.” She ran her hands through my hair and I closed my eyes. I fucking melted.
“It’s you and me, Nova. You and me against the world.”

The prologue gives us an idea where the story is going, but I definitely wasn’t expecting the intensity of it all, and that cliffhanger is a bit of a killer! I’m definitely looking forward to seeing where the story goes from here.

4 stars.

An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

 

The Stars Duet

 

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Excerpt

“Are you smoking?” Her lip curled in disgust.
I nodded.
It was her turn to look disgusted this time. “Do you even speak?”
I nodded again and she shook her head in disbelief before reaching over the
space between us and snatching the cigarette out of my mouth so fast I didn’t see it
coming. I stood there dumbfounded. People didn’t snatch shit away from me. People
were scared of me. Not this brave girl. I should have known.
“Smoking is disgusting.” She said it quietly like it didn’t matter, but I could tell it
did to her. She bent over and put the butt out on the driveway before standing up again
and shoving it in her pocket.
I smirked. “You gonna keep that?”
Her eyes ignited with anger. “No, I’m going to throw it in the trash because I’m
not a litterbug.”
Shaking my head, I muttered under my breath, “Fucking litterbug.” She was
being cute. The girl with the too long legs and too big mouth that I couldn’t get out of my
mind was fucking cute, too. I was screwed.
I wanted to full-on smile at her cuteness, but I held my happiness close to my
chest. God knew it always came with a price. And I was done paying.
“You kiss your momma with that smoke mouth?” she asked snarkily, clearly
pissed off about my smirk.
I lowered my head and took a step back, running a hand through my dark hair. I
wanted to tell this girl things. Things I had no business telling her, like that I didn’t kiss
my momma with anything anymore. Instead, I asked the question that had been
plaguing me since she’d seemed surprised it was me who had left the notes.
“Who did you think it was?”
Her face screwed up in confusion. “What?”
I stood straighter and licked my lips before answering. “Who did you think left
the notes?”
I was feeling strangely vulnerable in that moment waiting for her answer and I
didn’t like it one bit. Why did it matter to me who wrote her or didn’t? Or who else
thought she was the most intriguing thing ever? For fuck’s sake, she was just another
rich bitch from the island. Why did anything about what she was about to say matter to
me at all?
She bit her lip again and I still wanted to reach over and pull it from her teeth. It
was sexy that lip bite, innocent even, and for some reason that made it all the more
attractive.
“I don’t know.” Her brow furrowed in thought and she looked away, almost like
she didn’t want to tell me the answer to my question. But then her eyes landed on mine
again. “I thought it was the other guy—”
“Boone?” I interrupted loudly.
A disgusted look crossed her face. “God, no. Not him. The blond. The other
guy.”
I let out a long breath accompanied by a sarcastic chuckle. “Grady?” That guy
didn’t even graduate high school and she thought he knew anything about astronomy. I
would have laughed if the whole thing hadn’t annoyed me so much.
Her eyes brightened. “Is that his name?”
I pulled out my pack of cigarettes again. “You like him or something?”
“What? No!”
I walked out into the street and lit my smoke far away from her.
She started to follow me. “Where are you going?”
“Home.”
“But I don’t even know your name!” she yelled and stomped a foot.
I almost smiled again.

 

 

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About Amie Knight

Amie Knight has been a reader for as long as she could remember and a romance lover since she could get her hands on her momma’s books. A dedicated wife and mother with a love of music and makeup, she won’t ever be seen leaving the house without her eyebrows and eyelashes done just right. When she isn’t reading and writing, you can catch her jamming out in the car with her two kids to ’90s R&B, country, and showtunes. Amie draws inspiration from her childhood in Columbia, South Carolina, and can’t imagine living anywhere other than the South.

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