In small Texas towns, strangers come and go...Left in a Stetson hat on the steps of the local bed and breakfast, Avery Callimer came into the world on a wing and a prayer. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she's never lacked for love ... only the knowledge of her past. By day she works at the inn, but by night ... Avery comes alive as the lead singer in a band. Life was good ... stable, until new guests blew into town. Some strangers come with secrets and lies. Lucas Bennett is one such stranger. Drifting from one mess to another has left him jaded. Doesn't matter the dramas are never his doing. Giving it one last shot to make a fresh start lands him Harmony's Echo, Texas and smack dab in front of the tantalizing Avery. Every time they're near each other, things heat up like a brushfire on a dry Texas prairie. He's intent to keep his distance, but finds it difficult to ignore the burn Avery's ignited within. Secrets have followed him. Secrets he doesn't want Avery to know. Maybe, after the dust settles and the smoke clears, love can bloom with a fresh star.

Thanks to Bewitching Book Tours for hosting this blog tour. I have Nikki Lynn Barrett, author of Baby Stetson and The Melody in My Head here today. Welcome!

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Songs and how they remind me of my characters.

Thank you so much for letting me come on your blog today! I really appreciate it. 🙂

Some writers work with music in the background. I’m definitely one of those writers. And it just so happens that I’m writing a series based on country musicians, so that works out well. Many times, I associate songs with memories, or people in my life, so it’s a little natural that I would find songs that reflect my characters. I thought I would share a few of them.

Now, even though this book isn’t part of my Love and Music In Texas, the song “Teenage Dream’ by Katy Perry reminds me of my couple in The Secret Santa Wishing Well. Why? Well, for the pair, they felt like teenagers again, falling in love and giving into their desire for the other. So that song just kind of reflects that. Every time it plays on the radio or somewhere, I stop and think of the two.

For Baby Stetson, some songs that remind me of characters/scenes.

First off, Hard to Love by Lee Brice. I think that song fits Avery and Lucas. Lucas isn’t the easiest person to deal with, especially right away, and so when I hear that song, it reminds me of the two of them. Think of this line from the song “I’m hard to love, hard to love, no I don’t make it easy” And Lucas doesn’t. He’s hard to understand, he doesn’t make the best decisions sometimes, but as the story goes along, he just wants to make everything perfect for Avery and he learns to put her first, even though he wonders why someone like Avery could see anything in him with his tortured past. The song certainly fits them.

Carrie Underwood’s “Blown Away” is a perfect reminder of Baby Stetson. In fact, many times while I was writing and revising, that song would play, and it just so happened that one night it played while I was revising a scene involving a tornado. Yes, very fitting. 🙂

The Melody In My Head has quite a few songs that remind me of my characters and scenes.

Thomas Rhett has a new song called ‘It goes like this” and he sings about wanting to write a song, and even has a ‘melody in his head’….yes….I would say that fits this book PERFECTLY! Well, of course, because of my title and that line, but Jameson and Melody begin to bond over songwriting.

There’s also a song by Sarah Darling called “How Dare You”. I love that song, and it kind of reminds me of Melody because she doesn’t want to fall for Jameson, but he does these sweet and sexy things that just grabs her every time.

So those are just a few of my Soundtrack songs for my characters in the book. Do you ever read a story and come up with a song that suits a character or a scene?