*Blog Tour: Subject To Change by Alessandra Thomas*

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Synopsis:
Joey made her dad a deathbed promise that she would become a doctor, and dedicate herself to fighting the very cancer that took his life. There’s just one problem -three years into her pre-med classes, she's struggling to stay on top of the curve, let alone prove she's dazzling enough to earn a spot in an Ivy League medical school. In a Hail Mary move, she throws a basic Business 101 class into her semester schedule, banking on a perfect score to boost her GPA.

That is, until she’s paired for a final project with Hawk, the bartending, motorbike-riding, gorgeously bedheaded loser who falls asleep in class and communicates in one-word sentences.

Hawk does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, which sets Joey on edge – in every possible way. As they get to know each other, her urge to scream at him is curbed only by her fantasies of tearing his clothes off. Soon those fantasies become reality, and Joey realizes Hawk makes her feel more fully herself than any of the rich boys her mother and sorority sisters approve of.

But the promise to her father hangs over her head, and the harder Joey tries to succeed in her chosen career, the faster everything falls into a hopeless tailspin of bad grades, broken promises and guilt. It doesn't help to have Hawk sitting like a devil on her shoulder, insisting she should be free to live however she wants to live - like he does.

The only thing Joey knows is that her neatly organized life is crushing her - and Hawk's bad attitude might be the only thing that can save her.
 
My Review:
Once again, Alessandra has created a story that is able to resonate with the reader in so many ways.
Josephine Daly, aka “Joey”, dreams of becoming an Oncologist. It was the last promise she made to her father before he died of Cancer and ever since then, she has made it her life’s goal to keep her promise. Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as it seems, and Joey soon finds herself questioning her ability to follow through on her promise.
When she’s paired up with William Hawkins, aka Hawk, in a Business class she takes in an attempt to bring her grades up, she finds herself frustrated with his devil-may-care attitude. What she doesn’t know is that Hawk has struggles of his own.
After the death of his father, 23 year old Hawk is left in charge of the pub/bar that his father owned. His mother also died and he’s left to take care of himself and his teenage sister, Olivia.
The unlikeliest of circumstances bring Joey and Hawk together when she learns that his sister survived Leukaemia as a child and he’s had to take care of them both since his parents are both dead.
Joey soon starts questioning her decision to be a doctor when hawk makes her realise it’s not what her heart wants. She has difficulty coping with the guilt over not doing what she promised her father, when in reality, following her heart is what he really wanted for her. She wanted the chance to change the lives of those suffering from and living with Cancer and until Hawk opens her eyes, she thinks becoming a renowned Oncologist like her father is the only way to do that.
Hawk and Joey have to learn to trust each other while accepting that although their circumstances are different, they can still be what the other needs.
This story is about learning to trust and following your heart, even when circumstances appear to be against you.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to lovers of NA Contemporary Romance.
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Subject to Change – Excerpt #2
 
I was two feet from the main sidewalk when I smacked face-first into someone — a six-foot-tall, solid figure of lean muscle — pulling a dolly behind him. I rubbed my shoulder and stammered an apology, but he was tending to what the collision had knocked off the dolly. Ten huge, heavy-duty aluminum foil pans stacked inside large cardboard boxes had fallen onto the sidewalk behind him. Thank goodness they were quickly and easily tipped back upright, and there were no traumatic spills of whatever food was inside.
“I’m so sorry,” I said. “Let me help you,”
“No, it’s okay.” A casual gruff laugh came from the guy, who’d already picked up two of three of the boxes and situated them back on the dolly. I felt like I’d heard that voice before, but it could really have been anyone with the howling of this wind.
–That is, until I got close enough to see the skin between the guy’s gray knit hat and the collar of his jacket when he bent down. There were three tendrils of black ink on the back of his neck just like I’d seen on —
“Hawk!” I blurted out before I could stop myself.
He stood up, turning his head slowly and peering at me.
“I’m sorry — do I…”
I yanked my scarf down to uncover the lower half of my face. “Joey.”
He narrowed his eyes and peered at me harder. It was only then that I remembered exactly how awkward our introduction had been. I sighed and pointed to myself. “Josephine? From business class?”
Realization flooded his face. Those same icy blue eyes that had shocked me when I first saw him widened slightly with recognition — and completely took my breath away. His mouth dropped open, but before he could say anything, I blurted out, “What are you doing here?”
He pushed out a half-laugh. “Uh…food. For the House.”
My brow wrinkled in confusion.
“I work at a little place in the City. We bring whatever lunch bar food we can’t sell for an early dinner for these folks.” He gave a slight smile, and his eyes  sparkled.
Damn. This guy was totally gorgeous. “Wow. That’s…”
“Yeah, and I’ve gotta get it in there before this food turns into chunks of ice. Tomorrow?”
“Uh…what?”
“I’ll see you tomorrow. For our project?”
When he said “project,” it was like a switch had flipped, like the magical, cold-repelling bubble containing his muscles and breathtaking eyes had burst.
“Right. Tomorrow. Library. Great.” A rude — albeit hot — guy and a group project for a class I didn’t want to be taking. Pretty much the opposite of ‘“great.”‘ “Uh…do you need help with that?” It was freezing, but I’d been raised to always go out of my way to help people.
Hawk snorted and gave me a once-over again. “You’re smaller than the dolly.” Then he brushed past me without another word, nearly knocking me off my feet. Smelling like cologne and warmth.
Not cigarette smoke.
My heart jumped, but I tamped it back down. What the heck was wrong with me? I yanked my scarf back up over my face, but my cheeks burned and I stared at my feet again.
Before I knew it, I was standing at the front door to the sorority house, key in hand. I’d completely forgotten to take the bus.  


Author Bio:  Alessandra Thomas is a New Adult writer who swears she was in her twenties yesterday. Since she's not, she spends her time looking back on her college years fondly, and writing sexy stories about guys and girls falling in love and really living life for the first time. When she's not writing, you can find her with a spoonful of ice cream in one hand and the newest New Adult release in the other.
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