VBT Stop~ DRAMA QUEENS WITH LOVE SCENES

BBT Drama Queens with Love Scenes Book Cover Banner copyDrama Queens with Love Scenes by Kevin Klehr

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Close friends Allan and Warwick are dead. They’re not crazy about the idea so to help them deal with this dilemma are Samantha, a blond bombshell from the 1950s, and Guy, an insecure angel.

They are soon drawn into the world of theatre – Afterlife style, with all the bitchiness, back-stabbing and ego usually associated with the mortal world.

Allan also has a secret. He has a romantic crush on his friend, Warwick, but shortly after confiding in his new angel pal, his love interest falls for the cock-sure playwright, Pedro.

Not only does Allan have to win the heart of his companion, he also has to grapple with the faded memory of how he actually died.

Teaser Excerpt:

“Warwick!” I yelled. “Are you there?”

There was no answer. A couple adorned in bohemian black, stopped in their tracks the moment I shouted to my ex-lover.

“Broken heart,” whispered Guy to the interested onlookers.

“I understand,” replied the woman. She looked up to her man. “Poor thing.”

“Go on, Allan, call out again.”

“Warwick! Warwick! I love you.” My voice echoed from the building as I looked to my angel friend. He nodded and caressed my shoulder. The couple nodded as well. “Warwick, are you home? I need to talk to you. Will you come down, please?”

“Keep going, Allan.”

“I really need to talk to you. I have so much more to say to you. I should never have let you walk out of my door the other night. I’ve wanted to talk to you so many times during the last few days, but there’s nowhere private at the theater. Plus I’d probably break down which is not a good look when you’re wearing white grease paint.”

A few onlookers came out from their balconies. I glanced at Guy who was joined by a small audience. Some parents had let their kids stay up well after bedtime, and their freckled little girl was giggling at me. Her mother shushed her so she sat on the ground, sulking.

“Don’t worry about it, Allan. Just go on.”

“Yes, we’re right behind you,” said an elderly lady with bad teeth. “You make him listen.”

“Warwick, I love you and I know you love me. You told me so. You said you’ve been waiting all year for me to make a move, and as you know I’ve been waiting for you to make that move too.”

“You tell him, love!” interrupted the old woman.

My support team began to chant Warwick’s name. I was empowered. I encouraged them to clap their hands in time. They did. There was about ten of them now, and their support gave me a warm glow in that frosty breeze. However, Guy looked worried.

 

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Contest Information:

Kevin will be giving away a $30 Amazon gift card to one randomly chosen commenter. So make sure to follow the tour and leave comments at each stop. The more you comment the more entries you get for the contest prize above. Follow the tour at http://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2013/02/blurb-blitz-tour-drama-queens-with-love.html

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About the Author:

Kevin lives with his long-term partner in their humble apartment (affectionately named Sabrina), in Australia’s own ‘EmeraldCity,’ Sydney.

From an early age Kevin had a passion for writing, jotting down stories and plays until it came time to confront puberty. After dealing with pimple creams and facial hair, Kevin didn’t pick up a pen again until he was in his thirties. His handwritten manuscript was being committed to paper when his social circumstances changed, giving him no time to write. Concerned, his partner, Warren, snuck the notebook out to a friend who in turn came back and demanded Kevin finish his novel. It wasn’t long before Kevin’s active imagination was let loose again.

His longest running passion is a weekly radio program he produces with Warren for local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander station, Koori Radio. Since 2004 they have been discovering music, both new and old, and interviewing local artists and community leaders. Every Friday night, The Rhythm Divine is heard across Sydney and via the world wide web.

Kevin is currently at work on the sequel to Drama Queens with Love Scenes.

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A Sneak Peek into Moonlight Masquerade-Coming in January 2013

Valentine Anthology Cover
Moonlight Masquerade by Raine Delight
On Valentine’s Day Anthology
a GBLT Anthology
Stories by Sue Brown, Remmy Duechene, AJ Llewellyn, Kharisma Rayne, Sara York, Geoffrey Knight, Patricia Logan, Michael Mandrake and Serena Yates.
Mysterious roses keep popping up on Skylar Everclear’s doorstep. No idea what is going, a little disturbed by this secret admirer, he tries to forget it all since he just got rid of the latest line of loser boyfriends and just wants to do his job at the local bakery. But when he meets his new neighbor, Marc Douglas, he finds himself drawn to the quiet young man even as he tries to not let his libido take over. But on Valentine’s Day, a mysterious rose again pops up with a note to meet his admirer that night. Will Skylar take a chance that this time, love is right there waiting for him?
Sneak Peek PG Excerpt:
Please note that this is unedited and may change after editing.
Two Days before Valentine’s Day….
Skylar opened his door and groaned. Another damn rose was lying on his doormat. It was enough to know he had no idea who was doing this but every freaking night this week he either came home to a rose on his porch or opened the door to it. It was enough to feel creeped out now. He looked around, seeing no one, shut the door with a soft click and leaned against the door in despair. It has been two months since he threw out his lover, Aiden after catching him fucking some other guy and frankly he didn’t know what to do anymore. All he did was work, sleep and work some more. He always seemed to pick those guys who are bound to break his heart.
“I must have ‘Loser’ tattooed on my forehead the last few years.” Skylar muttered to himself.  “Why can’t I find a nice guy for once? One who won’t lie, cheat or steal and break my heart by telling me I wasn’t good enough for them.” Sighing, Skylar grabbed his backpack, keys and cell phone as he hurried to get ready for work. As a baker in the local bakery, his day starts earlier than many others. His mind on what items he needed to get done for the next few days, he opened then shut his door, locked it and made sure to pick up the rose before he stepped all over it, crushing the fragile blooms. As he turned and walked to his car he wondered who his mysterious admirer was.
Skylar’s day got off to a good start at work as he hummed a long with a local radio station playing 80’s rock bands while he rolled out dough for cookies, breads and made delicate fruit pastries. He was finally able to take a quick break around noon when the front sales person, Marlene, poked her head in the doorway saying they needed more pastry hearts. Seemed everyone was buying those desserts for their significant other, or ordered the smaller ones for class or office parties. He sighed as the fleeting dream of getting off his feet for ten minutes went on by and he got to work making more. By the time five o’clock hit, Skylar was exhausted but pleased. They sold out of many of the Valentine themed items and the specialty breads were also almost gone. He made a note on the wipe-erase board what needed to be replaced tomorrow and clocked out, waving to the front sales people as he went through the door to the parking lot.
Shivering as he hurried to his car, Skylar fumbled with his keys before unlocking the car and sliding into the seat. Turning the heat up on high, he waited a bit before putting his car in drive to go home. All he wanted to do was grab a shower, order a pizza and veg in front of the television. He was so exhausted it wasn’t funny. Watching couples come into the bakery or men buying items for their partners/girlfriends was a downer to be sure. He never liked Valentine’s Day to begin with. He felt it was a holiday that Hallmark cards liked so they can guilt people into buying cheesy cards and raise the prices of roses so high it was mind boggling. He never had a nice Valentine’s Day where a lover surprised him with dinner or gave him something romantic or funny or sweet. He was always alone on this day and he tried to make sure he didn’t have to deal with people who were so sugary sweet they made his teeth ache. Finally feeling the car heat up, he drove off determined to not think of hearts, flowers and all the things associated to Valentine’s Day. It was for couples, people in love and not for him.

Welcome Guest Author Daisy Harris today

Idea Factory: Building the Perfect Dork 

For off, thanks to Raine Delight for having me on the blog today. Y’all are the best!

On with the blog—

I’m often asked where I get my ideas for stories. Now, I think all authors hear this question. But as a female writer of male-male romances, I get asked more than most people.

Usually, the answer is a mix of places—movies I’ve seen, people I know, pictures and news clips, my crazy family, and my even crazier imagination. But in the case of my latest release, My Fair Dork, I got my inspiration from one very specific place: a talk show on Canadian TV called “One Girl Five Gays.”

If you’ve never seen it before, I’m here to tell you, One Girl Five Gays (1G5G) is AWESOME. It involves a charming female host named Aliya Jasmine interviewing group of five gay men in a 20-Questions style format. The guests rotate in and out, but if you watch the show for a while, you feel like you get to know all the participants.

So here’s how I got my plot bunny for My Fair Dork

There’s a character on 1G5G I’ll call D. He’s smart, sarcastic, and smoking hot. I had the biggest crush on him, and was delighted when he mentioned on the show his tendency to be a bossy bottom. (I can’t remember if he said it outright, or insinuated it. But either way, I LOVE writing bossy bottoms. So for some reason this tickled me pink.)

Eventually D got a boyfriend, and I was intrigued. Who was the man who’d wooed this prize? Was he a big, burly dreamboat? A sober intellectual? Did he have height? Muscles? Tons of money?

After a couple weeks, his boyfriend, whom we shall call M, appears on the show, and he’s…dorky.

Now, if you know anything about me or my work, you know that I loves me a nerd. And M was the real deal. He wasn’t some slick hipster wearing nerdy-but-chic glasses and an ironic T-shirt. No, he was a soft-spoken, nervous seeming, flannel wearing, sweet and harmless dork. The kind of guy who was nerdy in high school and never grew out of it.

He was cute, and endearing, and I was even more in love with D for dating him. But then, a few episodes later, Aliya Jasmine asks the guys, “What part of your body is too big?”

And M blushed like a fire hydrant, and said, “My dong!” before burying his head in shame.

The cast ribbed and teased him, and Aliyah Jasmine, like the intrepid reporter she is, asked for more details about the exact nature of his size. (Yes, yes AJ. Viewers want to know!)

But in that moment, a story came together in my head—about a nerd with a giant cock—a guy uncomfortable in his skin and worried about his anatomy, and the smart, sexy, cool beyond belief guy who wants to pull him out of his shell.

My Fair Dork was born.

Seldom do ideas come to me that clearly, or based on something so acute. But man, when a story hits me like that, it’s like I can’t write the thing fast enough. And that’s how My Fair Dork went for me. I drafted it in 12 days, and it was submitted at day 15. I love this story. And I love 1G5G and Canadian MTV for providing such great fiction fodder.

I just hope that if M ever finds out I got my story idea from watching 1G5G he won’t be too painfully embarrassed. After all, the world is full of people shy about some part of their bodies. Even some part that society thinks they should be proud of. It’s just…well, there really is nothing like a giant cock. And when it’s attached to an adorable geek, it’s about the best thing I can imagine.

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CONTEST INFORMATION: 

Daisy will be awarding a large-size dildo, a scented penis candle, as well as a $20 gift certificate to the winner’s choice of Barnes and Noble or Amazon to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour. 

Follow the tour and comment; the more you comment, the better your chances of winning. The tour dates can be found here:

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My Fair Dork by Daisy Harris

Men of Holsum College 8

Book buy link: http://www.bookstrand.com/my-fair-dork

They say a guy can never be too hung. Well, Harold Jacobs doesn’t know who they are, but they’re wrong. Socially awkward for as long as he can remember, Harold feels his enormous package is just one more thing to be embarrassed about. Especially once hunky and popular

Owen McKenzie notices it in the showers.

Owen knows he’s bi, but he keeps that secret close to his chest. He likes Harold, and wants to help him shed his dorky image and maybe even find a boyfriend. Still, Owen can’t stop obsessing about Harold’s equipment. And much as he doesn’t want to flip-flop on his sexuality, Owen does want to test-drive what Harold has between his legs.

Their friendship erupts into full-blown lust. But can Owen accept the loss of his golden child status and be Harold’s boyfriend? And can Harold outgrow his insecurity in time to keep the man he loves?

Teaser Excerpt:

“I was born in England. But I moved here when I was nine.” It had been too late to change Harold’s name to something more normal. But his mom seemed to think the move had been a good idea. She hated her ex-husband, Harold’s dad. And, apparently, she hadn’t been happy until there was an entire ocean between them.

“Wow. So you’re foreign? You don’t have an accent.” Owen sounded impressed, or maybe hopeful. Like Harold would pull out a smooth, James Bond burr and a tuxedo to match.

“I spoke with one when I first moved. But…” He shrugged. All the kids had made fun of how he talked when he started fourth grade. They thought he sounded posh. Some even said, “gay”. Harold didn’t know how an entire country—and all its former colonies—could be gay based on an accent. How would they make little baby Brits?

Of course, maybe the gay thing had bothered him more because at that age, he’d already realized he was.

“Too bad. Girls love a guy with an accent.”

Harold coughed, spraying a couple droplets of tea across his scone. He cleared his throat, trying to recover. “Don’t think we have to worry much about that.”

Owen paused his assault on his eggs and looked up. His blue bell eyes were wide and confused. “What? Why?”

It felt surprisingly good to know something Owen didn’t. But it was silly, really. Harold figured everyone knew. “I’m gay.”

“Oh.” Owen did a double take, and raked his eyes over Harold’s clothes once again.

Harold guessed that Owen had to re-arrange his opinion of Harold’s clothes now that he had to match them up with a different sexual preference.

“Wow. It’s worse than I thought.” Owen stabbed a sausage and bit off half.

“What?” Harold looked down at his shirt, wondering if he’d managed to spatter tea on himself during his sputtering. No. It was clean.

“Aren’t gay guys supposed to be all stylish and hip?” Owen smiled as he said it—making it sound like he was flirting, or at least teasing.

Harold frowned. “Of course. And we all have lisps, and tiny dogs we spoil.”

Owen’s forehead creased in the middle, as if he wasn’t sure whether Harold was joking. “Nah.” He ate the other half of his sausage, and then picked up another. “I know that’s not true.”

Good lord. Harold closed his eyes and pinched his lips together to stop himself from laughing. Owen was so…he didn’t even know how to describe it. It was an optimistic innocence Harold had heard about but never seen in real life. Maybe it was a Midwestern thing.

“This guy I knew from the football team, Tank, he’s gay. And he isn’t like that at all.” Owen thought about it for a moment, staring past Harold’s shoulder to look off into space. “Though I could see him with a dog.”

Harold wasn’t sure whether he was being serious or joking. But since Owen was so earnest most of the time, he guessed Tank guy was the kind to pamper a Chihuahua.

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Birkenstock-wearing glamour girl and mother of two by immaculate conception, Daisy Harris still isn’t sure if she writes erotica. Her romances start out innocently enough. However, her characters behave like complete sluts. Much to Miss Harris’s dismay the sex tends to get completely out of hand.

She writes about fantastical creatures and about young men getting their freak on, and she’s never missed an episode of The Walking Dead

            Links:

            My website: http://www.thedaisyharris.com

            Twitter: @thedaisyharris

            Siren Page: http://www.bookstrand.com/daisy-harris

            Book buy link: http://www.bookstrand.com/my-fair-dork

 

TRR’s GBLT Madness Blog Hop-9/27-9/30

Welcome to the GBLT Madness Hop where you can win some fabulous prizes from the participants. The hop runs from September 27th to September 30th and you can space yourselves out over 4 days, from September 27 to 30.

Now for my portion of the hop, I am going to talk about one GBLT book that I adore and recommend.

First though, my prize giveaway is a e-book PDF of Hot Summer Fun anthology with ten sexy tales ranging from contemporary to paranormal to bdsm by myself as well as Sara York, Patricia Logan, Lisa Worrall and many others. All you need to do is comment on this post what is one of your favorite gbtl books to enjoy or are itching to read over the course of the hop and voila! you are entered. I will draw the name on October 1st.

My ultimate favorite M/M Story is Paws On Me (Protect & Serve 3) by Silvia Violet. It has a big bear of a man, a sexy club owner and some serious sparks between them. Silvia has a knack of creating a storyline with equal parts humor, sexiness and romance that appeals to me on all levels. Her stories always leave me wanting more and frankly, if you haven’t checked out her Protect & Serve stories at Changeling, I urge you to please go over there NOW!

And isn’t this cover to die for? *fans face* I swear my pulse went up a notch when Silvia debuted this one and then when I saw the bear on the cover, Whoa momma…I was in love. :-)

Paws On Me is a story of a police lieutenant who finds he is attracted to a man who may be a potential murder suspect and when all Seth Morrison wanted was sex..he got romance instead with Brandon Lord, a sexy smooth club owner who may or may not be a murder suspect. With the right amount of action-in and out of bed, mystery and loads of simmering scorching heat between these two, well you can understand why I say keep a bucket of ice nearby to cool you down. They say opposites attract and believe me, Seth and Brandon are as opposite as they can be but they fit together so perfectly and I loved how Seth tried to fight his attraction to Brandon and failed at that. :-)

Paws on Me is book 3 in Ms. Violet’s Protect & Serve series (it’s a multi-author series) and the other books are as follows: Savage Wolf (1), Sex and a Hoof (2), Paws on Me (3) & Hoofin’ It To The Alter (4).

I recommend reading the other books as well for those characters pop up as well as Seth and Brandon in some of the other stories mentioned here. You can bet you will fall in love with them as well. I can’t wait to see if this author drops back into this world again in the future. I am sure there are more stories to be told there.

You can find Paws on Me at Changeling Press.

Please click on the graphic below to get to the next random blog that you haven’t visited yet and if you haven’t registered or logged in for the hop, then please click on the button to do that as well.

The Romance Reviews GLBT Madness Hop

Wicked Wednesday with Delsyn’s Blues by Lou Sylvre

 

Title: Delsyn’s Blues (Book 2)

Author: Lou Sylvre

Series: Vasquez and James
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Blurb:
Sequel to Loving Luki Vasquez

Vasquez & James: Book Two

Sonny James and Luki Vasquez are living proof that the course of love never runs smoothly. Ambushed by grief, Sonny listens to a voice singing the blues from beyond the grave. While revisiting the sorrows and failings of his past, in the here and now he puts up a wall against love. Just when Luki chips through that barricade, the couple becomes the target of a new threat from outside: an escalating and unexplainable rash of break-ins and assaults.

Thoughts of infidelity rise between them, a threat that may strain their newly mended love past its limits. To come through the trials alive and together, Luki and Sonny will have to unite against enemies who were once friends and overcome crippling hatred and overwhelming fear. If they succeed, maybe then they can rekindle the twin flames of passion and love.

 Wicked Hot Excerpt:

“Bed, Luki. That’s where to go from here.”

Sonny put his hand out across the table, and, oh, it felt so good, such a relief, when Luki took hold of it lightly, ran his own fingers over the palm in a way that felt like sex. And Luki took his sweet, fat lower lip between his teeth, and his pale eyes, half-lidded with speculation, flashed one of those hidden smiles.

Luki said, “Not a bad idea, sweetie. But listen, why don’t you go take your shower. I want to call Ladd first, get a better idea of what he saw while it’s still fresh. I promise not to be long.”

Sonny tended to his ablutions—all of them, head to toe and everything between—hoping all of the everythings would be needed. Just as he stepped out of the shower, Luki kissed him on the way in to take his own shower, but he looked a little distracted, or maybe worried. Sonny made a conscious decision not to fret about it, not to think about it at all. He had other things on his mind and wanted those other things to stay on his mind. He poured glasses of cool water for both their night tables, turned down the sheets, adjusted the lighting—he liked to see whatever happened in bed when they weren’t sleeping, and he knew Luki felt the same way.

He prepared everything and crawled between the softest sheets, enjoying the way his sex felt heavy, increasing just because he was thinking about Luki’s beautiful body sliding around with his own. But then he remembered the worry on Luki’s face as he’d passed by on his way to shower. It deflated his happy bubble just a little. Which he didn’t want. Let it deflate tomorrow. Not now. Sonny was slightly more dismayed when he heard the back door open and shut. Luki was going out for a smoke, that was certain. But how could he want to smoke when he had Sonny lying there, waiting for him.

Luki came back in before he could have smoked it all the way. His eyes roved all over Sonny, reminding him of the first time they’d met. Luki licked his lips, but the moment passed and he crossed to the other side of the bed. Instead of climbing in, he sat on the edge and cleared his throat.

“You should quit,” Sonny said.

“I’m sorry if I smell like smoke, sweetie. I know you hate it and I don’t blame you. But I needed to think.” He sighed and then—without further explanation—he held out Melvern’s leather box. “I’m sorry. I opened this. I think you should look.”

Sonny stared at the box, nodded, opened it, found another box inside. A beat up shoe box marked in purple felt-tip pen strokes in Del’s unmistakable hand: “My Blues.” He opened that box and inside found cassette tapes, numbered and dated and with some inexplicable markings. “He made these after he came home,” he said, turning his back to Luki.

“Yes.”

That heavy emptiness that was always waiting since Delsyn died rose up into his throat again, like a giant teardrop always trying to fall. “I don’t want to listen to them now.”

“Okay.”

“I want you to make love to me, Luki. A little sick, huh, in light of everything?”

“No.”

“No, you won’t make love to me?”

“Don’t be stupid, baby. I mean no, it’s not sick at all.”

Sonny didn’t turn around, and he spoke only a little louder than a whisper. “I’m still trying to forget.”

Luki ran his hand, strong and soft at the same time, up Sonny’s arm, raising goose bumps in passing, and then over his shoulder, up the neck to tease at his earlobe. “Turn around.”

When he turned, there Luki was, nearly naked and completely glorious, eyes full of that ice-cold sexual challenge that was irresistible to Sonny. Not that he wanted to resist it. And when Luki spoke, it was with that husky, breathy sound that vibrated way down deep in Sonny’s world.

He said, “I think we can find a way for you to forget for a while. Trust me, baby. It’s better than dope.”

Looking at Luki: dark, damp curls framing his face, muscles hard and shapely, skin smooth, brown, and glistening, erection pushing back the towel wrapped around his waist. Looking at Luki turned Sonny on, no question.

Listening to Luki: voice like smooth gravel in a riverbed, soft words that coaxed and promised and insisted, sounds shaped and flavored by sweet, fat lips and capable tongue. Listening to Luki turned Sonny on, absolutely.

But then, Luki’s touch. Sonny’s every cell begged for it.

“Come here,” Luki said, a command.

Sonny did as directed, rolling to the edge of the bed and then, when Luki’s strong hands pulled him around, sat with his back toward Luki, nestled in the V of his spread thighs. Luki’s lips and tongue and fingers kissed and licked and gently scratched, making patterns like lace, a warm, wet, web that captured Sonny and from which he hoped he’d never escape. Then Luki rose to his knees, still holding Sonny in place with his strong thighs. Now he continued his kisses up over his shoulder, flattened his tongue for one long lick along his collarbone, tongued his ear and sucked on the lobe, sucked the sensitive skin of his neck, pulling it hard against his teeth, danger sweet as only Luki could make it.

Sonny could barely stand the sound of Luki’s hot breath coming in slow, shaky draughts, his low moans almost below the threshold of sound, his erect penis satiny and slick with its natural lube, rubbing along Sonny’s spine as he squirmed and rocked ever so slightly.

“Damn, baby,” Luki said, still kissing. “I never get over it. Every time I see you, every time I hold you, feel you, taste you, you’re impossibly more beautiful than the last time.” He broke off to roll Sonny onto his back and then stretched himself alongside. Running his hand down Sonny’s belly: “How do you do that to me, baby?” Burying his face and hands in Sonny’s hair, he repeated, “Damn, baby, it never stops.”

Sonny loved the attention, but he needed to give as well as take. He rolled toward Luki so that their chests and bellies and erections slipped, slid, nestled against each other and their lips made one long, hard, rhythmic kiss, tongues reaching deep and sliding together as if they were trying to turn two into one. Somehow—Sonny wasn’t quite sure if he did it or Luki or both at the same moment—somehow the lips and tongue he was loving were replaced by glistening prick and hard testes, begging for attention. Just as Sonny tugged Luki’s balls into his mouth, he felt Luki kiss gently over the head of his penis, felt him taking the glans in through open lips, playing his tongue against the slit at its tip. They explored and exploited and mined pleasure from each other in places well-known and in others unexpected. Soon Sonny found it impossible to sort who was doing what to whom; it all flowed together into one growing, glowing ball of sex.

Sonny nosed in between Luki’s muscular cheeks and dragged his tongue along the crease. He tasted a slight tang of spice from their soap laced into Luki’s singular musk, and he wanted more, took more. Luki’s tongue dipped into Sonny, deep and long and rhythmic, a sweet, soft fuck. Sonny groaned and pulled back enough to give his hands room, delved inside his lover with long strong fingers, still sucking, licking, moaning. Sonny trained his eyes on his own fingers entering his lover, trained his mind on finding the prostate gland inside, that little jewel that would let him drive Luki to sweet, slow frenzy. But what he felt, what made him shiver and sweat, was what Luki was doing to him. He thought maybe the “doing to” and the “happening to” were the same thing.

It was too good, couldn’t last, but Sonny wanted more, longer, so he pulled back. “Luki, please.”

In an instant, Luki’s face was in front of him again, Luki’s lips, tasting of Sonny’s own sex, sliding over his. He dragged the flat of his tongue across Sonny’s hungry lips corner to corner, a signature move that never failed to steal Sonny’s breath.

“I don’t know what you mean, baby. Tell me. Please what?”

“I want you.”

“Still not sure, sweet. Tell me what you want.”

“Luki, please!” He jumped, feeling a sizzle against his skin as Luki’s hand stroked slowly up and down, pushing Sonny’s over-anxious penis against his belly. At the same time, Luki licked and nipped at Sonny’s puckered nipple.

Luki lifted his lips and blew against the sensitive nub. “Please, what, Sonny? I’ll do it, whatever it is, because you’re beautiful, and I love you. Whatever you want, baby—you just have to tell me.”

Luki’s hand continued down Sonny’s hardness, past his testes, stopped to pick up lube from the open pot—creamy, silky, spicy, and sweet. With his anointed hand he began to massage Sonny’s opening, around and around in slow circles, not too soft, threatening to enter but not quite doing so. All the nerves in the sensitive rim of Sonny’s anus began to pulse and ache, so sweetly begging. So Sonny begged aloud, again, saying it straight out this time and not willing to let Luki tease him anymore. “Just fuck me, Luki. Please!” He rolled over in an effort to force Luki to comply, but Luki caught him and rolled him back, almost without effort.

“Not that way, baby. I want to see your face.” He spread Sonny’s legs wide, scooped up more lube and ran his hand over his own penis, leaving a thick, slick coating over an erection that Sonny could barely see for sex-fog in his eyes—but still it was beautiful. Luki slowed down now, pushing Sonny’s legs back, placing a soft pillow under his hips, positioning the head of his penis just at the opening, pulling back a little when Sonny tried to push.

“Whoa, baby. Ease up. I’m not teasing you now. You want it so much—God, that makes me crazy—but you want it so much and I’ve teased you too long and you’re all tense, puckered up.” He chuckled. “Ease up and let me in, okay?”

Sonny let his breathing slow, let himself softly enjoy Luki’s kiss against the inside of his wrist, the underside of his knee, his thigh; let himself savor the still, warm glans of Luki’s penis pushing against his opening, not moving at all, just waiting. And, wonder of wonders, his breathing slowed, even as the sex-haze grew thicker. And he felt his muscles let go, start reaching gently for Luki’s shaft, just hungry enough.

“That’s it, baby,” Luki crooned. “Here it is. This is what you want.” He started to rock, not hard, but like waves on a deep lake: insistent, rhythmic, driving in a little farther each time. His penis had a sweet, perfect curve, and fucking this way, face to face, the glans massaged the slick knot of nerves inside Sonny with every stroke. He caught Sonny’s legs in the crooks of his elbows and pushed them back, raising Sonny’s ass. “Hold your legs up for me,” he said, his voice gone sweeter still. Sonny complied—as if he had any choice. Luki leaned over him, catching his weight on his arms, and kissed Sonny’s mouth, matching the rhythm of his tongue to the rhythm of his cock sliding in and out of Sonny’s ass. “Sweet man,” he breathed. “Sweet, sweet man.”

The words tripped Sonny into orgasm, but a climax that happened all inside, that left him breathless and sensitive all over but wanting more just the same.

“Damn, that’s nice,” Luki whispered close to his ear. “So fine.” He slowed his stroke, slowed his breath, holding back. “You’re still hard, baby. I like that. And you’re still hot inside, still open. Does it still feel good, Sonny? Do you still want me inside?”

A little shock ran through Sonny at the thought of Luki leaving him empty just then. Eyes still closed, he said, “Oh God honey, please stay. I need more; I’m already close again, so close.”

Luki chuckled a little, such an amazingly soft, sexy sound. “I know, baby.” He took hold of Sonny’s erection, stroked it so soft it felt like tiny sparks of magic followed his touch all the way up. “Here too, right?”

Sonny’s eyes flew open to find the startling bright blue of Luki’s irises edging dark pupils wide open with what certainly looked like love. He caught his breath up, intending to speak, but, hypnotized, he only nodded.

“Yeah, me too, I’m close too, baby. And I know it’s gonna be good. It’s gonna be perfect. But not yet, Sonny. I want just a bit more time to feel this, okay? Let’s let it cool for just a minute, and then I want you to come hard for me, baby, come everywhere all at once. Will you do it? Will you give me that, give me all of it?”

“Luki!” Sonny all but shouted, sounding even to himself like he was scolding. “Dammit. If you want me to cool off, you’d better stop saying those things!”

Luki laughed right out loud, which was both amazing and a bit of a tickle with his penis still inside Sonny’s ass. Sonny laughed a little too, and surprisingly, it did cool him down. Not too much. Just enough.

Luki kissed him, slow and sweet, and moved his lips to Sonny’s ear. “You’re so perfect, Sonny Bly James. So perfect. What would the world be like without you?” As he pulled his lips away, rose up on his arms and began to pick up his rhythm once again, he blew across Sonny’s face and neck, creating a draft that cooled him but at the same time made him harder, took him closer. In just a moment, Sonny saw Luki’s eyes blur with a need for climax he could no longer put off. He leaned down again, kissing Sonny hard, pushing harder. Shifting a little to one side, he began to stroke Sonny’s waiting erection with a strong, practiced hand, matching the slide of his prick in and out of Sonny’s ass, two strokes to one.

“Luki, please,” Sonny said, wanting, needing to put his hands on his own erection and beat his own rhythm the way no one else could, not even Luki. Luki knew—knew what Sonny liked.

“Come on, baby,” he said, letting his hand take the place of Sonny’s to hold his leg. “You do it. You stroke it, and I’ll fuck you, and you can give me one more orgasm. And I want one too. I need it. Work with me, sweetie.”

And Sonny did. His vision fell back to a distance, and nothing in the world existed except his penis and his ass and Luki’s eyes shuttling him through an ocean of pleasure. And when he came, everything inside clenched around Luki’s hard cock, sucking it even farther in, and his hand felt the cum pulse through the shaft of his penis, forcing its way out to spill through his fingers.

Luki kept sliding against him, smearing cum between them, driving his hard shaft in fast, matching Sonny’s heartbeat, both of their heartbeats.

Sonny’s moan became Luki’s name

“Yes,” Luki gasped. “Yes! Oh God, Sonny!” And then Luki was all but screaming too. He rose up on his knees, rearing back, lifting Sonny to drive hard three last times into Sonny’s still-pulsing ass. Both of them went silent in pleasure so deep it left no room for sound or sight or movement.

It was over. Just in time, because in another second, Sonny was sure, his heart would have exploded. Or his ass—he wasn’t sure which. Luki had collapsed next to him, breathing like he hadn’t had enough oxygen for the last month. Exhausted, Luki still held Sonny, draped an arm across his shoulder. He lay on his side and Sonny turned to face him. As they both began to breathe easier, he bent his head to Luki’s chest. Luki stroked his hair and kissed it, so sweet and soft and loving. He turned away briefly and brought back from the night table a glass of cool water. He helped Sonny rise up to drink, and then cooled his own throat. The damp towel he dragged over Sonny’s skin felt cool and wiped away the stickiness, and after he did the same for himself, he lay back down and drew Sonny a little closer.

“Good, baby?”

“Jeez, Luki,” Sonny answered, his voice hoarse, “if ever there was a stupid question, that’s it.”

Luki chuckled, and it sounded like deep water to Sonny, with his head pressed against Luki’s broad chest—a place that felt always like home to him.

Sonny said, very softly, “Yeah, Luki. It was good. It still is.”

Wicked Wednesday with Megan Slayer

 

Here Without You by Megan Slayer
Glow Band Book 4
Changeling Press
Paranormal, Action-Adventure/Suspense, Guilty Pleasure (Contemporary), Erotic Romance, Gay (M/M)
Buy Link: http://changelingpress.com/product.php?&upt=book&ubid=1851
Love doesn’t always happen according to plan.

Some guys have all the luck and some guys love the pain. Slash Gunderson knows that feeling well. His place behind the drums for Glow is a dream come true. Can he accept his need for kink and the man who makes his heart beat?

Hiram Moline loves his job as the head of security for Glow. He’s also in love with Slash. There’s one major glitch — someone has been sending Slash threatening letters. Hiram’s not about to let anything happen to Slash. Can he convince Slash they’ve got something strong or will the stalker get the upper hand?

EXCERPT:

“I want you across my legs. Show me your bottom.”

Color rushed into Leo’s cheeks as he stood once more. He pressed his lips together. With the cuffs on, he’d have a hard time getting onto Hiram’s lap.

Hiram leaned back on his hands, giving Leo more room to work with. Leo plopped down across Hiram’s legs. The move wasn’t exactly graceful, but Hiram didn’t care. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly as he gazed over Leo’s prone body. He trailed his fingers from the top of Leo’s thighs to his shoulder blades.

Leo shivered.

“Do you wish to make noise? Answer me.”

“Yes, Sir.” Leo groaned and arched into Hiram’s touch.

Hiram spread his fingers across Leo’s ass. The time had come to explain what would happen. “You feel vulnerable and out of control.”

“I do, Sir.” Leo clenched and unclenched his fingers.

“That’s where things change. Despite the bindings.” Hiram scraped his nails over the flesh of Leo’s bottom. “You’re the one to say stop. Opening yourself up to what

you want is so sexy. It’s manly.” He slapped Leo’s ass hard. “So fucking sexy.”

Whimpering, Leo ground against Hiram. “Thank you, Sir.”

Hiram rummaged through the bag for the crop. The moment he’d seen the item at the fetish shop, he knew Leo needed it. Marbled glass handle, buttery soft leather, useful by either end… discipline and pleasure in one pristine black crop. He drew circles on Leo’s ass.

“This –” Hiram spanked Leo with the crop. “– is only for you, too. Would you like to try both ends?”

“Thank you, Sir.” Leo groaned as Hiram turned the crop in hand, offering the glass end to Leo.

“Nice and wet for me.” Hiram licked his lips. His cock twitched. Seeing Leo slurping on the handle turned Hiram’s desire inside out. He dug his fingers into the flesh of Leo’s ass cheeks.

“Enough.”

Leo arched his back, presenting his bottom. The handle wasn’t terribly large, but enough to make Leo feel the burn. Hiram eased the glass into Leo’s sphincter.

“Thank you, Sir,” Leo bit out. He writhed on the handle and sighed. His body trembled and tension radiated from his hands.

“No coming.” Hiram withdrew the handle and smacked Leo on the ass. “Too close. Stand up.”

“Yes, Sir.” Leo scooted to his knees, then worked himself into a standing position. Head down and chest out, he planted his feet.

Hiram palmed his erection through his pants. Damn, Leo had no idea how freaking sexy he was all tied up and how much Hiram loved him. He stroked himself

once more, then stood. If he continued to masturbate, even through his pants, he’d end up coming. He walked a circle around Leo, admiring every inch of the shorter man.

“I’ve always wanted to ask you about the tattoo. Answer me.” Hiram traced the lines of the body art with his index finger. “Why this design? Looks like wings.” 

About the Author:

When she’s not writing the stories in her head, Megan Slayer can be found luxuriating in her hot tub with her two vampire Cabana boys, Luke and Jeremy. She has the tendency to run a tad too far with her muse, so she has to hide in the head of her alter ego, but the boys don’t seem to mind. When she’s not obsessing over her whip collection, she can be found picking up her kidlet from school. She enjoys writing in all genres, but writing about men in love suits her fancy best. Currently hanging out every Wednesday and Friday at the Menagerie Authors site, hunting Hotties for the Saturday posts, and working on the next great story brewing in her head!

The cabana boys are willing to serve, unless she needs them. She always need them. So be nice to Javier or he will bite–on command.

She also masquerades under the name Wendi Zwaduk and is published through Changeling Press, Liquid Silver Books, and Total-E-Bound Publishing.

Megan’s site: http://wendizwaduk.com/indexMegan.htm

Megan’s blog: http://theauthormeganslayer.blogspot.com

Megan on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/meganslayer

Megan on Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5330530.Megan_Slayer

Megan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theauthormeganslayer

Megan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/MeganSlayer 

Guest Author Day with Lisabet Sarai & a Contest

 

 

The Head and the Heart by Lisabet Sarai

 

Fiction is driven by conflict. In romance as in any other genre, conflict is what moves a story forward and energizes readers to keep turning the pages,

 

In the most basic sense, conflict is a gap, clash or discrepancy between some desired state and the current situation. Conflicts can be external – anything from accidents, emergencies or real world threats to differences in social status or culture between two protagonists that act as barriers to their relationship. Conflicts can also be internal – lack of trust, feelings of inadequacy, or a misunderstanding of another character’s motives. In either case, readers crave the satisfaction that comes when the conflict is resolved and the gap is eliminated.

 

My new M/M novel Quarantine features both external and internal conflict. The world in which Rafe and Dylan live is full of physical risk. The bad guys are very evil indeed. In addition, psychological and emotional issues separate the lovers. Rafe has been taught that gay men are dangerous and disgusting. Somehow he has to reconcile these beliefs with his irresistible attraction to Dylan, one of the prisoners he’s supposed to be guarding. In fact, in Rafe’s case, he’s in conflict with himself. His head tells him one thing, while his heart (and his body) send a very different message. He’s confused and suspicious, torn between rationality and arousal.

 

The X-rated excerpt below offers an example.

 

Blurb

 

When love is forbidden, the whole world’s a prison.

 

Dylan Moore will do anything for freedom. Seven years ago, a gay plague spread to heterosexuals, killing millions and sparking brutal anti-gay riots. The Guardians rounded up men who tested positive for the homogene and imprisoned them in remote quarantine centres like desolate Camp Malheur. Since then, Dylan has hacked the camp’s security systems and hoarded spare bits of electronics, seeking some way to escape. He has concluded the human guards are the only weakness in the facility’s defences.

 

Camp guard Rafe Cowell is H-negative. He figures the lust he feels watching prisoner 3218 masturbate on the surveillance cameras must be due to his loneliness and isolation. When he finally meets the young queer, he discovers that Dylan is brilliant, brave, sexy as hell – and claims to be in love with Rafe. Despite his qualms, Rafe finds he can’t resist the other man’s charm. By the time Dylan asks for his help in escaping, Rafe cares too much for Dylan to refuse.

 

Dylan’s plan goes awry and Rafe comes to his rescue. Soon they’re both fugitives, fleeing from militant survivalists, murderous androids, homophobic ideologues and a powerful man who wants Dylan as his sexual toy. Hiding in the Plague-ravaged city of Sanfran, Dylan and Rafe learn there’s far more than their own safety at stake. Can they help prevent the deaths of millions more people? And can Rafe trust the love of a man who deliberately seduced him in order to escape from quarantine?

 

Excerpt

 

“You look like you’re feeling hot, Rafe. Why don’t you take off the monkey suit? You know I’m not contagious.” Dylan kept his voice low and even, as though he were trying to reassure a frightened animal. “Make yourself more comfortable. Don’t worry, nobody knows we’re here together. I blinded the spy eyes. And there’s no electricity anyway.” He stepped forward again. This time Rafe held his ground.

 

“Keep away from me, faggot!” Despite Rafe’s glare, this sounded more like a plea than a command. Dylan set the candle down on the rail separating the generators from the aisle. He closed the few feet of distance between them.

 

“Let me help you,” Dylan murmured, pulling the zip on the suit down to Rafe’s waist.

 

“Get your filthy hands off me!” Rafe yelled. But he didn’t move as Dylan opened the suit all the way down to his crotch. Dylan resisted the temptation to reach inside and stroke the erection he knew he’d find there. Instead, he pushed the garment off Rafe’s shoulders. The slithery fabric crumpled around Rafe’s knees.

 

“Relax,” said Dylan. “Sit down.” He seated himself on the bench, the polished wood cool against his bare buttocks. Like an automaton, Rafe did the same. The black man kicked off the biohazard gear. For a moment they simply stared at each other.

 

Dylan felt his nipples tighten and his cock lift under the guard’s scrutiny. It really was lucky the guy was so attractive. It made everything easier.

 

He could read the emotions shuttling across Rafe’s face. Hell, the guy was an open book. The anger was mostly gone. Now fear, guilt and lust battled it out on those noble features. Dylan sat quietly, holding Rafe’s eyes, his cock growing harder with every passing second. Rafe’s nostrils flared. He breathed through his mouth, panting as though he was running a marathon. His gaze flicked down to the rod of flesh rearing up from Dylan’s groin.

 

“What do you want?” he asked finally, his voice almost a whisper.

 

“You know what I want. You.”

He leaned forward, brushing his lips across Rafe’s. The other man started. Dylan seized the guard’s shoulders and pulled him into a fierce kiss. Rafe did not resist. In fact, he opened his mouth to allow Dylan’s questing tongue inside.

 

Exultation flared in Dylan’s heart. Still devouring the guard’s mouth, he slid his hands down Rafe’s massive biceps and then over his solid chest, pulling at the Velcro that kept the shirt closed. The guard’s skin was smooth, warm, and moist with sweat. Dylan’s fingers skimmed over the patch of tight frizz between Rafe’s breasts, then fastened on one fat nipple. Rafe gasped, grabbed Dylan’s head, and deepened the kiss.

 

This was almost too easy. Dylan cupped the huge bulk of Rafe’s erection, trapped inside the tight trousers. “I want to see you naked,” he said, close to Rafe’s ear. “Please, baby…”

 

Rafe abruptly broke the embrace. Damn. Had he moved too fast for the homophobic guard? Rafe turned his broad back to Dylan and shucked off his shirt. Dylan licked his lips at the sight of the muscles shifting in that sleek, chocolate brown expanse. Rafe kicked off his boots then yanked his pants down to his ankles. Finally he peeled off the gloves and tossed them onto the concrete floor.

 

When he faced Dylan again, his eyes were glowing coals. His cock rose like a pillar of basalt between his powerful thighs. His abdomen rippled as he sucked in breath. He was magnificent, like some ancient god. Dylan wanted to worship him.

 

Sinking to his knees in front of the naked guard, Dylan kissed the glistening bulb of that formidable cock, tasting soap and sweat. He was about to swallow as much of that engorged length as he could manage when a heavy hand gripped his skull. “No,” Rafe commanded. “On the bench. On your hands and knees.”

 

 

 

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I want to thank Raine for having me as her guest. This post today is part of my Quarantine blog tour, which will run  through the 24th of July. I’ll be giving away an ebook to one commenter at each stop on the tour. So leave a comment – and don’t forget to include your email address so I can contact you!

 

I’ll also be choosing one commenter from the entire tour to win the grand prize – a $50 All Romance Ebooks gift certificate. Meanwhile, all comments at my own blog Beyond Romance (http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com) during the tour will also go into the drawing for the gift certificate.

 

You’ll find the schedule for the tour in my July newsletter: http://www.lisabetsarai.com/news.html

 

Check out my intense trailer Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.! And if you’re interested in getting your own copy of Quarantine, just go to Total-E-Bound (http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?P_ID=1725)!

Bio: More than a decade ago LISABET SARAI experienced a serendipitous fusion of her love of writing and her fascination with sex. Since then she has published four single author short story collections and seven erotic novels, including the BDSM classic Raw Silk. Dozens of her shorter works have been released as ebooks and in print anthologies. She has also edited several acclaimed anthologies and is currently responsible for the altruistic erotica series COMING TOGETHER PRESENTS.

Lisabet holds more degrees than anyone needs from prestigious universities who would no doubt be embarrassed by her chosen genre. She loves to travel and currently lives in Southeast Asia with her highly tolerant husband and two cosmopolitan felines. For more information on Lisabet and her writing visit Lisabet Sarai’s Fantasy Factory (http://www.lisabetsarai.com) or her blog Beyond Romance (http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com).

 

Series Spotlight~Dianne Hartsock’s Shelton Series

Shelton in Love

Book 1

Breathless Press

Contemporary Gay (M/M)

Buy at http://www.breathlesspress.com/shelton-love

Shelton’s falling quickly for his sexy roommate, but can he forget the pain of past rejections and give Nevil what they’re both aching for?

Shelton is falling hard for his best friend and roommate, finding Nevil’s dark good looks and moments of gentleness almost impossible to resist. But Nevil is more interested in affairs of the body than the heart. As Shelton’s desire for the man grows, he wonders if he can change Nevil’s mind. But does he even want to? Nevil might not stay, once he learns Shelton’s secret, and then his loneliness would be complete.

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Shelton’s Promise

Book 2

Breathless  Press

Contemporary Gay (M/M)

Buy at http://www.breathlesspress.com/sheltons-promise

Shelton has a gift he’s eager to give to Nevil. At a party, Nevil flirts with one man after another, keeping Shelton on his toes. Then Percy, an ex, shows up to complicate things. Despite his best efforts, Shelton can’t find the right moment to give Nevil his gift. Will Nevil ever let Shelton get close to him, or will Shelton have to keep the gift in his pocket all evening?

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Shelton’s Choice

Book 3

Contemporary Gay (M/M)

Buy at http://www.breathlesspress.com/sheltons-choice

How does Shelton say good-bye without breaking his own heart?

After a year of bliss with Nevil, Shelton is offered the promotion he’s been working toward at the bank. Unfortunately the new position is in another state, and Nevil doesn’t want to move. As tension mounts between them, Shelton is given another challenge in the form of a besotted coworker. Torn between the pressures at work and at home, Shelton has to choose his future. That is, until Nevil takes the decision out of his hands.

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Shelton’s Homecoming

Book 4

Breathless Press

Contemporary Gay (M/M)

Buy at http://www.breathlesspress.com/sheltons-homecoming

Shelton’s coming home, but after seven months of living apart, can he and Nevil pick up from where they’d left off?

Shelton’s grown tired of living a life separate from Nevil. So when Nevil is hurt in an accident at work, Shelton comes home for good. Feeling closer than ever to his lover, Shelton’s ready to make a lasting commitment to their relationship. But is that what Nevil wants? Nevil is less than enthusiastic when an old flame marries, leaving Shelton wondering if he’ll have to keep his dreams on hold indefinitely.

About the Author:

Dianne grew up in a large, boisterous and loving family in California, spent ten years in the rocky mountains of Colorado, and now lives in the beautiful Willamette Valley of Oregon.

She says Oregon’s raindrops are the perfect setting in which to do her writing. There’s something about being cooped up in the house while it pours rain outside and a fire crackles on the hearth inside that kindles her imagination.

Currently, Dianne works as a floral designer in a locally-owned gift shop. Which she says is the perfect job for her. When not writing, she can express herself through the rich colors and textures of flowers and foliage.

Blog: http://diannehartsock.wordpress.com/

FB: http://www.facebook.com/diannehartsock

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/diannehartsock

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4850270.Dianne_Hartsock

 

Celebrating my new release-Hot Summer Fun anthology with a never before scene

Ok as y’all know 8grins* I had a release last week in the Hot Summer Fun anthology. My story is about a man who went through a bad break up and finds a new lover is right above him *smiles*. A Summer Night Fling is my first Paranormal M/M short story and was inspired, in part, by Joe Manganiello of True Blood.

Here is a new scene from A Summer Night Fling, where Cal and Alex meet for the first time and I hope you enjoy my boys. I plan to write a longer book for them as well as a Valentine story for the next anthology in February 2013.

Hot Summer Fun Anthology-’A Summer Night Fling’ by Raine Delight

It’s Raining Men Blog/Website
Paranormal, Contemporary M/M
Buy at:




Best Seller and in top anthologies at All Romance E-Bookstore

Check out the book trailer for A Summer Night Fling at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxnlmfG6DjA

A Summer Night Fling by Raine Delight- Cal Larson wasn’t expecting to find a hot sexy man stuck in a tree as he took his morning walk in the woods. When he meets Alex, sparks fly and these two will find that love is waiting to claim them. Except Alex has a secret…one that may bring danger to Cal’s doorstep. Can Cal find it in his heart to accept Alex and let this summer fling turn into something much more?

Teaser PG Excerpt:

After that fateful day, Cal had gotten drunk each night and tried to drown his sorrows

with a new boy toy but it was wearing thin on him. He knew he needed to stop but he didn’t

know what to do. Time was said to heal the heart but his heart still hurt from the cavalier way

Malcolm left, the way he threw him away for a twenty-four year old college student. If Cal

didn’t know better, he would have thought his ex was going through a mid-life crisis at thirty-three.
Shaking his head, he strolled through his house, dumping the alcohol down the drain,

determined to get on with his life again. His friends had tried to be there for him but Cal

knew he had to mend a few fences since he had basically ignored everyone who loved him

and wallowed in his heartbreak. Taking a sabbatical from his job as a paranormal rights

lawyer gave him time to figure things out but the office kept calling, asking when he was

coming back to work. He needed to get his head and heart back in sync and soon or else all

that he’d worked for could be out the door. His employer would only be understanding for so

long.

He glanced up from his task and watched the sunshine gleam off the grass and after the last bottle was down the drain, threw the glass in the recycling bucket. Washing up at he kitchen sink, he mused at how his so-called perfect life had gone to hell in a matter of minutes.
“Cal, you need to get a life. Most, if not all, people have experienced a broken heart. It’s time to get back on the horse, man, and stop trying to pickle your liver in liquor and mindless sex at every turn,” Cal muttered to himself as he stood watching the scene outside. Birds flew above, a light wind stirred the tree branches and frankly, he was tired of feeling sorry for himself. “Shit, I am done with this crap.” He stomped out of the room, grabbed a light jacket, and decided to go for a walk. He always felt at peace there for some reason.

As he entered the forest, he pondered what to do and how, if he could, to change the direction he was going. Cal knew if he didn’t get off this crazy train he was going to either get some disease, get mugged or worse yet, murdered in some alleyway. He was so lost in thought as he wandered, he didn’t feel the sunshine beating down on him, the way the birds flew above and around him or the way the wind made the leaves rustle. So he was quite surprised to hear someone call to him.

“Hey, you…yes, you.”

Cal peered through the trees but didn’t see anyone. Shaking his head, he grumbled, “Must be dreaming. Got to be the wind or something.” He had only gone a few more feet when that damned voice hit him again.

“HEY!”

Cal stopped, looked around, and rubbed his head as he muttered, “I must be going fucking crazy.”

“Actually, you are not losing your mind, buddy.”

Cal turned around so fast, he almost fell on his ass. “What the fuck?”
“I would but hey, I’m kind of in a pickle here.” The voice held a thread of amusement.

Cal wondered if someone wasn’t playing a joke on him. A joke he didn’t really appreciate at all. He didn’t spy anyone around until he looked up. There in the tree was a man clinging to the branch like it was his life vest. He was about forty feet up in the air and Cal could barely make out the other guy’s features except he was very naked. Cal’s jaw dropped in disbelief and he shook his head. What idiot in their right mind would climb a tree—naked at that?

“What in all that is holy are you doing in a tree…naked?” Cal snapped.

“Well, I am not hanging around becoming a bird perch if you want to know. My name is Alex. What is yours?”

“Cal. Can I ask why you’re in a tree on my property?”

The guy glanced around, looking embarrassed. “Um, well, the CliffsNotes version is, I, um, got chased and now I cannot get myself down.” He cleared his throat and continued, “I am afraid of heights so for the last day I have been stuck up here, hoping a storm or a strong wind wouldn’t knock me off. Can you help me, please?”

Cal started to chuckle. This was too funny to be true. Laughing softly, he looked up at Alex and drawled, “If I climb up there, can you follow me down?”
Alex nodded his head. “Sure. Well, I think I can. I never tried to climb down a tree naked before.”
Cal walked over to the tree and yelled up to Alex, “Just be ready to follow me down. I am coming up so hang tight.” Climbing up, Cal was surprised to see how handsome Alex was as he got a closer look at the man. His eyes were like emeralds, a green so deep; Cal felt he could drown in them. His body was sculpted, lean and full of muscle. Hell, he could bounce a quarter off Alex’s abs alone. Cal tried to stomp down the bolt of lust that went through him as he glanced over the naked man. Get a grip Cal, you are here to help him, not jump his bones.

Clearing his throat softly, he planted his foot on the tree limb and looked at Alex. “Okay, I need you to relax. In a matter of minutes you will be on solid ground. Now, let go of the tree branch and get ready to follow me. I will go slowly and if you need to stop or feel like you are going to fall, just holler.”

Alex nodded, his throat moving as he swallowed nervously. He slowly moved himself down the tree, keeping an eye on Alex. The guy’s naked ass above him had him semi-hard in just seconds. Cal sneaked a peek at Alex’s cock and almost moaned at how long and gorgeous it looked. It would probably fit just right in his hand. He blushed, glad that Alex couldn’t see him staring. It felt like he was back in high school, checking out the guys he had crushes on.
With each step they made, Cal talked about his plans for remodeling his house and even sang his favorite country song, off-key of course, to keep the young man relaxed. With a deep breath he jumped down the last few feet and looked up.

“Okay Alex, you are doing great. Just a few more feet and you will be on the ground.”

Before he could even move a step, he heard Alex shout something and fall the last five feet, to land on top of Cal with a grunt, knocking them both to the ground. Cal’s ears were ringing and he had a hard time catching his breath. The young man on top of him was pure muscle and though he enjoyed the feeling of the naked body on top of his, he needed to breathe before he passed out.