Kinky Vanilla Romance is pleased to take part in the Pride Week Blitz with Carina Press. Carina Press is promoting four of their m/m novels from June 20 - 29:
Sharp Love,
The Lost Year,
Maybe This Time, and
Stranger on the Shore.
Today we get to enjoy an excerpt of
Maybe This Time by AM Arthur (July release).
As a regular at gay hotspot Pot O Gold, Ezra Kelley avoids his tangled emotions with the simplicity of one-night stands and attachment-free hookups. Until the night bartender Donner Davis picks him up off the floor after a misunderstanding and too much tequila. Ezra can’t remember the last time someone was…nice. It’s more than he deserves.
Witnessing his lover’s death two years ago has Donner trapped in a holding pattern: living in his sister’s basement, working at the Pot and flirting with the customers. He’s not above spending a night with the gorgeous Ezra, but love is not in the cards. That’s more than he’s ready for.
A passionate night leads to a connection neither man expects, and they take the first steps to something that looks like a real relationship. But Ezra’s been running from himself so long he doesn’t know how to live any other way. And Donner can’t risk his heart just to lose everything again. They’ll both need the strength to let go of the past if they want to get it right this time.
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Excerpt from Maybe This Time
[Ezra] listened to
the footsteps on the stairs moving closer, getting louder, timing it so he
whipped open the door with Donner’s knuckles poised to knock. Donner still wore
his black leather pants and shiny green shirt, but he’d washed his face free of
eyeliner and lip gloss.
“Hey,” Donner
said. His hand dropped. His other was clutching the strap of a backpack that
looked as old as dirt and ready to fall apart.
“Come in.” Ezra
stepped aside and let him enter. “I should warn you, they’re at it already.”
“Huh?” Donner
glanced at the living room. “Oh, I see.”
“Do you mind?”
“Not a bit. I’ve
seen more risqué things at the Pot, believe me.”
“You’ll have to
tell me all about it sometime.”
“Sure thing.”
“Want something to
drink?”
“No, I’m fine.”
Ezra’s mind raced for
something clever or sexy to say. He’d looked forward to this all night, and now
that Donner was in his apartment, he was fumbling like an idiot. This was not
him.
“Oh, hey!”
Alessandro sat up and twisted his head around. The position made him sway a little.
“Look, babe, Dasher’s here.”
“Donner,” Jaime
said. He wrestled out from beneath his boyfriend, shirt rucked up to his
armpits. “Hey, you made it.”
“Dude, what’s your
first name?”
Jaime knuckled
Alessandro in the shoulder. “Shut up. You’re drunk.”
“So?”
“Ignore him,” Ezra
said to Donner. “Actually, feel free to ignore both of them.”
Donner chuckled.
“They’re pretty entertaining, if you ask me.”
“Wait until they
start showing off.”
“Forget it.”
Alessandro started tugging Jaime toward the spare bedroom. “He’s all mine
tonight, amigo. You’ve got your own date.”
Jaime managed a
faux-helpless shrug as he allowed himself to be manhandled into the bedroom.
The door shut with a solid bang that made Ezra jump. Then he snickered. So much
for manners. He understood the sentiment, though. He didn’t much feel like
sharing Donner with anyone else.
Strong arms slid
around his waist from behind and laced fingers across his belly. A solid chest
and abs pressed against his back and ass, and breath tickled his ear. The hold
was loose, the intentions clear. “You want to fuck me, don’t you?” Donner
whispered, mouth hovering close to his left ear.
Ezra shivered.
About the Author
A.M. Arthur was born and raised in the same kind of small town that she likes to write about, a stone's throw from both beach resorts and generational farmland. She's been creating stories in her head since she was a child and scribbling them down nearly as long, in a losing battle to make the fictional voices stop. She credits an early fascination with male friendships (bromance hadn't been coined yet back then) and "The Young Riders" with her later discovery of and subsequent love affair with m/m romance stories.
When not exorcising the voices in her head, she toils away in a retail job that tests her patience and gives her lots of story fodder. She can also be found in her kitchen, pretending she's an amateur chef and trying to not poison herself or others with her cuisine experiments.
Contact her at am_arthur@yahoo.com with your cooking tips (or book comments). You can also find her online (
http://amarthur.blogspot.com/), as well as on Twitter (
http://twitter.com/am_arthur), Tumblr (
http://www.tumblr.com/blog/am-arthur), and Facebook (
A.m. Arthur). Other titles by A.M. Arthur are available from Samhain Publishing, Dreamspinner Press, and Musa Publishing.
Sharp Love by Ava March (June release) [
Goodreads]
London, 1822
William Drake has lived among thieves, bastards and beggars all his life, doing what’s necessary to survive. As a young orphan, that included looking after his best friend, Jack Morgan. But as they grew older, Jack took the honest path, leaving Will behind to fend for himself the only ways he knows how.
When an unsavory errand for his employer brings Jack back to London’s underbelly, he needs Will’s help. It’s there, among the alleys they ran through as children, that the love he’s always felt for Will returns. As their nights together grow hotter, Will discovers something new about his old friend—Jack’s need to serve extends into the bedchamber.
Will has never fully abandoned his dream of escaping London with Jack. But what could the Duke’s driver want with a dishonest cheat like him, beyond a bit of rough sex? It takes the gamble of Will’s life to find out if he can win Jack’s heart…
The Lost Year by Libby Drew (June release) [
Goodreads]
Devon McCade is no stranger to adversity. As a photojournalist, he’s seen all manner of human struggle. And as a kid, it’s what brought him to Neverwood, to his foster mother Audrey. It’s what he’s facing now, as he and his foster brothers work to restore the once-stately mansion amidst surprising signs from Audrey herself.
But when another anguished soul arrives at Neverwood, Devon can’t hide behind his camera. Nicholas Hardy is certain he saw his runaway son, Robbie, in a photo Devon took of homeless children. Devon knows all too well that a young teenager on the streets doesn’t have many options—and Robbie has been missing for a full year.
Searching for Robbie with Nicholas stirs memories and passions Devon had thought long lost, yet knowing that Nicholas will leave as soon as Robbie is found keeps him from opening himself up to something permanent. Devon must learn to fight for what he wants to keep—his love, and his home.
Stranger on the Shore by Josh Lanyon (May release) [
Goodreads]
Twenty years ago young Brian Arlington, heir to Arlington fortune, was kidnapped. Though the ransom was paid, the boy was never seen again and is presumed dead. Pierce Mather, the family lawyer, now administers and controls the Arlington billions. He’s none too happy, and more than a little suspicious, when investigative journalist Griffin Hadley shows up to write about the decades-old mystery. Griff shrugs off the coldly handsome Pierce’s objections, but it might not be so easy to shrug off the objections of someone willing to do anything to keep the past buried.
GIVEAWAYS
Blitz-wide Giveaway
Open INTL - Ends July 1st
--2x eBook copies of all four titles
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