Below Deck Sneak Peek!
Jun 19, 2024 8:44 pm
Hi everyone, only a few more days until Below Deck is LIVE! If you're an ARC reader/reviwer you can still get a copy here: https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/169402/below-deck
This book has a little more spice with a little bit of drama but it has a HEA I think you'll like.
Here's a sneak peek:
“Hey, Cory, are you ready for a day on the island?” Johnny asked as I slipped out of my room and the two of us hurried down the hall.
“Yeah, I’m hoping I remember to use more sunscreen. When we were here last week, I got fried.” I showed him my arm was still mottled, where my skin had blistered and peeled. Truth be told this had happened a few times since I’d started working for the NautiCaribbean cruise line.
“You’ll get used to it eventually,” he said and patted my back. Johnny was from somewhere south of the equator where the sun shone all the time. While I burned and peeled, he just got more tanned and beautiful. And he was beautiful. With dark brown hair cut close on the sides and left just long enough on top to let his curls show. He also had abs for days. My hair was dark blond and straight which I kept cut short on the sides and longer in the back. I was also not nearly as toned as he was. “Cory?”
“Oh sorry, just lost in thought.” He laughed at that, and we hurried up to the crew’s mess hall to eat before the ship docked. I’d been working here for a few months now, and so far, every day was exciting or at least different to how my life had been. Before starting work here, the farthest I’d traveled was the next county over, now I visited a different island every day or two. But we worked hard, and by the time my days off rolled around, I was more than ready to relax and have time away. “So, what’s on the agenda for today?” I asked as we got in line for the breakfast buffet.
“Well, as you know, this group has been all sorts of trouble. So, the captain wants to make sure that no one gets into anything while we’re on the private island. We’ve added a few more guided activities in the hopes that if we break them into smaller groups, it will tamp down some of the craziness.”
“He does realize it’s a gay cruise and they’re all here to party?” I asked, making both of us laugh.
“Yes of course he knows, but every cruise is a gay cruise with NautiCaribbean. This group has been a little crazier than most.” The group he was talking about had ended up booking the whole ship. The cruise had been promoted by an online influencer as the party not to miss and apparently most of his millions of followers agreed. Well, thankfully not all of them. “This is the second day. Maybe yesterday was a fluke?”
He gave me the same look I had come to know as his I’m not dealing with this shit look, before filling his tray with food and two cups of coffee. “You know as well as I do, none of the cruises have started like yesterday. Try to keep them busy with activities and away from the alcohol.”
“Like that’s going to work.” One benefit of booking the whole ship gave them the ability to pay ahead for alcohol. Where normally everyone was charged per drink, with this cruise, alcohol was included. They’d proven in one day they were definitely here for the party.
“At least if they’re hitting it hard the first few days by the third or fourth day, they’ll be hungover and will slow down,” Alberto said as he slid his tray onto the table we’d just chosen.
“Were they tipping more since the alcohol was free?” I asked him, before taking a bite of eggs. Tips mattered. I was here to make as much money as I could and build up my savings account.
“Nope, just pounding the alcohol and asking for more.” Alberto was a few years older than us and had worked at a few of the more famous bars in Florida. He’d applied to be head bartender on the ship around ten years ago and hadn’t left. Well except for the two weeks off every eight weeks he worked. Most of us were on the same schedule and since this would be the fourth cruise we’d done together we were all very familiar with the routine. Usually, the first night aboard they all ate and drank but got up early the second day to either go on an excursion if we were at port, or they’d laze around on the pool deck soaking up the sun then later complain about sunburn. Which is what brought me to this line of thought to begin with.
“You can work at the island restaurant today, Cory. It’s in the shade a little more than the beach bar. That should give you a break from the sun,” Alexa said from another table. She was the person we went to with any scheduling conflicts or issues. She was twenty-five and had more management know-how than a lot of forty-year-olds. Her parents owned a popular restaurant in The Keys, where she’d worked from the time she was a teenager. Her specialty was scheduling, and she proved time and again how well she did her job.
“That would be great, thanks, Alexa. I should be okay by next week.”
“Use your sunblock,” she said, making everyone at the table laugh. Then nodded at me before going back to whatever she was talking about before she overheard our conversation. One look at my arms and I didn’t need reminding.
Below Deck
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JJ Carrington was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He’s used to flying in business class and spending all his holidays at the nicest resorts in the world. But lately he’s tired of the same vacation over and over again, and the long days of drinking and looking for his next hookup are starting to blur together.
Cory Wynn has been working on a cruise ship for the past year. He’d never traveled before that, and now he’s seen more Caribbean destinations than he even knew existed. He hoped to meet someone to fall in love with while at sea, but so far all he does is work.
JJ follows some of the passengers onto the cruise ship after partying with them all day. Security realizes he’s not a passenger, and they waste no time taking him into custody and explaining to him he’ll be dropped off at the next stop. JJ is used to getting his way in everything in life, but this time there’s no one to bail him out. He may have finally met his match in the cruise worker who has to share his cabin with him and can’t wait until the next stop to get him off the ship. #Forced Proximity #Enemies to Lovers #Opposites Attract
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Jordan Amid’s family has always been connected to the other side of the veil, but they follow a long tradition of secrecy, not telling outsiders all they can do. When an insistent spirit keeps showing up in the middle of the night, he knows he can’t keep it all from Bran any longer. Throwing his spirit from his body is only one of the skills he has, but he’s not sure its time to admit everything yet.
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Ben and his new mate, Leon, left the safety of Alaska so Leon could learn to live with humans and gain more control over his lust for blood. They arrive in Eureka and stay with Ben’s friends Lucas and Brennan, another mated vampire couple. They plan to slowly expose Leon to humans and let him adjust to the constant need that haunts him.
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Jason Thomas had always been obsessed with the ghost stories he'd watched on television from the time he was a kid. He'd always dreamed of visiting those haunted places, and playing amateur ghost hunters with his best friend Wade. As they grew older, Jason's fascination with ghosts grew as well, and he'd drag Wade along to different haunted houses or hotels, always hoping to see an actual ghost.
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Jack Hulbert has worked at the hardware store Nuts and Bolts since he was sixteen. He had big dreams of leaving town and traveling, but five years later, not much has changed, and he worries he’ll end up living the rest of his life in the small town he was born in.
Hudson Carter has been working in Sacramento for the past ten years, managing a big box store. He left Foggy Basin for college in the city and he never once looked back. His parents have owned the hardware store in town for two generations, and he’d hoped to avoid the same fate, but when his father tells him his plans to either sell the store or close it, he has a change of heart.
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