Raise your hand if you love hurt/comfort stories!
Jun 28, 2024 8:30 am
Hello !
Well, it's been a whirlwind lately. I recently returned from a two-week trip to Ireland and Scotland. I'm so glad I finally got to go! The trip has been a dream of mine. Since I got back, I've been scrambling to get everything ready for Pippin & Nacho to go live.
Here's a picture of my oldest son and me in Galway, Ireland. This is the day before we took a tour of the Cliffs of Moher.
I hope you keep reading. Pippin & Nacho are now live, and I have a FREE bonus epilogue from the story for you all.
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PIPPIN & NACHO
NOW LIVE!
Pippin (Sampson)
I’m broken, hiding my pain behind fake smiles and pretend joy. Inside, I’m a mental mess between being tossed into conversion therapy and foster care as a kid. I struggle to focus and suffer anxiety, panic attacks, and nightmares. My passions for skateboarding and bartending make me happy enough. But only Nate, my former foster brother and best friend, calms me and keeps me going forward. I’m not sure what I would do without him. Even worse, I secretly love him. Loving him could mean losing him.
Nacho (Nathan)
I’d been in and out of foster care for as long as I could remember. My last home was with Sam. We quickly became friends, and I instantly went into protective mode. After Sam got hurt by our foster father, I took Sam out of there and watched over him for two years while living on the streets. When you spend a lifetime not being wanted by anyone, you crave being needed, and Sam needs me. But I secretly love him. I’ve told my friends I don’t want to ruin my friendship with Sam. The truth is if we don’t work out, I won’t be there to take care of him. Sam’s needs are more important than my feelings.
⭐ Best Friends to Lovers
⭐ Neurodivergent/ADHD
⭐ Co-Dependency
⭐ Urban Romance
⭐ Skater Boys
⭐ Found Family
⭐ Hurt/Comfort
⭐ Foster Brothers
⭐ First Time for Both MCs
WHAT TO EXPECT!
ALTERNATE PAPERBACK
SPECIAL EDITION PAPERBACK
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BOOK SIGNING EVENT!
I'm excited to announce that I'll be in Toronto the first week of October for the Northern Rainbow Romance Retreat! This is my first book signing, and I'm so excited to be a part of it! It's a long way from Texas, lol, but this is going to be so much fun!
If you are interested in going to get your books signed by some amazing MM authors, grab your tickets by clicking the button below.
Reader tickets will be available on July 14th! I will make an announcement.
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ALL ROADS LEAD TO YOU
A road trip that turned into a journey.
Logan
Nicholas Theodoropoulos had been my stepbrother since I was fourteen. Mom died when I was twelve, and I resented Dad remarrying so soon. Even worse, my stepbrother had grown into a gorgeous man. I hated looking at him, reminding me every day of what I could never have. No one knew I was gay and never would. But when my best friend backed out of our road trip to California, Dad forced me to travel with my stepbrother. It was the only way if I wanted to go on this journey I’d been planning for a year. Nothing good would come out of this.
Nick
Logan Conrad had hated me since the day Mom and I moved into his house after our parents got married. Like I cared. I had an amazing girlfriend, was the star tennis player on the varsity team, and was a recent graduate. Soon, I’d be attending Stanford with an athletic scholarship and my favorite girl by my side. Life was good. But as fate would have it, I found myself suddenly single and forced to travel across the country with the one person who hated my guts. Nothing good would come out of this.
It was 1987 as two young men and stepbrothers were forced to navigate resentments and growing feelings while on a three-week road trip from Virginia to California. Will their journey finally take them to where they belong?
WORK IN PROGRESS
GORGEOUS ART!
This isn't available yet, but it will be in August. I just HAD to share it!
This piece was created by the talented @romance_mystery_books on Instagram.
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SOME EXCITING READS!
KING OF HOLLYWOOD
King of Hollywood is a standalone MM romance novel as part of the multi-author collaboration Tales from the Tarot. This book is based on the major arcana card The Emperor.
SAMUEL'S HEART
Samuel
I don’t deserve love or happiness. The last few years of my life have been full of enough guilt and hurt for me to deny it. The pain in my body matches the pain in my heart and it’s my penance for the role I played in the loss of my mentor, a man who would still be here if it weren’t for my failure. If I can’t even forgive myself, how can those who lost him forgive me?
The guilt that drives me to help others is my only companion—even when it’s to my detriment. That is until I see him. He’s as broken as I am and wants to move on, but he can’t do it alone. I know I’m not good enough for him, but maybe he's the key to my absolution.
Rory
I spent the last two years enveloped in pain while I tried to find the man I’d loved and lost. My need to say my last goodbye and find closure keeps me driving forward despite the pain and loneliness. If I can’t find what I lost, how can I ever move forward?
After being blocked, barred, and shut down at every turn, I’m ready to give up. That is until I run into him. We’re both broken, but maybe by helping me, he can help himself, too. He thinks he’s not good enough for me, but I found love once and lost it, so maybe we can find it—together.
TRESS: SINGLE DADS OF GAYNOR BEACH
After losing his police officer husband in a line-of-duty shooting, Tress Covey-Fox fled the big city for a quieter life in the seaside community of Gaynor Beach. It’s the perfect place to raise their daughter and grow his real estate business… if only a certain sexy engineer would stop showing up at his job sites. As tempting as Logan’s blue eyes might be, Tress has no interest in ever risking his heart again. But when Delaney’s biological mother shows up in town threatening to shatter the life he’s built, Tress will do anything to keep his family together, no matter how ridiculous the idea sounds.
Civil engineer Logan Gentry always knew he wanted to settle in Gaynor Beach once he was discharged from the Navy, and that was before he met the new developer in town. Although Tress insists he doesn’t do relationships anymore, when his attorney suggests a two-parent household would look better to the court, Logan is more than happy to play along because he knows the spark between them is real even if the relationship isn’t.
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Free Shorts!
Call Me Daddy - Impact Zone - Prequel
In Culmination - Series Epilogue (six shorts in one)
Forever is Family - A Home in You - Epilogue
Cat & Mouse - His Death Bringer Epilogue
All the Ways I Hate You - Stix & Stone Prologue
Bloody Valentine - His Bane Bonus Chapter
In case you missed them or couldn't download them because you are already a subscriber, here you go. Enjoy! (Please note that In Culmination is a combination of MF/MM shorts)
Click on the image to download books.
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UPCOMING ANTHOLOGIES
✨Fourteen of your favorite LGBTQ authors are bringing you hot, new stories from one of your favorite party games…Truth or Dare! ✨
The best things happen… After Dark
Enter a realm of passion and danger, where desire thrives in the shadows. In After Dark, meet heroes who play by their own rules, from mafia enforcers and rebellious bad boys to motorcycle club kings, dominant lovers, ruthless hitmen, and cunning assassins.
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