When one loves too many romance tropes๐
Mar 26, 2023 4:22 pm
Hello !
Happy weekend!
I have a little treat for you today. I'm trying something new, and it has nothing to do with how excited I am about my next book, The Healer. ๐ It has some amazing tropes, and therein lies my problem. I love WAY too many tropes. I went from A Home in You, which was a sweet love story that spanned over several years to stories coming up that are going to be much darker. And I have to be real with myself; I prefer darker-themed romances. I love sweet too, but after a while, I need something gritty.
Here are the tropes for The Healer:
โค๏ธSize difference
๐งกOpposites attract
๐Small top/big bottom
๐Interracial relationship
๐Medical
๐Bisexual
โค๏ธGay
๐งกIn the closet
๐Frenemies to lovers
๐Sweet romance mixed with darkness
๐Betrayals
โค๏ธGentle giant
๐งกPOC
See what I'm saying? ๐
So, what's my special treat? Keep reading below, and I am offering a sample of The Healer for free. It's only one chapter because I don't want you TOO invested and get annoyed there isn't more lol, but I hope you enjoy it!
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The Healer - Knights of Boston - Book 1
I'm super excited to announce The Healer! This is a subseries of three books that branch out from my last series, Kings of Boston. Here we will read about important secondary characters getting a story.
The Healer sample is from Chapter 10. After much bumbling around each other in the clinic, nurses Josรฉ and Jonas are faced with an emergency, and we finally get to see them working together without constantly running into each other. Their meet-cute wasn't so cute. That's not to say there isn't interest or sexual tension. Once the emergency is over, gentle giant and shy Jonas, who's still in the closet, finally gets bold and asks Josรฉ out on a date.
(Please note that none of this has been professionally edited. My story is still with my editor.)
Josรฉ
I lost everything. My parents were murdered, my best friend was sent to prison for a drug deal gone wrong, and eventually, my grandmother, who had raised me since I was fifteen, died. I have been living life day to day to make a good life away from gangs and violence. As a nurse, I can finally do something meaningful. But Iโve been lonely, too, until the bumbling nurse standing a foot taller than me had me constantly irritated, yet, I found him strangely endearing.
Jonas
Family is everything. Family is life and goodness, and I would do anything to protect them. Including protecting them from me. When I came out as gay at thirteen, it threatened to tear the family apart. Some supported me. Some were disgusted. So, back into the closet I went to maintain the peace. But after eighteen years of absolute loneliness, there is only one man who could finally pull me out to see the light of day. Josรฉ is a fiery nurse I work with, and I want him. Unfortunately, I keep irritating him too much for him to really notice me.
Can the two men stop dancing around each other and colliding long enough to realize they are the perfect match? Will Jonasโ family finally accept him as he is? And danger lurks too close to home for Josรฉ. Can he protect those he loves in time?
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Nurse practitioner school. Work. Care for my mom. Wash, rinse, repeat. That sums up my life until I cross paths with Romeo Parisi. Now, Iโm tangled in the underbossโ web. Iโve been strong-armed into inking a deal with the mafiaโconcierge care for the Parisi family. The terms? For life. If I refuse? My life. Romeo wants more than medical care from me, but mixing business with pleasure has the potential to get all kinds of complicated. Deadly complicated.
โ๐ง๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ช ๐ช๐๐ข ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐, ๐๐ก๐ข๐ช ๐ช๐๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐, ๐๐ก๐ ๐ง๐๐๐ฌ'๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ข๐ก ๐๐ก๐ข๐ช ๐ช๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ช๐๐๐ก ๐ง๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐, ๐'๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ."
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๐Thanks for reading!!๐