About the Book
We
all know what it’s like to lose out in love … but what if you get a second
chance at happiness? Will you grab it, or run?
Second Chances is collection of
five male/male contemporary romance short stories bout finding love again.
Non-Negotiable by T. D. Green
Jacob
Kerns, the advertising director for a small national greeting card company, is
due for a promotion. His ambitions for advancement are jeopardized when he
learns his next big contract will be handled by none other than Alexander Cory,
his ex-lover from college. Seeing Alex again opens the old wounds of that long
ago betrayal, but Jake endeavors to put personal feelings aside to do his job.
If only Alex would let him! When Jake's boss falls ill, secrets come out. Will
Jake find love again or is the whole thing non-negotiable?
Heart of Glass By L.
J. Harris
Days
after arriving in Australia for a working holiday, Zack Doherty is blindsided
by the connection he instantly feels to Heath Connors, but circumstances don’t
work in their favour. Zack is
uncharacteristically forward in pushing Heath to accept a date when fate gives
him a second opportunity.
Heath
has only recently had the courage to admit his true self, walking away from his
marriage and a good job when he could no longer lie to himself. The attraction
he feels for a stranger that fleetingly crossed his path confirms he made the
right choice.
Will
Zack be the one to mend Heath’s heart of glass?
Better
Together By DaNay Smith
Greyson
Welles moved to Baltimore so that his long-time partner, Dominic Nash, could
fulfill his dream of an internship at John Hopkins Hospital. It’s been four
years though, and Greyson is becoming increasingly unhappy. He never gets to
see Dominic and his own promising art career is on hold, instead he paints
family portraits for a living.
Dominic
can see that Greyson is unhappy with the long hours he puts in, but when his
solution is to propose to the love of his life, he is surprised that not only
does Greyson turn him down but leaves to pursue his own career dreams in New
York.
Five
years later Greyson can only think of one man able to sooth his wounded pride
when there’s a less than stellar response to his latest collection—what will he
do?
Dirty
Martini By Bette Browne
Daniel
Fletcher knocks back his third vodka of the night after running into his ex out
with the same lover he had found him with in their bed two months before. He’d
ended their relationship that night but coming face to face with them still
together makes the pain of the breakup still very real.
Nathan
Smith has seen more men than he can count drowning their sorrows in a bottle at
his bar. He understands—he’s been there himself. One night a handsome brunette
with sad blue eyes makes Nate want to assure him that everything will be okay.
The connection he feels from a fleeting touch, as he walks the man out of the
bar, shakes and stirs him in ways that he never expected.
What
starts out as a means to forget might just be what they both need.
Notice to Appear By
C. C. Lorenz
Josh
Campbell has had the date from hell—the food was mediocre, as was the company,
and to top it all off, he finds himself in strife with the law. When he thought
the situation couldn’t get any worse, he comes face to face in the courtroom
with his schoolboy crush, Carter Sullivan. Now, not only has he got to pay a hefty
fine, he has been humiliated in front of the one man he’s never forgotten.
Could
the date from hell suddenly turn into the start of something new with Carter,
now that their age difference is not the issue it was back in high school?
Buying Details:
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Author Profiles:
T. D. Green, the author
of Fragile Bones, is as passionate about supporting the arts as she is about
creating art. When she’s not wrangling words across the white space, she’s
deeply immersed in painting. A proud Hoosier, T.D. currently resides in her
beautiful home state of Indiana with her husband, three children, and a clutter
of curiously devoted felines.
DaNay Smith lives in a
small suburb in Michigan with her family. She began writing her stories when
she left grade school, eventually trying her hand at poetry as well. She
attended Roosevelt University, majoring in English, and concentrated in
creative writing. It was at university that her love for male/male novels was
born. The school’s history and values are deeply rooted in activism and the
fight for civil rights. She learned to see the similarities between the
struggles all minorities go through, especially the LGBT community where the
fight has just begun. She wanted to write books that were about gay men, not
just have them included as side characters or used as tokens like most types of
pop culture. DaNay spends most of her days working in data entry but uses her
free time to continue doing what she loves: writing.
L. J. Harris was born in
Sydney, Australia and now lives in the nation's capital with her husband and
twin teenage sons. She has only discovered her passion for writing in the past
three years. Shy by nature, she discovered that after her father fell ill,
writing down whatever she felt not only helped her deal with the situation but
express herself in a way she couldn't before.
Working part-time afforded her the opportunity to
explore her sudden drive to write, originally via fan fiction. With her
husband's encouragement, she penned a dream sequence around which her
novel-in-progress is built.
She loves building the sexual tension between
characters and developing interesting plots twists, as well as leaving readers
wanting more.
Bette Browne is wife to
an extremely understanding husband and mother to two very tolerant children. In
her mind they are the most accepting family in the world, allowing her the
freedom to indulge her passion for fiction, whether it is reading or writing
it.
She enjoys traditional male/female romances, but
male/male is her passion. In her mind nothing is more erotic than two (or more)
beautiful men finding love together.
For Bette, the fight for tolerance in all its guises
is an important one, and hopefully her contribution, even if it is only in the
form of the occasional love story, is one she will continue to happily find the
time for.
C. C. Lorenz grew up in
Southern California and currently resides in Los Angeles where she works in the
finance industry. Searching for a distraction from the daily stresses of her
job, she stumbled upon the world of male/male romance and fell in love with the
genre. Intrigued to explore the unique challenges of gay relationships, C. C.
put pen to paper (figuratively) for the first time since her college days and
began to write.
When not immersed in the world of M/M romance, she
enjoys spending time with her friends and family, drinking wine, and driving
her husband crazy by acting like a teenager.
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Something about the publisher:
Bottom Drawer Publications is a new
publishing house that specialises in romantic and erotic romance fiction across
a range of genres, with both het and gay characters. Our genres include:
Contemporary, Historical, Literary/Drama, Alternative Lifestyles,
Paranormal/Sci-fi/Fantasy, Mystery/Thriller and Steampunk.
Our books
are available for sale on our website as well as over 8 booksellers, including:
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBookstore, All Romance, Rainbow eBooks, and
a range of others. All reading devices are catered for with a comprehensive
range of formats.
We are
always on the lookout for fresh and interesting manuscripts within these
genres, and from time to time will put out calls for anthology submissions.
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