Book Name: The Way Things Are
Series? No
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Author Name: A.J. Thomas
Publisher: Dreamspinner
Press
Cover Artist: Bree Archer
Blurb:
A night of drunken confusion at
nineteen resulted in Patrick Connelly fathering a child. Determined to be there
for his son, Patrick walked away from a sport he loved and forever hid his
sexuality. After Patrick's brutal divorce and a vicious hate crime, his son,
Jay, has become obsessed with graffiti. Hoping for a fresh start, Patrick moves
Jay to his childhood home in Seattle. Within two weeks, Jay is arrested again.
On his way to pick Jay up, Patrick stops an assault, then finds himself in
handcuffs too. Thinking things canʼt get any worse, heʼs confronted by the
sexiest man heʼs ever seen—his sonʼs new probation officer, Ken Atkins.
The hardest part of Kenʼs job is
working with difficult parents, and the undeniably handsome Patrick Connelly is
going to be a difficult parent. A chance encounter and steamy hookup with
Patrick leave Ken blindsided. As they work together to try to keep Jay on the
right path, the passion between them proves impossible to resist. When the
assault Patrick prevented comes back to haunt them and Jay gets into trouble
again, Ken must convince Patrick that ensuring his sonʼs happiness doesnʼt have
to mean sacrificing his own.
Categories:
Contemporary, Erotic (light), Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Romance
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Excerpt:
Ken shook his head, the motion
making his entire body sway again. “I can’t believe you,” he said in disgust.
“You have a child home alone right now, who needs an actual fucking role model
in his life and actual supervision, and you’re here.” He gestured around
at the dusty office. “I would have figured you’d be a bit old and butch for
most of the clientele at this place.”
Patrick opened his mouth to
deny that he was there selling himself, then stopped. “I’m not that old. And I
am an employee of Corbin’s Attic.”
Ken chuckled. “You work for the
club?”
“Yes. I had a shirt, but some
vicious little drama queen insisted I dance with him, and he wouldn’t take no
for answer.”
“You should have called one of
the bouncers. They’re serious guys.”
“Uh….” Patrick scratched the
back of his head. “I am pretty sure none of the other bouncers here would have
come to my rescue.”
“Other bouncers?”
“Yeah. Which reminds me, I need
to steal another shirt.” The security T-shirts were in a small, tumbling stack
on top of boxes in the corner, next to five bigger stacks of black aprons and
towels. He sorted through the T-shirts to find his size, then held it up so Ken
could see the stenciled yellow “SECURITY” on the back.
“You’re a bouncer?”
“Just until I get my first check
from the Port. And until Jay gets in trouble again and has to pay another fine.
And maybe until the owner finds someone else to use as eye candy when he wants
to make the guy who refuses to go out with him jealous.”
Ken choked. “That was the
owner? The blonde guy you were wrapped around out there?”
“That was Corbin Hollis, yes.
Which is why none of the other guys would dare help me. He’s my best friend.
He’s letting me pick up some hours here because I’m broke.”
Ken looked at him again, just
for a moment, before he dropped his gaze to the floor. “I should let you get
back to work, then.”
Patrick caught
Ken as he stumbled toward the door. “Hang on, now. I told you why I was here.
Shouldn’t you be fair?”
“No,” Ken
said. “I shouldn’t be here at all. Not if one of my parents works here, that’s
for damn sure.” Patrick wrapped his arms around Ken’s waist and tried to hold
him steady while Ken squirmed. When he slumped back against Patrick’s chest,
the hard cock straining against the denim of Ken’s jeans made Patrick freeze
and nearly drop him.
Pages or Words: 252 pages
Author Bio:
A.J. Thomas writes romantic
suspense. She’s earned a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from the University of
Montana and worked in a half-dozen different jobs, from law enforcement officer
to librarian, before settling down. Life as a military spouse has tossed her
around the country so many times she doesn’t know how to answer when people ask
her where she’s from, but she delights in living as a perpetual tourist,
visiting new places and discovering amazing things.
Her time is divided between
taking care of her three young children, experimenting with cooking and baking
projects that rarely explode these days, and embarrassing her husband with
dirty jokes. When she’s not writing, she hikes, gardens, researches every
random idea that comes into her head, and develops complicated philosophical
arguments about why a clean house is highly overrated. Her work has won
multiple awards, including the 2013 AMB Ovation Award for Best LGBT
Inter-racial Romance, and the 2014 Rainbow Award for Best Gay Contemporary
Fiction.
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Tour Dates: January 30, 2015
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