Author Name: K. Vale
Book Name: Crossed Hearts
Book one in the Hearts and Scars
series
Publisher: Kimber Vale
Cover
Artist: Dana Priebe
Release
Date: April 27, 2015
Blurb:
Kory Vansant doesn’t deserve to be alive.
As time sucks him dry of energy, sapping the final
ounces of strength from his congenitally enlarged heart, he's forced to end his
career as Kory Kent, porn star. Staring down death, he questions his life
choices and prays for a miracle. For another chance at life, he vows to change
who he is at his core.
His prayers are answered. A perfect heart now beats
in his chest, but it comes at a heavy price. The donor is an innocent young man
cut down far too prematurely.
And Kory's blemished history is nowhere near an
ideal match.
As his debts skyrocket, Kory can’t help but think
his resolve to walk the high road is being tested. After he meets the adorable
Will Squire at the gravesite they both visit, he’s doubly damned because
there’s no way he can keep up his end of the bargain. What happens when a man
breaks a deal with a higher power?
Will often prefers the company of the dead to that
of the living. Following a bad breakup, he pours himself into his two
jobs—funeral director at his uncle’s mortuary and part-time paramedic. He’s
drawn ever closer to Kory, as if fate sticks her fickle hand in and pushes them
together like two unlikely puzzle pieces. But sometimes history can’t be
buried, and maybe divine intervention isn’t always right. Will discovers
everyone is imperfect, no matter how pretty the outer package, and opening
one’s heart is never easy, but can be oh so worth the pain.
Pages or Words: 70,000 words
Categories: Contemporary, Fiction, Gay
Fiction, M/M Romance, Romance
Excerpt:
The man scratched the scrub on his chin. “Heart
recipient,” he said finally. “I’m Kory—umm…Kory Vansant.” Holding out his hand,
he took another step. Will’s fingers were swallowed in warm skin and bone.
“Will Squire.” Again, he couldn’t tear his gaze from
the tease of scar tissue jutting from the crotch of Kory’s shirt collar. The
urge to reach out and trace a finger over the pink relief of healed tissue was
strong. Just like I touched Brandon’s
incision. The stark difference between the two—one wound marking the end of
a life and the other a salvation—was surreal. Will was nothing but an outsider
looking in on a miracle, but somehow he felt he’d come around full circle.
“Want me to get naked so you can see the whole
thing?”
Will closed his eyes for a moment and then looked
up, his face flaming with a mix of embarrassment and immediate, fierce arousal.
“I’m sorry. Totally rude.”
Kory smiled good-naturedly. “No worries. It’s a way
to reclaim who I am, or was. Or some crap. I’m not just my medical status, like
they keep saying at my support group.”
“No. Of course you’re not.”
He laughed loud and deep, and the warmth in Will’s
face drifted down his body. “I’ve adopted it as my little icebreaker whenever
people stare,” Kory said.
“Well, ice broken.” Will gulped. Hell, ice melted into a rolling boil.
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About the
author:
K. Vale writes
erotic romance of all stripes, from hot hetero to mouthwatering manlove. Find
her MF work published under Kimber Vale. Come for the sex. Stay for the story.
Stalk Kimber on Facebook and Twitter @KimberVale, and check her site for
updates, new releases, and freebies at http://www.authorkimbervale.com.
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Dates & Stops: April 6, 2015
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I'm looking forward to picking this up. Contest or not, this was going on my TBR list, winning a copy would be great though. ;) Thanks for a chance in the giveaway
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