Author Name: Kristopher Quentin
Book Name: The Island Keepers
Goodreads Link: n/a
Publisher: Cool Dudes Publishing
Cover Artist: Louis C. Harris with photography of lighthouse supplied by author
Release
Date: January 4, 2015
Blurb:
They could hardly have been less alike.
David is
striking, smooth, charismatic, blond with an ice melting smile, and possesses
an unmistakable gift as a fiction writer. Wyatt is as plain as paper, short by
comparison, mildly hairy, white as a ghost, graceless, a celebrated oil
painter. He is single and he is out. David, raised a strict evangelical
fundamentalist, is embarrassed by his own virginity.
Both men are sent to
Puffin Island and, David’s heart struggles with his imbedded childhood dogma
and lethally homophobic parents, propelling him to establish an unthinkable
bond of love with Wyatt, and, when the unthinkable happens, and Wyatt is left
alone, he has no option but to move forward because there is a lot at
stake. He turns to the unlikeliest of characters to fill the void, a person who
will teach him an important lesson; that love is all about choice, and on
making a decision, he must sacrifice a need that had been created by his past
with David.
Pages or Words: 108,000 words
Categories: Gay fiction, M/M Romance,
New Adult, Romance
Excerpt:
“Wyatt?”
“Yes?”
“ I need to ask you a point blank question.”
“You can always ask, David. You know that.”
“I…I want to…I want know if…fuck this is so hard.
Just a sec. I need to breathe.”
I waited a few moments, listening to him breathe
deeply.
‘Okay, I’m ready.
You still there?”
“Still here. What’s bothering you David?”
“I…I’ve never done this before so please forgive me
for botching it up.”
“Talk to me, David.”
“Okay. Okay.” He whispered, and then taking a deep
breath, said, “I want to know if you love me. I mean, are you in love with me?”
* * *
Knock me over
with a feather.
I’d been staring out the window watching a couple of
kittens chasing each other up and down a pair of maples in our yard.
Somehow, I suddenly identified with the chaser.
“I’ll answer that if you promise to answer the same
question. Deal?”
I heard a gulp in my ear piece. “Perfect. I’ll
answer it first since I asked it,” he said. “You need to know that I love you.
I am in love with you. And I’m fucking miserable not having you by my side. I’m
even more forlorn knowing you’re dating someone else.” He paused and took a
deep breath. “Okay? There, I said it.”
“Do you feel better?”
“That depends on your answer.”
Sales
Links: http://www.cooldudespublishing.com
About the
author:
Kristopher Quentin has been writing for decades. He is a
businessman
and broadcast journalist by trade, a man up at 3:45 every weekday
morning for a stint on the news desk; a little earlier on weekends to
write fiction in his man cave. An upstate New Yorker by birth, he now
lives in the most rural area of far northern Maine, USA, on 54-acres
of land: wooded, lawns, driveways, and a few buildings including his
four thousand square foot home which he calls the white house; because
it is. His property is home to moose, deer, rabbits, raccoons,
porcupines, fox, weasels, black bears, and one Bard owl.
He loves reading gay romances among other forms of fiction;
non-fiction; and memoirs most of which he considers to be fictional.
Travelling, dining out, boat riding are among his passions; that and
flying his own single engine airplane when he was younger.
and broadcast journalist by trade, a man up at 3:45 every weekday
morning for a stint on the news desk; a little earlier on weekends to
write fiction in his man cave. An upstate New Yorker by birth, he now
lives in the most rural area of far northern Maine, USA, on 54-acres
of land: wooded, lawns, driveways, and a few buildings including his
four thousand square foot home which he calls the white house; because
it is. His property is home to moose, deer, rabbits, raccoons,
porcupines, fox, weasels, black bears, and one Bard owl.
He loves reading gay romances among other forms of fiction;
non-fiction; and memoirs most of which he considers to be fictional.
Travelling, dining out, boat riding are among his passions; that and
flying his own single engine airplane when he was younger.
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Great excerpt...the book intrigues,definitely.
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I'm looking forward to giving this a read. I've heard great things.
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