Title: Scarred
Author: Mia
Kerick
Release Date:
March 1st 2017
Genre: New Adult,
Gay Romance
BLURB
From bestselling author Mia Kerick comes a New Adult Gay Romance that
will keep you up reading all night!
Matthew North waited ten years to heal from the devastating wounds
inflicted by the man who abducted and abused him as a child. Living reclusively
on a tropical island—with no company but his four cats—he merely avoids the
lingering pain.
Wearing twisted ropes of mutilated skin on his back, Matt struggles with
a profound hindrance—the scars that deaden his soul. However, on the night he
meets lively Vedie Wilson, a local restaurant busboy who expresses his gender
by wearing lipgloss and eyeliner along
with his three-day beard, things change.
Gradually, Vedie and Mateo unite in friendship. Through a series of
awkward encounters, the pair learns each other’s secrets. Vedie learns that an
angelic face can front for a scarred soul. Matthew learns that the line between
one’s masculine and feminine sides is blurred. Can they embrace the painful
stories behind each other’s scars if they’re to find everlasting love? Or will
surrendered love come to be yet another blemish on their souls?
EXCERPT
VEDIE
“Hot damn! Who be dat fine lady?” Joey knows I ain’t a lady, and I wish
he’d shut his trap, but I don’t tell him so. I turn my head away and roll my
eyes twice as I head past the bar. “Who’s the lucky guy who’s gonna get some of dat tonight?”
“Ain’t gonna be you, Joey.” And sure, maybe I say it out loud, but not
loud enough for him to hear, ‘cause I don’t want to piss him off. Pissed-off
dudes can be dangerous.
I only been working here a week-and-a-day now, but I’m pretty sure my
coworkers are cool with the way I dress. At work, I gotta wear my green Tiki
Hut T-shirt and tan shorts, just like everybody else. But I don’t hide my lady
side down here on Placida Island, and I ain’t never gonna hide her again.
The
sad fact is, the way I show the world who I am is all fucked-up. But it is what
it is, and that’s why I ain’t never goin’ back to Boston—I can’t go back up
there and be me. Not if I wanna live
to see another day, and shit.
“Ain’t you people never seen a
boy dressed up nice and pretty before?” I shout it back over my shoulder,
flashing a big grin, knowing that my lips look good, all shiny and red.
“Vedie, have yourself a good evening!” one of the ladies calls out. I
smile inside ‘cause I think my coworkers like really me. I ain’t used to being
liked just the way I am. Maybe anything goes on this tropical island in the
middle of freakin’ nowhere.
I look around to see if Crazy Matt is lurking around the bar. Crazy Matt—that’s the name all of the
waiters at The Only Tiki Hut gave to
this gorgeous, but pissed-off-looking customer I made a play for earlier
tonight. I actually leaned down and whispered into his ear, “Take me home
tonight, Mateo.” I like how Mateo
sounds way better than Crazy Matt,
and it’s pretty much the same damn name, at least it is in my neck of the woods.
I didn’t stop and wait for his answer ‘cause I know it don’t work that
way with guys like him. If Mateo wants to hook up with me, he’ll make it
happen. If he don’t want it, there ain’t nothin’ on God’s green earth that I
can do to make him change his mind. But I
reminded him real clear that I was one of his options, and then I’d moved
on.
About the Author
Mia Kerick is the mother of four exceptional children—one in law school,
another in dance school, a third in school at Mia’s alma mater, Boston College,
and her lone son still in high school. (Mia is a major fan of the learning
process!) She writes LGBTQ romance when not editing National Honor Society
essays, offering opinions on college and law school applications, helping to
create dance bios, and reviewing English papers. Her husband of twenty-three
years has been told by many that he has the patience of Job, but don’t ask Mia
about this, as it is a sensitive subject.
Mia focuses her stories on the emotional growth of troubled young people
and their relationships. She has a great affinity for the tortured hero. There
is, at minimum, one of these in each book. As a teen, Mia filled spiral-bound
notebooks with tales of said tortured heroes (most of whom happened to strongly
resemble lead vocalists of 1980s big-hair bands) and stuffed them under her
mattress for safekeeping. She is thankful to CoolDudes Publishing, Dreamspinner
Press, Harmony Ink Press, and Evernight Publishing for providing her with
alternate places to stash her stories.
A social liberal, Mia cheers for
each and every victory made in the name of human rights. Her only major regret:
never having taken typing or computer class in school, destining her to a life
consumed with two-fingered pecking and constant prayer to the Gods of
Technology.
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