HEART 2 HEART ANTHOLOGY
May Archer * Charlie Cochet *
Allison Hendricks * Sloane Kennedy *
Lucy Lennox * Ruthie Luhnow *
Lily Morton * Chris Owen *
Poppy Dennison * Hailey
Turner * A.E. Wasp
M/M ROMANCE
RELEASE DATE: 02.07.18
BLURB
Once upon a time, a bunch of authors wondered… What if a dating app that
guaranteed you a love match broke down just in time for Valentine’s Day?
What if you found yourself on a blind date with a random guy who might be your
opposite in every single way? It could be a disaster. Or… When the
code breaks down, fate just might take over.
Eleven of your
favorite gay romance authors have joined forces to light up your Valentine’s
Day with a collection of sweet, sexy, silly, and hot short
stories, featuring a wacky cast of characters chosen from your reader
suggestions! Morticians and magicians, superheroes and spies, lawyers and
lobstermen, will all learn that love has nothing to do with algorithms… and
sometimes you find it in the least-likely places.
And the best part? All proceeds from this collection will go to
the authors’ favorite LGBTQ charities, to ensure that love in all its
incarnations will be celebrated and protected every single day of the year!
It will only be
available for 90 days, so Tuesday, May 8th will be the last time you
can purchase this anthology.
Over 162k words
total, contemporary MM romance
CHARITIES
We are pleased to
be donating 100% of our proceeds to 3 wonderful charities:
We encourage all readers to learn more about these
groups and consider making a donation of your own. Every little bit helps.
EXCERPT
The Set-up
How Bailey the geeky programmer lost his focus
It was like a scene out of a soda commercial. All of
the women (and a few of the men) in the office gathered around and drooled over
the sexy eye candy hanging onto the side of the damned building as if the guy
was nothing but a sex object.
Fuck, he’s a hot sex object, Bailey thought. I’d like to sex object the hell
outta that beefcake.
Bailey himself had been watching the guy for two days
now. At first, he assumed the man on the scaffold was a window washer. It was
the obvious explanation. Otherwise, why would a man—a beefy, hot, muscled man, ahem—be
riding a hanging scaffold on the fifteenth floor of the office building?
But how long, exactly, does it take to wash a few
windows? He’d been right outside of Bailey’s cubicle window for two straight
days.
Bailey shook his head and tried to focus on his job,
ignoring all of the lookie-loos in the space behind his cubicle. He was
finalizing the algorithms to be used in Heart2Heart’s new matchmaking software,
and it was critical he got the matchmaking algorithms just right in order for
the product launch to be a success. He needed to pay attention to what he was
doing.
A lot was riding on the Heart2Heart launch. Their big
marketing campaign promised love matches just in time for Valentine’s Day, and
in order for the actual matches to work, Bailey had to create pristine code
that took all of the variables into consideration. He was almost done with the
programming. Just cleaning up a few final glitches and he’d be over the last of
the hurdles. His plan was to stay late to double-check everything that evening
before the software went live after midnight.
His eyes slid over to his cubicle window again and
caught sight of thick, tanned forearms flexing above huge, strong man hands.
The late afternoon Miami sun shined against the guy’s skin, showing a light
sheen of sweat from his work doing… something.
Ungh. You can do something… to me. Get sweaty… with me, Bailey
mused, chewing on the end of his pen. He saw one of the man’s large hands grab
a screwdriver out of his tool belt. Maybe he’s screwing… something.
The window man looked like he needed to be licked.
Like, a lot.
Bailey didn’t realize his elbow had rested on the
spacebar while he drooled out the window until he heard an angry series of
beeps from his computer.
“Fuck. Shit,” he stammered, focusing again on his
monitor and correcting his lapse.
A few minutes later, he heard a thud coming from the
window. With his heart racing in fear of something happening to the poor man on
the scaffold, Bailey snapped his eyes to the large pane of glass.
The sexy stack of muscles grinned at him and held up a
piece of paper.
With a phone number on it.
The hot guy gestured to his cell phone and pointed at
Bailey with a flirty grin.
Bailey looked behind him before turning back and
pointing at his own chest. Me?
The beefcake nodded and put his finger and thumb up to
his ear in the universal gesture of call me.
With trembling hands, Bailey dialed his phone, never
taking his eyes off the window man while the man answered his own phone.
“How long do I have to pretend to wash this one window
before you notice me?” Window Man asked in a deep, sexy voice.
“Who me?” Bailey squeaked in response.
“Yeah, you,” he said pointing to Bailey through the
window and winking at him. The wink tightened Bailey’s pants in an instant.
“Um… I noticed you about two days ago…” Bailey
admitted. “Can I help you with something?”
“Yeah. I can’t get your adorable nerdy self outta my
head. Please god, tell me you’re gay or bi or something.”
Bailey’s face turned fuchsia and he squeaked again.
“Gay. Mm-hm. Yeah. Gay.”
“What’s your name, gorgeous?”
“Bailey.”
“Well, Bailey, I’d love to take you to dinner tonight.
Are you free?”
“Uh huh,” Bailey stammered. “Sure. Of course. Yes.”
“I get off work right now. Any chance you’re ready to
pack up and get outta here?”
Bailey stood up from his chair quickly enough to knock
his keyboard to the floor.
The Heart2Heart matchmaking algorithms would be just
fine without a final round of testing.
Probably.
BACKGROUND/TITLES
What began as a
random idea quickly turned into a collaborative and completely voluntary effort
from 11 authors, more than 130 readers, cover designer, 2 proofreaders, and one
cat herder to keep it all together.
Readers were asked
to submit ideas for characters, both typical and off-the-wall, and from that
list, each author picked 2 seemingly mismatched guys and helped them find love.
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