With Medley, Layla Reyne combines love,
self-discovery, swimming, and the excitement of the Olympics in to one stellar
event. I loved Jacob and Bas’s story. --Anna Zabo, author of Syncopation
Medley by Layla Reyne
Series: Changing
Lanes #2
Will the race for gold
cost them their hearts?
Publisher: Self-Publish
Release Date: April
30 (Print & Ebook)
Length (Print &
Ebook): Approx 270 pages
Subgenre: MM
Romance, Bisexual Romance, Contemporary Romance, Sports Romance, New Adult
Romance
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Book synopsis:
Sebastian Stewart was never Mr. Dependable; he was more the
good-time guy who only wanted to swim, party, and ink tattoos. Until he cost
his team the Olympic gold four years ago. Bas is determined to do right this
time around—by his medley relay team and his rookie mentee.
Jacob Burrows is in over his head. The Olympic experience—from the hazing, to the endless practices, to the unrelenting media—makes the shy nineteen-year-old’s head spin. He’s trying to be everything to everyone while trying not to fall for his gorgeous tattooed teammate who just gets him—gets his need to fix things, his dorky pirate quips, and his bisexuality.
When Jacob falters under the stress, threatening his individual races and the medley relay gold, he needs Bas’s help to escape from drowning. Bas, however, fearing a repeat of his mistakes four years ago, pushes Jacob away, sure he’ll only let Jacob down. But the only path to salvaging gold is for Jacob to finally ask for what he needs—the heart of the man he loves—and for Bas to become the dependable one.
Jacob Burrows is in over his head. The Olympic experience—from the hazing, to the endless practices, to the unrelenting media—makes the shy nineteen-year-old’s head spin. He’s trying to be everything to everyone while trying not to fall for his gorgeous tattooed teammate who just gets him—gets his need to fix things, his dorky pirate quips, and his bisexuality.
When Jacob falters under the stress, threatening his individual races and the medley relay gold, he needs Bas’s help to escape from drowning. Bas, however, fearing a repeat of his mistakes four years ago, pushes Jacob away, sure he’ll only let Jacob down. But the only path to salvaging gold is for Jacob to finally ask for what he needs—the heart of the man he loves—and for Bas to become the dependable one.
“How can you be your best when you’re not sure if your best
will measure up? That’s the dilemma facing Bas and Jacob, as they deal with the
immense pressure of swimming for Olympic gold while also trying to sort out
their tangled hearts.” --Layla Reyne
Excerpt:
Lawyer,
priest, shrink.
Maybe bartender.
Ask someone to name their confessor and those were the
usual suspects.
Bas would argue tattoo artist for the last spot in the
top five. Humming needle in hand, he’d heard more than a few confessions over
the years.
From the second a client stepped into his shop, they
told a story. The design they picked. How much liquid courage it took. The tale
of joy or woe that spilled from their lips after the first shock of the needle.
Their reaction when it was done—relief, pain, regret, pleasure.
He’d heard almost every story.
In love, in lust, in rebellion, in hate, in freedom,
in chains.
But he still couldn’t figure out the story that’d
nagged him most the past ten days. He swiveled on the stool in the rented
studio, droplets of dark ink splattering his worn jeans. “You gonna give me
something to go on, Pup?”
Straddling the fancy tattoo-massage chair, Jacob laid
a cheek in the cradle and glanced to his side. Mint green eyes, tequila-hazy,
peered out from under long burnished lashes. “This was your idea, not mine.”
Maybe there was the start of a story. Why did his
nineteen-year-old teammate have a fake ID, and why was he so friendly with Mr.
Cuervo? Was it the same story as countless other college undergraduates?
Bas didn’t think so.
Jacob’s eyes slipped shut again, lips turning up in a
faint smile. “You said you needed to get out of there and work.” He shrugged
his bare left shoulder, the one closest to Bas. The breaststroker’s upper back
was wide, like most swimmers’, his delts and lats hard and lean beneath
suntanned skin. Not yet fully developed, given his age, but stronger than most.
“So do what you need,” Jacob said. “Work it out.”
There.
There
was the start of the story.
About Layla Reyne:
Author Layla Reyne was raised in North Carolina and now
calls San Francisco home. She enjoys weaving her bi-coastal experiences into
her stories, along with adrenaline-fueled suspense and heart pounding romance.
When she’s not writing stories to excite her readers, she downloads too many
books, watches too much television, and cooks too much food with her scientist
husband, much to the delight of their smushed-face, leftover-loving dogs. Layla
is a member of Romance Writers of America and its Kiss of Death and Rainbow
Romance Writers chapters. She was a 2016 RWA® Golden Heart® Finalist in
Romantic Suspense.
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