Rough Trade (Woodbury Boys #3) by Sidney Bell
Publisher: Carina Press
Release Date (Print
& Ebook):
Ebook: Monday December 3
Print (mmp): Tuesday December
25
Length (Print &
Ebook):
Ebook: 496
Print (mmp): 496
Subgenre:
Reader warnings: Childhood
sexual abuse, angst
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pre-order links:
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Synopsis:
Quick-witted hustler Ghost is
no stranger to living dangerously; survival has always been the name of the
game.
He’s just always gone it
alone.
Now he’s got the wrong people
breathing down his neck, and the only way out demands placing his trust in the
unlikeliest of heroes: Duncan Rook, a gruff cop whose ethics are as solid as
his body.
Cozying up to a criminal is
hardly what Duncan’s reputation on the force needs—especially when that
criminal is temptation personified. Ghost is Duncan’s polar opposite, and the
last person he expected to fall for.
So then why does every
imaginable scenario for taking down their common enemy end with Ghost in his
arms?
This book is approximately
122,000 words
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Excerpt:
He turned around with his jaw set and put both
hands on Duncan’s chest. He pushed gently, so gently that Duncan couldn’t
interpret it as anything but a question, and a nonthreatening one at that, so
he found himself playing along until his back hit the concave wall of the
tunnel. The cement seeped cold through his own thin, sweat-dampened T-shirt,
making him shiver.
Or maybe it was Ghost nudging at Duncan’s feet
with his toes until Duncan widened his stance, making room for Ghost to step
closer still, until their thighs brushed, until Ghost’s tilted-up face was only
inches away, his breath on Duncan’s lips. Ghost’s hands trembled against him.
That small vulnerability made Duncan hurt deep in his belly, hot and sweet and
aching.
“What are you doing?” Duncan whispered.
“You asked why.” Ghost cupped the back of his
skull, trying to coax him to lower his head, and Duncan stupidly, stupidly, went along with it. Ghost’s
mouth, when it pressed against Duncan’s, was dry and tentative and awkward.
He should move. He should push Ghost away. It
was an act. It was bullshit. At the very least, it was manipulation. It had to
be. He should run for his life and sanity and soul, but he couldn’t. He was
stuck in place by nothing more than two hands resting on his sternum and the
slow realization that this was Ghost kissing him, not the sly seducer, not the
innocent victim, not the wry pal up for a convenient good time. This wasn’t the
empty distance of disconnection that Ghost had given him before when he’d gone
doll-still and creepy. It wasn’t the confident, knowing, arousing seduction of
the kisses that had preceded Ghost’s fugue that last time, either.
This was new and uncertain and heavy. It
reminded Duncan somehow of climbing down the outside of the parking garage, the
terror of looking at a long drop and a messy landing if he couldn’t figure out
what he was doing.
It was the waiting, maybe, that
made it so overwhelming. He’d been waiting for this all along, wanting this all
along. He’d tried not to think about it, but it’d been there, and now that
Ghost was here and it was happening, he felt strung tight as a rubber band, on
the verge of snapping, because this tiny, tentative, closemouthed kiss, was a
cup of cool water after a day in a desert, enough to tempt, but not nearly
enough to sate.
About Sidney Bell:
Sidney Bell lives in Colorado with her amazingly supportive
husband. She received her MFA degree in Creative Writing in 2010, considered
aiming for the Great American Novel, and then promptly started writing
fanfiction instead. More realistic grown-ups eventually convinced her to try
writing something more fiscally responsible, though, which is how we ended up
here. When she’s not writing, she’s playing violent video games, yelling at the
television during hockey games, or supporting her local library by turning
books in late.
Connect with Sidney:
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Website: www.sidneybell.com
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Blog: http://www.sidneybell.com/blog/
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Email: SIDNEYBELLBOOKS@GMAIL.COM
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