Title: Before the Fall
Series: Angels of Mercy, Book Two
Author: SA Collins
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: November 18, 2019
Heat Level: 3 - Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 102200
Genre: Contemporary, LGBT, Contemporary, family-drama, gay, new adult, high school, sports, athlete, in the closet
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Synopsis
Elliot Donahey is an out young queer
boy—artistic, empathic, and full of secret passions. He is a boy seeking
protective shadows where he can hide from those who don’t understand him…and to
provide him with the means of surviving one more hellish day of high school.
When Elliot finds himself in the arms of
Marco Sforza, a boy who is made to bask in the light of fame and success,
shadows and light take on a whole new meaning. Marco’s rising star as the
quarterback of the Mercy High Avenging Angels may come crashing down around him
if his relationship with Elliot is discovered. And Marco’s past of playing a
ladies man convincing his teammates he’s one of them will pose problems that
Marco’s teammates have to deal with.
Can Marco and Elliot find their romance
in the sun, or will those who profess to be close to them tear them apart?
Excerpt
Before the Fall
SA Collins © 2019
All Rights Reserved
I’ll fight for you…
The phone buzzed, and the screen was
replaced by Marco’s glorious face. I nearly dropped the damned thing because it
surprised me when it went off, as if he could sense I was reaching out across
the ether to him. I was reaching and as usual he was there.
His smile glowed from my phone, and
tears fell, blurring and obscuring his glorious and transcendent beauty. It
kept buzzing, waiting for me to answer it—each throbbing, rattling motion
pleading for me to answer his call.
One more ring and it’ll slip to voice
mail. I declined the call—hating myself to hell and gone for doing so, knowing
he wouldn’t let it go. A beat.
No voice mail.
Another call.
I let it ring through, sagging against
my pillow and weeping like the fucking social retard I was. And I am not the
type of person to use the word retard with ease. If I used it, I fucking meant
it. And in reference to me, I meant it. Deeply. I was an inept and undeserving
boyfriend. He was mythic; he was a god. A god who stumbled, but didn’t they all
in those mythic legends? Why should my guy be any different? I was the little
fag boy who belonged in the shadows. I deserved to be cast back there—where I
belonged.
No voice mail.
I should’ve answered. A reminder that
there were a great many things I should’ve…but didn’t. I rolled over in my bed,
clutching the pillow closer to me.
Silence, oppressive and weighted,
pressed in around me.
The phone buzzed.
I picked it up and looked at the text
from Marco.
Marco Sforza: I get it. I’ll leave you
alone. Good night, my dearest love…miss you—M
I broke.
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Meet the Author
SA “Baz” Collins hails from the San
Francisco Bay Area where he lives with his husband, and a Somali cat named
Zorro. A classically trained singer/actor (under a different name), Baz knows a
good yarn when he sees it.
Based on years of his work as an actor,
Baz specializes in character study pieces. It is more important for him that
the reader comes away with a greater understanding of the characters and the
reasons they make the decisions they do, rather than the situations they are
in. It is this deep dive into their manners, their experiences and how they
process the world around them that make up the body of Mr. Collins’ work.
You can find his works at sacollins.com
and as a co-host/producer of the wrotepodcast.com series.
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