Book
Name: My Mate, Jack
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Link: My Mate Jack
Author
Name: Garrett Leigh
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover
Artist: G.D. Leigh
Blurb:
Will Barter’s been in
love with his best mate Jack for as long as he can remember. They’ve shared
everything: love, life, laughs, even Will’s first kiss. But Jack’s straight,
and Will’s long-buried infatuation means nothing until their last summer
together draws to a close.
Then one night,
everything changes, but with Will bound for university in Leeds, and Jack for
his dream DJ job in Ibiza, there’s no time to explore their blurred lines.
Before long all that’s left are secrets, lies, and misunderstandings.
In the months that follow, anger and hurt overshadow fifteen
years of friendship, and Will must dig deep to remember Jack is his mate… his
best mate, and nothing matters more than that, right?
Categories: Contemporary, Fiction, Gay
Fiction, M/M Romance, Romance
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Excerpt:
“So, are you game, or what?”
Will
blinked. “Eh?”
Jack laughed. He lay back on Will’s bed and folded his arms
behind
his head, all dark eyes and shaggy
hair. “You’re such a dreamer. No wonder you don’t notice any blokes. I was
saying we could practice kissing if you want. You know, so you’re not nervous
next time the bottle lands on you.”
This time Will couldn’t stop the beer
going down the wrong way. He coughed. “Next time? What are you going to do?
Out me to the whole school by snogging my face off? I’d rather smooch the
girls.”
“Liar.” But Jack looked sheepish all
the same. “Okay, maybe we shouldn’t mess around in front of other people, but
I still reckon you should try your techniques out on me. Ginny says I’m the
best kisser in the whole school, and she should know.” Jack swooned and
pitched into a fit of weed-fueled giggles.
Will dove at him and pushed him off the
other side of the bed. “It’s not funny, arsehole. I’m the only gay in the
whole bloody town. I’m going to die a virgin at this rate.”
Jack hit the floor with a thump. He lay
there a moment, still laughing, then hauled himself back onto the bed. “Chill
out, mate. No one said anything about bonking.”
Will tried to grin. Chill out.
Yeah, right. Jack had been taking the piss since that stupid bloody bottle had
put the idea of them kissing in his daft head. “You’re not funny.”
Jack sobered and stared with an
expression Will couldn’t decipher. “I wasn’t joking, at least not about the kissing
part. We’re friends, right? Ginny and Meg snog all the time.”
He had a point. The girls were always
messing around with each other, and Will had often watched them and maligned
the fact that girls had it easy... from his point of view, at least. They
could do whatever they wanted and no one cared. It would be a different story
if Will jumped on Jack in the middle of the park. Snogged his face off and
squeezed his arse.
So why not do it here?
No one will ever know.
Pages or Words: 104 pages
Author
Bio:
Rainbow Award winner
Garrett Leigh is a British writer and book designer, currently working for
Dreamspinner Press, Loose Id, Riptide Publishing, and Black Jazz Press. Her
protagonists will always always be tortured, crippled, broken, and deeply
flawed. Throw in a tale of enduring true love, some stubbly facial hair, and a
bunch of tattoos, and you’ve got yourself a Garrett special.
When not writing, Garrett
can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or
sitting on her behind doing as little as possible. That, and dreaming up new
ways to torture her characters. Garrett believes in happy endings; she just
likes to make her boys work for it.
Garrett also works as a freelance
cover artist for various publishing houses and independent authors under the
pseudonym G.D. Leigh. For cover art info, please visit blackjazzpress.com
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