AUTHOR: Lillian Francis
PUBLISHER: Finally Love Press
COVER ARTIST: Meredith Russell
LENGTH: 98,950 words
RELEASE DATE: August 3, 2015
BLURB: Ewan Matthews is one of
Boston’s leading genealogy experts. When a would-be bridegroom comes looking
for confirmation that there are no skeletons in his ancestral closet, Ewan
considers turning the job down. Trey Capell is a jerk of the highest order and
yet Ewan experiences an infuriating attraction that’s easy to justify. Trey’s
exactly his type—a carbon copy of the man Ewan’s been looking for his entire
life.
Harder to explain is the sense
of recognition that leaves Ewan speechless the moment Trey steps into his
office. Or the stomach-churning sensation at the thought of casting the job
aside.
Trey gets more appealing by the day, leaving Ewan
struggling with forbidden desire for his client. Desire not helped by strange
voyeuristic dreams that have started to haunt his sleep. Dreams that appear to
be an echo of the past.
If Ewan could have aged himself to look older than his twenty-eight years, he would have, but despite the glasses and the sombre suit, with waistcoat, Ewan could do nothing to disguise the quiff at his forehead. It pinged back into place however he cut his hair, making him look similar to a dark-haired Tintin and giving him a look of perpetual youth.
The knock on the door came at the same time as his computer blipped a notification that a search had yielded results.
“Come in,” he called out, his attention distracted by the list of available marriage certificates that met his criteria, and without looking up, he waved in the direction of the comfortable high-backed chair on the other side of his desk. “Take a seat, Mr Capell.”
With several strokes across the keyboard, Ewan narrowed the search, already speaking as he depressed the enter key. “Sorry, I had a result on the search for your sister’s…” His gaze finally fell on the subject of his latest project, and he looked nothing like the provided photograph.
A casual three-button polo shirt in turquoise-blue covered broad shoulders and was tucked into navy slacks. Light ginger hair, almost a golden copper in colour, flopped in a mess across his forehead, just long enough to irritate piercing blue eyes. Tanned skin flashed in his vision as Mr Capell raised a hand to push the hair from his face.
Ewan was struck by a blinding sense of recognition, and even though he was certain he had never seen this man before, it was strong enough to suck all the air from his lungs. He gasped in a ragged breath and couldn’t stop his gaze from roaming the length of his new client. Berating himself for his unprofessional attitude, however unintentional it had been, Ewan attempted to collect his scattered composure and get the appointment back on track. What had he been saying? Oh yes, work. “Um, yes, I just got a hit on your sister’s marriage certificate.”
“I get that reaction a lot,” Trey Capell said, drawing attention back to Ewan’s faux pas in the most inappropriate way. He dropped into the chair Ewan had indicated, his limbs splayed languidly, thighs spread almost as if in invitation.
“I—” Ewan was struggling to regain his composure, partly because he almost choked on his tongue at the blatant display from his new client, but mainly due to the perplexingly familiar blue eyes that watched him from the body of a stranger.
Talking over Ewan’s attempt to come up with a reasonable excuse for his unethical behaviour, Trey Capell continued to extol his virtues. “Admittedly it’s normally from girls these days. Guys just assume—”
“That you’re a prat,” Ewan said, muttering angrily under his breath.
Lillian Francis.
Author of gay romance. Happy Endings guaranteed. Eventually.
An
avid reader, Lillian Francis was always determined she wanted to write, but a
“proper” job and raising a family distracted her for over a decade. Over the
years and thanks to the charms of the internet, Lillian realized she’d been
writing at least one of her characters in the wrong gender. Ever since, she’s
been happily letting her “boys” run her writing life.
Lillian
now divides her time between family, a job and the numerous men in her head all
clamouring for their stories to be told.
Lillian
lives in an imposing castle on a wind-swept desolate moor or in an elaborate
‘shack’ on the edge of a beach somewhere depending on her mood, with the heroes
of her stories either chained up in the dungeon or wandering the shack serving
drinks in nothing but skimpy barista aprons.
In
reality, she would love to own a camper van and to live by the sea.
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