Synopses & Reviews
Fixing the home can heal the heart—if you can find all the pieces.Police officer Samuel Briggs is getting to know the people on his new, third-shift beat, but he’d prefer they not know too much about him—or the painful past that drove him away from New Mexico to start fresh in small-town Stratton, PA.
All he wants is peace, a manageable routine, and time to fix up his project home. There’s no room in his broken heart for a new relationship. It’s crowded with too many memories. But there’s something about the Dixie’s Cup short-order cook, who’s flirty one minute, distracted the next, that piques Sam’s interest.
Part-time cook, part-time hardware salesman and full-time handyman Rey King lives to work—but not because he loves it. Relationships? No time. Until one glance at Sam’s haunted eyes sends a plumb line straight to his wary heart.
One afternoon of impulsive, no-strings sex begins to grow into a cautious friendship. But when Rey is seriously injured protecting a friend, the cracks in their already shaky foundation begin to show. Falling in love wasn’t in either man’s recovery plan…and this time, the risk could be too great.
Warning: Contains one emotionally wrecked cop, one angsty short-order cook, a few too many secrets, some meddling small-town folk, and plenty of hot man-on-man action.
Review
“The plot was well done and unpredictable and the writing was beautiful.”
—manicreaders.com on Prodigal
Synopsis
No stranger to the writing world, A.M. Arthur has been creating stories in her head since she was a child, and scribbling them down nearly as long. She credits an early fascination with male friendships and “bromance” (and “The Young Riders”) with her later discovery of and subsequent affair with m/m romance stories. When not writing, she can be found in her kitchen, pretending she's an amateur chef and trying to not poison herself or others with her cuisine experiments. Contact her at
[email protected] or you can find her online (http://amarthur.blogspot.com/) and on Twitter (http://twitter.com/am_arthur).
Synopsis
Police officer Samuel Briggs isn’t interested in sharing the details of the tragedy that drove him to start fresh in small-town Stratton, PA. But there’s something about the local café’s short-order cook, who’s flirty one minute, distracted the next, that piques his interest.
Cook, hardware salesman and handyman Rey King doesn’t have time to date. Until one glance at Sam’s haunted eyes sends a plumb line straight to his wary heart. One afternoon of no strings sex grows into a cautious friendship. But when Rey is seriously injured, the past begins to creep through cracks in their relationship.
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