Book Name: Rare (Roads, book 2) Audiobook
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19546691-rare
Author Name: Garrett Leigh
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
Where to Find the Author:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/garrettleighbooks
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Garrett-Leigh/484336074987986
Instagram: http://instagram.com/garrett_leigh/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Leigh
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: G.D. Leigh
Blurb:
Paramedic Pete Adams lived through the year from hell watching his lover, Ash, fall apart, and the precarious balance between work and home is becoming more strained. His heart is always home, with Ash, but the dark side to his job is weighing him down.
Tattoo artist Ash Fagin is recovering from a nervous breakdown triggered by revelations about his traumatic childhood. His battle with mental illness is far from over, but with Pete by his side, he’s feeling good again, so good he doesn’t notice something missing until it walks right into his living room.
Ash believes he’s had enough coincidence in his life, but when a voice from the past comes looking for him, it takes the devastating injuries of the one he loves most to convince him to let a ghost become the family he never knew he wanted.
Categories: Contemporary, Erotica, Fiction, Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
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It looks like you’ve got a series going with these books, was that the plan when you wrote Slide?
Er, no. Slide wasn’t written with publishing in mind, so Rare was a little surprising for me, haha. Seriously, though, Slide had to end when it did, but I knew as I wrote it that Ash and Pete’s story was far from done. I felt like I owed them their happy ending…happy by their standards, at least.
Can you tell us about Pete and Ash?
Ash is a tattoo artist from Texas. He grew up in foster care and ran away when he was fifteen. He wound up in Philadelphia where he learned his trade and met Ellie, his best friend. When Ellie moved to Chicago a few years later, he came too. Ash is shy and quiet, but brilliant at what he does, and beautiful, damaged soul.
Pete is an Italian-American, born and raised in Chicago. He’s bisexual, close to his ailing mother, Maggie, and doesn’t give a crap what anyone thinks of him. He works hard as a city paramedic and loves Ash even harder.
Are there future stories planned for them?
Possibly. I keep saying not, but recently I’ve come to think that…maybe…possibly.
Tell us a bit about yourself: Hobbies? Secret talents?
I love to cook, and eat, and fall asleep to Grey’s Anatomy, even though I know it’s a pile of crap.
Care to tell us about what you are working on next?
An angsty military novel, as yet untitled.
PETE HAD been busy while I’d been gone. I stood in front of the shiny new door to his apartment and wondered for a moment if I’d come home to the right place. Then I remembered the coarse message he’d sent me a few days ago, telling me in no uncertain terms what a bitch the new door had been to fit. A separate message—perhaps an afterthought—told me he’d left a key on top of the frame.
I reached for it and turned it over in my hand. It was silver and shiny. The old one was battered brass, bruised and familiar. It felt heavy in my pocket as I slid the new key into the lock. I considered the fate of the old key now that the door it belonged to was no longer there. Pete said I pondered the strangest things.
The new door swung open with a whisper. It felt odd after two years with a door that crunched like a gearbox. The new door was like a ghost, all shimmery and silent. I wasn’t sure I liked it.
A wry grin crept over my face. Really? Four days without Pete and you’re worried about a door? I took a tentative step forward. The door closed with a quiet click, and this time, I paid it no heed.
I glanced around the apartment. It was quiet and still. No TV, stereo, or signs of life. That was no surprise. I was a few hours early. Despite hating every moment of the flight between Chicago and Philadelphia, I’d caught an earlier plane home. Pete wasn’t expecting me, but I could feel in my bones that he was home. The invisible cord between us pulled me along, and a minute later, I found him passed out in our bed. He was asleep on his stomach, something he only did when he was alone or too tired to notice. It used to make me uneasy—sometimes it still did—but not today. Today his bare back was exactly what I needed to see. I sat down by his head and brushed my fingers over his stubbly jaw. He didn’t stir, even when I leaned down and breathed in the clean smell of his skin.
Pages or Words: 240 pages
Tour Dates/Tour Stops:
27-Jan
29-Jan
3-Feb
Because Two Men Are Better Than One
5-Feb
Wicked Wolves and Dreaming Dragons
10-Feb
12-Feb
Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words
17-Feb
19-Feb
Rafflecopter Prize: An audiobook of ‘Rare’
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Congratulates Garrett
Congrats on your audio release of Rare, Ms. Leigh 🙂 I love books on CD; they’re great for the long drives to pick up my daughter everyday after school! Thanks for the chance!