A warm Love Bytes welcome to author R.J Scott visting Love Bytes on her blog tour for her new release Angel in a Book Shop
She talks about Christmas decorations offers an excerpt and there is also a giveaway to nice prizes to enter!
Welcome R.J !
Angel In a Book Shop
What happens when a broken man has to trust in the impossible?
Chapter One, an antique book shop is the last tangible thing Josh and his mom have left of his dad. Nestled in a quiet square a few steps from London’s St Pauls Cathedral, it is boarded up with whitewashed windows and no new stock. The place is a sad reminder of loss and it has to go, but destroying a business that has been in his family for generations is not a role Josh is looking forward to.
Michael is the owner of Arts Desire, the shop next door. With his rainbow pride mugs and his sunny positive outlook he is the complete opposite to what Joshua thinks he needs in his life.
But, when Josh and Michael become friends, Josh learns that finding true love starts with making big decisions, and that everyone deserves their own Christmas miracle sometimes.
I also adore lights, both outdoor and indoor. I love people that decorate their houses and so does our son who likes to be driven around town looking for the best houses. And beautifully lit trees are my happy place.
Decorations in Shopping Centres also get me in the Christmas spirit, specially when there are huge waterfalls of lights.
And who can forget handmade decorations from the kids.I have a couple from B and Matt and I put them on the tree every year. Our tree isn’t all done in one colour, it’s all colours and type and things to decorate it.
Do you like trees and lights?
Josh shoved open the door. There was even more junk mail on the floor, and he set about sorting the trash from the important stuff.
Most of it was money-off pizza vouchers or invitations to partake of a myriad different experiences from nail care to offers of a “discreet escort” kind.
The latter made him laugh. Right now, what he needed was someone to hug it all out, not someone to bury himself in so he could forget. He and sex were not friends at the moment. Hell, he wasn’t even managing any late-night activity with his laptop and access to as much porn as he could watch.
Part of it was because he was sharing a place with Mum. Well, not sharing so much. Living rent-free in the only place his mum had left to her name. And thank God it had been in her name and not in the trust, because he’d have fucked her over with that as well.
“Stop it. Now.”
And now he was imagining voices that were angry with him. Talk about life shitting on him from a great height. Why couldn’t he imagine nice things like singing or unicorns?
He put the leaflets in a black sack for recycling, then turned his attention to the rest of the post. A lot of it was duplicates, reminders for unpaid bills that he had cleared online since he’d had time on his hands. He’d used every single penny of his meagre savings to pay everyone. Gas, electric, water, council, everything was up to date. He’d sold his house to make sure Mum never found out what he’d done, but that was a different story altogether.
“Stop. It.”
The three remaining letters looked more interesting. He’d half read the first one when his door opened, bringing with it an icy gust of wind. He couldn’t help a smile when he saw Michael with the two mugs. Not paper cups, but proper mugs with the requisite rainbow. Today Michael wasn’t wearing a suit or a tie or a pristine shirt. He looked very handsome in tidy black pants and a button-down.
“I can make different coffees,” Michael offered. “That machine can do all kinds of things with milk, but I brought you what I did yesterday.”
“Plain old coffee,” Josh said. He took the drink gratefully and sipped it before cupping it with his hands and allowing the heat to warm him. He’d fiddled with the heating and got it to a respectable level, but he was still chilled inside.
“How is inventory going?” Michael glanced down at the letter on the desk and back up to Josh’s face.
“I brought boxes.” Josh was utterly determined not to come off as someone who didn’t know what the hell he was doing. “And my laptop.”
“Can I help?”
“I’m okay.”
“I’d like to help.”
“I promise you I can manage.” Josh heard the edge in his own voice. Michael’s words had felt like an accusation, and Josh’s veneer of English politeness had slipped in return.
RJ Scott has been writing since age six, when she was made to stay in at lunchtime for an infraction involving cookies. She was told to write a story and two sides of paper about a trapped princess later, a lover of writing was born.
As an avid reader herself, she can be found reading anything from thrillers to sci-fi to horror. However, her first real true love will always be the world of romance where she takes cowboys, bodyguards, firemen and billionaires (to name a few) and writes dramatic and romantic stories of love and passion between these men.
With over sixty titles to her name and counting, she is the author of the award winning book, The Christmas Throwaway. She is also known for the Texas series charting the lives of Riley and Jack, and the Sanctuary series following the work of the Sanctuary Foundation and the people it protects.
Her goal is to write stories with a heart of romance, a troubled road to reach happiness, and most importantly, that hint of a happily ever after.
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Josh drinks plain old coffee. I really enjoyed the excerpt. The book sounds great. Thanks for the giveaway!
On my way to buy the book, loved the excerpt. Josh drinks plain old coffee.
He drinks coffee. Thanks for the giveaway and congrats on the new release!
Coffee! thanks for the chance!
Coffee 🙂
Plain old coffee 🙂 definitely will be adding this book soon.
He drinks coffee (and both guys sound adorable)!
He drinks coffee
He goes with Plain old coffee. 😀