Today we have over at Love bytes author Heloise West answering some questions for us on her new release sharing an excerpt and there is a giveaway to participate in 🙂
Welcome Heloise !
Book Name: Hitting Black Ice
Author Name: Heloise West
Heloise West, when not hunched over the keyboard plotting love and mayhem, dreams about moving to a villa in Tuscany. She loves history, mysteries, and romance of all flavors. She travels and gardens with her partner of 10 years, and their home overflows with books, cats, art, and red wine.
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Publisher: Loose ID
Cover Artist: Syneca Featherstone
Blurb:
ER physician’s assistant Hunter guards his heart carefully, but that doesn’t stop him from falling for Shawn, the front desk clerk. He keeps his distance from relationships for a reason, but just can’t help himself when it comes to Shawn.
Shawn is on the run from the law and love to protect himself and anyone else involved. One man is dead because of him, and his life now is simple and easily thrown into a bag at any hint of danger. Until he meets Hunter, and he no longer wants to run.
Forced into a hostage situation, buried passion explodes in the aftermath, and sex in the supply closet brings their hearts back to life. Tentatively, step by step, they begin to explore a relationship together until the past catches up with Shawn.
FBI agent Nick Truman has finally found his man, but when Shawn escapes, he focuses his attention on Hunter. Shawn returns, even though it means sacrificing himself to save Hunter from the man who framed him for murder.
Categories: Contemporary, Crime Fiction, M/M Romance, Mystery, Romance
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It was nine o’clock. They’d long lost the reservation. Hunter turned away from the warm lights of the restaurant, heart heavy. Shawn was too good to be true. For all he knew, he had a problem like Jerry’s, who’d often left him waiting, wondering, and ultimately fearing as dinner sat cold on the table. He gave in and took a step toward home.
“Hunter!”
He whipped around.
Shawn rushed toward him. He slipped on the snowy sidewalk, nearly going down, but Hunter ran at him, and they crashed together so hard his teeth clicked. Shawn’s arms went around him and his around Shawn, and they managed to hold each other up.
“I’m sorry,” were the first words out of Shawn’s mouth.
“All you deserve is pizza crusts,” Hunter mock-growled and kissed him, unconsciously trying to taste booze on his breath. Like Jerry and too many broken promises. Relieved it was only peppermint mouthwash, he didn’t stop kissing him.
When Hunter let him speak, Shawn said, “I’m starving, I’ll take it.” He pushed Hunter a little away from him. “Jesus. You’re freezing.”
“And starving. There’s a Greek pizza place down this way, come on—”
“I’ll make it up to you,” he said, taking Hunter’s hand.
How did you come up with the plot for Hitting Black Ice?
I love mystery and suspense, and that’s what my default seems to be these days. My process usually starts with a single image, and this one was dark, as one character was trying to talk the other out of suicide in the winter woods. Once I started asking why, they started giving me answers. Those answers change as the story moves on, but they are still an essential part of the plot. As far as coming up with a plot, it’s all pantsing my way through it and keeping notes as I go.
What inspired you to write your first book?
Everything. I mean, I call my muse the Angel in the Pit and who seems to absorb everything that either depresses or inspires me. At the same time I was working on HBI, I was also working on a romance/mystery set in the renaissance. This was the first M/M romance I completed, and it’s on submission. But my first completed novel is a mainstream medieval mystery series that has gone into hibernation for a bit. Wait, did I answer the question?
Tell us about yourself, is writing new for you?
I’ve always written. I published a handful of short stories in the late 90s, but I don’t think short story writing is my medium, I really don’t.
What was the challenging part about writing this book? The easiest part?
I gave up on it twice. I wrote myself into a corner and put it away for awhile. Then I gave it a really wimpy ending, but a writer friend shoved me toward the real ending.
The easiest part is when the scenes just unfold in my head, making me forget to eat. If the SO didn’t come home, me and the cats would starve.
What is your favorite genre to read?
Mystery and suspense, but especially historical. And M/M romance, of course, but I do love almost anything in that genre that is historical or has a mystery involved.
Do you have a new book in the works? Can you tell us about it?
Well, Hitting Black Ice has a sequel whose working title is “Send Lawyers, Guns, and Roses.” I’m sending my guys on vacation ala “Key Largo.”
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Rafflecopter Prize: E-Copy of ‘Hitting Black Ice’
Congrats! I can’t wait to read this book!
Congrats on the new book Heloise!
Congratulations! This looks like a good one 🙂
Congratulations! It’s an exciting premise!
Congrats on the new book!
I can’t wait to read this book:) Congratulations!
Congratulations! Sounds like a great book.