Book Name: Investigating Love (series) Individual titles are: Rasputin’s Kiss, Evil’s Embrace, Tarot’s Touch
Author Name: L M Somerton
L M lives in a small village in the English countryside, surrounded by rolling hills, cows and sheep. She started writing to fill time between jobs and is now firmly and unashamedly addicted.
She loves the English weather, especially the rain, and adores a thunderstorm. She loves good food, warm company and a crackling fire. She’s fascinated by the psychology of relationships, especially between men, and her stories contain some subtle (and not so subtle) leanings towards BDSM.
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Publisher: Totally Bound
Cover Artist: Emmy Ellis
Blurb:
SERIES:
Being thrown together in extreme circumstances is not the best foundation for a relationship. Alex and Conor must juggle the demands of their jobs as police detectives with their personal lives. With Alex as demanding in the bedroom as he is at work, will Conor be able to accept that submission is not weakness. Finding out will be the most important investigation of their lives.
Rasputin’s Kiss:
What if the last thing you felt was the kiss of a knife?
Rasputin’s kiss is lethal. He’s a ghost—killing and disappearing into the night. With few leads and four bodies on his conscience, Detective Inspector Alex Courtney and his team are running on empty and it’s only a matter of time before Rasputin strikes again.
When Alex recruits a young detective to play the part of his boyfriend and provide a tempting target for a killer, he knows he is taking a huge risk. He doesn’t expect Conor Trethuan to be a perfect potential submissive. When their mutual attraction becomes more, Alex has to face the conflict between his possessive instincts and the need to push his young lover into danger.
Investigating their feelings has to come second to investigating the case. There’s no time to decide if what they feel for each other is real. With Rasputin closing in, they may not live to find out.
Evil’s Embrace:
Never underestimate the power of obsession.
After the trauma of the Rasputin case, Detective Inspector Alex Courtney and his boyfriend, Detective Constable Conor Trethuan, are in desperate need of a holiday.
The peace and tranquillity of Cornwall can’t eradicate Conor’s nightmares, though, and the unbearable prospect of losing Alex drives him to confess feelings that he isn’t sure are reciprocated. Alex responds in the best way he knows how—by issuing orders and claiming Conor’s body as well as his heart.
Prematurely recalled to work, they are thrown into a dangerous trafficking case focused on a leather bar with a hardcore reputation, Spikes. Conor is sent in undercover, not knowing that he is only a decoy. When Alex learns that the motivation behind his team’s involvement in the case might not be as straightforward as it seems, he realises that his actions might jeopardise not just their relationship, but Conor’s life, too. A shadowy figure from Conor’s past is about to step into the light.
Tarot’s Touch:
Can truth be found in the cards?
DI Alex Courtney and his lover, DC Conor Trethuan are under enormous pressure as their team investigates an arson case and a murder.
It soon becomes apparent that the two cases are linked and the race is on to find a vicious killer. A tarot card is left with the first victim and the detectives are left to interpret the clues it provides. When Conor receives a note from the killer making reference to another card, the whole team is shaken. Their worst fears are realised when a second body is discovered, along with another tarot card.
Conor suspects he has been followed, then a hit and run leaves him injured. Alex wants nothing more than to wrap his lover up in cotton wool and protect him from the world. But is Conor the killer’s target or just a pawn in a much more sinister game? As the clues come together it seems that the motive for murder might be revenge.
Categories: Contemporary, M/M Romance, BDSM, Mystery, Crime Drama
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From ‘Evil’s Embrace’
5.
Conor was wading out of the water with a surfboard under his arm. He gave Alex a shy smile as he strolled along the beach and hoisted himself up onto the jetty to sit next to Alex. He pulled his board up after him and laid it down on the planks. Not for the first time, Alex reflected on the fact that his gorgeous boyfriend made runway models look plain—he possessed a rare masculine beauty that provoked lust in both men and women. Emerald eyes glinted from beneath dark lashes that were highlighted further by his pale skin. Diamond droplets cascaded to neoprene-clad shoulders as he ran a hand through his dark, wavy hair. His plain black wetsuit hugged the contours of his lean body and Alex had to make a conscious effort not to jump him there and then. Looking at Conor made it easy to forget everything else.
Conor nudged him. “Unzip me?”
At those words, uttered in complete innocence, Alex dug his nails into his palm in the hope that pain might dampen the fire that had ignited in his groin. “Jesus, Conor, you’re killing me here.”
“I don’t know what you mean?”
Conor batted his eyelashes coyly, making Alex growl. He caught hold of the tag at the back of Conor’s neck and slid the zip down until Conor could shrug himself free of the skin-tight material of his wetsuit.
“Thanks. I was starting to feel a little…constrained.” He licked his lips provocatively.
Alex swallowed. Conor was staring at him, not hiding the fact that he was admiring Alex’s bare chest.
“I swear you have muscles on your muscles.” Conor traced a finger across Alex’s abs.
“Bloody hell, Conor! Unless you want me to get us both arrested, keep your hands to yourself.”
Conor chuckled and lay back on the rough wooden boards of the jetty, sighing contentedly. “The sun still feels so warm, it’s like a caress.”
“Hey! No accepting caresses from anything but me, or there’ll be trouble.”
Alex looked down at Conor, wincing as he had so many times before, as he caught sight of the scar lines that criss-crossed the top of Conor’s smooth chest. They no longer looked angry and red, they had healed remarkably well in fact, but knowing how they had been gained never failed to make Alex cringe inside. The lines that remained would never go away. He looked down into the water, trying to follow the movements of tiny silvery fish as they darted around his feet.
“I thought we’d agreed that you would stop blaming yourself, Alex?”
Alex sighed. Conor had his eyes closed but Alex still knew what was going through his head.
“I’m here, I’m alive and the scars remind me every day that I am lucky to be that way. Lucky to have you.”
“I don’t deserve you.” Alex rubbed his fingers over some rough barnacles attached to the edge of the jetty.
“You’d never suspect that barnacles are the species with the longest penis, relative to body size, in the world, would you?”
Alex jerked his fingers away from the tiny, immobile shells as Conor continued, “If a barnacle were a man, his dick would be fifty to sixty feet long—can you imagine dealing with that every day?”
“That’s… That’s just terrifying. I’m never going near another one of those things again!” Alex lay back next to Conor. “Nice way to change the subject. Don’t think I didn’t notice.” Their bare shoulders touched and Alex had to take a few deep breaths to control himself. Being close to Conor inevitably made him want to touch. He managed to resist, and the pair of them dozed in the remains of the sun, comfortable in the quiet.
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