Today we have visiting author Louise Lyons stopping by on her blog tour for her new release “In Darkest Peru”.
She stops by for a talk about choices you make , shares an excerpt with us and there is a giveaway to participate in.
Welcome Louise!
Synopsis
Shy and geeky Rhys White, has recently been ditched by his boyfriend of five years. On top of that he’s been made redundant from his job as a computer programmer.
Tired of being boring and unadventurous, he throws caution to the winds and buys a plane ticket to Peru.
Rhys’ adventure in Peru starts out well, but then disaster strikes. All of his belongings are stolen. Everything is gone,passport, wallet, phone, clothing, the lot.
Stranded in Cuzco, not too far from the famous Machu Picchu, Rhys tries to find someone to help him. He’s about to give up, when a sexy Brazilian named Rafael, comes to his rescue.
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A Choice That Shaped Who I Am
One of the first big decisions I made in my life was probably my worst choice, but at the time it seemed like the best one. We can all say that in hindsight and I’m sure many people have made a similar decision for the same reasons.
As a teenager, I couldn’t wait to leave home. I had an extremely overbearing and Victorian father who would not listen to any opinion I expressed, no matter what it was. For instance, I wanted to go to university and study with the idea of perhaps becoming a weather researcher or someone who investigated volcanos or something of that nature. My school did not provide for suitable courses which I could take to achieve uni entry, and from a father who had spent the past 10 years telling everyone I would go to university, he then refused to listen that I wanted to move to a different school in order to achieve that. The result? I graduated with only one subject with a poor grade because I thought there was no point. There would have been other options, obviously, but at 16, how are you supposed to know that when your parent won’t give you direction, only rules and laying down the law, and your school is too large with too few teachers, who don’t have the time to help their pupils? So basically, the minute I finished school, I found a job answering someone’s phone, which I loathed, and the most unsuitable man I could possibly meet─a loser with no job who lived with his parents. A person my father hated, who I moved in with after 6 weeks for the sole reason of getting away from home.
Needless to say, it didn’t go well. The boyfriend was violent and even under his parents’ roof, I had nowhere to turn, because he’d picked up his behaviour from seeing his father beat his mother. They didn’t care what went on between us and it took 2 years, 10 months, and the Samaritans to help me get out, because my own father disowned me the minute I left home. So I had no support there either and no friends because I’d cast them aside due to the boyfriend’s possessiveness.
What people who have been through similar cycles of abuse often don’t tell you, is that walking out the door isn’t the end of it. After I left the violent boyfriend, I spent months looking after my shoulder, and following that went off the rails for maybe 2-3 years. Somehow I maintained a good job, but my personal turned life turned wild and occasionally dangerous with some of my antics. I was desperate for attention and proper love, and looking in all the wrong places for it.
When I eventually did find a decent man, things calmed down and I found happiness and married, but I’ve no doubt that the early years shaped who I am and made me make further foolish decisions afterward.
I have a new novel coming out later this year, entitled “Beyond The Scars” which focuses on a young man who went through those experiences I’ve been through, so despite a lousy decision that shaped the rest of my life, something positive came from it in the end.
Rhys was tempted to join Rafael in the shower, but he couldn’t make himself move from the bed, as weak as he was from his orgasm. He lay still, catching his breath, with a happy smile on his face. Who would have thought the initial disaster his trip had been would turn out like this?
Rafael emerged from the bathroom a few minutes later, his dark skin glistening with droplets of water which he hadn’t bothered to dry off. Rhys stared unashamedly as a tiny rivulet formed in the middle of Rafael’s chest and traveled quickly down his torso, eventually disappearing into his bush of black pubic hair. Rhys unconsciously licked his lips and Rafael laughed.
“You look like you want me for breakfast.”
“I want a photograph of you,” Rhys blurted. “If that’s okay.”
“So you can remember me? Sure. You want it like this?” Rafael winked and stood still in the middle of the room.
“Hmm…yeah.” Rhys rolled to the side of the bed and picked up Rafael’s phone from the top of the cabinet. He opened the camera function and took three shots of Rafael; one close up of his face and two of his whole body, wet and sexy and beautiful. Rafael dried his hands and took the phone from Rhys.
“My turn.”
“Oh, no, Rafael, I’m not very photogenic,” Rhys protested. He felt his face flush.
“Not very…?” Rafael’s brow wrinkled into a puzzled frown. “You are very hot. I want a picture to remember. You have three.”
“Okay, then. If you insist.” Rhys fiddled with his hair, hoping it wasn’t too messy from sleeping and fucking. Then he arranged himself on one side, his head propped up on his hand. “Go on, then, I’m ready.”
Rafael took a single picture and Rhys reminded himself to email the photos of the Brazilian to himself later. Then he took his turn in the shower while Rafael got dressed.
Louise Lyons comes from a family of writers. Her mother has a number of poems published in poetry anthologies, her aunt wrote poems for the Church, and her grandmother sparked her inspiration with tales of fantasy. Louise first ventured into writing short stories at the grand old age of eight, mostly about little girls and ponies. She branched into romance in her teens, and MM romance a few years later, but none of her work saw the light of day until she discovered Fan Fiction in her late twenties.
Posting stories based on some of her favorite movies, provoked a surprisingly positive response from readers. This gave Louise the confidence to submit some of her work to publishers, and made her take her writing “hobby” more seriously.
Louise lives in the UK, about an hour north of London, with a mad Dobermann, and a collection of tropical fish and tarantulas. She works in the insurance industry by day, and spends every spare minute writing. She is a keen horse-rider, and loves to run long distance. Some of her best writing inspiration comes to her, when her feet are pounding the open road. She often races into the house afterward, and grabs pen and paper to make notes.
Louise has always been a bit of a tomboy, and one of her other great loves is cars and motorcycles. Her car and bike are her pride and joy, and she loves to exhibit the car at shows, and take off for long days out on the bike, with no one for company but herself.
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$20 WIP Gift Card
$5 Amazon Gift Card
1 x eBook copy of In Darkest Peru
1 x eBook copy of Conflicted or�Second Bite of the Cherry (winner’s choice)