Blog Tour: Exclusive Excerpt & Giveaway Sandrine Casq-Dion - Fret

A warm welcome to author Sandrine Casq-Dion visiting Love bytes today to share an exclusive excerpt of new upcoming release “Fret”.
Sandrine also brought with her a giveaway !
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Title: Fret

Author: Sandrine Gasq-Dion

Cover Artist: Kellie Dennis

Length: 48,000 words

Release Date: September 01, 2015

Blurb:

Former Navy SEAL Axel Blaze lives a solitary life. He doesn’t do emotions, and he doesn’t do babysitting. Used to being on his own, his job consists of Wetwork (a charming term coined by the KGB) for his former Master Chief, Mac. When an out-of-the-ordinary job lands on his doorstep, Axel heads down a path that includes a famous heavy metal rock band and one quiet, vulnerable, guitar-shredding virtuoso named Gareth Wolf.

Gareth Wolf’s life changed in an instant when a car he was a passenger in crashed, hurting his brother’s best friend and the band’s lead guitarist. They created the band, Skull Blasters, as kids. Gareth had always been happy in the background, playing roadie. With the lead guitarist’s injury, Gareth is suddenly thrust into the limelight and into a frenzied life he never imagined for himself. Finally fed up with living a lie, Gareth comes out as gay in a newspaper interview and finds himself in the bulls-eye of a crazed stalker. Somebody wants Gareth hurt – or worse – and Mac has been hired to be sure that doesn’t happen. Babysitting duty is NOT Axel’s strong suit, but Mac won’t be budged.

Enter Axel Blaze. Against his better judgment, the big man takes the job to protect the shy musician. The more time he spends with Gareth Wolf, the more he admires the man. Where’s a simple assassination when you need one? The situation becomes more volatile for each man as the attempts on Gareth escalate just as Axel finds himself falling for the quiet lead guitarist.

Strong, funny, smart-ass — and kinda sweet Axel is everything Gareth has ever wanted in a man. Too bad he’s off limits. As the stalker grows bolder, Gareth and Axel move closer emotionally – but is it too late? All Axel knows is that they don’t stand a chance if he can’t find the maniac trying to kill the man he’s come to care about. A lot.

Everyone knows that relationships that begin in pressured or volatile situations eventually fizzle out.

Or do they?

I caught him checking out the place more than once since we arrived, though. He was still in bodyguard mode. By midnight, we were headed to Denny’s; it was a tradition. The waitress brought a pot of coffee and Axel reclined in the booth to watch the front door.

“What’ll you boys have?”

“Can I get pancakes?” I asked.

“Sweetie, you can have whatever you want,” she replied with a wink.

“Barking up the wrong tree,” Rebel whispered as the waitress sashayed away.

“Shut it, Rebel.” I threw a packet of sugar at him.

“They don’t know you’re gay?” Axel asked in surprise.

“I’m pretty sure most people know. I can’t say everybody knows.”

“If you read The Inquisitor, Gareth here is having sex with the prince,” Jinx provided.

“Which one?” Axel asked, eyebrow raised.

“Who knows?” I threw my hands up. “I’m also doing half the West Coast.”

“And some of Long Island,” Ransom piped up.

Best-selling author, Sandrine (Sandy) was born in Inglewood, California. Raised by “Old School” French parents, she later moved to Tucson, AZ. It was there that writing became a hobby. Always told she had a great imagination, Sandy wrote short stories for her friends in High School. In college, she took more writing classes while working on her Criminal Justice degree, but it wasn’t until a soap opera caught her eye that she got involved in male on male romances. On the advice of a friend, Sandy dipped her toes into the world of M/M Romance. Sandy takes the writing seriously and has had countless conversations with gay men as well as hours of research. She’s been involved with the military in one way or another for over twenty years, and has a great deal of respect for our men in uniform. She’s traveled the world, but has finally returned to Arizona.