Blog Tour: Guestpost & Giveaway Xen Sanders – Shatterproof

A warm welcome to author Xen Sanders joining us today on their blog tour for new release “Shatterproof”.
Xen shares with us a special post sharing a love letter between both main characters.
There is also a Riptide giveaway to participate in!
Welcome Xen 🙂

Hey there. I’m Xen Sanders, and thank you for joining me for the release of Shatterproof! (I will have you know that exclamation point was under duress. Grr. I am grrr and dour and deadpan man-thing. Really.)
I’m immensely grateful that some of my favorite blogs have opened their doors and given me an opportunity to talk about a book that means so much to me, and that comes from so much personal experience. Stick around to chat, ask questions, and join in the discussion for a chance to win a $30 Riptide gift card and a $25 Amazon or B&N gift card! (@*$%!#ing exclamation points…)

Love letter between Grey and Saint.

Grey to Saint:

I need you to know that it’s okay. It’s okay if you need to look the other way. It’s okay if sometimes you don’t know the words. It’s okay if you don’t want to hold me too tight, because then it will be harder to let go. I just hope you don’t mind if I hold you all the tighter for it, to be close to you for what time I have left. My warmth is your warmth. My breath is your breath. I don’t know how I came to love you this way, and maybe the spell you’ve cast over me is something born not of my heart but of the magic in your veins. I don’t want to believe that. I’ve spent my life knowing how to recognize and capture passion in a glance and the stroke of a brush, and what I recognize in myself when I look at you is something beyond any enchantment’s false touch.

You don’t have to love me, Saint. It will be easier if you don’t. Your curse is, to me, a gift, and I can’t stand the idea of returning that gift with pain.

I love you enough not to care that you don’t love me.

I just wish I loved myself enough to stay.

-Grey

Saint to Grey, on pages stained with smeared, running ink:

You fucking idiot.

What makes you think I haven’t loved you all along?

-S

About Shatterproof

 

Saint’s afraid to die. Grey can’t stand to live.

 

Grey Jean-Marcelin wants to die. He thought painting his passion—vivid portrayals of Haitian life and vodou faith—would be enough to anchor him to this world. But it isn’t. And when the mysterious man known only as Saint saves Grey from a suicide attempt, it’s more curse than blessing—until Grey discovers that Saint isn’t just an EMT. He’s a banished fae, and can only survive by draining the lives of those he loves.

 

All Saint needed was a simple bargain: one life willingly given for another. But as Saint’s feelings for Grey grow deeper, centuries of guilt leave him desperate to save a man who doesn’t want salvation, even if Grey’s life means Saint’s death.

 

When Grey’s depression consumes him, only he can decide if living is worth the struggle. Yet his choice may come too late to save his life . . . or Saint’s soul. And whatever choice he makes, it may shatter them both.

 

Purchase at Riptide , Amazon

About Xen Sanders

 

Xen Sanders is a New Orleans-born Southern boy without the Southern accent, currently residing somewhere in the metropolitan wilds of the American Midwest. He spends his days as a suit-and-tie corporate consultant and business writer, and his nights writing genre-bending science fiction and fantasy tinged with a touch of horror and flavored by the influences of his multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual background—when he’s not being tackled by two hyperactive cats. He wavers between calling himself bisexual and calling himself queer, but no matter what word he uses, he’s a staunch advocate of LGBTQIA representation and visibility in genre fiction.

 

He also writes contemporary romance and erotica as Cole McCade. And while he spends more time than is healthy hiding in his writing cave instead of hanging around social media, you can generally find him in these usual haunts:

• Email: [email protected] • Twitter: @thisblackmagic • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xen.cole • Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/ColeMcCadeBooks • Website & Blog: http://www.blackmagicblues.com

 

He’s recently launched the Speak Project, an online open-access platform where anyone can anonymously or openly share or read stories of abuse—a way for survivors to overcome the silencing tactics of abusers to speak out against what was done to them, and let other survivors know they’re not alone.

• http://blackmagicblues.com/speak/

 

He also runs an advice column called Dammit, Cole, where he occasionally answers questions about everything from romance and dating to the culture of hypermasculinity, from the perspective of a male romance author:

• http://www.blackmagicblues.com/category/dammit-cole/

 

Looking for more? You can get early access to cover reveals, blurbs, contests, and other exclusives by joining the McCade’s Marauders street team at: • http://www.facebook.com/groups/mccadesmarauders/

 

To celebrate the release of Shatterproof, one lucky winner will receive $30 Riptide Credit and a $25 gift card to B&N or Amazon. Leave a comment with your contact info to enter the contest. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on September 10, 2016. Contest is NOT restricted to U.S. entries. Thanks for following the tour, and don’t forget to leave your contact info!