A warm welcome to author K.A Mitchell joining us today here @ Love bytes to talk about her new Dreamspinner Press release “Take a Chance on it”
I’m so excited to talk about Take a Chance on It; thank you very much for the opportunity! Take a Chance on It is the third book of my Ready or Knot series. The series is about a group of friends who find their lives changing after the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage. It was originally supposed to be the fourth book, but like any good story, it demanded to be told, plans be damned. At the outset, one of my main characters, Dane, gets left at the altar by his long-time lover. Maybe someday, I’ll tell the story of why Spencer left Dane, but today, I want to share with you the immediate aftermath.
Love is complicated. Take a Chance on It is a story with a lot of angst, but I’m extremely happy with it, and hopefully you’ll be, too.
Gideon slipped out of the dining room into the hallway, shutting the French doors behind him. Not that there was a raucous party to bleed through it, but he’d rather keep the witnesses to a minimum if he took another swing at Spencer.
Before he could make his way to the room where he’d reluctantly left Dane, Spencer shot out of it like a man released from prison. Though Gideon never straightened or moved from his vantage point at the doors to the reception hall, Spencer saw him and shifted his course to intercept. If this was going to be payback for the black eye, Gideon was ready. He’d even let him get one shot in. Then Spencer better bring his A game.
Spencer stopped an inch from Gideon’s folded arms. “So. I guess you win now.”
It had never been a contest. Dane hadn’t given Gideon a chance to make it into one. He’d have settled for Dane being okay. If Spencer was what Dane needed to get through this, Gideon had been ready with the ring. Even now, if Dane came out here and told Gideon he still wanted Spencer, Gideon would find a way to make the fucker stick around.
Gideon arranged his features as if he were contemplating Spencer’s words. “Think you have it backwards. You lose.”
“Do you have any idea of what it’s been like?”
To watch Dane in love with someone else? Yeah, Gideon had that covered.
“I mean, to see him suffer,” Spencer went on.
Suffering was part of living. Sometimes it was all there was to living, but the other alternative was worse. Gideon didn’t move.
“I love him. But I can’t.” Spencer’s voice was matter-of-fact.
So the hero photojournalist who dove into civilian unrest and war zones to get dramatic shots was a big fucking coward. Gideon wanted to lay that out for him, but that might make Spencer decide to stick around to prove Gideon wrong. He stared Spencer down and shrugged.
Gideon saw a shadow against the glass doors leading back onto the pier. “Big sis is waiting to make sure I don’t take another swing at you. You pressing charges?”
Spencer swiped at his lip. “No.”
“Dane will move in with one of us.”
“With you, you mean.”
Gideon shrugged. “Someone will come pack up clothes and whatever else he needs.”
“His insurance expires Monday.”
“We’ll take care of it.”
Spencer’s sister stuck her head in. “Are you ready?”
Spencer turned and left without another word.
Gideon watched a gull make a desperate chase for something the wind blew across the wooden boards of the pier, wished the poor feathered fucker luck, and then made his way down the hall to check on Dane.
Left at the altar by his long-time lover Spencer and in desperate need of quality health insurance, now, Dane Archer can’t say no when his best man and best friend Gideon DeLuca steps in. But Dane and Gideon have history, tangled and passionate and complicated.
After seventeen years of cat-and-mouse, Gideon has realized Dane isn’t the kind of man who ever wants to be caught, and he’s stopped playing Dane’s game.
For Dane, it’s never been a game, but sexual fidelity isn’t his strong suit. Love is too beautiful for limits, something he’s never been able to get Gideon the control freak to understand. Now Dane has nothing but limits, including the timeline on this paper-only marriage to Gideon.
Gideon’s the only person Dane trusts enough to lean on, and Gideon will do anything to get Dane through this crisis. Anything but fall for Dane again.
Living together forces Dane and Gideon to stop circling and face what’s been between them all these years. They just don’t know if they have the power or the time to make things right.
What they do know is that they’re not ready for it to be over.
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K.A. Mitchell discovered the magic of writing at an early age when she learned that a carefully crayoned note of apology sent to the kitchen in a toy truck would earn her a reprieve from banishment to her room. She never stopped making stuff up and was pleased to find out that people would pay her to do it. Over twenty books later, she’s still in love with writing. Reviewers and readers alike have called her a “gateway drug” to gay romance. Although the men in her stories usually carry more emotional baggage than even LAX can lose in a year, she guarantees they always find their sexy way to a happy ending.