Title: Falling for Him
Author: CL Mustafic
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: April 17
Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male, Male/Female/Male (No Male/Male interaction)
Length: 116000
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Synopsis
Doctor Gavin Addison’s marriage didn’t end on the friendliest of terms, and his estranged wife’s continual harassment has the local police visiting his home so often they’ve started calling him “the doc.” One of those cops, Officer Lex Turner, has a crush on the handsome doc, even though he knows there’s no chance the doc would ever consider dating a man.
A chance encounter on a crowded dance floor ends with both men in the same bed with the same woman—but with questionable results. When the doc wants to try that again, Lex becomes more involved than he’d dreamed possible as he helps his new friend navigate the kinkier side of sex. Knowing it’s just sex for Gavin, Lex finds it hard to keep his feelings hidden. But when Gavin finally figures out he has feelings for Lex that go beyond what a guy should feel for his buddy, will he let Lex convince him to take a chance with him—even if it turns both their lives upside down?
What’s the one thing, you can’t live without?
I know you want me to say my computer or something so I can write but I’m going with wine. Make of that what you will.
What internet site do you surf to the most?
Probably Facebook. I’m not proud of that but it’s true. I can get lost in a Facebook spiral, following links until I find myself looking a pictures of people in Wal-Mart and wondering where the heck the last four hours of my life just went.
If you had your own talk show, who would your first three author guests be and why?
You do realize this is like asking me to pick a favorite out of my kids right? Stephen King because his books are what made me fall in love with reading and I just think he’s cool. Santino Hassell because his In the Company of Shadows series were the first MM stories I read and he broke my heart so I’d like to rake him over the coals about that. And finally since it’s my show and I get to use it for my own selfish purposes, I’d ask Christina Quinn because she told me she’d return the favor if she had her own talk show and I’m all about scratching backs. Plus she’s one of the only romance writers who’s ever written a female character who doesn’t make me want to get out my baseball bat.
When you got your very first manuscript acceptance letter, what was your initial reaction and who was the first person you told?
My initial reaction was, ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe someone actually wants my book!’. I then proceeded to hyperventilate a little because, what the heck had I just gotten myself into? I told my son who was sitting on the couch next to me. He fist bumped me and told me good job.
Falling for Him
CL Mustafic © 2017
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“How much paperwork we got tonight?” Grady asked. He turned on his computer and started digging through his desk drawer, looking for god knows what.
“Not too much. Gotta finish up that report on the doc’s vandalism, and you need to write up that accident report. Then we can get back out there for another fun-filled night,” Lex said, making Grady wrinkle his nose.
“That damn woman makes for a lot of fucking paperwork. I’ve got half a mind to handcuff her to her water heater and forget her,” Grady said with a smirk for his own cocky bravado. “Don’t know how a nice guy like the doc got mixed up with a crazy bitch like that.”
Lex sat back in his chair. That was the question, wasn’t it? The doc seemed like a decent enough guy. Why his ex, one Cassandra Addison, would want to make the poor guy’s life hell was beyond Lex. It was even more fucked up when you added in the fact that, from what Lex had gathered, she’d cheated on him. He just hoped they wouldn’t end up with a Fatal Attraction–type ending with this case.
“Yeah, well, sometimes they hide the crazy until they have you in their clutches; then, bam presto chango, psycho chick is in your bed, and you’re fucked in more ways than one,” Lex said.
“Sounds like you got some experience in that area.”
“Don’t we all?”
Grady’s gaze shifted to something over Lex’s shoulder. “Speak of the devil,” Grady whispered.
Lex turned around, hoping that Cassandra Addison was not, in fact, standing behind him. Nope, not the bitch, but Gavin was, and he didn’t look thrilled to be in Lex’s humble workplace. Lex cast an appreciative look over the handsome doctor. He was one fine-looking man, with blond hair that curled wispily around his head and those deep-brown eyes, where you expected to see crystal blue, got Lex every time. Gavin had the greatest smile, and the dimples that peeked out at the slightest grin made Lex want to dip his tongue in them. He shook his head to clear away the thoughts of what he would like to do to the doc, if the doc was so inclined, that was.
“You got him, Grady. You know you’re better with this kind of crap.” He didn’t tell Grady that he got tongue-tied around Gavin and was afraid he’d make a fool of himself.
Grady stood up, smiled, and gestured for Gavin to take a seat by his desk. “Hey there, Doc, what’s up today?” he asked as if Gavin’s was a social visit.
Color rose on Gavin’s cheeks as he flushed a little before answering. Lex was glad he was sitting at his desk because the doc blushing like that did things to his body that weren’t acceptable in polite company. “There’s been another incident. I can’t be one hundred percent sure she did this, but I can’t think of anyone else who would want to humiliate me so much.”
“So what did she do this time?” Grady asked, “Or allegedly do?”
Gavin handed Grady a little slip of paper. “If you punch that into your web browser, you can see for yourself.” Grady took the paper and turned to his computer to type in the web address. He waited a second, and when Grady’s brow furrowed at what he saw on the screen, Gavin’s blush deepened. Lex itched to see what was on that screen but stayed in his seat.
“Why do you want me to look at your personal ad?” Grady asked.
“Because I didn’t post it, and that little sticky note was stuck to a computer at the nurse’s station on the fourth floor surgical unit where I happen to do rounds every morning. Everyone at the hospital now thinks I’m some kind of kinky pervert,” Gavin explained, visibly upset.
Lex had to see what was on Grady’s screen. He got up to look at his partner’s computer. He instantly understood why the doc had turned pink when he handed over the little piece of paper. Lex shook his head; that woman was pure evil.
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CL Mustafic is a born and bred American mid-westerner who mysteriously ended up living in one of those countries nobody can ever find on the map of Europe. Left with too much time on her hands—let’s be honest here: it was the lack of television channels in her native language–and too many voices in her head trying to fill the silence, she decided to give her life-long dream of writing a novel a shot. So now, between shuttling kids back and forth from various activities and risking her life on the insanely narrow, busy streets of her new hometown, she loses herself in her own made-up world where love always wins.
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This book sounds great. A crazy ex always adds fun to a book.