A warm welcome to author A.E. Via joining us today to celebrate the release of Promises Part 4 , the 4th book in her succesfull bounty hunters series.
A.E shares an exclusive excerpt with us and brough with her a giveaway for our readers!
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Author A.E. Via
Title: Promises Part 4
Series: Bounty Hunters Series Book Four
Edited by: Sue Laybourn
Cover Artist – Jay Aheer
PAGE COUNT – 395
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Synopsis:
Men found him attractive, interesting even. He was like a fascinating experiment gone wrong that men liked to investigate. He’d get a date – or two, if he was lucky – but it wasn’t long before Brian’s darkness showed, and the men were running from him.
Brian King was honorably discharged from the United States Navy five years ago. He’d left with the highest honors a man can receive in his country, but he’d paid the ultimate price to earn them. He was considered one of the best; an Intelligence Officer in a Joint Special Operations Delta team that’d been a twelve-man wrecking crew. They’d thought they were invincible… until they weren’t. Brian was the only member that survived the ambush. He survived ten months of pain, of torture, only to emerge on the other side a warrior. A POW survivor. He’d returned home with all his limbs, his right mind, and with his only brother Ford, at his side. But, one thing had been lost, maybe for good… his voice.
Now, being a bounty hunter is Brian’s only means to satisfy his need to calculate, track, and capture. His only outlet to the stress caused by his silence. He was good at what he did. But, all work and no play for a forty-four year old man was taking its toll. Brian wasn’t a faulty experiment. He missed companionship, he missed communicating. So, when he met Sway Hamilton – in the most unconventional means – he’d been surprised at his special way of understanding Brian’s every look… and touch.
Sway grew up in the rough part of ATL, trailing behind his twin brother Stanton and his best friend, Dana. He and his brother had a bond only twins could understand. So when Stanton’s life was taken during their sophomore year in college, Sway didn’t think he’d ever recover. He finally finished school, got his masters in nursing, worked hard, and focused on taking care of his mother. However, Sway knew there was more to life than heartache, and caring for others. There had to be. But he didn’t know what any of those things were until he met a dark hunter that blew his mind… and the intense man had never uttered a single word.
Brian and Sway can feel the powerful connection between them. It was there from the start—but both of them have battled with loss and anguish for so long, neither understand that love can ease all of it. Do they have the courage to battle through it together? Sway has to learn to trust in love, and Brian has to believe that Sway will always understand him even if he never speaks again.
Sway held him tight around his neck, “I don’t need you to talk, Brian. I can hear you just fine,” Sway whispered softly, kissing his throat.
This novel is a part of a series but can be read as a standalone. No cliffhangers.
Trigger Warning: This story contains acts of bond recovery agent violence. Mention of war zones and descriptions of war prisoners. This story DOES NOT contain overly-described acts of torture.
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When the waitress walked away, Sway brought his attention back to Brian to find himself the sole focus of those dark eyes.
Please don’t look at me like that. Sway was having a hard enough time keeping his erection under control. His pants only allowed for so much extra growth.
“Thank you for doing that. Where’d you learn how to sign?”
“My one and only aunt is hearing impaired. She’s my mom’s twin.” Sway chuckled, with no humor behind it. “Twins run in the blood.”
Brian nodded.
“Anyway. She lived around the corner from us, so she was always around. My mom learned to speak to her sister and I wanted to know how to too. That was when I was kid.” Sway shrugged as if the rest was history. “Don’t laugh if I mix up a word. I might be a tad rusty.”
Sway bit his bottom lip, wondering if his next question was stupid, but he wanted to know more. “Where did you learn?”
Brian had the best poker face Sway had ever seen. If the question bothered him, he showed no sign of discomfort, not even a jaw clench. Instead it appeared he let the question sit in his mind as he carefully constructed a safe answer. “I learned four years ago at the VA Center.” Brian stopped, his hands dropping back to the shiny wood table top while he considered Sway.
Sway stayed quiet, he knew Brian respected that. He’d give Brian all the time he needed. He didn’t expect him to confess his deepest secrets their first time out, reveal every one of his enigmas and stories. But, Sway needed something. No matter the couple of encounters they’d had, no matter how perfect they seemed together, he was still blind to who the man sitting in front of him truly was.
Brian didn’t continue again until the waitress had dropped off their drinks and Sway ordered soup and entrees for both of them.
“After nine months of non-stop specialist, psychiatrist, speech pathologist appointments, I had to come to terms with the fact I may never speak. Although Ford never once believed that, still doesn’t. But, he didn’t like that we couldn’t talk. We’re as tight as brothers can be. He said he needed me to talk to him and not by using my phone or scribbling it. The mutism seemed to tear him up more than it did me. Maybe because I still had nothing to say then.” Brian made a huffing sound that might’ve been meant as a scoff, it wasn’t loud, but it could be heard. “At the age I was, having served my country for almost twenty years, I couldn’t take Ford being so disappointed with me. Him thinking I’d given up. So, I learned how to talk to him.”
“How much older is Ford than you?”
“I’m forty-four, Ford is forty-six. He really let those two years go to his head. He took the big brother title and ran with it. But he was really more of a father to me than my real dad ever was.” Brian quirked up one side of his mouth. Sway noted the fondness that softened Brian’s rough features when he talked of Ford. Even Dana painted his boyfriend as an all-around GI Joe hero, always going on about Ford’s heroics when they went after a bounty.
“There’d been a time when I was diehard against ever speaking a word again.” Brian looked as if he was struggling with communicating this and Sway suddenly felt bad for pressing into sensitive territory.
He took Brian’s hand in both of his after he set his water back down and battled to keep going. Sway appreciated what he’d been fortunate to receive. Talking about that time in Brian’s life couldn’t have been easy for him. Sway didn’t know a lot about military men and what they experienced when they left to defend America and he had even less knowledge about the tribulations they dealt with when they returned. One thing was certain—Sway always had an insurmountable amount of respect for servicemen and women. Sway swallowed roughly. “Thank you for telling me.”
A.E. (Adrienne) Via has been a best-selling author in gay romance for five years now, but she’s no stranger to MM. She’s been an avid reader of gay lit for over twenty years before she picked up her laptop to place her own kiss on this beautiful genre. She’s also the founder and owner of Via Star Wings Books, having published a couple of great new up and coming MM authors.
A.E. has a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Virginia Wesleyan College that she used to start her own paralegal firm after she graduated in 2008. She spent five years preparing and filing bankruptcy petitions for struggling blue collar workers who couldn’t afford to file with a lawyer. It was a rewarding and satisfying career… but another path called to me. Writing.
A.E.’s writing embodies everything from hopelessly romantic to adventure, to scandalous. Her stories often include intriguing edges and twists that take readers to new, thought-provoking depths.
Now that she’s gotten over her 10 books published hump, she’s kind of known now for her play rough and love hard, bad boy, alphas. However, I do like to push myself to step out of my comfort zone and explore with different tropes, but I never push myself into a whole other genre. I’m head over heels for gay romance and I have tons of more hot stories to tell.
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Congrats on the newest book in the series!