My newest release, Orderly Affair, is out now. I’m especially excited about this release because it is the final book in my Hearts and Health series this year, and possibly ever.
I might return to the series at some point — there are still characters to explore, should I choose to do so — but after more than a year on this series, it feels like the right time to move on.
Hearts and Health is a series I’m proud of. It introduces characters with real-life concerns: family, acceptance, tolerance, trust, loyalty. The storyline of hospital politics, job security, and the high stakes of working in the medical profession plays out in the background.
There are plenty of books to be written waiting in the wings for me. I’ve already started writing
My Anti-Marriage, a conclusion to My Anti-Series of novellas. This is a fun story that incorporates the fake marriage trope, as well as enemies to lovers and second chance romance. Once that’s done, I’ll continue my Real Estate Relations series, which mixes contemporary romance with light mystery/suspense.
Orderly Affair tells a story of sexual exploration for a newly realized bisexual man, but it also pulls in serious themes involving family, dreams for the future, and the courage to confront fears head-on. I’ve brought a fun excerpt to share. This scene takes place early in the book, and is the catalyst for Ian and Callum’s relationship. I hope you enjoy!
His phone pinged with a message, startling him.
IonicCal: Your body is impressive, if it’s really your chest and abs in that pic
Ian stared at the message, initially panicked that someone had tried to talk to him, especially someone so close by. Oh God, I don’t know what to say. How to flirt. What am I doing?
Then he re-read the message and got over himself. Ian got on the app to meet someone. This was his chance to engage with another man, even if it was via messaging, and he didn’t want to chicken out now.
He tapped out an answer, which took far too long on the tiny keys with his big fingers.
BigBiGuy: Hell yes it’s me
IonicCal: Likely story
BigBiGuy: It is!
BigBiGuy: How?
IonicCal: Meet me in the third-floor bathroom on the east end of the hospital. I see you’re in the same building.
Ian’s heart hammered in his chest. Everything was happening too fast. But he typed his response before he could overthink it.
BigBiGuy: Be there in 5.
Exactly four minutes later, Ian paused in front of the bathroom and swiped sweaty palms on the legs of the scrubs he still wore. He was an idiot to be doing this at his place of work. But he was too curious not to follow through. The pic was totally hot, but Ian couldn’t shake the feeling he was going to be disappointed. The guy might have used a fake pic. Maybe that’s why he was so sure Ian had as well. Plus, he was bound to be someone Ian should steer clear of. He could be a patient or, with that chemistry humor, a doctor.
Holy fuck, what if he’s a doctor? I can’t fuck around with some guy that far above my pay grade.
That was all without considering the age difference. Maybe IonicCal would take one look at Ian and declare him too old.
Ian took a breath to steady his nerves and pushed open the bathroom door. He was already here, and he’d kick himself if he backed out now. So, he’d go in, see what he was dealing with, then pretend to be clueless if the guy wasn’t someone he wanted to meet. No problem.
The butterflies in his stomach disagreed. It was a big fucking deal to be meeting a guy with any kind of intent. Ian was so far in the closet it’d taken him a while to find himself in there alongside the regrets about his failed marriage, rocky relationship with his son, and expectations of his large, traditional family that included two testosterone-driven brothers, an annoying know-it-all sister, and one strong-willed mother.
He walked the length of the bathroom, then seeing he was alone, entered the last stall. He left the door unlatched. They hadn’t discussed how exactly they’d find each other, and Ian almost hoped IonicCal would glance inside, see no one, and leave.
A few minutes later the outer door opened and clanked shut. He listened to a guy’s footsteps cross the bathroom tile until he was just outside Ian’s stall. Ian could make out slim legs, wearing slacks, not scrubs. That didn’t mean much, except the guy probably wasn’t a nurse. Plenty of doctors wore slacks, and so did a good number of other staff members and patients.
The door swung inward, and Ian leaned back, cramming his broad shoulders into the corner and contorting his large body around the toilet to allow room for the door to open.
A guy with dirty blond hair, warm brown eyes, and a wide mouth stared at him.
A familiar guy.
“Ian?” the lab tech said in astonishment.
Ian’s heart dropped to his stomach. “Callum, hi. This is awkward.”
A hospital orderly explores his bisexuality with an adorably geeky lab tech, but can their sparks lead to love outside the closet?
When Ian Connolly installs a hookup app to explore his long-suppressed attraction to men, he doesn’t expect to connect with anyone he knows, especially not lab tech Callum Price. But from their first scorching encounter, he’s hooked.
Callum hasn’t had the best luck with love, and he’s suffocating under a pile of responsibilities. But when he sees an opportunity to blow off steam with Ian, he takes it. The man is smoking hot, big all over, and sweet as pie.
Their chemistry is off the charts, but a relationship is more challenging. Callum remains stubbornly self-reliant, while Ian tries too hard to be his rock. But if Ian can be honest with his family about loving a man, maybe Callum can admit his own truth: He wants a man he can count on, a man just like Ian.
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DJ Jamison is the author of more than a dozen m/m romances, including the Ashe Sentinel series and the Hearts and Health series. She writes a variety of queer characters, from gay to bisexual to asexual, with a focus on telling love stories that are more about common ground than lust at first sight. DJ grew up in the Midwest in a working-class family, and those influences can be found in her writing through characters coping with real-life problems: money troubles, workplace drama, family conflicts and, of course, falling in love. DJ spent more than a decade in the newspaper industry before chasing her first dream to write fiction. She spent a lifetime reading before that, and continues to avidly devour her fellow authors’ books each night. She lives in Kansas with her husband, two sons, two fish and, regrettably, one snake.
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Loved this series!