PLAY IT BY EAR
REPLAY SERIES, BOOK 2
K.M. NEUHOLD
M/M ROMANCE
RELEASE DATE: 07.02.18
BLURB
Lando
My muse is gone, and I haven’t written a word of music in over a year. Every time I close my eyes, all I can see is Dawson. Nine years ago, just before Downward Spiral’s first major tour, I met my soulmate and then I walked away. Now that I’ve finally tracked him down again, things have changed. I’ll have to make him fall for me all over again. But is it possible I put our single weekend together on a pedestal or could Dawson really be The One?
Dawson
A traumatic brain injury nine years ago left me deaf and with spotty memory of the first twenty years of my life. When one of the biggest rock stars in the world shows up and seems to know me, I’m not sure what to believe. Is it possible he’s telling the truth when he says he’s been in love with me for nine years, even if I can’t remember ever meeting him?
***Play it by Ear is the second book in the Replay series. Each book in the series will focus on a different band member getting a second chance at love. Each book can be read as a stand-alone.
I’m super excited to announce my new release today and let you know a little about it. Play it by Ear is the first book I’ve written featuring a disabled character and it’s something I’ve been wanting to write for a while. I’ve always had a soft spot for characters who don’t exactly fit the typical cookie cutter mold— muscular, confident, twelve inch…well, you get my point. Dawson came to me a few months ago and stole my heart instantly because he was just so sweet and relatable.
Nine years ago, Dawson met Lando who happened to be a rising star on the music scene. They shared a sweaty, wonderful weekend together and then on his way home from the airport, Dawson was in a severe car accident that stole not only his hearing but memories of the weekend and the entire year prior. Nine years later, he’s a bartender with a massive crush on a celebrity he’s never met…or can’t remember he met. When Lando goes in search of the man he hasn’t been able to get off his mind for nine years, he isn’t prepared for what he finds.
What I love the most about Lando and Dawson is they aren’t into a lot of drama and game playing, they’re just two men who feel a connection and want more than anything to find the parts of themselves they’ve been missing since they last parted.
Now that I’ve told you about Lando and Dawson, check out this quick excerpt and then go grab the book in the Kindle store!
Dawson came to a stop near the water and grabbed my hand. He held it high in the air, throwing his free arm out and tilting his head toward the sky.
“Life is amazing, isn’t it?” He sighed with a content smile on his lips. My heart yearned for him, even though he was standing right beside me. I needed him. I didn’t want to let him go.
“It really is,” I agreed. “If I give you my number, do you promise you’ll call? Can we try to make this work?”
“Hell yes,” he agreed without hesitation.
“It won’t be easy,” I warned. “I’ll be touring a lot. It may be awhile before I’ll be able to come back to visit.
“The course of true love never did run smooth,” Dawson said wisely. “And if Shakespeare wrote it, you know it must be true.”
I was too busy fixating on the true love part. It was too soon for something like that to be real. But I thought maybe one day we’d look back and say it was love at first sight. It sounded cheesy, but some people get married after knowing each other a week and they live happily ever after. Sometimes crazy things happen. And sometimes your heart knows exactly who it wants.
Dawson let his arms down and then stooped to pick something up off the ground. When he stood back up, he held out a rock to me that was shaped like a guitar pick.
“It’s for playing rock music,” he said seriously, and I doubled over with laughter. I couldn’t understand how I could feel so much in such short a time, but the words I love you were on the tip of my tongue. I couldn’t say them. It was too soon; that would’ve been crazy. But it was enough to hold them in my heart and believe that they might be true…one day.
I’m an author of m/m and new adult romance. I have a strong passion for writing characters with a lot of heart and soul, and a bit of humor as well.
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The book sounds great. I just love a good rock star romance. Thanks for the chance to win a copy.
Thank you for the post and excerpt!It sounds great.