Love Bytes is happy to welcome to their blog author Isobel Starling who is visiting with her M/M Romance Christmas Boxset.
Isobel shares an exclusive excerpt with us and brought an exclusive giveaway especially for our readers!
Award-winning author Isobel Starling presents
The M/M Romance Christmas Box Set containing four funny, kinky seasonal romances
Book Title: The M/M Romance Christmas Box Set
Author: Isobel Starling
Publisher: Decent Fellows Press
Cover Artist: Isobel Starling
Genre/s: M/M Romance, comedy, puppy play
Length: 46,193 words/262 pages
This is two novellas and two short stories, all with a Christmas theme.
With the holidays approaching Isobel Starling presents
The M/M Romance Box Set
containing four delightfully humorous and kinky seasonal romances.
This box set is available as an e-book;
you can read it free in Kindle Unlimited
or listen to the exceptionally funny audiobook by award-winning narrator Gary Furlong.
The stories in the box set are:
Fred & Ginger
Chris Miller, a patisserie chef for Big Boy Cupcakes has to rush the last minute order of cock cupcakes for the party of a celebrity, but in his haste to deliver, he falls foul of an over-keen chocolate labrador named Fred, and his handsome owner…
The Christmas Bonus
The Investobank Christmas shindig at the Lorien Hotel puts Jake Walters, and the object of his lust in the same place at the same time… and it’s Christmas!
Daddy Christmas (Daddy Kink short story) NEW!
Ryan Sutherland, a side character from ‘Detective Fox and the Christmas Caper’ at last gets the happy ending he deserves.
Back Where He Belongs (M/M Puppy Play Novella)
Kier Campbell returns to Scotland from Australia to spend Christmas with his family. What he finds there is a gift that is worth more than money could buy.
Please note: These stories are gay romance stories and contain graphic depictions of sex.
The total word count is approximately 46k, the audiobook is just over 4 hours long. These stories have all the Christmas feels to give you a warm glow inside.
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Audiobook
Listen to a sample here
The Christmas Bonus by Isobel Starling
The jazz quartet struck up a new festive number, “Santa Claus is coming to town.”
I stared, not at the band, but at Ethan. I just could not help myself. He was just so goddamn handsome, and as this was a black-tie event, he wore a sharp tuxedo, but with the addition of reindeer antlers on his head that had little silver bells on. It was cute. Ethan had only been working at Investobanck for four months, but I gotta tell ya, those four months had been my undoing.
My therapy for sex addiction had been going well until Ethan Sullivan strode into my world, embodying all of the innocence of a graduate who’d never worked a day in his over privileged life. There was something timelessly aristocratic about his countenance—unexpected for a twenty-two-year-old. He looked way too smart, too well turned out to belong in 2018, but here he was, a new recruit on the fast-track graduate program. He came across as shy, boyish and a little clueless, and when my eyes met his baby blues, all bets were off.
That first day in the office, I couldn’t help but notice that he fitted his business suit so well, the gunmetal grey fabric clinging to his slender frame, his white linen shirt crisp, and his lavender silk tie completing the flawless look. Fine tawny hair framed Ethan’s delicate features, cropped, and preened like he’d been educated at a British public school in the 1920s. But it was those cornflower-blue eyes that completely unmanned me. When he shyly met my gaze and then looked away, it felt like a volcano erupted inside me. I wanted him with an unquenchable desire. I needed to get my fix, but even then, I was sure as hell that one night with Ethan would never be enough to know him truly. And I needed to know him.
He infuriated me from that first day in the office. No matter what, women always surrounded him as if they’d secretly been employed to guard him. He’d been placed with the Global Support Team for his first quarter with InvestoBanck, and it just so happened he was the only man in the team with nine women. The girls loved him. They were like bees around a flower, and if Ethan were straight, he would have been balls deep in pussy from the get-go. But I knew from my first glance that Ethan Sullivan was not straight.
I’d seen this kind of thing with gay guys before—the ones who had a harem of female friends. I’m not sure what that’s all about. Maybe they like the attention. Maybe they’re insecure about being around other men. Maybe other men intimidate them. I dunno.
Ethan appeared to enjoy the company of women, and I agree, women are wonderful creatures. I’ve had quite a resurgence in my social life this past year. It’s been enlightening. I take my girlfriends out for dinner dates, to the theatre, and dancing. We always look the part, and what man doesn’t like having a beautiful woman on his arm. But there’s always that cut-off point at the end of the date when I drop a lady home, and she gazes at me, wanting something I cannot give—that I could not give to my now ex-wife, Olivia.
Ethan used his lady friends as a shield, and I could not get a look-in. It was evident, not only in the way he dealt with real-life social interactions, but I could see it online too on his social media feed. Okay, so, I kinda web-stalked him, but that’s a given these days. I was curious about what he had to hide—and if there was a man in his life. Strangely, I saw no evidence of girlfriends or boyfriends, which calmed my ego and confused the hell outa me because, Jesus, he was gorgeous.
The only times I’d been able to get him alone and unguarded were during his first day when I’d been in the elevator with him, and we’d spoken about global market analysis as a career. Then, later that month, in the men’s room when I’d tried to conduct a conversation while we were washing our hands. That was all, in four goddamn months.
Sure, I saw him from afar in the staff canteen and walking around the building, and… maybe I’d tried to follow him home on the subway a few times. I assure you, it was nothing malicious. I just wanted to be close to him. In those situations, we shared nothing but a look and a nod of recognition. I’d longed to talk to him—to ask him out on a date, but the words wedged in my throat, and I felt foolish. I have no idea what’s wrong with me. I’ve never been this ga-ga over anyone, not even my ex-wife.
Ethan’s graduate program involved working in new departments for a quarter each during his first year to see where he wanted to focus. I’m upper management—a senior global markets analyst, and I was not his direct line manager for this quarter, so couldn’t find a legitimate way to get him alone. His behaviour was always a little shy, well mannered, respectful, and business-like, and each time I saw him around the office, my balls throbbed and burned at being close and unable to act out my desires.
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© Isobel Starling 2018
To read more of Daddy Christmas pick up The M/M Romance Christmas Box Set, available as an ebook, in Kindle Unlimited and as an audiobook, narrated by Gary Furlong.
Isobel Starling is an award-winning author of gay romance. Isobel spent most of her twenty-year professional career making art in Ireland. She relocated to the UK, and faced with the dreaded artist’s creative block, Isobel started to write and found she loved writing more than making art.
The Shatterproof Bond series is an Amazon Gay Romance bestseller and has been translated into French, German and Italian.
“As You Wish” (Shatterproof Bond #1), narrated by Gary Furlong, won the Audiobook Reviewer Award, Romance Category 2018. Isobel and Gary have produced ten audiobooks together, including whole Shatterproof Bond series.
Isobel will release the first book in her thrilling new fantasy series The Quiet Work in March 2019.
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