OZ
A FINDING HOME NOVEL
LILY MORTON
M/M ROMANCE
RELEASE DATE: 11.20.18
COVER DESIGN: Natasha Snow Designs
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BLURB
What happens when temporary becomes forever?
Oz Gallagher does not do relationships well. Bored and jobless after another disastrous hook up, he decides to leave London for a temporary job in the wilds of Cornwall. Surely managing a stately home on a country estate will be easier than navigating the detritus of his relationships at home. Six months there will alleviate a bit of his wanderlust and then he can come back to London as footloose and fancy-free as the day he left it.
However, when he gets there he finds a house in danger of crumbling to the ground and a man who is completely unlike anyone he’s ever met. An earl belonging to a family whose roots go back hundreds of years, Silas is the living embodiment of duty and sacrifice. Two things that Oz has never wanted. He’s also warm and funny and he draws Oz to him like a magnet.
Oz banks on the fact that they’re from two very different worlds to stop himself falling for Silas. But what will he do when he realises that these differences are actually part of the pull to one another? Will falling in love be enough to make him stop moving at last and realise that he’s finally home?
EXCERPT
The stepladder wobbles alarmingly and I shake my head. “Okay, enough. Come down before you break something we might need on our date.” He looks down at me and I nod emphatically. “I’ll look into getting Martha to do something else.” I reach for my diary. “Surely we’ve got a member of staff who used to be a stuntman.”
He laughs and gives another few swipes of the cloth and then comes gingerly down the ladder. Once he’s on the floor he lopes right over to me, stepping close as my pulse thrums. “Good morning,” he says softly and kisses me. It’s a soft kiss, barely there, but it feels like he’s marked me. No one has ever done that before or looked so pleased to see me. Normally it’s a quick ‘thanks, was it good for you’ and a hearty slap on the arse.
I swallow hard. “Good morning,” I say softly. I step back to get my equilibrium and his lip quirks as if he knows. “Well, are we ready for our practical work date?” I say briskly.
He strokes his beard contemplatively and I swallow at the rasp of those long fingers against the hair. I want to rub my face in it, I think dreamily and then start as he speaks.
“Not work,” he says firmly. I look dazedly at him, my mind still so full of face and beard rubbing that I’m not following. “It’s a date,” he says clearly. “I’m even buying food.”
I make a face of amazement. “Wow! Food too.”
He nods. “I know. Last time I went on a proper date, I think I was seventeen. We do kiss at the doorstep and go home, don’t we?”
“We do,” I murmur, stepping close to him. “But we live in the same home so I think we can do more kissing to fill the time.”
“You strumpet,” he says admiringly, and I laugh.
“Why haven’t you dated?” I ask as he gestures to me to follow him. Chewwy gives a long-suffering sigh as if pondering the whims of humans and follows us. I look at Silas as he hasn’t given me an answer.
He shrugs awkwardly. “I’ve been with a lot of people, but they usually started with sex. By the time we looked at actually getting out of bed they invariably discovered they couldn’t cope with the isolation of living here. The fact that I was never here didn’t help either.”
Lily writes contemporary romance novels, and specialises in hot love stories with a good dose of humour.
Lily lives in sunny England with her husband and two children, all of whom claim that they haven’t had a proper conversation with her since she bought her first Kindle.
She has spent her life with her head full of daydreams and decided one day to just sit down and start writing about them. In the process she discovered that she actually loved writing, because how else could she get to spend her time with hot, funny men!
She loves chocolate and Baileys and the best of all creations – chocolate Baileys! Her lifetime’s ambition is to have a bath in peace without being shouted by one of her family.
