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Top 10 Reasons to Have a Holiday Fling
By Amy Lane
So I’m going to clarify a few things.
I’m a very hobbit sort of person.
My home is a humble little hole, and although I like talking to people I have my comfort zone and I’m very… comfortable there.
I have never had a “fling” of any sort, much less gone to a foreign country and picked up a random hottie who seemed super attractive, and then, uh, you know.
Hooked up, as the kids say.
But the nature of my job is fantasy and hope. If I’m going to write about guys having a fling on holiday, I’m going to look at the happy side of things—the reasons someone would do this and not regret it, not a teeny tiny bit, not in the least.
So here we go—
The top ten reasons to have a holiday fling, from a person who has never and probably will never do such a thing. But that’s part of the reason we read books, right? So we can see what we might have done—if we were someone else.
Number 10—If nothing else, you have someone to give you directions to public transportation when you wake up in the morning.
Number 9—Someone to help you understand currency you’ve never seen before.
Number 8—Nobody you know personally ever needs to know.
Number 7—You will feel more desirable than you ever have in your life on account of your sexy foreign accent.
Number 6—If the two of you get lost on adventure, at least you’ll have someone to lead authorities to your body.
Number 5—Tis better to have had whoopee and lost than never to have whoopee at all.
Number 4—If you’re on holiday with friends they can personally vouch for the fact that you managed to hook up with someone extremely hot.
Number 3—Beer or wine you’ve never tasted, in quantities, can increase the hotness quotient of anybody you’re hooking up with.
Number 2—If the connection is true, the emotions real, maybe they’ll get your number and keep texting you and if nothing else, you can claim, “Yeah, I have a boy/girlfriend, but they live in Germany!” and then you can show them selfies to prove it, and hey, you are now stunningly exotic and exciting while on your own home turf.
And the Number 1 reason to have a holiday fling with an uber hot human while you are far away from home is…
Maybe they’ll decide they can’t live without you and they want every day to be a holiday and follow you to your sweet little corner of the world and make you believe in happy ever afters in every language.
I mean, it happened to Luka and Crispin, right?
You should read and find out!
Crispin Henry isn’t an adventurer. He learned early on that the world is a frightening place and that home is rare and precious. If his friends didn’t drag him to sports games and ill-advised trips to Vegas, he wouldn’t get out at all—and his trip to Munich for Oktoberfest is no exception. But it’s there that he meets Luka Gabriel, and he learns to take a chance.
Luka is a free-spirited world traveler, working at Oktoberfest to feed his enchantment with new places and new people. His only possessions fit in his backpack, and he depends on the kindness of strangers for a place to sleep. Crispin should know better—but he takes Luka’s hand anyway, and together they turn three nights in Munich into the relationship neither of them has been brave enough to risk—and neither can let go of.
When Luka turns up on Crispin’s doorstep before the holiday season, Crispin takes him in on hope alone. Yes, he knows the odds are good Luka will flutter out of his life again and leave him bereft, but isn’t it worth it to see if Luka is a homebird after all?
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Amy Lane lives in a crumbling crapmansion with a couple of growing children, a passel of furbabies, and a bemused spouse. She’s been nominated for a RITA, has won honorable mention for an Indiefab, and has a couple of Rainbow Awards to her name. She also has too damned much yarn, a penchant for action-adventure movies, and a need to know that somewhere in all the pain is a story of Wuv, Twu Wuv, which she continues to believe in to this day! She writes fantasy, urban fantasy, and gay romance–and if you accidentally make eye contact, she’ll bore you to tears with why those three genres go together. She’ll also tell you that sacrifices, large and small, are worth the urge to write.
On my best books of the year list……love Amy’s books!