A warm welcome to returning author Sean Michael who is visiting us today to talk about new release “Home and Heart”.
Welcome Sean 🙂
Thank you to Love Bytes for hosting me today!
Well, Christmas has come and gone. It’s always a busy, busy month and then the big day happens and it’s over and there’s a kind of downhill slide into pure laziness for a few days. At least that’s how it works here and I have to admit while I enjoy baking cookies and buying gifts and seeing family and friends, by the 26th I am so ready for some quiet downtime!
I imagine that for Sawyer from Home and Heart, it’s quite a shock to go from being all by himself for a long time, to not only having friendly neighbors, but three guys who are sort of in each other’s pockets, so to speak, suddenly adding him to their mix. A shock, but a wonderful one. And he needs for his life to be given a shake – in fact he’s looking for it when he travels from one side of the country to the other just to get a new start in life.
The new year is often a time to make new starts – we make resolutions, we go on diets or exercise programs. It’s the time of year when we are determined to make a new start on one area of our lives or another.
I’m planning to be more organized, and I’d like to be more positive, more grateful for the things I have in my life.
Do you have plans for the new year?
Sean Michael
smut fixes everything
Blurb:
Is it possible to find the heart’s home twice in a lifetime?
Six years ago, Sawyer Burroughs’s life fell apart. His soul mate and husband of four years died of cancer, and he fell into depression… and a bottle. It’s taken six years, but he’s turned his life around and is ready to start again on the other side of the country.
In his new apartment, he’s welcomed by his young and carefree neighbor, Derek, from across the hall. Derek is eager to make Sawyer feel welcome and even offers him a place to stay when Sawyer arrives ahead of his furniture.
The upstairs neighbors are just as friendly, and soon Sawyer finds a place with the friends-with-benefits threesome. He’s not the shy, vanilla lover they think he is, though, and he’s hiding more than a pair of nipple rings. As it happens, the guys have kinky secrets of their own, but for four men to make a BDSM relationship last, they’ll have to figure some things out.
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“This is my first hour, and it’s just Burroughs.” He didn’t know why he’d stopped using James’s name, but… this was part of his new start, right? Like not bringing the furniture. James would understand.
“Okay. You got stuff you need help with?” Derek asked.
“Oh, that’s nice. I have the stuff in my SUV . That’s all.”
“Did you have a fire or something?” Derek asked, following him down the front steps.
“No.” He was starting over. He needed everything. “Do you like it here?”
“I do. The guys in 2A and B are cool. And we all share the backyard, so we do grill-outs and stuff. Of course they often end in benefits, if you know what I mean.” Derek gave him a wicked little grin, eyes dancing happily.
“Good to know.” He hadn’t had any benefits in six years. James had been ill fourteen months, and then… yeah. “I look forward to meeting everyone.”
“We should do a cookout tonight. A welcome to the neighborhood one.” Derek grabbed one of the boxes from the back of the SUV and headed back inside. “What do you do, Sawyer?”
He had to move fast to keep up with Derek’s long, easy strides. “I’m a freelancer. Writing, mostly.”
“Oh, that’s cool. Did you write anything I’ve read?” Derek put the box down where Sawyer pointed, took his box from him, and set it down next to the first.
“Not unless you love catalogs or greeting cards. Thank you.”
“I didn’t even know those were things you could write. I mean, it makes sense, but I never thought about it as a job. Pretty cool.” Derek headed back outside and grabbed another box. It wasn’t long before Sawyer had been lapped, Derek seeming to have a boundless supply of energy. Derek was stronger than he looked too.
Maybe he was simply old and tired. Of course, he had just driven across country all by himself.
At any rate, it didn’t take long to empty the car. Not at all. And without exhausting him either.
“Would you like a bottle of water?” he asked his Good Samaritan , grabbing one of the few left from the case he’d started his journey with and offering it to Derek.
“Don’t you have a bed?” Derek asked, looking at the corner of the living room where they’d piled everything.
“No. Not yet.” He had what he had. And the little collapsible cot would have to do. It was better than the floor at least.
“Okay. You can come sleep in mine. There’s plenty of room.” Derek accepted the offered water and sat in one of Sawyer’s two garden chairs, sprawling easily.
Sawyer chuckled softly, shook his head, and settled in the other chair. “Don’t stress it. I’m fine.”
“Dude, I can’t let you sleep on the floor. That’s not right.” Tilting his head back, neck exposed, Derek drank down his water, his throat working.
Sawyer remembered feeling so free, so confident in his youth. Now he didn’t feel like that was anywhere he belonged. Definitely the mileage.
Best-selling author Sean Michael is a maple leaf–loving Canadian who spends hours hiding out in used book stores. With far more ideas than time, Sean keeps several documents open at all times. From romance to fantasy, paranormal and sci-fi, Sean is limited only by the need for sleep—and the periodic Beaver Tail.
Sean fantasizes about one day retiring on a secluded island populated entirely by horseshoe crabs after inventing a brain-to-computer dictation system. Until then, Sean will continue to write the old-fashioned way.
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