MILO
A FINDING HOME NOVEL
LILY MORTON
M/M ROMANCE
RELEASE DATE: 02.15.19
COVER DESIGN: Natasha Snow Designs
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Once upon a time a brave knight rescued a young man. Unfortunately, he then spent the next few years bossing the young man around and treating him like a child.
Milo has been burying himself at Chi an Mor, hiding from the wreckage of his once promising career and running from a bad relationship that destroyed what little confidence he had. Niall, his big brother’s best friend, has been there for him that entire time. An arrogant and funny man, Niall couldn’t be any more different from the shy and occasionally stuttering Milo, which has never stopped Milo from crushing wildly on the man who saved him.
However, just as Milo makes the decision to move on from his hopeless crush, he and Niall are thrown into close contact, and for the first time ever Niall seems to be returning his interest. But it can never work. How can it when Milo always needs rescuing?
From the bestselling author of the Mixed Messages series comes a story about a man who needs to write his own happily ever after.
This is the second book in the Finding Home series, but it can be read as a standalone.
Content warning: There are descriptions of domestic abuse in this book.
Held to his chest, Cora looks as tiny as a little doll. Wrapped in her dinosaur-patterned sheet, she has one small hand wrapped up in a hank of his golden hair and she’s staring at him as he sways to the sweet song and croons the lyrics. I watch her eyes blink heavily a few times as she fights sleep.
He smiles happily down at her. All of the energy that he seems to thrum with during the day is muted now, held at bay in the stillness of the night. He seems softer somehow, like his hard edges have melted away, and against my will, I sigh. If only he was like this all the time, he’d be so much more approachable. Instead, he’s forceful and confident and makes me feel a little bit less.
However, he must catch the sigh because his head shoots up. When he sees me, he smiles, but it dies as he looks down my body. It’s a slow, long slide of his eyes and I feel self-conscious in my old yoga leggings and washed-out, tight Mr. Messy t-shirt that my brother bought me years ago. I don’t look like him. My skin is pale and I’m thin rather than muscled and golden. My hair is loose around my shoulders and doubtless makes me look like a scarecrow.
I shake my head impatiently at the silliness of my thoughts. This is me and Niall. He’s never been attracted to me before, so why would he start now?
I make myself smile at him. “Ed Sheeran. Really, Niall?”
The slow darkness of his gaze clears and he blinks before looking almost embarrassed.
“It was the only bloody thing she’d settle down to. Do you think Oz or Silas play it to her?”
I shrug. “God knows. Knowing Oz’s taste, it’d be more likely to be Slipknot.”
He grins. “Well, the ginger singer did it tonight. All hail, King Ed.”
I laugh. “Did she wake you up? Because I never heard a peep.”
He shakes his head. “She’d just started fussing when I heard her. You were sleeping heavily.” I blush fiercely and want to hold my hands up to my cheeks. His gaze sharpens but he neatly sidesteps the landmine. “I thought I’d let you sleep. You’ll have her all day. It seems only fair for me to do my bit.”
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.
