A warm welcome back to author Amy Lane joining us today to talk about new release “Fall Through Spring”.
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Mason and Terry
By Amy Lane
Fall Through Spring is the third book in the Rec League Soccer series, and while it can be read as a standalone, it’s always fun to know about the secondary characters in a book, and Mason and Terry are sort of dear to my heart.
Mason Hayes is an executive with a runaway mouth. If there’s a sexually inappropriate innuendo, he will make it—he’s an HR department’s worst nightmare.
The thing is, he’s not really douchey—he’s just awkward. His entire live he’s wanted to find THE ONE, and so far, not only has nobody lived up to expectations, nobody has even taken the time to see what a fantastic guy he really is. He’s the guy who comes to a company and fixes all their broken policies and institutes all sorts of idea that really seem to work… and then gets fired because, say, his boss is sleeping with his boyfriend and he doesn’t think that’s a good idea.
Poor Mason—he really does deserve a good guy, and the corporate world doesn’t seem to be serving one up.
Then he meets Terry Jefferson from his friend Skip’s soccer team—and Terry is nothing like Mason. He’s got a tech job, has probably never read a book, and thinks of Mason as a hot old guy, but doesn’t look much further than a “Oh, hey, I can get his pants off now!”
Mason wants happy ever after. Terry has been told his whole life he doesn’t get that, so he’ll settle for a blow job in a bathroom. It doesn’t’ seem like a match made in heaven, and Terry still has some growing up to do.
Giving Terry enough space to grow up and see Mason for the man of his dreams is hard—Mason grows up enough to control his runaway mouth, and that’s hard enough to watch, but he’s also heartbroken for a while, and he really would be the world’s saddest puppy if it wasn’t for his little brother, Dane.
In Mason’s book we see Dane as comic relief—and Mason’s biggest worry. Dane’s bipolar threatens to spiral out of control and gut Mason, and Clay Carpenter, the guy who’s been crushing on him throughout the book.
In Dane and Clay’s book, Fall Through Spring, we see Dane and Clay up close and personal—but in the background, we see Mason, falling in love, breaking his heart, pulling his shit together. And in the way of family (particularly when they’re rooming together) it’s not so much that one brother’s happiness is dependent on the other’s, but it’s that family serves as a background for our love lives right up until our lovers become our family.
So as you read Fall Through Spring remember that Mason and Terry are the heroes in their own stories—and that Dane and Clay want to see everybody be happy at the end.
Blurb:
A Winter Ball Novel
As far as Clay Carpenter is concerned, his abusive relationship with food is the best thing he’s got going. When a good friend starts kicking his ass into gear, Clay is forced to reexamine everything he learned about food and love—and that’s right when he meets troubled graduate student, Dane Hayes.
Dane Hayes doesn’t do the whole monogamy thing, but the minute he meets Clay Carpenter, he’s doing the friend thing in spades. The snarky, scruffy bastard not only gets Dane’s wacky sense of humor, he also accepts the things Dane can’t control—like the bipolar disorder Dane has been trying to manage for the past six years.
Dane is hoping for more than friendship, and Clay is looking at him with longing that isn’t platonic. They’re both positive they’re bad at relationships, but with the help of forbidden desserts and new medication regimens, they prove outstanding at being with each other. But can they turn their friendship into the love neither of them has dared to hope for?
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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. Two of her books have received a RITA nomination, she’s 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.
