Title: All the Way to Shore
Author: CJane Elliott
Narrated by: Tim McKiernan
Publisher: Self-Published
Original Release Date: 11/23/16
Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
Genre: Romance, Contemporary
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Synopsis
What happens when a cruise ship romance crashes on the rocky shores of reality?
Poor-little-rich-boy Jonathan Vallen is the heir to Vallen Industries, but is more interested in music and gardens. He clashes with new CEO Marco Pellegrini, a self-made man and rising star in business, who is brought in to salvage the company. Jonathan gladly leaves Vallen and moves to Cape Cod. When they meet again on an LGBTQ Caribbean cruise, Marco doesn’t recognize Jonathan, who has spent a year transforming from an ugly duckling into a very sexy swan. After Marco shows interest and sparks fly, Jonathan reluctantly assumes a false identity, egged on by his cousin Anthony. None of them expect a shipboard fling to deepen into true love.
Back on land, the romance crashes when Marco discovers his perfect man is not only a lie but the son of his boss, Frederick Vallen. Jonathan resolves to win Marco back, but Frederick takes vengeful action. Jonathan and Marco must battle their own fears as well as Frederick’s challenge to get to the future that awaits them on the horizon.
“Come on, cuz! Let’s get our picture taken!” Anthony hurried ahead of Jonathan to where a photographer took portraits as the passengers boarded the cruise ship.
Jonathan squinted in the bright Ft. Lauderdale sunshine, gazing at the distracting crowd that included loads of guys and a smaller number of women, all around their age, walking up the gangplank to the ship. They didn’t remind him of the newlyweds and retirees who’d been the cruise passengers he’d seen so many years ago.
Anthony waited for Jonathan to come up beside him. “Stop frowning. That outfit is divine!”
Jonathan made a face. “You’re the one who made me buy it.” He cast a doubtful eye on his cool board shorts and hip T-shirt—skintight, the better to show off his “guns,” according to Anthony. Anthony had put product in Jonathan’s hair and styled it. Jonathan suspected he resembled a metrosexual tool, but Anthony swore he was “hotter than hot!”
They posed for the photographer, who wore bright pink shorts and a Hawaiian shirt unbuttoned to his navel. There seemed to be an inordinate number of rainbows everywhere. As he and Anthony grinned for their picture inside the cardboard safety ring cutout, it finally dawned on him.
“Is this a… an LGBT cruise?” he asked after the photographer waved them on so he could pounce on his next victims.
Anthony tried to appear outraged at the very question, but then broke up laughing. “The… the l-look on your face!” Pulling himself together, he added, “Of course it is! I may have forgotten to tell you that tiny detail.”
Jonathan chuckled. “Why not? I’m ready to get laid.” Then he put out a hand to catch Anthony, who’d stumbled at his words. “Whoa, careful there.”
“Be still, my beating heart!”
After he’d finished laughing at Anthony’s reaction, Jonathan became aware that he was being cruised by any number of men, most of them fit and attractive. He put his finger to the bridge of his nose, an unconscious gesture to shift the glasses that used to sit there, then reminded himself he wasn’t the dork he used to be—at least not outwardly. Anthony had sworn to him that he was “a fox” now, but it was strange to be the recipient of so many blatant stares.
“Come on, Jonny. They’ll be putting our suitcases in our stateroom for us. Let’s go get a drink.” Anthony sashayed away, resplendent in his bright yellow Capris and tank top with colorful parrots, his bleached-blond hair tipped with bright pink in a shaggy surfer’s ’do.
Jonathan, suddenly embarrassed at being the object of so much attention, hurried after him, resolving to be someone new this week. Someone hot and confident and fling-worthy.
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After years of hearing characters chatting away in her head, CJane Elliott finally decided to put them on paper and hasn’t looked back since. A psychotherapist by training, CJane enjoys writing sexy, passionate stories that also explore the human psyche. CJane has traveled all over North America for work and her characters are travelers, too, traveling down into their own depths to find what they need to get to the happy ending.
CJane is an ardent supporter of LGBTQ equality and is particularly fond of coming out stories.
In her spare time, CJane can be found dancing, listening to music, or watching old movies. Her husband and son support her writing habit by staying out of the way when they see her hunched over, staring intensely at her laptop. Be sure to check out CJane’s new Facebook Group!
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