International Banker, Beach Boy
City Country Series, Book 3
Mia Terry
M/M Contemporary Romance
Release Date: 12.6.19
Cover Designer – Reese Dante
Blurb
A new m/m romance set around the beautiful beaches of Byron Bay, Australia.
Oliver Gilsworth is getting a much-needed beach holiday ahead of taking the next preordained step his life of privilege demands of him.
Rhys Clark has finally settled into his laid-back life of very early retirement from international surfing competition.
When Ollie meets his surf instructor, sparks immediately begin to fly, but neither man is particularly interested in a brief holiday fling, and for either of them to change course at this point in his life is impossible. Or, is it?
May contain traces of Byron Bay craziness and hot men swimming naked in pools. The final book in the Country City series but can definitely be read as a standalone.
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Damn it, Rhys was very sorry he had decided a while ago there just wasn’t any point fucking the tourists. He wasn’t saying every sexual encounter had to lead to a happy ever after, but he had decided it also shouldn’t always end with the definite expiration date of a holiday fling.
“Sorry,” he said, genuinely regretful. “I’m not saying I’m looking for a husband, but hooking up for a few days is a little too aimless for my current tastes.”
He was part embarrassed, part proud, as the words came out of his mouth. He knew any date could be just one and done, but he didn’t need to start anything where, no matter what the connection, the good-bye could be measured in days. The fact Ollie was more appealing than any other man he had met in the last year made him regret it, but somehow made his willpower feel more impressive.
Ollie was too well mannered to try to argue the point and Rhys liked him more for it. He just simply raised his coffee in salute in Rhys’s direction and put on a playful pout. “I get that, I do,” Ollie said. “It can’t be easy living in a town where most people are here on a constant rotation.”
“Yeah, the local scene is thin on the ground,” Rhys admitted. The fact they were looking out at the beach made it easy to be open with this man who for all intents and purposes was a new acquaintance.
“I thought Byron was supposed to have a healthy gay scene?” Ollie asked.
“For rural Australia, it actually does. But the tourists make up a large portion of it and the local lesbians are definitely out of my dating pool. So once we discount the guys who move here as happy couples and the older dudes who are more in the daddy style of Mark and Robert, there isn’t a huge group of single men left who are datable.”
Rhys felt embarrassed at being just a little too honest. Ollie was charming, but he was a client.
“Well you have to have dinner with me and my friends then,” Ollie shared. “Billy and Luke know all about being the gay guy in rural Australia, though to be fair I’m reasonably sure neither of them dated within town limits when they were single.” Catching Rhys’s expression, he hurried on. “It’s not me asking you on a date, it’s me asking for some single guy solidarity. They are all very happy couples and me sitting at a table with them becomes a little awkward. Hey, I’ll even make you pay for yourself if that makes you feel better.”
Rhys couldn’t help the next words that came out of his mouth, even as he knew they were a tacit acceptance. “Where would we be going to dinner then?”
Mia Terry grew up in what could be loosely termed rural Australia. However, she has to admit that the beachside town where she currently lives has more coffee shops and cultural events than many inner-city suburbs.
“My characters break free of the coffee shop scene more bravely than me. In their more remote rural settings, they get to experience the beauty and challenges that come from living in Australia’s rural heart.
It provides them with a unique and challenging backdrop where they can connect and fall in love. The City/ Country series also shows the sometimes dirty, often sexy, fun that two hot Australian men can have.
I love reading m/m romance and I have adored writing it. I hope the readers enjoy the journeys of my different characters just as much as I did.”
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