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More Heat Than The Sun Series
By John Wiltshire
Book 3: The Bridge of Silver Wings
Out Now
Released January 22nd
Nikolas and Ben discover that bonds aren’t forged with blood or scars, but in the hearts of men strong enough to love.
Siberia in winter isn’t a place for good men. There is nothing Nikolas won’t do to keep Ben alive. Nikolas has exorcised his demons, but when they end up stranded in Russia, the monster inside needs to be let loose. Ben discovers the truth of the adage, ‘be careful what you wish for’!
Home again, Nikolas then faces an enemy he can’t defeat: Ben Rider himself. Discovering a new family, Ben realizes he’s been living too long in the shadows cast by Nikolas’s all-consuming love. For the first time, life apart from Nikolas is possible.
Is Nikolas strong enough to let Ben go?
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Ben was so startled by this abrupt departure from the table he didn’t realise Nikolas actually meant to leave the restaurant until it was too late to stop him, and then the waiter arrived with the bill and he had to pay for the meal; so by the time he made it out onto the pavement, there was no sign of Nikolas. They’d parked in the underground garage of the glass tower, so he jogged over and ran down the stairs. Nikolas was standing by the car. He looked up and pointed out calmly,
“You have the keys. I can’t get in.”
Ben nodded, but didn’t get them out of his pocket. “What’s going on? Why did you just walk out?”
“Didn’t you have enough money to pay? Remind me to top up your bank account.”
Ben frowned. “What the hell is that supposed to mean? Since when have you ever put money into…? Okay, well…” This was a very touchy subject with Ben as he’d once been accused of being a male prostitute, living off older men’s money, and although Nikolas dismissed it all with an imperious wave, he’d dropped his old joke, Ben noticed, that Ben was only gay for pay. Clearly Nikolas privately saw some truth to these allegations, despite his protestations they were ridiculous. It was with some genuine confusion, therefore, that Ben added,
“Jesus, Nik, what’s wrong? Seriously?”
Nikolas indicated to the car door he wanted opened, and Ben clicked the key. They climbed in, but Ben didn’t start the engine. He wasn’t going anywhere.
Nikolas stared out of his side window as if they were driving along and there was something to see.
“So, your promises meant nothing? Everything we’ve been through together has meant nothing? I can’t believe I’m having this conversation—that I’m thinking and saying these things. That I’ve been brought to this—by you.” He turned and glared at Ben. “Once, I would have just killed you. I’d prefer that now rather than have to sit here and listen to what you’re going to say. Listen to myself being so pathetic.”
Ben very cautiously put his hand on Nikolas’s thigh, just a very light touch. It was like deciding to calm a pit bull with a winning smile.
“I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. I said I didn’t see enough of you, that I miss you, and I don’t want us to keep being apart so much, and you just got up and walked off, and now you’re ranting about killing me. Are you drunk? Stoned?”
Nikolas appeared to be thinking deeply about this for a moment. “You declared it was over, that we were over, that you were bored and didn’t want us to be together anymore, that you’d met someone else. I distinctly remember you saying that.”
“Huh? I said we never see each other anymore, that I don’t like this damn job, and that I want things back as they were. When it was just us.”
Nikolas started to speak, but he seemed to think some more. “You admitted you’d been seeing someone else for weeks.”
“Bloody hell! Are you completely bonkers? I said I’ve been thinking about giving up this damn filming and travelling all the time. I don’t want it, Nik. I just want you, and I shouldn’t think like that, should I? I can’t just immerse myself totally in you!” He started to get really angry with Nikolas then for making him want him so much.
“I need to have my own life, but I don’t want to. I don’t want to have a single night apart from you. I don’t want telephone calls and fucking checking schedules to see if we’re in the same place at the same time so we can meet for fucking lunch. I don’t need to do this job. I’m not the one who’s bored. You are. You need this because I’m not enough for you. Fucking hell.” He climbed out of the car and paced away a few feet away to compose himself. He sensed Nikolas come up behind him.
“So, just to make it clear for me. You’re not sleeping with someone else?” Ben turned. He suddenly swore and yanked Nikolas to him, kissing him and telling him between the kisses, in colourful language he was not normally allowed to use, just how dumb Nikolas really was. For once, Nikolas allowed this transgression on his dignity.
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Book 4: The Other Country
Releasing January 29th
Nikolas is the sanest, straightest, person Ben knows, so can anyone tell him, why is he on a gay therapy course?
Nikolas Mikkelsen could make a very long list of unpleasant things he’s endured in his life. Then order it from ‘nearly killed me’ to ‘extremely horrific and don’t want to do again’. And what did it say about his forty-five years that being hit by a tsunami would be a considerable way down this list? But nothing, not torture, imprisonment, nor starvation has prepared him for what he now has to endure for Ben Rider’s sake-attendance on a residential, gay therapy course. At least he has a new contender for the top spot on his ‘my awful life’ list.
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Go back to were is all began…
Book 1: Love Is A Stranger
Released January 8th
Loving a total stranger can be very hard work sometimes.
How do you love someone who exists entirely in the shadows?
How do you love a man who describes himself as dead?
How do you get that ghost to love you back?
Ex-SAS soldier Ben Rider falls in love with his enigmatic married boss Sir Nikolas Mikkelsen, but Nikolas is living a lie. A lie so profound that when the shadows are lifted, Ben realises he’s in love with a very dangerous stranger. Ben has to choose between Nikolas and safety, but sometimes danger comes in a very seductive package.
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Book 2: Conscious Decisions of the Heart
Released January 15th
Ben Rider and Nikolas Mikkelsen learn that danger comes in all shapes and sizes and often in places you least expect it. Nikolas’s dark past calls to him, inexorably dragging him back into its seductive embrace.
While he goes on an errand of mercy to Russia, Ben travels to Denmark to learn Nikolas’s language. Convinced Russia’s vastness will swallow Nikolas, Ben doesn’t see the enemy much closer to home. Thinking he has lost Nikolas, Ben then makes a terrible decision that threatens to destroy everything they have together.
Focused on this very personal horror, bound by a new level of commitment, they have no idea that a greater threat is coming. And when it arrives, it changes everything—even the definition of commitment.
Warning: This story contains the violent death of a minor character and some graphic violence and gay sex.
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About John:
John Wiltshire is the pen name. The author was born in England, but she travelled widely whilst serving in the British Army, living in the States and Canada and Europe. She retired at the rank of Major, and finally settled in New Zealand.
To date the author has written 14 novels.
Connect with John:
http://johnwiltshire.co.nz
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