Book Title: Star Shadow: The Complete Series
Author: Beth Bolden
Publisher: Beth Bolden Books
Cover Artist: Cate Ashwood Designs
Release Date: February 18, 2021
Genre/s: Contemporary Gay Romance
Trope/s: Rock stars, reunited lovers, friends to lovers, bisexual awakening, hurt/comfort
Themes: coming out, forgiveness, found family
Length: 335,000 words (four full-length novels + bonus epilogue novella)
It’s the entire series.
Buy Links – Available in Kindle Unlimited
Can they fix the mistakes of the past?
Blurb
An ex-boyband, betrayed by everyone they trusted.
Star Shadow met when they were only sixteen years old—four different guys, with four different dreams that coalesced into one when they became a worldwide phenomenon.
Hope was shredded, loyalties tested, and love destroyed.
But now there’s a chance to fix the mistakes of the past.
Love renewed. Friendship resurrected. They’ve earned a brand new beginning and a fresh start.
Includes four full length novels and an exclusive bonus epilogue novella. Approximately 350,000 words.
Terrible Things – When Caleb walked out, leaving his band and his lover behind, Leo knew he could never forgive. He never expected Caleb to show up again, clean and sober and wanting Star Shadow to get back together. But maybe this might not be so terrible after all.
Impossible Things – For the last ten years, Benji and Diego have not only been members of Star Shadow, but best friends. As much as they’ve both wanted more from their relationship, it never felt worth it to trade what they have for something hot, heady and completely impossible.
Hazardous Things – Felix can’t even remember the first time he crushed on Max, Star Shadow’s drummer. But he’s never acted on his feelings. One, because Max is his older brother’s best friend. Two, because Max is also his friend.Three, Max is technically his boss. And four, worst of all, Max is straight.
Extraordinary Things – Caleb knows he’s earned Leo’s forgiveness. He wants to believe he deserves it, but just when Leo needs him more than ever, a voice in his head insists that he doesn’t. It’s so loud, he can’t block it out. So loud, he’d do anything to silence it. Including risking everything he and Leo, and the rest of Star Shadow, have built together.
Excerpt from Hazardous Things
Max waited until they’d demolished eight carne asada tacos between the two of them and a whole boatload of guacamole. Felix had insisted on Max taking another pain pill and icing his knee, which he was doing with less argument than Felix had clearly been expecting. He probably shouldn’t have tried to crutch all that way, even if he’d technically been able to.
And that wasn’t just because him hefting himself to the other side of the house had resulted in a situation where neither of them could quite look each other in the eye.
“That was good,” Max said, rubbing his stomach with an exaggerated hand movement. “See, it was actually really a good idea to think about lunch.”
“You’re going to be a hundred pounds heavier by the end of this,” Felix grumbled. “And no, it wasn’t. You know that.”
“Actually, it wasn’t all bad,” Max said. In for a penny, in for a pound, he told himself. “I’m pretty flattered.”
Felix stared at him, blush high on his cheeks. Yes, it was abundantly obvious that the last thing that he wanted to discuss was what had happened a few hours ago. But Max forged ahead because he had to know. If they . . .experimented . . .would it just be Felix enjoying someone he was attracted to or would it be more? If it was more, Max had to be honest with himself—that was further than he thought he was prepared to go just now.
“We’ve been friends for a long time, right?” Max continued, coaxing the conversation along. “We can be honest with each other.”
Felix’s expression turned immediately suspicious. “Depends on what kind of honesty you’re talking about.”
“You know what kind of honesty I’m talking about.”
“I was afraid you wouldn’t just leave it alone,” Felix hissed.
“Leaving it alone was never going to work. We can’t pretend it didn’t happen.” Max thought this sounded completely reasonable, but Felix was like a cat with its back up, because he kept sliding farther and farther away on the couch, like Max might attack him or something equally ridiculous. Max had just had knee surgery. He wasn’t going to be capable of doing much at all—but he’d proved in the shower that he was still capable of using his dick. That much, he could handle.
“It’s only been a few hours. We’ve barely tried,” Felix argued.
“I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure I can ever forget it, no matter how much time or effort I use,” Max said with stark honesty. He had a feeling he was the only one being fucking honest, and that annoyed him, even though he wasn’t really in a position to be annoyed. After all, he’d opened Felix’s door after barely knocking. He’d been the intruder.
“Great,” Felix muttered.
“It’s not . . . I just want to know. Is . . .this new?”
“Is what new?”
Felix was definitely going to make him pull this out of him one painful question at a time. Max could do that, but he really didn’t want to.
“That you’re attracted to me,” Max said, forcing himself to stay calm. Technically, this is your fault, he reminded himself again.
“Who says I’m attracted to you?”
Max rolled his eyes. “Please, I saw what I saw. And I heard plenty. You don’t just think my dick is ‘okay.’ That wasn’t just ‘Max’s dick is okay’ behavior, and you know it.”
“Maybe it has nothing to do with your dick,” Felix countered, his voice wavering on the last word. Like he could barely even think about it still.
A lifelong Oregonian, Beth Bolden has just recently moved to North Carolina with her supportive husband and their sweet kitten, Earl Grey. Beth still believes in Keeping Portland Weird, and intends to be just as weird in Raleigh.
Beth has been writing practically since she learned the alphabet. Unfortunately, her first foray into novel writing, titled Big Bear with Sparkly Earrings, wasn’t a bestseller, but hope springs eternal. She’s published twenty novels and six novellas.
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