Hello again! It’s so wonderful to be back at Love Bytes to chat about one of my favorite things: gay hockey romances!
You would think after umpteen books about gay hockey players finding love I’d be tired of them. Nope! I seem to have that typical authors overactive mind combined with a sports fans adoration for the game they love. I have a file of storyline ideas on my laptop and new plot bunnies are added weekly it seems.
Also the fact that the NHL is now in full swing really helps to keep me motivated. Right beside my recliner is a notebook and pen. Anytime something interesting, exciting, or awesome happens in a Rangers game I jot it down. And since I watch a LOT of Rangers hockey I’m well supplied with hockey goodness to write about. Real life certainly does influence fiction!
My latest release, Songs of Red Currant Wine, is the sixth release in my Colors of Love hockey romance series. All the books are standalone novels with only one recurring character showing up in all seven books, a sports agent. Poor Arn certainly earns his money and then some! I hope everyone enjoys my new release. And if you’re not a sports fan, that’s cool. All the Colors of Love books should appeal to you as well!
Hugs (from a safe distance)
V.L. Locey
No matter how far you go, love will always lead you home again.
The world has changed quite a bit since Carl Cimino was a young man in Port Plechard. The small Connecticut coastal town once had everything that he held dear: his family, his friends, his hockey team, his school, and his first love, Mike Rinnert. Back then gay boys didn’t parade along the rocky shores in bright rainbow swim trunks. They hid their shame then moved away or married a nice girl and pretended to be happy. After a dismal marriage attempt and a lackluster playing career that ended with an equally unsatisfying coaching job, Carl is called back to Port Plechard to attend Mike’s funeral and swears that he’s just seen a ghost.
Either that or he’s had one too many sips of his father’s homemade wine. He soon discovers that the spirit hovering around Mike’s grave isn’t a phantom at all, it’s Tigh, Mike’s much younger brother. Tigh is nearly an exact replica of young Mike right down to his dark sensual eyes, wavy hair, and lips that beg to be kissed. The two men are drawn to each other immediately, but there’s more than one hurdle to overcome: a sizeable age difference, small-town gossip, personal demons, family problems, and a hurricane just to name a few.
USA Today Bestselling Author V.L. Locey – Penning LGBT hockey romance that skates into sinful pleasures.
V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, Torchwood and Dr. Who, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.) She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a pair of geese, far too many chickens, and two steers.
When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in one hand and a steamy romance novel in the other.
