He might be Mr. Right, but their timing is all kinds of wrong…
Gideon Miller is done letting his heart do the thinking for him. Been there, done that, still has the emotional scars to prove it. Besides, he’s leaving Los Angeles soon. There’d be no point in starting up a new romance now. But when he meets the off-the-charts sexy, ex-military man next door, Gideon starts to question everything…
Isaiah Williams needs a fresh start. With his time in the Navy—and a painful, toxic relationship—behind him, he’s ready to start a new life. Now all he has to do is figure out how to keep his matchmaking mother out of his business…and how to not fall for his sweet, nerdy, and entirely too attractive neighbor…
They’re complete opposites with nothing but trust issues in common. Their timing? Terrible. And yet…none of that matters when they’re together. Will love be enough to get Gideon and Isaiah to happily ever after? Or are they destined to remain star-crossed?
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- As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
As a child, my family travelled and flew a lot. I always thought it would be cool to be a Flight Attendant because they got to travel all over the world for a living. They were also always so pretty and nice. How could you not like them back then?
- If you had the opportunity to live one year of your life over again, which year would you choose, and why?
This is kind of a weird question because I believe there are no good or bad experiences in life, just experiences that have all led me to be the person I am today. Sure, I would have loved to have spent more summer days picking wild berries on the side of the road with my grandmother. I would have also liked to have been less boy-crazy in the tenth grade, and paid more attention to my English teacher. Boy wouldn’t that be of value now as a writer! Over the last year or so, I’ve been working on my memoirs. It is working on this project that I am really able to reflect back on time, and fully understand and see each of my life’s events and appreciate the take away from it.
- Tell me one thing hardly anyone knows about you.
As an African American child, I was often bullied for my blond afro and light skin. (Yes, I really did have blond hair) Other kids called me High-Yellow, Half-breed, and Cornbread. They called me Cornbread because they said my skin tone matched the color of Cornbread. If they were really mean, they called me an Albino. This usually got their asses kicked by my big sister. In my book Far Away, so much of Noah’s early life are bits and pieces of my own life growing up. The pain of feeling different and an outsider can be very lonely, and have long-lasting devastating effects on a child.
- Were you a voracious reader as a child?
I come from a family of voracious readers. As a child, I grew up going to the library every Saturday morning. My mother would take me and my younger brother to the big main library downtown and we were allowed to check out three books. Those books were read at bedtime every night. I grew up reading the Hardy Boys and loved them! No wonder I grew up and became an investigator.
- What are you working on now, and when can we expect it?
I always have several ‘cakes in the oven’. Unless the characters stop talking to me, my next release is Hawthorne Manor, set for release in May 2022. This story involves a cranky old man, a nosey housekeeper, and two men that can’t seem to keep their hands to themselves.
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“Your dad and I are so proud of you and the work you’ve done on the house. I admit, I thought your dad was crazy to want to take the loan out to do this…But it really looks nice.”
He knew she was referring to the latest pictures he’d sent her. Although he’d spent every bit of the twenty grand from the home equity loan they’d taken out for the project, they saved so much money in labor by him doing the work himself.
Gideon groaned into the receiver. He hated talking money with her. It was always ‘we can’t afford that.’ “Well, I wanted to talk to you and Dad about the master bathroom. I was thinking we should redo the bathroom before we put it back up for rent. I can pay for it with the money I’m making, and…” The sound of a door closing caused Gideon to look over his shoulders, out the window, and into the carport that he and his neighbor, Daisy, shared.
Jesus! Gideon’s lower jaw dropped as he stared at the young man coming out of Daisy’s house holding a trash bag. Shirtless, his gorgeous brown chest muscles were like two rounded mountains.
As the guy walked across the carport, Gideon’s eyes traced down his picture-perfect six-pack abs to a tapered waist and strong thighs. He had the classic military hair cut, trimmed short all the way around except for the top of his head.
“Hold on! Your father’s walking in. Talk to him about that. I love you!”
“I love you, too,” he tried to say before she was gone. As he waited for his dad to get on the phone, Gideon now remembered Daisy saying last week that her son, Isaiah, was coming home and would be staying with her until he got on his feet. Was this who this gorgeous specimen of a man was?
Gideon’s gaze fell below the guy’s waist. Holy shit! What the hell is that swinging in his black nylon gym shorts? Obviously, commando under the tight shorts, the sheer size of it sent blood flooding into Gideon’s own groin.
The man’s warm chestnut skin tone complimented his black hair and thin, neatly-trimmed mustache that dropped to his jaw line. If this was indeed Isaiah, he was way better-looking than his brothers and in great shape. He was all kinds of sexy.
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