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Catching His Fall by Christie Gordon
Mesa Boys, Book 1
Max has a plan. Tanner doesn’t do plans. Plan or not, they’re better off together.
Max Thompson has a few problems. He’s spending too much time at the skatepark watching a mysterious, unattainable young man he refers to as skater boy. Meanwhile, his college fund is running dry in his senior year at Arizona State University and it’s time to find a roommate to help with expenses. Hopefully one that’s not too weird this time. He’s spent his college years staying away from love to focus on school, but he can’t get skater boy out of his head.
Tanner Donahue is a hardworking assistant manager at a grocery store, who likes to skateboard and play guitar in a cover band in his spare time. But Tanner has his own problems. The first being the fact that he hooked up with and fell for his roommate and coworker, who has decided a relationship with a guy is not what he wants. It’s time for Tanner to find a new place to live and learn from his mistake.
When Tanner shows up on Max’s doorstep with his guinea pig, Stan, hoping to rent the room Max has available, Max jumps at the chance. Max soon realizes he’s going to have to walk a fine line if he’s going to make Tanner his own while living together. It doesn’t help that Tanner’s old roommate wants him back, and Tanner’s family situation is complicated at best. As truths are revealed and problems pile up, can Max and Tanner navigate what’s thrown at them to come out together?
Catching His Fall is a roommates to lovers, opposites attract romance with an HEA and no cliffhangers. It features a determined college student and a bad boy skater with a heart of gold who only wants to please. This is book one in the Mesa Boys series. Each book features a different couple.
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Max sat in his beige Toyota Prius, looking out over the grassy field and occasional tall tree or patch of palm trees in noonday sun, then beyond, to the cement curves and metal railings of a skatepark. His gaze followed the graceful movements of a young man, his brown, sun-bleached hair billowing out around his shoulders from under a black baseball cap turned backward on his head, his focus determined as he swung his shoulders over the lip of a vert ramp, caught air, then tipped his skateboard backward as if it were glued to his sneakers, tapped it with his fingers and landed perfectly down again, gliding effortlessly to the bottom and across to the other side.
“Damn, he’s good.” Max picked up a long Subway sandwich, unwrapped one end and took a bite, tasting lunch meat with tangy sauce and soft bread. He should find out who this guy was, if only he had the guts to. He’d been watching him for a good month or so and something about him was just so amazing. He was just so…free. A cold blob slid down the side of his mouth. “Shit.” He set the sandwich in his lap and lowered the visor to peer at himself in the mirror. Mayonnaise slithered down his chin, next to his full lips. He swiped at it and sucked it off his fingers, then absently took inventory of the mop of curly brown hair falling over his forehead to hover over his brown eyes. He hadn’t had time this morning to tame the curls with gel. He’d woken up late for his renewable energy class and he’d be damned if he’d miss his favorite class.
A cell phone rang out in the car.
He jumped. “What now?” He flipped the visor up and fished the phone out of the front pocket of his red jeans. “Hello?”
“Dude, don’t tell me you’re at the park watching skater boy again.”
“Josh…” Max huffed. “What do you want?” He let his gaze roam over the black dashboard and further out to land on skater boy, now holding his skateboard under one muscled arm, exposed because the arms had been cut off on his black, graphic t-shirt. It was a good look for him, all bad boy hotness.
“Well, are you?” Josh chuckled.
“What if I am?” Max kept his gaze on skater boy, noting the tattoo of a skating skeleton on the underside of his forearm, then sipped Coke from a straw poking out of the lid on a plastic cup.
“You are so crushing on that guy,” Josh said with a snicker. “When are you going to find out his name?”
“I-I don’t know.” Max furrowed his brows. Just the thought of getting close to him now made his insides churn with nerves. He seemed so mysterious. “Maybe it’s better if I keep my distance. I’d probably make a fool of myself. Plus, I don’t even know if he likes guys.”
“Oh, for fuck’s sake. When did you become such a pussy? I’ve never known you to back down on anything.”
“This is not some environmental cause, Josh. This is…a hot guy.” And my heart is thoroughly caught up in it. Max fixated on skater boy.
Skater boy walked to another young man with brown, wavy hair, cut around his face, dressed in a gray hoody sweatshirt and jeans, sitting on a bench at the edge of the park. Skater boy leaned in, then kissed him on the cheek and smiled.
Max’s heart pinched. “Uh…he’s definitely not straight. Fuck.” That answered that.
“What? What happened?”
“He just kissed a guy.” Max slumped his shoulders. It figured. He’d waited too long and now skater boy probably had a boyfriend.
“Dude, you need to get out there and insert yourself.” Josh’s voice was stern. “You’ve been pining for this guy for how long?”
“Oh, my God, I’m not pining. And it’s only been about a month. Just since we came back from winter break.” Max thinned his lips. This was so not like him, but the first time he came out here to eat lunch and saw this guy it was like he couldn’t not watch him, or want him.
“Okay, well, if he has a boyfriend now, I guess you’ll have to stop stalking him.” Josh snickered.
“Why did you call?” Max stared at the phone a moment, then pressed it to his ear again, shaking his head. One kiss on the cheek did not a boyfriend make.
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About the Author:
Christie Gordon started writing gay and M/M romance fiction after becoming preoccupied with anime and in particular, the boys love and yaoi genres. She’s always had stories in her head and always enjoyed writing, so she took up fiction writing classes at a local community college and published her first book with eXtasy Books back in 2009. Christie likes to write complicated characters with painful pasts that refuse to be ignored until the characters are forced to face them head on. Angst? Yes. Happily ever after? Always. It’s the struggle to get there that counts.
Christie’s day job is in the high-tech industry with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s in Business Administration. She currently lives in the Phoenix, Arizona metro area and enjoyed eight years in the Bay Area of California but grew up in Minnesota. She shares a home with her partner of twelve years, a musician by night and a coder by day, who is currently in three bands, giving her plenty of time to keep writing. She is also a mother of two sons, one currently in college for engineering and the other preparing for nursing college. Her one-eyed, rescue pug is always by her side, snoring the day away.
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