Book Title: Everything About You: A Second Chance Gay Romance

Author: Jeanne St. James

Publisher: Double-J Romance, Inc.

Cover Artist/Photographer/Cover Model: Golden Czermak @ FuriousFotog

Release Date: May 7, 2022

Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance

Tropes: Second Chance, Friends to Lovers

Themes: Forgiveness

Heat Rating: 4 flames

Length: 334 print pages

It is a standalone story.

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Blurb

It was your smile.

Your laugh.

The color of your eyes.

The way you looked at me when no one else was looking.

The way you held me.

The way you kissed me.

It was everything about you I loved.

 

The flattening of that smile.

The silence of your laughter.

The loss of your lips.

The distance you created.

The way you left.

The way you destroyed it all.

The way you destroyed me.

Destroyed us.

It was everything about you I hated.

 

Everything about you.

I wanted.

Needed.

Hoped for.

And that day you not only broke my heart.

You f*cking crushed it.

Note: Everything About you is a standalone gay (M/M) second chance romance. Please refer to the content note at the beginning of the book before buying or reading. You can access that page by using Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature or downloading the free sample. This info can also be found on my website. As always, this book doesn’t have a cliffhanger and an HEA is guaranteed.

 

I paced back and forth in front of the expanse of windows. The broad and impressive views were the whole reason I bought this building and turned the whole top floor into a penthouse. Like most buildings I purchased, this one had needed a lot of rehab, but now I called it home.

With most of the lights out, the whole city seemed to be within reach of my fingertips. As if I could stretch out my hand and touch everything good about Pittsburgh.

From my penthouse, my views included the city’s high-rises, the sparkling lights, and some of the numerous bridges. In the distance I could make out the Duquesne Incline, as well as PNC Park and Heinz Field, the two stadiums where the much beloved Pittsburgh Pirates and Steelers played.

On the nights they did the huge firework display for the baseball fans at PNC Park, I either headed up to the roof or turned off every light in my penthouse, settled myself on my couch in the dark and watched the night sky light up with explosions of color over downtown.

I loved this city. I loved the people. I loved the vibe.

I loved it from the moment I arrived and moved into my dorm room at Duquesne U when I was nineteen.

I loved it so much, I stayed after graduation.

It had everything I ever needed.

Including Tate in the beginning.

Then it continued to include everything I needed except for him.

Tate didn’t stay like he said he would. Instead, he left me and the city we both loved so much. The city I thought we’d both call home. Together.

I was wrong.

Even worse was how it happened.

I paused in front of the center floor-to-ceiling window and glanced down at the street. The movement of red and white lights a blurry trail as vehicles wound through the streets filled with people heading to where they needed to be. Tiny people also moved about on foot to head out to dinner or a show, or simply on their way home after a long day.

My attention was pulled from the calming, familiar view when my cell phone finally buzzed in my hand. It wasn’t a call but a text with the answer to my inquiry. Alicia was one of my senior property managers. She headed the residential division of Pak Property Management, Inc.

Unit 602. A copy of the sublease is on file if you want to see it. I can email it to you tomorrow when I’m back in the office.

Unit 602.

Before I could respond, another text popped up. Is there a problem with the occupant that I need to deal with?

Before I could text back, my phone rang. I swiped the green Accept button and put Alicia on speakerphone.

“Is there an issue, Roe?”

Not one I wanted to admit to. “No. No issue. I saw someone new in the lobby with the access code and just wanted to make sure he lived here. That’s all.”

Alicia’s attention to detail was why she had quickly moved up the ladder in my corporation. I paid her well to keep her and she earned every damn penny. So did the heads of both the commercial and home owners association divisions of my property management company, one of a few businesses I now owned.

I had lucked out in that the original employees I had hired for Pak Property Management when I was just a fledgling investor were still with me. But then, I compensated them well between their salaries and benefits. Along with a generous amount of time off so they didn’t burn out.

It also helped that their annual bonuses were more than what a worker paid minimum wage earned all year.

I learned early on to respect and appreciate my most hardworking employees. They, like real estate, businesses and stocks, were also an investment.

The right person was worth their weight in gold.

On that note, so was the right lover.

“Roe?”

I shook my head to shake myself back to the conversation. “Sorry.”

“Is something wrong?”

“I just wanted to make sure he was a valid tenant, that’s all.”

“No. With you.” Alicia was also very astute.

“I’m fine,” I lied. “Thank you for checking. I’ll bring one of those lattes you like from that coffee shop on the corner next time I’m in the office.”

A soft snort came from the phone. “You rarely come into the office anymore.”

“That’s because you, Mike and Abe are so good at what you do that I don’t need to.”

“That’s why you pay us the big bucks.”

 

 

JEANNE ST. JAMES is a USA Today, Amazon and international bestselling romance author who loves writing about strong women and alpha males. She was only thirteen when she first started writing. Her first published piece was an erotic short story in Playgirl magazine. She then went on to publish her first romance novel in 2009. She is now an author of over fifty contemporary romances. She writes M/F, M/M, and M/M/F ménages, including interracial. She also writes M/M paranormal romance under the name J.J. Masters.

 

 

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