Book Title: Finding Forever Boxed Set
Author: Marie Sinclair
Publisher: Sin Books Ink
Cover Artist: LC Chase
Release Date: May 25, 2022
Genre: Contemporary MM Romance
Book 1 prequel – A Winter’s Dance – (Finding Forever #0.5) – is a learning to love story
Book 1 – A Kind of Forever – Second chance at love, hurt/comfort;
Book 2 prequel – Nothing Like a Summer Romance – (Finding Forever #1.5) – is a first time for everything, summer romance story.
Book 2 – Nothing Like Forever – Soulmates to partners, can’t live with him/can’t live without him;
Book 3 – Forever After – Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, bi-awakening.
Themes: Love finds a way even with challenging circumstances
The novels are standalone, obviously the prequels are not. The prequels do not need to be read to enjoy the novels. There are no cliffhangers.
Buy Links – Available in Kindle Unlimited
The men of the Finding Forever series will set your heart on fire (and possibly your Kindle too)
Blurb
Whether it’s overcoming a twelve-year separation and trauma, figuring out a complex and confusing identity, or learning to see beyond the surface to the heart of gold inside, these three novels and two novellas by Marie Sinclair show how love survives and flourishes even in the darkest of times.
For Ry and Cart (A Winter’s Dance and A Kind of Forever), saying I love you for the first time didn’t work out the way fairy tales told them it would. Together in college, they are accidentally outed by a photograph taken at an LGBTQ protest, and separated by Ry’s conservative family. Twelve years later, they’re reunited, but Cart quickly realizes that Ry is no longer the carefree, sensual lover he knew when they were younger. Something haunts and torments Ry, making him run from Cart who has to decide if he’s willing to risk his damaged heart for another chance at love.
When Jake and Micah met (Nothing Like a Summer Romance), there was an instant connection. The month they spent together during summer break was full of first times for Micah. First kiss. First love. First time doing drag. He’s pretty sure he wants Jake to be his first for everything, but Jake’s not so sure he can do a relationship. Nothing Like Forever charts the ins and outs and ups and downs of the twenty years it takes them to figure out that Jake is aromantic and that happily ever after doesn’t have to look a certain way.
After an apartment fire leaves Diego homeless, Jake gives him a place to stay. The only problem, Alex is already living there. In Forever After, Alex and Diego navigate a bumpy road built from bad first impressions, misunderstandings, and close proximity. When Alex’s 13-year old comes out as trans and moves across the country to live with him, Alex sees a different side to queer youth counselor Diego, and the two discover an attraction that burns hotter the more they get to know each other.
From Forever After
You’re kidding, Alex thought as he stepped into the kitchen.
Diego and…whomever…had obviously tried to cook something after they returned from the club. The stovetop was covered in a sticky residue, there were pots full of water and soap bubbles soaking in the sink, and the distinctive odor of char lingered in the air.
With a growl, Alex grabbed the sponge from the sink but recoiled as soon as he touched it. There was food—was that cheese?—caked on the sponge. Alex dropped the offending blue rectangle in the trash and went into the pantry to retrieve a fresh one, only to discover where the dynamic duo had begun their activities and left the evidence behind.
“Are you kidding me?” Alex muttered as he grabbed what he wanted and turned back to the mess in the kitchen. He might be willing to clean up after Diego—again—but he wasn’t touching a used condom.
Alex cleaned up the mess on the counters and stove, then tackled the scorched pans in the sink. Cursing out loud when he realized one of the pans was his perfectly seasoned cast-iron griddle. Alex gritted his teeth and tried to clean it without removing the protective layer that usually kept it pretty much nonstick.
Wrapped up in thoughts of the slow death he’d like to inflict on his housemate and wondering if Jake would pay for another renovation on the guest room so he could get Diego to leave, Alex didn’t hear the man in question showing his guest out. It wasn’t until Diego walked into the kitchen—wearing only a pair of boxers, for crying out loud—and helped himself to the coffee Alex had just made that he knew he was no longer alone.
“I would have taken care of that in the morning,” Diego said and sipped at the coffee. He made an appreciative hum that grated on Alex’s nerves.
“You don’t soak cast iron,” Alex growled. “Not only do you destroy the seasoning, iron rusts.”
“I didn’t know.”
“What did you cook…? You know what, never mind. Just stick to using your cheap-ass pans, and leave my stuff alone if you don’t know how to take care of it.” He bent back over the pan, trying to loosen a lump of…was that caramelized sugar? With another curse, Alex stomped into the pantry, retrieved the baking soda, and returned with the box. He poured a layer into the bottom of the pan, added enough water to cover it, and set the pan on the stove.
When Diego started to turn away, Alex called him back. “You can also clean up what you left in there.” He jerked his head toward the pantry then concentrated on the next pan, which was stainless steel and could be scrubbed to remove the char.
“Sorry about that, dude,” Diego said. “I guess we got a little carried away.” He rubbed his hand across his chest and yawned loudly without covering his mouth. As he stretched, Alex got a good look at the colorful tattoo inked across Diego’s right shoulder blade. It was a Day of the Dead skeleton, foot resting on a gravestone as it played a guitar.
Realizing he was staring, Alex turned his attention back to the pan, scrubbing as if his life depended on it.
Alex felt a sudden flush of heat run up his right arm and blinked at his wrist several times before his brain registered that Diego had taken hold of it. He jerked away and growled. “What?”
“I think it’s clean.” Diego tried to hide his grin but failed when Alex glanced down at the pan, which was now so shiny he could almost see his reflection in it.
Marie Sinclair is a queer writer living in San Francisco. Though she’s been a writer all her life, it wasn’t until she stumbled upon MM romance that she knew she’d found a home for herself and all the characters in her head.
Her focus is on contemporary romance, usually on the steamy side. While HEAs are guaranteed, it will always take some work for the couples to get there, and it might not look the way they expected at the beginning. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Marie believes in rooting her stories in the real world of queer culture and showing how love can survive even in challenging times.
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