Terribly Tristan by Lisa Henry & Sarah Honey
Book 3 in the Bad Boyfriends, Inc. series
General Release Date: 18th October 2022
Word Count: 62,357
Book Length: NOVEL
Pages: 246
Genres:
COMEDY AND HUMOUR,CONTEMPORARY,EROTIC ROMANCE,FAKE RELATIONSHIPS,GAY,GLBTQI
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Book Description
One and done has always been the rule—so what happens when once isn’t enough?
Leo Fisher is the outward picture of respectability, just like his parents raised him to be. But when he inherits a crumbling terrace house from his great-uncle, he also inherits a tenant who turns his world upside down. Tristan is brazen, gorgeous, experienced and utterly fabulous. He’s everything Leo is not—so why is Leo drawn to him? Leo has always made the right choices—the sensible choices—yet here he is, hooking up with his tenant, who’s a rent boy.
Tristan Montague is not a rent boy. Not exactly. He’s a Bad Boyfriend. For a fee, he’ll turn any date into the kind of disaster that will have his client’s unsuspecting parents begging them to date anyone but him. Boyfriending for cash is fun—but for real? No thanks. As far as Tristan is concerned, there are far too many flowers in the garden of love to settle on just one bloom. Instead, he flits happily from lover to lover like a glorious gay butterfly, and he doesn’t do repeats.
Except when he meets his cute, awkward landlord Leo, Tristan finds himself rethinking his ‘no repeats’ rule. He plans to show Leo that he, too, can be a glorious gay butterfly, but when physical attraction becomes something deeper, Tristan realizes he might be ready to hang up his wings and date…for real.
But in order for Leo to take a stand against his overbearing parents, Tristan will need to play the Bad Boyfriend one last time—and it’s going to have to be spectacular.
Reader advisory: This book contains instances of homophobia, and the death of a minor character.
Tristan awoke with the sun hitting him in the face because he hadn’t closed his curtains the night before. He groaned and checked the time on his phone. It was almost ten o’clock, but there was a crack in the screen that made the day, and half the screen, unreadable. Unless it was the weekend, he’d missed his first lecture at uni. He listened for a moment and caught the faint sounds of someone in the kitchen—the squeaky cupboard being opened, the clatter of a pan on the stovetop. Either a burglar had broken in and was making themselves a late breakfast, or it was a Saturday and Harry and Jack were home. Harry and Jack both had jobs and always seemed to be away doing them. The house was generally Tristan’s from Monday to Friday, which he enjoyed, but he couldn’t deny that he also liked it when Harry and Jack got home every evening, and they all sat around and watched Netflix together, squeezed onto the couch with their dinner plates balanced on their knees. It was nice, even though Jack talked about mysterious things like alternators and differentials, and Harry talked about even more mysterious things like four-year-olds and developmental milestones.
Someone sighed in their sleep behind him.
Tristan stretched.
Oh yeah. Last night had been good. Tristan hadn’t been rimmed by a guy with a tongue stud before, and the experience was definitely one he wanted to repeat—not necessarily with this guy, though. People sometimes got weird and clingy, even though they said they wouldn’t, and Tristan didn’t have any time for that. In a sea full of fish, why settle for the same old sardine every time?
Thinking about sardines reminded him that he was hungry, so he rolled over, sat on the edge of the bed and stretched. He didn’t bother waking his bedmate—Rhys? Ross? One of those, anyway. Tristan had found that if he just rolled out of bed and left his partner alone, they were less likely to assume he was interested in morning-after hugs, exchanging numbers and arranging to meet for coffee and far more likely to take the hint, get dressed and bugger off, leaving behind nothing more than fond memories. On very rare occasions, Tristan indulged in another round the next morning, but generally he took the view that lovers were a bit like stray cats—show too much affection and there was a risk they’d hang around indefinitely, and Tristan wasn’t interested in that.
He fished a pair of satin boxers off the floor and shrugged into his kimono before heading down the stairs, sniffing. There was a disturbing lack of bacon in the air, and when he walked into the kitchen, nothing was cooking at all. There was just Harry, on his knees with his head in the oven.
Oh no.
“Harry, no,” Tristan
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Lisa Henry
Lisa likes to tell stories, mostly with hot guys and happily ever afters.
Lisa lives in tropical North Queensland, Australia. She doesn’t know why, because she hates the heat, but she suspects she’s too lazy to move. She spends half her time slaving away as a government minion, and the other half plotting her escape.
She attended university at sixteen, not because she was a child prodigy or anything, but because of a mix-up between international school systems early in life. She studied History and English, neither of them very thoroughly.
Lisa has been published since 2012, and was a LAMBDA finalist for her quirky, awkward coming-of-age romance Adulting 101, and a Rainbow Awards finalist for 2019’s Anhaga.
Find out more at Lisa’s website and blog. You can follow her on Bookbub and sign up to her newsletter.
Sarah Honey
Sarah started life in New Zealand. She came to Australia for a working holiday, loved it, and never left. She lives in Western Australia with her partner, two cats, two dogs and a life-size replica TARDIS.
She spends half her time at a day job and the rest of her time reading and writing about clueless men falling in love.
Her proudest achievements include having adult kids who will still be seen with her in public, the ability to make a decent sourdough loaf, and knowing all the words to Bohemian Rhapsody.
Terribly Tristan will be her seventh published novel in collaboration with Lisa Henry.
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