Book Title: Catalyst
Author and Publisher: Aurora Crane
Cover Artist: Cormar Covers
Release Date: November 17, 2022
Genre: Contemporary MMMM Romance
Tropes: Second chance, Hurt/comfort, Friends to lovers
Themes: Didn’t know they were dating/idiots in love
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: 90 000 words
It is the first book in a series that will follow the same four men in a relationship.
Book 2 will be released early 2023.
This book does not end on a cliffhanger and is HFN.
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Blurb
Detective Quinn Hughes doesn’t have many regrets in life, but Sebastian Devlin is the biggest. As a cop and a defence lawyer, the deck was stacked against them to start with, but Quinn was the one who left a burning inferno behind him. Missing his chance with ex-Special Forces Commando Peyton Sinclair is a close second on his regrets list, but Quinn isn’t going to ruin the happiness Peyton has found with fellow police officer Will McMahon for anything—not even a chance at his own happiness.
Best friends Will McMahon and Peyton Sinclair have been hooking up for years, content with their arrangement and the comfort they get from it. When Sebastian—the hot lawyer they picked up at the club the night before—stumbles over a dead body in their kitchen on his way out, calling Quinn is instinctive for them. Years of unacknowledged tension between Peyton and Quinn is a sore point, but Peyton trusts that Quinn will figure out the mess they’ve landed in.
While Quinn tries to find answers, Peyton and Will quickly find themselves tangled in the tension between Quinn and Sebastian. They’re hoping Quinn can move fast—before one of them becomes the next dead body—but the situation becomes even more complicated when another explosive night proves that Peyton and Will aren’t done with either Quinn or Sebastian, just as much as the two aren’t done with each other.
Between the mind-blowing night Sebastian spent with Peyton and Will, and the fact that every time he turns around it’s either Quinn or the barrel of a gun waiting for him, Sebastian has never had more regrets. If he can survive long enough to get some answers, maybe the four of them together are going to be the catalyst for a future that’s more wildly different than anything they’d ever imagined.
Catalyst is a 90,000-word MMMM romance that ends in a HFN. It is Book 1 in an ongoing series following the same four men and their relationship. It contains adult situations, gun use, references to murder and drug usage, suspense themes and a character with PTSD
Peyton looked behind himself, where Will was dutifully following them up the stairs. The grip he had on Peyton’s hand was firm but not tight. He wasn’t scared; he was turned on. It was the only reason Peyton felt okay dragging him into this.
As much as Peyton had always wanted Quinn, as much as this was a dream come true, Will was far too entwined in his life—in his sex life as well as everything else—that he couldn’t just ignore that or make it disappear because Quinn had finally taken his head out of his ass.
And Peyton knew that if Will really didn’t want to be there, he wouldn’t be. He was a sweetheart, but he’d always been good at saying no when he needed to. Mostly that was when Peyton wanted him to try a new food, and Will noped the fuck out of it because he didn’t want a bar of it, but the principle was the same.
“How is this going to work?” Quinn asked at the doorway to his room, glancing between them.
Peyton knew that he had already asked a lot of Quinn just by inviting Will to stay. Sebastian had been on board with the two of them from the start, but Quinn was warier. It was different when feelings were involved.
Quinn hadn’t ever looked at Will like that, and vice versa, and Peyton wouldn’t force either of them to do anything that they didn’t want to. He just… wanted them both in the same room. He wondered if maybe he was being too selfish.
“I’m just a spectator,” Will said with a grin.
“A spectator,” Quinn said. It was both a statement and a question.
“Yeah, haven’t you ever had sex in front of someone before?”
“No.”
“Well, today you can tick it off your list.”
Quinn still seemed hesitant, but the moment the door closed behind them, he pushed Peyton against it and kissed him, his movements sure and steady.
The way that Quinn kissed was addictive. Peyton had never had a partner focus so completely on it. Will’s kisses were fun and sent shivers down Peyton’s spine, and Sebastian had kissed slowly, leisurely, like he had all the time in the world to drive a person insane.
Quinn, though: each deliberate stroke of his tongue was like a direct line to every nerve in Peyton’s body.
Quinn took hold of his wrists and lifted them above Peyton’s head, pressing them against the door. “Keep them there,” he ordered hoarsely. He bent his head and found a sensitive spot just above Peyton’s collarbone that spread fire across Peyton’s every nerve. The pressure against his wrists as Quinn held him against the door was only fuelling the flames beneath his skin.
Peyton knew that even though he was shorter and smaller than Quinn, he would come out on top in a physical altercation. He had experience and training that far outweighed anything Quinn had ever dealt with. Peyton had been in situations that required so much more than mere physical strength. And he knew how to use an opponent’s size against him. There were no rules when it came to survival.
The way Quinn was holding him wouldn’t keep him trapped if Peyton didn’t let it. But for Quinn, Peyton would do anything he asked. The obedience was something he gave willingly, no force required.
“I think you should get naked,” Peyton said. He wanted to see Quinn, wanted to feel him skin to skin.
“Do you think so?”
Fuck, yes. “Undress for me.” Peyton licked his lips. “For us,” he dared to say.
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