Book Title: Two Soldiers for Christmas
Author and Publisher: Aurora Crane
Cover Artist: Cormar Covers
Release Date: November 25, 2022
Genre: Contemporary M/M/M Romance
Tropes: Brother’s best friends, established couple adding a third
Themes: Christmas in Australia, pining
Heat Rating: 3 flames
Length: approx. 28 000 words
It is loosely connected to another series with cameos, but can be read alone.
It ends with a satisfying HFN
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Can Avery open his heart to two soldiers this Christmas?
Blurb
Can Avery open his heart to two soldiers this Christmas?
Felix Hawkins and Zach Walsh fell in love with each other when they were fourteen—and with their best friend’s little brother when they were twenty-three. But at that point, Avery was barely an adult, still wearing hearts in his eyes when he looked at them. Felix was determined that they should wait so that Avery could come to them on even footing, as an adult fully grown and with a clear head. Zach wasn’t sure he could be that patient, but for Felix, and for Avery, he would do anything. So they’ve held out for what feels like forever—and they know what they want for Christmas this year!
Avery McKenna might have crushed on his brother’s best friends once upon a time, but that’s over with now… right? He’s focused on his career, and while his job might not be keeping him warm at night, it’s summer in Sydney; he doesn’t need any extra warmth. Felix and Zach and their charming… everything, can waltz right back out the door because he doesn’t want anything to do with whatever game they’re playing with him. It has to be a game, right? Earth-shattering kisses aside, why would they ever want him for keeps?
Is the beautiful picture they might paint together worth the risk of it all going wrong? Avery has never been a gambler, but he might finally be ready to take a chance on the best Christmas present he’s ever received.
Two Soldiers for Christmas is a roughly 28,000-word MMM older brother’s best friends Christmas novella featuring an established couple adding a third, Christmas shenanigans, and a satisfying HFN ending.
He flinched when a knock came at the door.
“Everything okay back there?” Felix called out. “Is someone hurt? I’m a medic; I can help.”
Felix was a combat medic, and Avery was absolutely not thinking about that because… he just wasn’t. It was just as ridiculous as the rest of him. As them.
“He’s just doing up his laces,” Loren called out. “One more minute!”
“I’m just doing up my laces?” Avery hissed. He wanted the floor to open up and eat him. “Seriously?”
“If you would just go out there, I wouldn’t have to make up bullshit,” Loren hissed back.
Avery could not believe he was in this situation. He flung the door open and plastered on as big a smile as he could muster.
Felix and Zach had been best friends with Avery’s older brother, Lake, since primary school. Once upon a time, Avery, five years their junior, had maybe followed them around like a lamb. And maybe he’d had feelings when he’d been going through puberty, and he’d discovered that Felix and Zach had been dating since they’d been fourteen. Just because they had also been the reason he’d realised he was gay didn’t mean anything. He’d been an impressionable kid, and he’d grown up since then.
It wasn’t that he didn’t see them often, because unfortunately he did—they’d been friends with Lake so long that they were basically part of the family, which was more than mildly frustrating. But they’d never visited his shop before this year!
Yet here they were. Felix was in the doorway, and Zach, a good foot taller than Felix, was hovering above him, one arm stretched up and leaning against the doorframe like some kind of stupid Adonis statue. They were a perfect blend, standing next to each other like that, like something Avery wanted to paint, and Avery wished it wasn’t so fucking distracting. God. He hated both of them so much. With their thick, dark, sexy hair, and their neat beards, and those lean muscles for days. Felix’s green eyes and Zach’s dark brown ones, and the fucking tilt of Zach’s mouth that was somehow part of his DNA. Everything about them was too much.
“I wasn’t staring,” Avery blurted out. Jesus Christ on a stick, why could he not shut up.
Of course, they were wearing their goddamn Army uniforms. It was December in Sydney, which meant it was at least twenty-six degrees on any given day, and even with the air-conditioning of the shopping complex, it was still hot. They both just made the room sixty degrees hotter in their long-sleeved camo shirts and pants, and those boots looked like they would be creating a sauna for their feet. Did they have good insulation? Did they wear thick socks? Weren’t they fucking hot?
Stop looking at their feet, Avery.
“I think you were,” Zach said, bending down even further, one arm slipping around Felix’s waist. “It’s okay; we don’t mind if you look.”
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