Title: Rhyme of Loss
Series: Jack and Gil #2
Author: Emily Carrington
Publisher: Changeling Press
Release Date: March 17
Heat Level: 4 – Lots of Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 121 pages
Genre: Romance, Thriller/Suspense, Action Adventure, Paranormal, Dark Fantasy, Gay, Multicultural & Interracial, Shapeshifters , Elves, Dragons & Magical Creatures
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Synopsis
Jack is falling apart, but no one seems to notice. He’s transforming into an animal with the ability to rend flesh and kill with little thought, and there’s no one but Gil who can save him. But as Jack withdraws into himself, the tide of war rises. Jack must find a way to regain his strength and determination or SearchLight will fall. And he is convinced he must do it alone.
Gil has resolved never to leave Jack, but that’s hard when his beloved smells of another man and he keeps pulling away. Convinced he’s been replaced, Gil tries to play mean games, but his love for Jack trumps pettiness. Will change destroy them?
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When the third group of TSA agents hurried past Jack, he reached out psychically and touched their surface minds. He got a sense of urgency and Gate C14 from his cursory inspection. Not wanting to distract them, he stopped spying and turned to the guards who’d been assigned to accompany him and Gil to the airport. He addressed the seemingly younger of the two, although it was hard to tell the ages of most magical creatures by the way they looked. But he knew the Japanese American werewolf better than the Inuit member of his council. And that was probably proof that he’d been excluding his council as much as his chief advisor alleged.
“Ethan,” he said, putting protocol aside for the moment, “what was Prince Gil’s gate number?” He should remember but he’d been completely taken up with watching his lover leave.
“C fourteen. What’s wrong?” Ethan was speaking to Jack but watching the two TSA employees rush off.
“Something’s –” the other tracker, Nootaikok, began.
An electronically amplified voice boomed from speakers above them. “An emergency has been declared in the terminal. Please shelter in place.”
“That’s unusual,” Nootaikok said as about a tenth of the people began to talk excitedly and the rest seemed oblivious.
“An emergency has been declared in the terminal. Please shelter in place.”
More people heard it this time. Some of them started heading for the exits.
“Usually the announcement is to evacuate,” Ethan put in.
Jack frowned as a family of five pushed past him. There was fear in the adults’ faces. He said quietly, “Everyone’s going to stampede soon.”
“There are guards moving to keep the doors closed,” Nootaikok said. “They must think whatever the threat is, he or she isn’t alone in here.”
Jack tried to come up with a game plan. “Do you have your badges?” These were nifty gifts from the common leprechauns. When Ethan and Nootaikok nodded, Jack said, “Use them to get us to Gil’s plane. Let’s find out what’s going on.”
He started walking, trusting them to keep pace.
“Sir?” Ethan asked.
Jack glanced at him and saw confusion on the other’s face. “Yes?”
“Cell phones?” And then he added more softly, “Telepathy?”
Jack angled until he was close to a wall. “Good point.” He felt himself blush and knew he’d been focused so hard on Gil’s safety that he hadn’t judged things properly. He watched Ethan and Nootaikok take up sentry positions near him without being on top of him, and he was grateful for their discretion. He took out his cell and checked the bars. He didn’t have any. “No signal,” he said, frowning slightly. “I’ve never run into that problem in this airport.”
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Emily Carrington is a multipublished author of male/male and transgender erotica. Seeking a world made of equality, she created SearchLight to live out her dreams. But even SearchLight has its problems, and Emily is looking forward to working all of these out with a host of characters from dragons and genies to psychic vampires.
Fantasy creatures not your thing? Emily has also created a contemporary romance world, called Sticks and Stones, where she explores being “different” in a small town.
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