Cover design: Golden Czermak/FuriousFotog
Cover model: Jose Luis Barreiro
Photographer: Wander Aguiar
Blurb:
Everyone knows my face. No one knows the real me.
All people see when they look at me is a beautiful man, a supermodel, half of the world’s most famous twins. No one sees the man underneath.
When I return to Forestville, the small town I grew up in, for my high school reunion, I impulsively decide to stay.
I’m now the proud owner of a house, an absolute fixer-upper. Never mind that I have two left hands.
Thank god for Cas, the local contractor, who agrees to help me out. We come from completely different worlds and are almost twenty years apart, yet we somehow connect.
Cas sees me, the real me.
We hook up…
Then become friends…
With benefits (courtesy of a snowstorm)…
And a fake relationship (long story)…
But when fake becomes real and pretending turns into feelings I can’t deny, I’m left wondering if what we have stands a chance.
Renovating the Model is the first book in the new Forestville Silver Foxes series, a contemporary small-town MM romance series featuring hot silver foxes and the men who fall in love with them. Each book can be read as a standalone.
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“How are you doing?” Cas asked, looking a bit concerned. “You’re looking…stunned.”
“I am. It’s a lot to process, but I’ll get there.”
“I’m here to help with whatever I can.”
He really was a good guy. Sexy as fuck, but also kind and generous with his time. Such a bummer that we’d never get to have that second meetup. My fault entirely for buying this house on a whim, but by doing that, I’d cheated us both out of one hell of an experience.
Hmm, what if…?
“You know what would help with making me feel less tense?”
A slow, sexy grin spread across Cas’s face. He must’ve seen something in my eyes or on my face. “Uh-oh. I have a sneaky suspicion where this is going.”
“Look, technically, you don’t work for me yet. We haven’t signed a contract, and the work hasn’t started.”
“A mere technicality at this point.”
“But an important one, don’t you think? We had already agreed to have sex again. Hell, we were on our way to doing that when we got…distracted.”
“Distracted? You call buying a house on impulse a distraction?”
I waved his objection away. “Semantics. My point is there’s no harm in fulfilling our original agreement.”
“I’m not sure I’d call it an agreement. More of a loose intention.”
Jesus, was he going to argue with every word I said? The fucker was doing it on purpose too, his eyes dancing with held-back mirth. “I’ll use whatever term you prefer, but can we at least get on the same page here?”
“And what page is that? So far, I’ve only heard vague references and nothing concrete.”
“I want to kiss you again,” I said. If Cas wanted direct, he could get it all spelled out in detail.
“That’s it? That’s all you want?”
“That’s just the beginning of what I want to do with you.”
Cas crossed his arms. “I’m going to need a few more details before I can make an informed decision.”
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I write steamy gay romance books and I love it. I also love reading books. Books are everything.
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I started writing my first stories when I was a teen…on a freaking typewriter. I still have these, and they’re adorably romantic. And bad, haha. Fear of failing kept me from following my dream to become a romance author, so you can imagine how proud and ecstatic I am that I finally overcame my fears and self doubt and did it. I adore my genre because I love writing and reading about flawed, strong men who are just a tad broken..but find their happy ever after anyway.
My favorite books to read are pretty much all MM/gay romances as long as they have a happy end. Kink is a plus… Aside from that, I also read a lot of nonfiction and not just books on writing. Popular psychology is a favorite topic of mine and so are self help and sociology.
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