Title: Make Like Mountains
Series: Liquid Onyx, Book Two
Author: B L Jones
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: 05/30/2023
Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 130800
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy, humour, family-drama, gay, bisexual, pansexual, superhero, crime gang, magic, PTSD, slow burn, friends to lovers
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Four months ago, Rexley Nova exploded into Danger City, fought some villains, saved some people, and became the vigilante known by the media as ‘Wrath’.
Alongside the superpowered friends he grew up with and Danger’s resident hero, Polaris, Rex is doing his best to protect the city and save the world on the regular, while also attempting to curb some of his more violent tendencies and figure out what the villainous group of Mages he’s been fighting are up to.
Through all this, Rex has to contend with his feelings for two men; Damon, a dangerous and aloof superhero, the one person who understands what being a vigilante means to Rex, and Jamie, his best friend’s older brother who he’s felt an intense connection with almost his entire life.
Rex battles violent superhumans, saves snarky children, gets himself a sidekick, deals with his extremely weird family, goes on a disastrous date, and continues to fistfight his own anxiety. #Traumaisthenewblack.
Make Like Mountains
BL Jones © 2023
All Rights Reserved
The Origins of His Legacy
Three months later
I drag an unconscious man across the road to lay him out next to all the other gang members we’ve chased down.
Polaris and I have been keeping ourselves busy for the last hour by rounding up a gang over on Hellraiser Avenue. This is the third small-time gang we’ve come across tonight. Or rather, they’re the third gang we’ve come across who were stupid enough not to run and hide when they saw us coming.
It’s been three months since my highly informative discussion with Freckles.
In that time, there hasn’t been a single Mage attack. They haven’t made so much as a peep. It seems as if they’ve gone underground. The optimist in me wants to believe it’s because they’ve botched up twice and have therefore given up their goal of wiping out the Liquid Onyx survivors.
The rest of me thinks they’ve been quiet so long because they’re planning something big.
Director Snow shares my view. She’s reached out to all the Liquid Onyx survivors she has some contact with and warned them about the potential danger.
Snow told me none of them were too impressed with the vagueness of her warning, which is understandable. It’s three months later, and we still don’t know the Mages’ real game plan.
It turns out that Freckles’s name is actually Jessica. She admitted that much to the agents who questioned her after me. What she still hasn’t told us is what her leader’s name is or what her group might possibly have planned for the future.
I think it unlikely that Jessica has a single bloody idea what her group are up to now. If her leader is smart, then they’ll have been careful not to share too much information with any of their people.
On a more personal note, things are still as tense as ever between me and Damon. We’ve spent the last three months playing swing ball with an unpinned hand grenade. At some point that thing is gonna blow, and neither of us wants to be holding it when it does.
After our kiss and the following trust standoff, Damon and I disentangled ourselves and retreated to opposite sides of the training mat. For once, we were finding it hard to look at each other, let alone do our usual intense staring.
It was clear one of us needed to make a quick exit before things could devolve even further. I left the gym with barely more than a “see you later” over my shoulder.
We really could have done with a few days of zero contact. But that wasn’t possible since we had a team meeting with Steivater only a handful of hours later. That meeting was awkward as fuck. Even Steivater picked up on the weird vibe between us.
Spending hours alone, patrolling the city together, would have been hell.
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BL Jones is a twentysomething British author who spends all her free time reading and writing and taming her three much younger brothers. She works as a BSL interpreter in Bristol and lives with a temperamental bunny named Pepsi. She’s been writing stories since she was five, rarely sharing them with anyone except her numerous stuffed animals. BL has had a difficult journey into discovering and accepting her own queerness, and therefore believes that positive, honest, and authentic stories about queer people are very important. She hopes to contribute her own stories for people to have fun with and enjoy.
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