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A Fall of Light by L.J. Greene
LJ Greene brings to life one of her most compelling characters: the intensely creative bass guitarist, Greg Van de Meer. A Fall of Light weaves together the strands of Greg’s private and public lives—a shattering personal history, a love affair with potentially disastrous consequences, and family bonds that are stretched to their breaking point.
It’s been fifteen years since Greg was outed by his fundamentalist father at age sixteen and sent from home, with devastating consequences for both he and his younger brother, Asher. Now unlaid ghosts from the past are stirring. With his band’s success on the world stage, Greg’s life takes a complicated turn when he develops a friendship with Louis Angel, an ex-Marine with a secret of his own, and finds himself facing familiar threats from an unexpected source.
Strained loyalties, a private affair, and Greg’s own guarded history collide dangerously until a visit from an old foe forces him to confront past wounds and present beliefs. Allegiances are called into question and he must decide whether the secrets he’s fighting to protect are worth the life he’s finally ready to have.
A Fall of Light is a standalone adult contemporary M/M romance.
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Greg’s second waking that day was a lot more startling than his first.
“Greg? Greg! For God’s sake.”
The voice was familiar, he thought muzzily, and it sounded worried. Odd. Also odd was that he appeared to be lying on the stage. His head hurt and his face felt damp. He shut his eyes and opened them again.
“Greg? Are you all right? Don’t try to move.”
In fact, he didn’t feel like moving at all. He seemed to be nestled into the side of a large, warm body that was holding him securely under one arm while his head rested on a strong thigh. He tilted his face up in the direction of the voice and found himself looking into the anxious eyes of Louis Angel. Those eyes were light brown and soft with concern, with a tiny pleat of unease between the brows. Greg also had the slow-moving thought that they may have been the kindest eyes he’d ever seen.
“Greg, can you hear me? It’s Louis from security. You’ve taken a blow to the head. You passed out for a few seconds and you’re bleeding.” Well, that was also odd. “Somebody get a medic and a towel,” Lou barked over his shoulder. Then gentler to Greg: “Can you tell me what you see?”
“You,” Greg offered. It was the first thing he thought of.
Lou smiled in amused relief. “What else?”
Greg couldn’t seem to look anywhere else but those kind, honey-colored eyes. They were mesmerizing and strangely reassuring. Gazing into them, he felt safe and calm, despite what was increasingly sounding like chaos around him, and inside him, his brain was banging against his skull.
“Still you,” he answered obediently. Then he closed his eyes as a cold cloth was pressed to his head and he dreamed, probably, that he felt the featherlight stroke of Louis’s thumb on his cheek.
“How—?” But he couldn’t quite get the rest of the question out and then he lost the opportunity because Lou was wriggling out from underneath him and another towel was being pushed under his head like a pillow, and then the venue medics were taking over.
“Can you tell me your full name?”
“Gregory Michael Van de Meer . . .”
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LJ Greene is a self-professed obsessive multi-tasker who writes boring stuff by day and lets her inner romantic fly by night. This California native is married to the most amazing man and has two beautiful children, now old enough to read her books but still not interested because of the ew, gross factor. She’s an avid reader of all genres with an embarrassingly large ebook collection, and a weird penchant for reading the acknowledgements at the end of a novel. She’s also a music lover with no apparent musical talent, a travel enthusiast, and a cheese connoisseur.
Website: www.ljgreenebooks.com
Twitter: @authorljgreene
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