Title: A Hundred Thousand
Words
Author: Nyrae
Dawn
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Blurb
Tobias Jackson grew up in Coburn, a town where
the queer population equaled exactly one: him. Add that to the fact that his
dream guy was his best friend's jerky older brother Levi Baxter, and it made
hooking up virtually impossible.
Now home from college for winter break, Toby
is a different person. He left Coburn for San Francisco, where he wasn't the
lone gay guy and the only black kid in town. And yeah, he took advantage of
what the city had to offer.
Apparently Toby isn’t the only one who’s
changed. Levi’s not acting like the self-centered guy with all the answers that
Toby remembers from growing up. Oh and Levi’s realized he's bisexual, which
makes things a lot more interesting…
Heading back to college, Toby doesn’t expect to meet
up with Levi again, despite him being in med school not far away. A surprise visit
from Levi blows that assumption out of the water. As they spend more time
together Toby sees Levi as more than just the fantasy. He’s complicated,
unsure…he’s real. But if Toby can’t get out of the past and find the words he
keeps locked inside himself, he’ll lose his chance at Levi for good.
Excerpt
My stomach twists
and I set the coffee down, not in the mood for it. Leaning against the table,
Levi watches, waiting. He doesn’t take his eyes off me, his stare so intense it
finds every crack, every little sliver of a place it can seep inside me. I want
to ask him what he sees. Want to know what I look like through his eyes. Does
he see a half-black, gay kid without a mom? The one who doesn’t leave Chris’s
side because he can’t handle getting close to anyone else and risk losing them?
“I thought we
settled everything the other day,” I say finally.
“And I think
that’s fucking stupid. Why can’t we hang out?”
I don’t get why in
the hell he suddenly wants to get to know me.
“What are you doing, man?” This
isn’t him. None of it.
“I don’t know. Why
are you so pissed at me? Yeah you’re Chris’s friend but what’s the big deal if
you’re my friend, too? I told you the kiss was a mistake. Why can’t we just
forget about it and move the fuck on?”
It’s that last
comment that pushes me over the edge. I shove away from the counter, my muscles
coiled tight in anger.
“Because you’ve been a dick to us our whole lives! You
always thought you were too good for us. You treated Chris like shit and the
whole fucking time I still had a hard-on for you. Jesus, I used to jack off to thoughts
of you. The whole time I hid it from Chris because it already pissed him off
that everyone thought the sun rose and set on your ass. And then you come back
and act like a totally different person. You want to spend time with me, kiss
me and then say oh that was a mistake because
even though you swing both ways, you’re obviously still too good for me. You
act like I wanted to marry you instead of just bone you, and then you show up
at my house with coffee and donuts like—oh fuck.”
Levi’s body slams
into mine. I stumble backward, hitting the wall, Levi squeezes my body between
it and him. He smells like soap and coffee. His body’s hot and hard, molded
against me. He pushes forward, his erection rubbing against mine, the friction
making pleasure thrum through me. I don’t have time to form a clear thought
before we’re mouth to mouth the same way we’re body to body.
His tongue pushes
in and I let it. Suck it, before feeding him mine as well.
There’s a
vibration when he moans; it radiates from Levi into me, making my cock get even
harder.
His hands slide up
and he grabs the sides of my face. I squeeze his tight ass, and my reward is a
second moan from him as he kisses deeper, rubs off on me, so fucking close it’s
like he wants to climb inside me.
Levi’s mouth
slides down my neck. He sucks my skin into his mouth.
But then my stupid
brain takes over when really I just want to turn the damn thing off and follow
my dick’s lead.
“What the hell are we doing?” I ask.
Levi just shrugs,
still kissing at the tender skin of my throat.
“You said you wanted me back
then. The question now is do you still? Because I’m telling you, Toby, I don’t
know when it happened, but I want you now.”
About the Author
Writing has always been Nyrae Dawn’s passion. Even when she was too busy chasing kids or working, writing stories was never far from her mind.
She feels a special pull to characters in their teens. There’s something so fresh and fun about the age that she adores exploring. Her husband says it’s because she doesn’t want to grow up. She doesn’t think that’s such a bad thing. Luckily for her, he doesn’t either.
Nyrae gravitates toward character-driven stories. Whether reading or writing, she loves emotional journeys. It’s icing on the cake when she really feels something, but is able to laugh, too. She’s also a proud romantic at heart who has a soft spot for flawed characters. She loves people who aren’t perfect, who make mistakes but also have a big heart.
Nyrae resides in sunny Southern California with her husband (who still makes her swoon) and her two awesome kids.
When she’s not with her family, you can be pretty sure you’ll find her with a book in her hand or her laptop and an open document in front of her.
She writes for Entangled Publishing, Grand Central Publishing and is self-published.
Nyrae is represented by Jane Dystel of Dystel and Goderich Literary Management.
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