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Publisher: Acquitted Books
Cover
Artist: Brett Kessler
Series: Notes from Boston
Book: One
Release
Date: March 1, 2016
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Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27414019-anthem
Trevor Davidson has everything going for him. He’s just moved out on his own with three friends, and he’s landed a job as music director at a large Boston church. He has high hopes for marrying his long-term girlfriend and settling into a comfortable, devout lifestyle.
Andre Cole has spent the past few years throwing himself into a dead-end job at a Cape Cod-based call center. When an opportunity to move back to Boston arises, Andre believes it will be the do-over he needs to put his past behind him.
A chance meeting in a club on New Year’s Eve brings Trevor and Andre together for a brief but steamy encounter. Both assuming that’s the end of it, they are unexpectedly thrown back into each other’s lives when Trevor’s church hires Andre for their website design. While Andre is content at first to move on, Trevor’s conflicted feelings bubble over into his songwriting. Before he can stop it, his ode to Andre becomes an inadvertent Christian radio hit.
Unfortunately for Trevor, he isn’t the only one who knows the song’s hidden meaning. Someone has leaked the story and upended Trevor’s life. In order to put the pieces back together, he needs to learn to be honest with his girlfriend, with Andre, and especially with himself.
Pages or Words: 85,000 words/270 pages
Categories: Bisexual, Contemporary, Polyamory
Excerpt:
A sliver of light
and the door thumping shut alerted him to the presence of someone else. His
hands stopped moving, hovering over the keyboard. He looked up to see Pastor
Bret standing at the back of the aud.
Trevor jumped, his
face flaming, and he was glad for the dim light hiding the red flush he was
sure marked his cheeks. “Uh…hi?” he squawked out.
“Don’t stop on my
account,” Pastor Bret said. “The song is fantastic. You’ve been holding out on
us, acting like you didn’t have anything big for the recording. Where’ve you
been hiding that one?”
Covering his
tracks, Trevor joked, “Under my hat.” His stomach churned.
“Uh huh. Well, I’d
like to see you finish up your new song so we can use it. How long do you think
it’ll take?”
“It’s about done,
but—” He coughed, stalling while he worked out what to say to Bret to put him
off. “I was thinking about changing some of the words, though. It’s not—I mean,
it doesn’t specifically say God or Jesus, and it probably needs some other
fixes. You know, so it sounds more…spiritual.” Trevor gritted his teeth in
frustration as the inspiration for the song rose to the forefront of his mind.
Bret looked
thoughtful. “I don’t know. Can you play it for me?”
All the blood which
had previously rushed to Trevor’s face drained away, and sweat trickled down
his neck to his collar. “I—”
“Not sure you want
anyone to hear it til it’s perfect, eh?” Bret laughed. “Come on. Don’t worry
that it’s not good enough.”
Oh, God, help me! Trevor prayed. “Okay,” he heard himself say, even though he’d
really meant to say, No way in hell.
He played the
opening chords and began to sing, quietly at first and then with more
confidence. “You touch my heart…”
He immersed himself
in the song and in the memories he’d drawn on to write it. It didn’t matter
what it was about; he was perfectly capable of making it sound like a love song
to his God. He kept his gaze trained on the chord sheet in front of him, not
daring to look Bret in the eye just in case. When he was through, he let the
note fade away and closed his eyes. He didn’t want to see Bret’s reaction.
It took a moment,
but Bret finally broke the silence. “Wonderful. I wouldn’t change a thing. When
we have a thousand members all singing this together, they’ll all know who
they’re singing it for.”
Trevor’s immediate reaction was, No, they
won’t.
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Meet the author:
A.
M. Leibowitz is a queer spouse, parent, feminist, and book-lover falling
somewhere on the Geek-Nerd Spectrum. Ze keeps warm through the long, cold
western New York winters by writing about life, relationships, hope, and
happy-for-now endings. In between noveling and editing, ze blogs coffee-fueled,
quirky commentary on faith, culture, writing, books, and hir family.
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