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Now onto Brick by Brick...
Author Name: Cate Ashwood & L.J. LaBarthe
Release
Date: June 29, 2015
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover
Artist: Bree Archer
They say that time heals all wounds, but losing Parley, his
one true love, left Zach with a hole in his heart that no one else can fill.
After forty-eight blissful hours alone together as teens in an abandoned house,
Parley disappeared. Parley is what he is, and the pray-away-the-gay camp his
parents ship him to won’t change that. However, finding the balance between
accepting his true nature and not losing his family means tough sacrifices.
Sixteen years later, Zach is thunderstruck when Parley stands
on the front doorstep of his house—the house that had been their refuge, which
Zach restored. But Parley isn’t alone, and Zach wonders if he’s found Parley
only to lose him a second time. If they can overcome the terrors of the past
and the situation of the present, maybe they can build a new relationship just
as Zach rebuilt the house—brick by brick.
Pages or Words: 62,000 words
Categories: Contemporary, Fiction, Gay fiction,
M/M Romance
Excerpt:
ZACH FELT as if he was
floating. He’d been planning this escape for weeks, but now that it was
actually happening, it didn’t seem real. He chanced a quick look at Parley as
they merged onto the highway. What could possibly be better than running away
with his best friend?
He’d had his doubts that
Parley would actually come with him. After being turned down the first time,
Zach had prepared himself for disappointment, but now they were leaving
together and Zach couldn’t have been happier.
“Where should we go?”
Zach asked. He had some vague ideas in mind, but he wanted his friend’s input
more than anything.
“I don’t know. Somewhere
we can’t be found?” Zach was right on board with that.
“That’s a good idea.
We’ll go for a bit on this highway, then we’ll exit and take some back roads,
maybe head toward the interior.”
Parley dropped his head
back against the seat. “Perfect.” After a time, he said, “I still can’t believe
we’re doing this.”
“I still can’t believe
you came with me,” Zach countered.
“I can’t either. I must
be insane.”
“Or brilliant. It’s
usually a fine line,” Zach teased.
“My parents are going to
have an absolute meltdown once they’ve found out what I’ve done. They’re going
to be so upset.”
Parley’s voice was
quiet, barely above a whisper. Zach had seen him like this once before when
he’d thought he’d lost his weird CTR ring with the spinner chain in the band.
“It’ll all be okay.”
Zach tried to soothe him, to bring him back to the present, and rested a gentle
hand on Parley’s knee. “Everyone flies from the nest sooner or later. We just
did it in an unconventional way. I really do think this is what’s best, though,
for both of us.”
Zach’s reassurance seemed to work. Parley blinked slowly a
few times and then a somewhat disheartened smile crept onto his face. “I know,
but my family is just… different.”
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About L.J. LaBarthe:
L.J. LaBarthe is a French-Australian woman, who was born
during the Witching Hour, just after midnight. From this auspicious beginning,
she went on to write a prize-winning short story about Humpty Dumpty wearing an
Aussie hat complete with corks dangling from it when she was six years old.
From there, she wrote for her high school yearbook, her university newspaper,
and, from her early teens to her twenties, produced a fanzine about the local
punk rock music scene. She loves music of all kinds and was once a classical
pianist; she loves languages and speaks French and English and a teeny-tiny
smattering of Mandarin Chinese, which she hopes to relearn properly very soon.
She enjoys TV, film, travel, cooking, eating out, abandoned places, urbex,
history, and researching.
L.J. loves to read
complicated plots and hopes to do complex plot lines justice in her own
writing. She writes paranormal, historical, urban fantasy, and contemporary
Australian stories, usually m/m romance and featuring m/m erotica. She has won
a Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention and another award for Best Historical Gay
Novel.
L.J. lives in the city
of Adelaide, and is owned by her cat.
Where to find L.J LaBarthe:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lj.labarthe.9
Twitter: @brbsiberia
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/dreadpiratestar/
Other: http://www.ljlabarthe.com/
About Cate Ashwood:
Cate Ashwood wrote her very first story in a
hot-pink binder when she was in the second grade and found her passion for
writing. Her first successful foray into romance writing came five years later
when she wrote her best friend, who was experiencing a case of unrequited love,
her own happily ever after.
Cate’s life
has taken a number of different and adventurous roads. She now lives a stone’s
throw from the ocean, just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia with her
husband, her little boy, and their two cats. Her life is filled with family and
friends, travel, and, of course, books.
Where
to find Cate Ashwood:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cate.ashwood
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cate-Ashwood-Author/288329491267435?fref=ts
Twitter: @cateashwood
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/cateashwood/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/cateashwood/
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