Book Spotlight & Giveaway~ Bleeding Like Me

 

  Title: Bleeding Like Me 

Author: Riley Parks 

Release Date: November 21st 2017 

Genre: MM Contemporary Dark Romance 

Published by: Boroughs Publishing

 

  BLURB Being gay in their neighborhood is perilous. Being gay in a street gang is unheard of. Being gay and in love with a man in a rival gang is a death wish. Through drug addiction, brutality, and seemingly endless peril, they remain; finding stability within each other that shouldn’t exist in their volatile world.

BEAUTIFUL CONTRADICTION

He didn't paint people; the curves of their bodies and angles of their faces never interested him as much as cityscapes. The circumstances of his life had compelled him to create new worlds that he could get lost in rather than reflect the features of the people he ran from. He constructed buildings from their foundations, making them taller and stronger than he was. He adorned the edifices with countless windows, always left open or cracked so hope could pour in and fears could seep out. Tree lined streets reminded him how to breathe, pumping oxygen through the atmosphere, off the canvas, and into his lungs. He didn't paint people until the day he no longer desired the anonymity of his cities. The streets didn't feel like his escape anymore, not like him. Cerulean skies gave way to pale blue eyes and bus routes to pink pouts. Evan didn't paint people until he painted Jackson. 

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  Exclusive EXCERPT 

Evan didn’t expect Jackson to be a koala bear when he slept, clinging on to Evan’s body like he was a eucalyptus tree. It hadn’t started that way. They remained on opposite ends sides of Jackson’s king-size bed, spent from the rigorous fucking. “Stay” was the last word he had said before passing out. Evan wasn’t sure why Jackson had asked him to stay if all he planned to do was sleep. The cocaine had dissipated from Evan’s bloodstream but he still felt speedy, unable to relax his mind enough to drift off. Instead he watched the way Jackson’s back rose with his slow and even breaths, his sticky ass draped with the sheets while the upper half of his body remained uncovered. His face was turned to the side on the pillow and his pout was puckered from the way his cheek was being pressed. He looked peaceful and innocent: everything he was not during waking hours. When Jackson turned onto his back, Evan felt his body tense. He was getting closer and as much as Evan wanted to be tender, he wasn’t convinced he knew how to be.

He figured he must’ve fallen asleep sometime after Jackson’s first roll toward him, because when he opened his eyes next, tattoo-sleeved arms were wrapped around his chest and muscular legs around his knees. Though he feared that he wouldn’t know what to do in a moment that reflected real intimacy, instinctively he did. After pushing brown hair back from Jackson’s forehead, Evan gently rested his lips against it, awestruck by the comfort his lover seemed to get from holding him. Jackson had said he didn’t cuddle, but being tangled up with him was everything Evan never knew he wanted, but suddenly really fucking needed.

The second time he woke up, the early morning sun was streaming under the slats of the blinds and bathing the room in an amber hue. Jackson was still holding him tight and Evan decided that now was as good a time as any to indulge in some of the sweetness he secretly craved. Cautiously, he closed the space between their faces and as gently as possible he rubbed the tip of his nose against the end of Jackson’s. Evan hadn’t ever noticed the soft brush of freckles that spread across Jackson’s nose and couldn’t help but think that they were the cutest fucking thing Evan had seen in a long time. When he nudged him again, Jackson sniffed, dug his face into the pillow, and held him tighter.

Venturing to make his next move, Evan gently raked his fingers through Jackson’s hair, startled when his head shot up and his blue eyes opened wide.

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  About the Author 

   

  Riley has always loved to write, believing that life has the possibility to be its most beautiful when it’s portrayed on the pages of a book. Feeling the need to create and liberate in the midst of the political landscape, Riley writes novels that focus on LGBTQ protagonists, wanting to honor a community that deserves better representation depicting lives, loves and triumphs in all facets of fiction. 

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