Unkilted
The Renegade and the Runaway I
Erin O’Quinn (Bonita
Franks)
The Story
✅ Enemies to Lovers
✅ Slow Burn
✅ Slow Reveal
✅ Family Secrets
✅ Part I of The Renegade and the Runaway (2
novels)
Gregory
MacGregor is a moody, angry outlaw who calls himself Grier Black. The British
crown has taken his clan name, his tartan, his dagger, and his very honor. His
mission in life is one of lawless rebellion.
Iain
Stewart is Grier’s uncle, a man who has lost both his brother and his beloved
wife. He lives apart from his family in the tall dark city of Edinburgh, where
he follows his wits and instincts to help the survival of his clan.
On
the eve of a revolution, David Campbell, son of a Colonial American printer,
falls afoul of occupying Redcoats. He runs straight into the hands of a ship’s
captain and a lecherous opportunist. Weeks later, he finds himself in a place
of peril far from home, surrounded by strangers who have learned to despise all
Campbells.
…And
all hell breaks loose before heaven can intervene.
Unkilted is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers tale with a few twists
and wynds along the way. A sequel titled Unbroken is in progress.
Excerpt
Self-explanatory: told from the POV of each MC
>>>Chapter Eight<<<
Interlude
David
was in turn mystified, charmed, saddened, and choked with desperate desire.
Long he lay in the pallet, tossing on the hard bed redolent of unseen
mountains, cupping himself, wondering at the way his small world had become a
universe of possibilities.
I
want him to desire me…in a different way from Archer…the way I have sometimes
dreamed. In the way of David and Jonathan…the same way I want him.
Once,
with his far away associate Alan, he had thrilled to the light touch of another
man. That was an infinity ago, in a time and place forever lost, and it had
lasted mere moments. This new excitement would not leave his flesh, or his
fantasies.
He
is to be my trainer, hardly my lover. He comes to this place to find women. He
lives and thinks at cross-purposes to my own beliefs. Be careful, David.
But
he could not expunge from his mind the thought of touching and kissing Grier
Black. Yes, a black fox. He thought about the words he had read in Shakespeare…Lean
and hungry.
Finally,
testicles swollen, throbbing with the pain of holding back, he stroked himself
until his hands were wet with spilled longing, and then he slept.
~o~
Grier
could not sleep. He had unrolled his saddle blanket near Corbie, where his
stallion stood in a half-doze. The large animal would lie down later, when deep
sleep pulled him to the fragrant new grass.
He
lay on his back gazing at the same stars and the same moon he and David had
seen half an hour ago. Then, the sky had shimmered with the kind of light he
had rarely seen. It had been a canopy of unknown and unknowable mystery, in a
singular moment of peace.
He
tried to forget the image of the flaxen-haired young man bent like a crescent
moon over a reflecting pool…his comely buttocks flexing in mute acceptance of
his own renegade eyes…
Stop,
Gregory MacGregor. The lad is an innocent in a world of corrupt men.
Never,
in all the years he had desired other men, never before had he made love with
his tone of voice and the inflections of his speech, with the silent language
of his body. He was too restless, too much in a hurry to find the next moor and
drink from the burn that lay just over the next hill. He was always trying to
escape…something. Some wayward phantom that had never revealed itself.
Och,
he had never showed himself so openly…not until tonight. Now, turning once more
onto his stomach, he cursed himself—again—for his obvious show of lust to a boy
who had already suffered the worst of vile humanity.
Let
it go. Let sleep come…
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Author
Erin O’Quinn
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Erin O’Quinn’s writing career started in 2012
with the release of a “fantasy for all ages” series, followed by five M/F
romance novels. As soon she began the M/M series “The Iron Warrior,” hopelessly
hooked, O’Quinn never looked back from the lure of that genre, mostly mystery-action-adventure.
With the release of UNKILTED, O’Quinn has published 30 M/M titles. Most of
those works are contained in one of five different series.
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