Blue Steel Chain
by Alex Beecroft
Blurb:
At sixteen, Aidan
Swift was swept off his feet by a rich older man who promised to take care of
him for the rest of his life. But eight years later, his sugar daddy has turned
from a prince into a beast. Trapped and terrified, Aidan snatches an hour’s
respite at the Trowchester Museum.
Local archaeologist
James Huntley is in a failing long distance relationship with a rock star, and
Aidan—nervous, bruised, and clearly in need of a champion—brings out all his
white knight tendencies. When everything falls apart for Aidan, James saves him
from certain death . . . and discovers a skeleton of another boy who wasn’t so
lucky.
As Aidan recovers,
James falls desperately in love. But though Aidan acts like an adoring
boyfriend, he doesn’t seem to feel any sexual attraction at all. Meanwhile
there are two angry exes on the horizon, one coming after them with the press
and the other with a butcher’s knife. To be together, Aidan and James must
conquer death, sex, and everyone’s preconceptions about the right way to
love—even their own.
Author
Bio:
Alex Beecroft is an
English author best known for historical fiction, notably Age of Sail,
featuring gay characters and romantic storylines. Her novels and shorter works
include paranormal, fantasy, and contemporary fiction.
Beecroft won Linden
Bay Romance’s (now Samhain Publishing) Starlight Writing Competition in 2007
with her first novel, Captain’s Surrender, making it her
first published book. On the subject of writing gay romance, Beecroft has
appeared in the Charleston City Paper, LA Weekly,
the New Haven Advocate, the Baltimore City Paper,
and The Other Paper. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association of
the UK and an occasional reviewer for the blog Speak Its Name, which highlights historical gay
fiction.
Alex was born in
Northern Ireland during the Troubles and grew up in the wild countryside of the
English Peak District. She lives with her husband and two children in a little
village near Cambridge and tries to avoid being mistaken for a tourist.
Alex is only intermittently
present in the real world. She has led a Saxon shield wall into battle, toiled
as a Georgian kitchen maid, and recently taken up an 800-year-old form of
English folk dance, but she still hasn’t learned to operate a mobile phone.
She is represented
by Louise Fury of the L. Perkins Literary Agency.
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Giveaway:
Every comment on this blog tour enters you in a drawing for a signed paperback from Alex Beecroft's backlist. (Any title which has a paperback edition, excluding Blue Steel Chain.) Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on August 1. Contest is NOT restricted to U.S. entries. Don’t forget to add your email so we can contact you if you win!
Angela
ReplyDeleteLove the blurb of this book, this definitely looks like a good read and a good serie :) Thanks for the giveaway chance
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I've read the previous books and loved them both. I'm looking forward to reading Blue Steel Chain. I always fall for Alex' suffering characters
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I'm so intrigued!
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I like the sound of this.
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So nice to see the spotlight on this book! I love Alex Beecroft's writing.
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Congratulations on the new release! I am looking forward to reading this! Thank you for the post and the giveaway!
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