By the Rules
Evergreen Grove #3
by Elisabeth Staab
M/M Romance
Release Date: 1/19/2016
He thinks I want him because of the rumors around town.
Because I think he’s easy. I want AJ, because he’s AJ.
No liars. No suits. Absolutely no straight guys…
AJ Fabin’s list of rules keeps him safe.
Since getting kicked out of his parents’ home and attacked by a former
escorting client, his rules and his life in the tiny town of Evergreen Grove
provide a quiet haven. He may be lonely, and he may stick out like a sore
thumb, but the folks like him well enough. When he’s not dodging his old pimp,
things are peaceful.
Hayden Price is having a quarter-life
crisis. Engaged to a woman he can’t connect to and working a job he secretly
hates, he comes to Evergreen Grove to help his mother through a health scare.
Returning to his childhood home makes Hayden reevaluate a lot of things,
including himself. When he meets AJ and finds he can’t stand the mouthy
jerk—almost as much as he can’t stop thinking about him—he has a lot more to
change than his career.
To be together, they’ll both have to
break all of their rules.
By the Rules is book 3 in the Evergreen Grove series, but
reads as a standalone.
Excerpt:
(AJ's POV)
You know that movie where the devastatingly handsome
billionaire falls head over heels for the former rent-boy with a heart of gold
and they ride off into the sunset with their limo, their unicorn collection,
and a cuddly little Bichon Frise?
Okay, me neither.
Nobody’s ever gonna make that movie, because nobody would
buy the premise. Not even if Julia Roberts does make the prospect look all
kinds of glittery-ever-after on camera. And for real, I’m telling you I could
rock a string of diamonds just as well as her (I could!), even if you wouldn’t
catch me dead in an evening gown. Or doing a douche who drives a five-speed
penis-mobile.
Well…maybe it would depend on the penis-mobile.
God bless Richard Gere’s fine ass in a three-piece, though.
I may have a rule against dating a guy like the one he plays in Pretty Woman, but there’s nothing wrong
with a little fantasy. Like a big ol’ slab of red velvet cake, it may not be
healthy for you to eat, but looking doesn’t cost any calories.
Rule #1: Watch out
for rich guys in business attire. They’re sleek, gorgeous, and powerful
looking, like jungle cats, and as likely to take a chunk out of you when your
back is turned.
Rules aside, Gere’s chiseled cheekbones help me stay awake
when I’m stuck behind my ratty, wood-paneled check-in desk, working dusk to
dawn at The Grove Inn. Not much else going on at night in the speck of a town
that is Evergreen Grove, NC.
Once in an extremely blue moon we get a flurry of activity
after dark like a tired traveler or two, but mostly it’s me, my laptop, and my
movie marathons. Next up is An Officer
and a Gentleman, because I’m all about indulging a good movie star crush.
Gotta get my feel-goods where I can.
About the Author:
Elisabeth Staab started hunting mutant hedgehogs back in
1842… Oops, wrong bio… Elisabeth Staab digs coffee, saucy stories, and sexy
things that go bump in the night. Once, she ate dinner in a jail and liked it.
She lives in the Washington DC area with her incredible family and does her best
to juggle life while ignoring the laundry.
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Sounds like a great book and I love the cover! Thanks for sharing :)
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