Cranberry Pi
A Contemporary M/M Romance
By Lee Brazil
Publisher: Lime Time Press
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Artist: Laura Harner
As if starting a new job, picking up the
reins of a disorganized former colleague, and moving back in with his parents
while he saves for a down payment on a house of his own isn't enough, Cecil
Trace has just discovered that part of the Art Director's job at the exclusive
Linwood Academy is putting on a series of holiday pageants…with the first one
celebrating Thanksgiving just three short weeks away.
He's got enough on his hands getting
reluctant students ready to wow their parents and the community with their
brilliance, and preparing a holiday showing of his own artwork at a local
gallery, he doesn't need recalcitrant but brilliant math instructor Reese
Cavelli arguing about every little detail.
While Reese understands the new Art
Director's urgency, he can't allow Cecil to undermine his authority with the
students. Reese can't help being an ass to the new art director, and he knows
in part his behavior is due to his own insecurities, but it's also got a lot to
do with the fact that the vibrant young artist is so damned sexy in his jeans and
bohemian shirts. Every time he comes into contact with Cecil Trace, he finds
himself
Categories:
Contemporary, Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Romance
Excerpt:
The store doors whooshed
open and a wave of cold air enticed him inside. The silver gum wrapper nagged
at the back of his mind, but he was determined. No more picking up after other
people. Not after coming in early and staying late and spending all his planning
periods cleaning up Torey Crowe's disaster of a classroom over the last week.
Pulling out his
smartphone, he called up a list of items he needed and swung a cart out of the
corral. He knew the store like the back of his hand, but it seemed unusually
crowded this Sunday. Ducking into an aisle to detour around a woman who
appeared to have at least six two-year-olds in her charge, he nearly collided
with another cart. Cursing, he veered to the left quickly. Too quickly as he
wound up hitting a hanging display of sandwich containers in gaudy plastic
colors.
"Fuck!"
Instantly, he backed up a little and bent to retrieve the objects that had
fallen from the display. Something rammed into his backside and sent him
sprawling forward onto the dirty linoleum. "Fuck!" he snarled,
catching himself with his hands and pushing upright.
"Oh, excuse
me."
The pleasant baritone
irritated him even more, because it seemed familiar. Spinning about, he found
himself face-to-face with the devil himself. Or temptation. The man who'd hit
him with the shopping cart was stooping to pick up the sandwich containers,
and Reese didn't have a very clear view of him, but what he saw was enough to
make his cheeks burn even brighter and his heart falter just a bit before
racing.
Golden hair, in a long,
straight sheet fell forward over his face, long…too long for a man, really.
Reese tried to sneer, but his fingers twitched again, and he wanted to reach
out and push that hair back behind the man's ear to see what sort of face it
hid. He had an impression of slenderness, caught a glimpse of faded denim, and
a shirt that looked a hell of a lot like his sister's baby doll pajamas before
his cock swelled. Embarrassed, he jerked his own cart and trotted down the
aisle. "Watch where you're going!" he choked out, racing for the
produce department.
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Another great book. I cant wait for the next.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you enjoyed it Cathy!
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