No promises, but I’m gonna try to post once a week for a while until I catch up with actual writing news, thoughts about writing, and general blatheration. Today I’m officially announcing my latest novel from JMS Books LLC, a M/M contemporary age-gap marriage-of-convenience story in which I subvert the holiday-movie trope of big-city success coming home to a small town: LIBERTY. Click the highlighted title to reach the book page at Queeromance Ink, where you’ll find a triple review and retailer links!
Three key things about LIBERTY:
aside from the notes above, this is an interracial romance featuring John, a white lawyer, and Daniel, a Black real-estate agent. Racism isn’t a serious conflict in this book, but Daniel’s experience of the post-segregation South informs his attitudes.
LIBERTY addresses a lifetime of relationship history for both main characters. Each had a college love affair that ended badly (though in very different ways); those men are present in the story, and John & Daniel must reckon with them.
this book is as much about midlife reinvention (a recurring theme for me) as about the central love story. Daniel is a decade younger than John and is seizing what he suspects is his last chance to change his working life in a positive way. Anyone who has ever attempted this knows just how scary it is, and how much the right support at the right time can mean.
While written and intended to stand alone, LIBERTY begins in the same fictional western North Carolina town where last year’s MISTLETANGO concludes. Some of those earlier characters cross the stage for a moment. If you’re curious and want to read more, click the highlighted title to find that page. Oh, and by the way, MISTLETANGO is a finalist in this year’s New England Romance Writers Readers Choice Awards!