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Family Found – book #1 – Falling into Love
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Note: If planning to read both books, it makes the most sense to read them in order, but each book in this series features a different man from among the five owners of “V Wilderness Adventures” as he finds love. So it is not necessary to have read the earlier book to understand or appreciate the current release.
Diving In by Kris T. Bethke and Nell Iris
With Preston and Sawyer living in another town and Wade worried about how he fits, can they find the courage to dive in head first?
Series: Family Found (book #2)
Publisher: JMS Books, LLC
Cover Artist: Written Ink Designs
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Length: Novella / ~34,000 words / 114 pages
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Pairing / Genre(s) / Keyword(s): M/M/M Contemporary Gay Romance
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Blurb
Preston and Sawyer Waters need a vacation in the worst way. Life stressors have gotten to be too much, and they need to reconnect. A month-long vacation at a cabin in the woods is perfect to remember how to enjoy each other. But they never expect to meet the man who would fit with them so perfectly.
Wade Johansson loves his life. Running V Wilderness Adventures with his best friends, spending his life on the water, and being surrounded by nature is his dream come true. But he’s missing one key element: someone to love.
The three men find an instant connection and are quick to explore the attraction. It becomes clear immediately that they want a relationship lasting longer than just a vacation. But with Preston and Sawyer living in another town and Wade worried about how he fits, can they find the courage to dive in head first?
Excerpt
And I did think about it. All the way back to the boat. As I tossed and turned during the night. When I stumbled out of the berth before the sun had crawled over the treetops and as I made coffee with trembling hands.
I thought about it as I took a quick shower, got dressed, and took the dogs out for a walk. It was no wonder I found myself outside their cabin a few minutes later. Accompanied by the chipper sounds of the early morning birds, I knocked on their door.
No one opened, and no sounds came from the inside. I shook my head with a huff. What had I been thinking, rushing up here at this hour? They were on vacation, of course they wouldn’t be awake at sunrise.
But as I decided to return to the boat, the door opened and revealed a sleep-rumpled Sawyer wrapped in a sheet. “Wade?” His voice was gravelly, his hair a mess, his eyes were bleary, and he took my breath away.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t think about the time. I should …” I gestured in the direction of the path that had brought me to their cabin.
“No!” His voice cracked, and he had to clear his throat. “No,” he repeated. “Please don’t go.”
Preston emerged from the bedroom and joined us. He’d pulled on a T-shirt, and it looked like he’d run his fingers through his hair to make it a little more presentable. “Wade?”
“Do you know what I did yesterday?” I blurted out.
They both shook their heads.
“I was hiding. Avoiding you.”
Sawyer’s mouth turned down and he reached out his hand to his husband, who took it immediately.
“Why?” Preston said.
“What did you mean when you asked me out? Did you mean as a prelude to fucking … or as a date-date?”
Sawyer’s answer was immediate. “A date-date.”
I shoved my hands in my pockets. “Have you, uh, done that before?”
“Just casually. Nothing serious,” Preston said.
“Then … what’s different now?”
“We like you.” Preston’s voice was soothing, as though he was trying to calm a wild animal.
And he wasn’t far off. My body was in flight mode, my stomach churned, and I couldn’t get enough air into my lungs. Neptune lumbered over to my side and sat next to me, leaning his massive body against my leg. I buried my fingers in his soft fur, comforted by his presence.
“Did you hide from us because you don’t like us?” Sawyer asked.
“No.”
“Then why?”
I turned my head away, unable to look at them anymore. So many questions were spinning inside my head, but I knew there were no answers to any of them. Not at this moment, at least.
What I wanted was to know I wouldn’t get hurt, because I had a feeling they could be very important to me if I let them. But who can guarantee something like that before they’ve even been out on a single date?
So, I drew in a deep breath of forest air, scratched my dog behind his ears, and turned to look at them. “Yes,” I said. “I’d love to go out on a date with you.”
Meet the Authors
Kris T. Bethke has been a voracious reader for pretty much her entire life and has been writing stories for nearly as long. An avid and prolific daydreamer, she always has a story in her head. She spends most of her free time reading, writing, or knitting/crocheting her latest project. Her biggest desire is to find a way to accomplish all three tasks at one time. A classic muscle car will always turn her head, and naps on the weekend are one of her greatest guilty pleasures. She lives in a converted attic with a way too fluffy cat and the voices in her head. She’ll tell you she thinks that’s a pretty good deal. Kris believes that love is love, no matter the gender of people involved, and that all love deserves to be celebrated.
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Nell Iris is a romantic at heart who believes everyone deserves a happy ending. She’s a bona fide bookworm (learned to read long before she started school), wouldn’t dream of going anywhere without something to read (not even the ladies room), loves music (and singing along but let’s face it, she’s not Celine Dion), and is a real Star Trek nerd (Make it so). She loves words, poetry, wine, and Sudoku, and absolutely adores elephants!
Nell believes passionately in equality for all regardless of race, gender or sexuality, and wants to make the world a better, less hateful, place.
Nell is a 40-something bi-sexual Swedish woman, married to the love of her life, and a proud mama of a grown daughter. She left the Scandinavian cold and darkness for warmer and sunnier Malaysia a few years ago, where she spends her days writing, surfing the Internet, enjoying the heat, and eating good food. One day she decided to chase her life long dream of being a writer, sat down in front of her laptop, and wrote a story about two men falling in love.
Nell Iris writes gay romance, prefers sweet over angsty, and wants to write diverse and unique characters.
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Thank you sooo much for featuring us on your blog!! You’re the best ❤️
And LOL – I didn’t even think to feature book 1 in my post…that right there tells you how used I am to promoting series 😂😂
I will ALWAYS feature your releases because YOU’RE the best. 😁💞
I figured it couldn’t hurt, though it’s not like book 1 needs to be read to understand or appreciate book 2. In fact, I need to go in and edit to make that clear.