Author Name: Rodd Clark
Book Name: Torn and Frayed
Series: Gabriel Church Tales
Book: Two
Can be read as a standalone, but better read as a
series
Release
Date: E-Book: January 9, 2016/Paperback: February 9, 2016
Blurb:
“Conscience isn’t something all people are born with...”
Gabriel Church is a portrait in contrast. It would be easy to get
lost in his pale-blue eyes, ache with the need to feel the strength of his
masculine frame. He appears to be nothing but animal and instinct. The only
people who know the full depth of that truth are dead, murdered, or two
thousand miles away.
Gabe is a serial killer. For the first time in his life, he has
more on his mind than his own survival. This time he is running from Seattle to
protect the only person he thinks innocent in his laundry list of crime and
murder: Christian Maxwell, his biographer and unexpected lover. Drawn to a
place he never thought to return, Gabe finds new and different realities.
Realities that insist he let go of his tragic past, those incredible
perceptions of God, and his own divinity. He must open his eyes to what the
love of a good man can do to heal a broken soul.
But when the killer is confronted by his own willingness to love
and sacrifice, he is forced to ultimately ask the question: Just how far will
he go to save a life . . . when all he’s ever done is take them?
Pages or Words:100,000 words
Categories:Bisexual, Crime Fiction, Fiction, Gay
Fiction, M/M Romance, Mystery, Thriller
Excerpt:
The relationship that Gabriel Church and
Christian Maxwell shared was based on a period that overshadowed any real
emotional bond. If the situation had been normal, Christian might’ve
learned that Gabriel used gallows humor far too frequently, or that he had a
cruel streak buried under his handsome exterior. As much as they thought they
cared for each other, neither looked closely enough at the reasons and
the whys regarding the draw each one felt for the other. Gabriel was a
serial killer running on an uneasy apprehension of arrest, and he’d never
allowed himself to get closer to anyone, particularly a stranger like Maxwell.
But paramount to that, he was a man who hadn’t had a friend in nearly more
years than he could count. They’d somehow formed a connection, and the end
result had been greater than Gabriel could’ve ever thought he’d achieve. Their
friendship had turned sexual, but it had more to do with the evolution of
simple human contact and a desire to have something neither man could have
guessed would become their future.
The allure that bound them had been based on
something bent and unconventional. It was this distinction that outshone all
else, and was the only thing that might’ve remained standing. It was a Romeo
and Juliet tragedy in the making; two souls who’d shared a single foxhole, yet
neither could see that clearly enough in those earlier days.
Christian had all the “tells” of someone who
was distrustful of Gabe from the beginning. Maybe it was his bent smile and the
shadow of a killer underneath such an attractive façade. Or maybe it was the
blossoming of the writer’s sexuality and the heat that was generating between
them, unbeknownst to him. Theirs had been a strange relationship, more
parasitical than not. Chris wanted to learn all he could about the mind of a
serial murderer, and Gabe hungrily fed off the man’s undeniable devotion. Even
before they’d fucked the first time, Gabe had felt the odd stirrings in his
jeans. He’d disregarded the titillation at the time, and later he wrote it off
as some type of control, knowing that whatever he had the writer wanted in
spades. Christian’s eyes had told the truth, his crystal gaze lapping up the
image of the man across the room. It was in some twisted satisfaction that Gabe
likened the writer to a puppy, trying desperately to please a stern owner and
the clearly visible desire to lick at the stubble on his cheeks.
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the book:
Meet the author:
Rodd
lives in Dallas, TX at the moment but hails from the sticks of Oklahoma. Check
out his web presence at RODDCLARK.COM. Interested in the M/M Mystery, Romance and Thriller
genres but has a varied interest in many books. It has been written that his
writing has a very dark and distinctive voice with a need for deep exploration
and analysis. “Torn and Frayed” is the
sequel to his popular romantic thriller, "Rubble and the Wreckage."
The third chapter of the series should be released later in the year and give
readers a chance to see how their wicked story is resolved
Where
to find the author:
Amazon
Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/RoddClark/e/B00KGDSYSQ/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
Publisher: Driven Press
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