Here's the blurb and a little snippet. Buy links are below if it captures your interest. All Mine, the trilogy's conclusion, will be out January 30.
When Jacob fell moving a portrait in the museum where he worked, he was worried about damaging it. He never imagined he would fall into it and wake up in another dimension. Though his day does start to improve when a sexy masked man rides to his rescue…
Gerard thought his friends Adam and Eloise would be the enchanted portrait’s only victims, but when he finds a gorgeous but bewildered young man wandering in the woods, he realizes how wrong he was. Now he has to enlist the help of a man he can’t stand to put a stop to the magic, even though he’d much rather be spending that time in the arms of the sexy man now sharing his home.
Excerpt:
Jacob sat alone
outside the manor house that, it seemed, served as Gerard’s headquarters and
hideaway. Adam and Eloise walked along the path by the little pond in front of
it, trying to be casual but failing. They both kept sneaking glances at him, as
if to make sure he hadn’t had a nervous breakdown or tried to run away. Jacob
looked to the road again, wondering when Gerard would come back. No one had
passed by since they’d come outside. He felt drawn to Gerard in a way he’d
never experienced before. The attraction had seemed mutual, though most of his
day had been a bit of a blur. He might have imagined it.
One moment, he’d
been in the museum helping to move a painting of an unknown eighteenth-century
gentleman so that some water damage in the wall could be repaired. The next
moment, he’d tripped and hit his head on the marble banister, and he and the
painting had gone tumbling down the stairs. Instead of landing at the bottom,
he’d landed in a pile of hay and hit his head a second time. Then, there had
been nothing but darkness.
He’d woken up
alone in a barn with a pounding headache. Gerard found him hours later, though
he had no idea how many. He’d only known one thing in that moment: his life as
he knew it had been turned upside down, twice. First, he awoke in a strange
place with no knowledge of where he was or how he got there, and then a
devastatingly gorgeous masked man in a flowing black cloak had come riding up
to him on a horse. And what had he done when this dashing man had come to his
rescue, swinging down off his horse gallantly and offering his strong hand?
Jacob had rambled like an idiot and almost fainted from hyperventilation and,
they later discovered, loss of blood.
Gerard had tried
to calm and soothe him, but it had all been so confusing. What Gerard, Adam,
and Eloise had told him started to make sense when he began asking for details
about the museum. Were they really Eloise the grant writer who had disappeared
and Adam the art historian the police believed had kidnapped and possibly
murdered her before disappearing himself? Maybe they were. He’d never met them,
as he’d only been at the museum for two weeks, but it was too perfect a match
to be a coincidence. He briefly wondered what might be happening back at the
museum. If what he’d been told today were true, that portrait was unbelievably
dangerous. He’d been rather stunned to see its twin leaning against the wall of
the barn, looking neglected and completely out of place. It had only confused
him more.
The sound of
hooves raised his attention. Gerard came charging up on his beautiful brown
horse. His dark cloak flowed behind him, and his white shirt and military-style
jacket were partially open, revealing a smooth and well-muscled chest. The
leather pants hugged his thighs, and Jacob really liked the high riding boots he
wore. He watched him rubbing his horse’s neck as he led it to a pasture. His
long, powerful strides had Jacob thinking all sorts of wicked thoughts. The
clothes in this world were sending him into very Jane Austenesque fantasies. He
pictured Gerard coming up out of a lake, soaking wet, like Mr. Darcy, and
licked his lips.
Gerard’s chuckle
made him realize not only that had he been staring but also that he had been
noticed. The man put one foot on the step beside Jacob and leaned on his knee.
He smelled like leather and musk, and Jacob found himself unable to budge.
“So, are you happy
to see me, or just hungry?” Gerard whispered.
Embarrassed as he
was, Jacob was glad to see that he hadn’t imagined the attraction between him
and Gerard. The candid looks of appreciation Gerard had cast Adam’s way,
contrasted with the casual appraisal he’d given the very beautiful Eloise, had
confirmed that Gerard probably preferred men, but this blatant flirting gave
Jacob far more confidence.
“Both, I think,”
he answered quietly. The heated look Gerard gave him made him feel
like he was losing blood again, and he soon realized it was all heading south.
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