Book Name: What It Takes
Release
Date: January 14, 2016
Blurb:
The connection was instantaneous.
Mere moments after Milo Graham's
family relocates to Cape Cod, he meets Andrew Witherell—launching a lifelong
friendship built on a foundation of deep bonds, secret forts, and plans for the
future. When Milo is called home from college to attend his domineering
father's funeral, he and Andrew finally act on their mutual attraction. But
doubtful of his worth, Milo severs all ties with his childhood friend. Years
later, the men find themselves home again, and their long-held feelings
will not be denied. But will they have what it takes to find lasting love?
Pages or Words: 274 pages
Categories: Contemporary, Gay Fiction,
M/M Romance, New Adult, Romance
Excerpt:
Andrew gladly lets Milo drive his car; he hates driving,
especially when he can play radio DJ and watch the scenery go by. He looks at
Milo: the way the fading light before dusk changes the tone of his skin; the way
the muscles of his arms stand out and his lips curl as he sings along, awfully,
to the radio. Milo smiles at him and Andrew flashes a brief one back, wonders
how obvious he’s being, and looks back out the window at the slipping sand that
spills onto the road and the ramshackle businesses along the road.
“So what got this bee
in your bonnet?” he asks suddenly.
Milo shrugs. “You sound like my grandma.”
“Awesome; I like her.
Let’s focus.”
“So... okay.” Milo
clears his throat and his fingers tighten on the wheel. “I um, think I have
something to tell you. But I’m—”
“Is everything okay?”
Andrew interrupts, scanning his memory for any signs of additional distress
Milo might have displayed in the last few months.
“Yeah. Well. I mean,
um… whatever. But I—”
“What? You’re
worrying me.”
Milo sighs and pulls
into the parking lot of a restaurant with a giant crab on the roof. “I can’t do
this and drive.”
“Okay,” Andrew says
slowly, then unbuckles his belt and turns to face him. Milo’s face is a little
drawn.
“So, I think I might
be gay,” Milo blurts. “I mean, I know. I know I am.”
There’s a full minute
of silence in the car while Andrew tries to work the words out. Static
screeches in his ears, fleetingly numbing his reaction. Focus. He has a
few seconds to control his face, to tamp down that sprout of irrational hope
seeding despite the chaos, and be ultimately supportive.
“Um.” Andrew licks
his lips and tries to pull himself together. That seedling wants to grow into
something bigger, and he can’t let it. He looks at Milo’s face,
which has morphed into something more vulnerable and worried. Hope is a hollow
bell in his chest, ringing loud and dissonant; he wants to vibrate out of his
skin with the inappropriateness of his own reactions. This is about Milo, not
him. “You aren’t worried that I’m mad or something, are you?” he manages to
say.
“I don’t know. Um,
your face is doing... a thing,” Milo replies.
Reflexively Andrew puts his hands to his cheeks. His fingers are
cold. Okay, so he definitely doesn’t have his face under control. “No, I...
wasn’t expecting it, that’s all.” Andrew’s brain, sometimes faster than his
mouth, is careening backward. “Maybe I should have had a clue.”
“Oh?”
“Well, for starters,
you kissed me back.”
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Meet the author:
Jude Sierra began her writing career
at the age of eight when she immortalized her summer vacation with ten entries
in a row that read "pool+tv." She first began writing poetry as
a child in her home country of Brazil, and is still a student of the form.
As a sucker for happy endings and
well-written emotional arcs and characters, Jude is an unapologetic bookaholic.
She finds bookstores and libraries unbearably sexy and, to her husband's
dismay, is attempting to create her own in their living room. She is a writer
of many things that hope to find their way out of the sanctuary of her hard
drive and many that have found a home in the fanfiction community.
She is currently working on her
Master of Arts in Writing and Rhetoric and managing a home filled with her
husband, two young sons, and two cats. Her first novel, Hush, was published in 2015 by Interlude Press.
Where to find the author:
Publisher: Interlude Press
Cover
Art: Nelli I
Cover
Design: C.B. Messer
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