Book Name: Jakob & Ivo
Series: Storming Love: Meteor Strikes
Book: Two
This book can be read as a standalone as
each is a self-contained story
Release
Date: March 4, 2016
Blurb:
Dr. Jakob Feldmann is a renowned German geneticist
at Research Hospital Essen... and a recluse par excellence.
Ivo Andersson is a male nurse working at the same
hospital as Jakob. His outgoing personality and good looks have earned him the
nickname Sir Grin-a-lot.
They both have a crush on each other that everyone
except the two of them seems to know about. But when the German Federal Police
shows up with two patients suffering from a suspected alien infection, their
voluntary exile in the high security research complex shifts their relationship
into fast-forward mode.
Just when they find the courage to open up to each
other, Jakob discovers the true nature of the infection. He has to make a
decision that will change everything.
How much can love endure?
Pages or Words: 29,500 words
Categories: Contemporary, M/M Romance,
Science Fiction
Excerpt:
“Emergency, emergency on floor seven! Dr. Feldmann’s
eyeballs are about to drop out.”
Jakob flinched. “Shhh, not so loud.” He spun around.
“Not everyone has to know.”
Marc may have been a capable physician, but he made
a bull in the china shop look like a well-behaved customer interested in a
delicate porcelain service.
“I think apart from the both of you,” Marc chuckled
and that sound got Jakob’s ear canals dirty, “everyone else in the hospital is
aware of your crush on each other.”
“He isn’t interested in me.” Jakob turned back and
looked down the hospital hall again. Ivo was still talking to the other nurse,
Sandra Gronder, right? How could such a cute guy be interested in Jakob “Average
Guy” Feldmann? It took one look from those blue eyes, one sweep through that
dark blond mass of hair, one smile with those perfectly white rows of teeth,
and every man would drop down to his knees begging for a date, regardless
whether that guy was gay or not. “I’m not in his league.”
Marc groaned through his closed lips. “Oh fucking
Jesus.” He reached into his pocket, got his cell out, and held it to his ear
before offering it to Jakob. “It’s for you. The nineties’ rom coms are calling
and want their clichés back.” He let his hand sink down. “You’re a doctor and
he’s a nurse. You look at a nucleic acid sequence and give a perfect
description of the person it came from. I won’t sleep with any chick for a
month if you can name a better geneticist in the world than you, and I’m damn
jealous. And he? He cleans bedpans and chauffeurs meals.”
“You’re a snob and a jerk.” Jakob would never become
one of those demigods in white. That’s what he had promised his father and he
would stick to that promise. “He’s twenty-seven. I’m thirty-three. And I don’t
even know if he’s into guys.”
“Six years? You’re kidding me, aren’t you?” Marc
huffed, blowing his nostrils. “As a male nurse, he most probably is gay or has
been asked that question so many times that he doesn’t give a crap anymore.
It’s the twenty-first century, you know? You can talk about who you fuck in
public.”
Jakob closed his eyes, pushed down his glasses, and
massaged the bridge of his nose. Marc was a snob and a jerk for real, but
however much this turned Jakob’s stomach, he was also right. Jakob opened his
eyes again. “That just isn’t me, approaching him and asking him out.” His elbow
began to itch. Damn psoriasis! He didn’t need any reminder that he was nervous.
“I can ask him for you.” Marc took a step forward,
but Jakob grabbed him by his arm.
“Are you crazy? No, no, please, no.” The
embarrassment would kill Jakob. Slowly pining away, yearning for Ivo, didn’t
seem to be that bad of an alternative to death.
Marc shrugged and tilted his head, a smug grin on
his lips. “I only want to help.” Another filthy chuckle fouled the air around
them. “Seriously, Jakob, get a grip on yourself and ask him. It’s not that
difficult.”
For normal people, asking that simple question may
have been a piece of cake, but for “Four-Eyes Jakob” and “Crumble Cake Skin
Feldmann”? “I’ll consider it.” Perhaps another month and the crush would go
away all by itself. They always did. He eyed Ivo again and sighed. This
infatuation, however, might need some harder medication.
With another huff, Marc shook his head. “Okay. While
you’re considering,” he drew quotation marks into the air, “let me share the
newest rumors with you. A few minutes ago, two white vans with federal license
plates pulled up at the security lock. Our friends of the BKA are back.”
The German federal police had paid them a last visit
about a year ago when they had arrested a criminal with a suspected Ebola
infection. It had turned out to be a false alarm though. “Did you hear anything
about why they are here?”
“Nope.” Marc let the p plop. “I’ll be dicked anyway
because they definitely won’t need an orthopedist unless Queen Angie sprained
her ankle on a secret holiday in the Dolomites.”
Maybe they needed a geneticist? Helping to
convict—or exonerate—a criminal would distract Jakob from Ivo at least. Was
hijacking a doctor’s thoughts a felony? If so, Ivo was guilty: a cute rogue
with a killer smile. Jakob lowered his head until his chin touched his chest.
He had to stop spending all of his weekends reading fantasy graphic novels at
home. At the age of thirty-three, he should have something better to do. With
real people. He sighed once more.
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Meet the author:
Mario K. Lipinski (born in November, 1975, in
Germany) lives in Herne, Germany.
He is a spare-time author and, in "real"
life, is a mathematician teaching at university level. Does it show in his
books? Yes, it does.
English is not his native language, and a frequent
question is why he does write in English. For more than 15 years, most of the
books he has read have been in English. So, it felt natural for him to write in
English, too.
He is into romance with a capital R.
Where to find the author:
Publisher: MLR Press
Cover
Artist: Kris Jacen
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Congrats on the new book!I like everything about space. Learning about the planets, black holes, supernovas, etc. I'm all for it.
ReplyDeleteI'm a little late, but thank you! :)
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy the story.