Book Name: What Once Was Lost
Release
Date: March 11, 2016
Blurb:
Following
a volatile break-up with his partner, Casey has been raising his son, Ryan,
mostly on his own. While Ryan is on a camping trip in the Adirondacks, Casey
and Brook make another attempt to work through their differences, with
disastrous results. But when Ryan and his friend disappear in the mountains,
Casey and Brook travel together to find him. The tension leads to an
opportunity to listen to each other, reconcile their history, and recover the
love they once shared.
Pages or Words: 21,000 words
Categories: Contemporary, M/M Romance
Excerpt:
It couldn't be real. It was a vision
or a nightmare or maybe stress-related, but that could not possibly be his
former lover standing on the porch with his hand raised to press the bell
again. That was not the man who continued to haunt both his dreams and his
nightmares. He shuddered; the previous night's mental sleep wanderings had been
a horrifying mix of erotic and sorrowful, and he wasn't in a hurry to relive
them in the flesh. In confusion, Casey slammed the door shut.
"Open the damn door,
Case," the man on the other side said.
Casey growled and opened it again.
"What the hell are you doing here, Brook?"
"I came to get my kid for the
weekend because you failed to drop him off."
"We talked about this weeks
ago." Casey glared at Brook. "Ryan's going camping with Annie, Chuck,
and their kids. You knew about this."
"Maybe I decided the answer is
no." Brook crossed his arms. "You never gave me the choice--you just
told me what was going on, same as always. I'd like a say in what happens this
time."
"Not gonna happen. Also, you
have no business showing up at my door. We agreed to a neutral location for a
reason."
"Oh, right, because we couldn't
stop pissing each other off every time we were together. I'm glad to see you've
gained some maturity since then," Brook shot back.
No, you ass, Casey thought. It's because if
I let you in my house, and you begged to stay, I'd have taken you back and
gotten my heart crushed again. "Go home," he said. He made to
close the door again.
Brook blocked it with his foot.
"He's my kid too. I should've had a say in it. This is my weekend."
"First of all, he's not yours
in any legal sense. Second, you lost the right to have a say the minute you
fucked someone else in our bed."
Brook's mouth dropped open, and his
eyes flicked to the stairs behind Casey. When Casey turned his head to follow
Brook's gaze, he sighed. Ryan was standing in the middle of the staircase,
staring at them. His mouth was set in a thin line, and he had a deep scowl.
"Ry, I'm sorry," Casey
said. "You don't need—"
"I don't need what?" Ryan
asked, crossing his arms. "The truth? Is that why Pop left?"
Both men were silent, but from the
look on Ryan's face, neither of them had to say anything else. Ryan scoffed and
turned around to thunder back up the stairs.
"Charming as always, I
see," Brook said.
"Fuck off. I didn't invite you
here today. You showed up unannounced right before Ry's weekend trip. But hey,
I guess you don't care whether you ruin it for him. Kind of like everything
else."
"God, I forgot what a whiny ass
you are," Brook said, sneering.
Casey wanted to punch him, but that
wouldn't do anything to improve things with Ryan. "Look, this isn't the
time. You want to have some drawn-out argument where we both accuse each other
of random shit from the whole span of our relationship? Great. I'll pencil you
in for noon tomorrow, when my son is happily off in the woods with his
best friend's family. Until then, get the hell off my porch."
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Meet the author:
A.
M. Leibowitz is a queer spouse, parent, feminist, and book-lover falling
somewhere on the Geek-Nerd Spectrum. Ze keeps warm through the long, cold
western New York winters by writing about life, relationships, hope, and
happy-for-now endings. In between noveling and editing, ze blogs coffee-fueled,
quirky commentary on faith, culture, writing, books, and hir family.
Where to find the author:
Publisher: MLR Press
Cover Artist: Jared Rackler
Tour Dates & Stops:
Wicked
Faerie's Tales and Reviews, The
Jena Wade, Kirsty
Loves Books, Alpha Book Club,
Unquietly
Me,
Scattered
Thoughts & Rogue Words, MM
Good Book Reviews, Happily
Ever Chapter, Mikky's
World of Books,
Nautical
Star Books, Making
It Happen, Full
Moon Dreaming, Molly
Lolly, Three
Books Over The Rainbow,
Velvet
Panic, Fangirl
Moments and My Two Cents, Outrageous
Heroes, Louise Lyons, Dawn’s
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