Rainbow Snippets*-- A Blurb at Last! (a call for Beta Readers)

So--I finally got through my first edit! Which means I'm looking for beta readers. If anyone is interested, contact me on Twitter, Facebook, or in the comments below. For anyone who doesn't know, a beta reader is just a "first" reader. I'm not looking for an editor, just some general feedback. And you get to read a free book.

Blurb for Headphones: In From the Cold:

            They don’t know her name, so they call her Headphones.

Homeless and lost, all Headphones wants is a warm place to rest. What she finds in the bright bar is a group of people who take her in, offering her a home and a chance to make music again. Her new friends help her heal from the trauma that forced her to run, while she breaks them from the mundanity of their own lives. 

Micky Shane walked away from the glamour of his Rock Star life when he lost his lead-guitarist and best friend, eventually settling in the small college town with a new name and a new band. He can’t claim to be happy, but he’s content in his anonymity. The young woman sparks something in him he believed he’d lost. With renewed energy, maybe he’s ready to step into the world again.  

In From the Cold is the first of the trilogy that chronicles Headphones’ one-year journey as she and her found-family's lives interweave. Five different relationships, five different romances, with a happy-ever-after guaranteed in the final book. 

Content notes: M/F M/M mention of drugs, alcohol, and guns. In From the Cold is not a stand-alone.

I was trying to read. Peppercorn was taking a moment to plot his next move.

This weeks snippet is part two of four. Read part one here. It's written from Scoey's POV.

He’d been in a holding pattern for too long. The military was his life for more than 10 years. And then it wasn’t. He was lost, standing on a path that forked off in a dozen different directions with no map. Richard was the only landmark he had left, the one solid thing left when his world went topsy-turvy. Now he had a home and a group of people who had adopted him as one of their own. And he had Jay. He’d never had a friend like him before, someone he was completely comfortable with; someone who valued his opinions without judgment or condescension. 

Almost as if his thoughts summoned the man, he heard his name echoing down the hall. “In here,” he called.

“Where’s here?” he got in return.

Scoey wasn’t sure what to call the room as he looked around. “There’s books and a fireplace.”

Jay appeared, unwinding a long scarf from around his neck as he passed through the doorway. Snowflakes were scattered like stars in his dark hair. His eyes twinkled bright blue and his cheeks were ruddy from the cold, almost glowing in the half-light and Scoey was again struck by the man’s good looks.

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