Rainbow Snippets*–Spring Is Trying

The preorder for Embers and Flame is now live! After months of editing, it's time to turn to marketing. Something I know very little about.

First blossoms of spring!

Again snipping from Embers and Flame. This is shortly after Cherry and Ben's first kiss and they are slowly meandering the hiking trail at the campground where they met. Told from Ben's POV:

We walked for minutes at a time in silence, occasional bits of conversation dropping in but soon lost, until we came to a shady spot. Cherry stopped and wrapped his arms around my ribs, laying his hands flat at the center of my back as he kissed me again. It was such a forward move that I hadn’t expected it. It wasn’t that Cherry was timid, but he hadn’t shown a spontaneous side all week. Everything was considered and planned. Even the things that felt halfway spur-of-the-moment were part of the day’s schedule, although occasionally they got moved from their preset order. He broke the connection and whispered in my ear, “I’m not the first man you’ve kissed.”

“No,” I admitted.

“And all week it hasn’t dawned on you to mention it?” He tried to sound insulted, but the amusement was clear in his voice.

Embers and Flame 

After an amicable breakup, “Cherry” Andrews hopes to prove that he’s fine on his own. Replacing the noises of St. Louis with crickets and birdsong at his favorite campground feels like the perfect vacation. But instead of finding inner-peace, he’s simply bored.

Ben Torres hopes that a cross-country motorcycle tour will help him find his own peace after his mother’s recent death, but a faulty tailpipe curtails his plans within hours of leaving home. Luckily for him, the cute redhead at the campground happily shares his fishing equipment as well as offering taxi service during a week-long search for parts.

An unexpected kiss leads to an afternoon of discovery and a summer romance that in turn becomes a long distance relationship in the fall. Everything would be wonderful if they could spend the rest of their lives in a tent by a lake–but two-hundred miles may be the least of the challenges they face.

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