Start the new year as you intend to go the whole year, amirite? A new book, my first in nearly four years, calls for a serious dose of happy! Better, I’ve started the next story too, which is going extremely well. Not sure what finally shook loose in my head, but thank God. All I have to say.
Anyhoo, the new story…
Life is what happens when your irritating ex shows up to wreck your plans.
Danny Thresher left his cheating boyfriend in New York City days before the Covid lockdown froze the country in place. He never looked back. Nothing was more important than protecting Gran and Uncle Hershel during the pandemic, so when his office demanded his return from teleworking, Danny became a charter member of the Great Resignation instead. He rebooted the family farm for cottage food production, with astonishing success. Someone to love would complete the new and improved Danny, and sexy math professor, Nick Wise, checks all the right boxes.
He didn’t count on his ex’s appearance in rural West Virginia two years after Paul’s affair ended their relationship, though.
The path forward is clear. Nick is who Danny wants. This life, surrounded by family and old friends, is everything he’s ever needed.
Pity years of introspective pandemic isolation weren’t enough to fully unpack and process insecurities from the old Danny that linger still.
Warning: Post-Covid setting & themes. Masks. Social distancing. Grocery orders substitutions and eating outdoors in February. Personal sacrifice for the safety of high-risk loved ones…In short, heroes.
If you too swapped your cape for compassion and N95s for vulnerable loved ones, I salute you!
May/December, age gap, alpha geek, Daddy, spanking, Valentine’s
24,930 Digital words
Available at Amazon/KU
If you aren’t a KU member and/or don’t get your books from the Zon, I apologize. Truly, I do. I generally release my books wide, but this time, I just couldn’t face creating multiple listings at other vendors, at least not while I was juggling everything else involved in pushing a project through production. Will it go wide later? Probably. More details on what’s been going on with me in the TL;DR preface included in Starting Over, but what I’m able to do depends largely on what my wonky brain can handle. My first priority has to be producing new work/words. I hope to take SO wide as soon as that’s possible, though. In the meantime, if you’re a KU member, you can pick up Starting Over and I moved a couple other of my contemporaries — In the Red and my MMF, Lovely Wicked — into KU too.
Wishing a happy, healthy, and fulfilling 2023 to you all…
Kari
