Showing posts with label Garrett Leigh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garrett Leigh. Show all posts

Thursday, November 10, 2022

S.E.X. Review~ Forgive Me Father by Garrett Leigh


Embry

"...you don’t understand.”

Mateo lowered himself to sit, still vibrating with the need to fix me, the way he always did. “Then tell me. Explain it like I’m the simplest idiot you’ve ever met.”

I can’t. I’d never told anyone. Not the judge, the jury, or the legal aid barrister who’d written me off before she’d ever met me. But as I drowned in Mateo’s affection, in a love I’d done nothing to deserve, the words came tumbling out.

Bad words.

Dark words.

Darker than sin.

Darker, even, than Mateo’s battered soul and the secrets I didn’t know about yet.

I thought those words would shatter me.

Shatter 
us.

But when the devil came for us, it wasn’t mine.

It was Mateo’s, and the man I’d trusted with my fragile heart was a stranger more broken than his scars could ever show.


Forgive Me Father is a continuation of the best-selling Rebel Kings MC series. Content warning for violence and sexual trauma.



I can not say this enough, but if I wanted to read a raw and gritty book, whether it be M/M or not, Garrett Leigh would be my go-to author.

Forgive Me Father, Rebel Kings MC was all that I expected and hoped in a Ms Leigh novel. A continuation of the men of the Rebel Kings, FMF was the story of Embry and Mateo. In the previous novels, the men danced around each other, and it would be inevitable for them to finally find their way to each other, but the road was not an easy one. Full of secrets, hardships, and nefarious dealing attempting to break the Kings to shreds, the men must undertake obstacles if they wanted to create a life together in the midst of their brothers.

Embry was the MC chaplain, a sensitive soul with an ironclad will, he kept the secrets of members in addition to his own. Little did he know that the biggest secret which Mateo kept to himself could potentially tear the entire club apart.

I know these men are rough, even killers, but Ms. Leigh has a way of making the reader fall for them regardless of their sins. She gave them dimension that radiated throughout their own story and the intertwining of the others. Even in the middle of a turf war love can be found.

All the men of the Rebel Kings deserve their HEA, and I look forward to being regaled by their stories.

Definite S.E.X.

A five Handcuff review



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2022 ©Evelise Archer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

S.E.X. Review & Giveaway~ Saint's Song by Garrett Leigh

 





Cover Design: Black Jazz Design

Length:

Rebel Kings MC Series

Book #1 - Devil's Dance - Buy Here
Book #3 - Forgive Me Father - Pre-Order Here - Out Nov '22

Expect: a fragile king, a sweet-hearted henchman, an enigmatic hitman, and a fight to the death.Cam, Alexei, and Saint have survived their battle with the devil, but with too many enemies to count, can they survive the war?

“Kill me,” I choked out. “If he’s dead, you gotta kill me too.”

One club, one heart.

Three men, one soul.

Can loving someone kill you? I feel like the world is ending every time I look at them.

Cam. My brother. My president.

He’s the love of my life

And then there’s Alexei. I didn’t know I could feel this way about one person, let alone two. But I think of him in every breath I breathe for Cam. Every thundering beat of my heart. Because there is no Cam without him.

There is no me. My life wasn’t worth living until I found something worth dying for.
And I’d die for them a thousand times.

Saint’s Song is the second in a hurt/comfort, biker romance, MMM duet from the world of the Rebel Kings MC. Content warnings inside the book.




Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer and book designer.

Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.

When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.

Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.

Website: http://www.garrettleigh.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/garrettleighauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Leigh

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Saint’s Song by Garrett Leigh was gritty and sensational. Part of the Rebel Kings MC series, I highly recommend the books be read in order, starting with Devil’s Dance.

Saint was the Sergeant at Arms to Cam’s leadership of the MC. Alexi, Cam’s lover, protector, and all-around assassin, rounded the trio. There were so many things I loved about the book. Ms Leigh never glossed over the tumultuous dealings or relationships MC’s had. The author delivered authenticity of the nefarious undertakings and dangerous world the men and women lived in.

Additionally, the turmoil the men experienced in the club and their relationship was bold and brash.

I loved Saint, as I did in the first book. His quiet yet strong demeanor radiated throughout the pages whether he was gently loving one of his men or fighting to save the club he loved so much. A polyamorous relationship, the men never faltered in their need for one another or the way they tried to protect each other. Nothing is more sexy than men getting their heads out of their as…es, no matter what the circumstances, and admitting their need and love.

Garrett Leigh can turn any setting and create a tale to be remembered. Her dark romances are just dark enough because of the realism added.

Definite S.E.X.

A five handcuff review


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2022 ©Evelise Archer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.

Sunday, January 30, 2022

S.E.X. Release & Review~ Devil's Dance by Garrett Leigh

 




Cover Design: Black Jazz Design

Length: 96,000 words approx.

Rebel Kings MC Series

Book #2 - Saint's Song - Pre-Order (Out June 7 2022)

Opposites attract. The outlaw biker and the accountant. Straightlaced vs straight to hell. Or heaven, depending on how you look at it.

And you can look at it any way you like, doesn’t mean it’s true. Either way, falling for snarky Alexei Ivanov is the lightbulb moment I’ve been waiting for my whole damn life. Or at least since my head got turned by someone else. A man I call brother, but he's so much more than that.

I’ve loved Saint Malone for years. My loyal wingman has owned my heart so long I figured it had died of yearning for him. But Saint is as fragile as he is deadly. I don’t know how to help him until Alexei brings me to life in ways I can’t describe.

He opens my eyes, and I see them both.

I love them both.

With the weight of the underworld bearing down on me, I just gotta stay alive long enough to tell them.

Devil’s Dance is the first in a hurt/comfort, dark romance, MMM duet from the world of the Rebel Kings MC. Expect: tattoos, leather, and an enigmatic Russian hitman.



Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer and book designer.

Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.

When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.

Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.

Website: http://www.garrettleigh.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/garrettleighauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Leigh




All I can say is Wow! Devil’s Dance by Garrett Leigh was fantastic. Gritty and emotional, this book kept me on the edge of my seat and completely engrossed. Ms. Leigh is an auto read for me and this book did not disappoint. Bikers Cam, Saint, and the rest of the club were larger than life and complicated characters. Alexi, elusive new lover and man with special talents was also a force to reckon with.

The motorcycle club was dirty and edgy- lots of twists and turns. Ms. Leigh always astonishing me with her uncanny knack to hook me into a story like a baby bird to its momma- not for the faint of heart. Rebel Kings MC was not a wine and roses love story, but a cast of characters surviving life, stigmas, and just maybe if you find someone to understand you and have your back- all the better.

A successful and satisfying ending to the present story, Ms. Leigh left the door wide open for the second book in her new series.

Yes, please- tell me more about Saint.

Definite S.E.X.

A five handcuff review


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2022 ©Evelise Archer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

S.E.X. Giveaway & Review~ Christmas Mountain by Garrett Leigh






Cover Design: Black Jazz Design

The probation officer caring for his dead brother’s baby. The wounded gentle giant with the biggest softest heart.

Rami: Sweet Fen Hawthorne is my favourite thing about working in the prison. His broad shoulders and sunny grin. His twinkly flirtation. And he likes me as much as I like him. More seems inevitable until life happens.

One day I’m there, then I’m not, and second chances don’t really happen when your car breaks down halfway up a snowy mountain, do they?

Besides, I don’t remember flirting with a bearded lumbersexual, only dreaming about one.

Fen: Do dreams come true?

Christmas Mountain is my home. But it’s the one place on earth I never imagined seeing Rami Stone again, and now I’m snowed in with him. Trapped, with only a roaring fire for company, and it’s a fantasy come true. The air is thick with more than snow and the eighteen months we’ve been apart fades away.

As the snow clears, though, so does the haze. Rami says he comes with baggage.

But so do I, and I’m here for the heavy lifting.

I’m here for forever.

A Christmas MM romance from Garrett Leigh. Expect: Long lost friends-to-lovers, heart-warming found family, and the swooniest second chance at love with a healthy dose of sweet hurt/comfort. Gorging on mince pies and cinnamon-spiced doughnuts is optional, but deeply encouraged.


Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer and book designer.

Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.

When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.

Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.

Website: http://www.garrettleigh.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/garrettleighauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Leigh


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I adored Rami and Fen in Garret Leigh’s Christmas Mountain. This feel-good story was emotional and uplifting.

Unforeseen tragedy destroyed any chance of the once coworker’s potential relationship- but karma brought them back together. Rami showed up on Christmas Mountain with his nephew in tow, searching for a place to lay down his head even though his initial timetable left him unsure of anything. Fen was a breath of fresh air.

The slow burn of romance between Fen and Rami radiated throughout and left this reader cheering for them and the potential of a love match. Sometimes quick to the sack is not what I yearn, and this story was perfectly delivered. Even though they were opposites, under the careful guidance of Ms. Leigh- it worked!

The secondary characters only enhanced the story and left me smiling. I loved everything about this book.

If you are a fan of the Darkest Skies series, you do not have to read the other books to read Christmas Mountain, but I would highly recommend reading them to get the full lovely effect.

Definite S.E.X.

A five handcuff review


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2021 ©Evelise Archer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.

Thursday, September 2, 2021

S.E.X. Release Blitz~ Salvation by Garrett Leigh

 




Cover Design: Black Jazz Design

Darkest Skies Series 

Book #1 Redemption - Buy Links
Book #2 Deliverance - Buy Links

Reformed gang boss Dante Pope is out after a four-year stretch in prison. But freedom has found him faster than he’s ready for. His only brother hates him, and with nothing but PTSD and a newfound fascination with plants for company, the outside world is a terrifying place.

A prisoner rehabilitation scheme lands him at a stately home that might as well be the moon. Working for gorgeous gardener Sid is a welcome distraction—his shoulders are broad, his rugged jaw unshaven, and his long, tanned legs?

Wow.

But Sid has problems of his own. A life-changing disease has left him limited in ways he can’t bear and accepting help, even from a stranger, makes him want to curl up and die.

If Dante would let him.

Newsflash: he won’t, and he’s not a stranger for long. With his dark smile and sinister ink, Dante Pope is the most beautiful man Sid has ever seen. Life is hard, but falling for each other is easy.

Sunshine and shadows.

Old ghosts can haunt Dante all they like. Loving Sid is the only salvation he’ll ever need.

Salvation is a sweetly angsty standalone MM romance novel in the Darkest Skies series. Expect: second chances, forced proximity, friends-to-lovers, and buckets of hurt/comfort themed loveliness. Content warnings for childhood trauma, violence, and chronic illness.



Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer and book designer.

Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.

When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.

Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.

Website: http://www.garrettleigh.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/garrettleighauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Leigh


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2021 ©Evelise Archer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.

Saturday, August 14, 2021

S.E.X. Review~ Deliverance by Garrett Leigh

Banished gangster Benito Martell is living on the edge. An explosive hook-up in a club gifts him the relief he craves, but nothing about his life is ever so simple. Complications abound, and before long, he’s falling for the only man who can save his family from eviction.

Recovering addict Mickey Larwood has worked hard to leave his past behind. He can’t look back, not even for the beautiful Benito, the last soul on earth he expected to steal his heart—a soul who’s knee-deep in the underworld Mickey has run hundreds of miles to escape.

Benito can deny it all he wants, but Mickey can smell trouble a mile off.

And Benito is trouble with a capital T. As his desperate lies unravel, so does the fledgling love that’s grown between them. If Benito wants deliverance from his old life and a future with Mickey, old ghosts need to die.

If they don’t kill him first.




Gritty and raw. Two words that described Garrett Leigh’s Deliverance - part of the Darkest Skies series. Ms. Leigh never failed to capture my attention with her numerous books, and Deliverance hit all the marks.

Gang life on the streets was tough and cruel, and Benito knew it all too well. Meeting Mickey and the security of his sister and mother, gave Beni a new look on life; one that involved leaving the past behind.

Of course, not everything went as planned, and Ms. Leigh took the reader on an emotional rollercoaster that tethered on the precipice of disaster.

I appreciated Ms. Leigh addressing the jargon used in the book, as an American reader, I am not always familiar with the slang. This allowed me to stay focused on the story and not have to surmise the meaning.

Ms. Leigh is a wonderful storyteller of grit and emotion, hitting the mark on enveloping the reader and crating a world that came to life.

Benito and Mickey were wonderfully written, nothing held back, and emotionally charged.

Deliverance was a winner and one to not be missed.

Definite S.E.X.

A five handcuff review


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2021 ©Evelise Archer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.

Monday, February 15, 2021

S.E.X. Review~ Forgiven by Garrett Leigh

High school sweethearts Mia and Luke get a second chance at love in this brand-new contemporary romance from award-winning author Garrett Leigh.

When Mia Amour returns to England to open a florist shop, all she wants to do is put her lousy ex behind her and never look back. But getting a fresh start is easier said than done when her first love, the boy who once broke her teenage heart, strolls back into her life. He’s every bit as sexy as she remembers, and the urge to melt back into his arms almost makes her forget how devastated she was when he took off without a word. Almost.

Left with no choice, Luke Daley did what he had to do, leaving town to earn enough money to save his broken family, though it just about broke him, too. But now he’s back, running his uncle’s business and trying desperately to forget about Mia, the girl he left behind all those years ago. When he runs into her in town, the shock of seeing her again brings an intense rush of emotions: love, guilt…and an overwhelming urge to find out if it’s still as amazing between them as it used to be.

It doesn’t take either of them long to give in to desire and discover the fiery passion they once shared burns hotter than ever. With each new touch, each moment of forgiveness, old hurts heal and the future they’d hoped for ten years ago becomes possible again. But their fragile connection is tested by a threat neither of them saw coming—a threat that could end their second chance before it even gets started.



This reader is an adoring fan of Garrett Leigh and all her works but Forgiven did not do it for me. The writing, as always, was well done and developed, but the premise and the characters were not there.

Sweethearts as teens, Mia and Luke were supposedly hot and heavy- right there the mere idea turned me off. You were teenagers and sure you can fall in love, but the kind of love they professed just didn’t work if it was to believe they were each other’s everything. The entire story was based on Mia’s anger for Luke leaving and joining the Navy and never saying goodbye. She knew he joined the Navy, and I would assume a leave date- you do not join the military from one day to the next without knowing weeks to months in advance when you are leaving. I guess I didn’t buy the story that he slinked off in the night.

Mia’s anger resonated throughout the story and by God woman, give it a rest! No, she chose to harp and never let it go. Additionally, I found Luke a sniveling personality.

Unfortunately, I never felt forgiveness in this story and as much as I love a Ms. Leigh tale, this one did not do it for this reader.

Frisky but Nothing too Kinky

A three handcuff review


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2021 ©Evelise Archer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.

Saturday, December 5, 2020

S.E.X. New Release & Review~ Angels in the City by Garrett Leigh


 


Cover Design: Black Jazz Design

Length: 63,000 words approx.

Blurb

A fake relationship with a stranger. An office romance with doughnuts and white knights. An addictive arrangement—friends with benefits—fast turns to love.

Jonah Gray is rich, successful, and the most eligible bachelor in the city, according to his mother, at least. But the truth is, despite her efforts to pair him off, he’s fine on his own. All he needs is a date to the Christmas ball.

Sacha Ivanov is a lone wolf, content in the cycle of long days, late nights, and anonymous hook ups, but when a chance encounter in a broken-down lift brings a gorgeous copper-haired CEO into his life, everything begins to change.

As Christmas fast approaches, a favour for a stranger blooms into something more. He doesn’t do second dates or relationships. But for kind-hearted Jonah, his angel in the city, he might just change his mind.

Angels in the City is a Christmas themed MM friends-to-lovers, forced proximity, office romance. Expect fraught days, steamy nights, and true love built around festive snacks and Christmas trees.


Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer and book designer.

Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.

When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.

Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.

Website: http://www.garrettleigh.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/garrettleighauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Leigh

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Whenever I read a Garrett Leigh book I know I get powerful and provocative writing and characters. Add to it a Christmas theme and I know with 100% assuredness that the story line will leave me wanting more. Angels in the City was just that. To coin this book as a feel-good holiday story would not do it justice. It was a powerful story of a flawed yet formidable man, Sasha, who found something more than what he bargained for.

Sasha and Jonah worked in the same building, yet really never ran into each other until a brief interlude on the elevator led to a fake date at a ballroom party, and then …..beyond.

Ms. Leigh can write dark and flawed characters and Sasha fit the bill. His slight egocentrism, his Russian accent-which I heard in my head- and his cavalier attitude, gave him an air of pompous ass with a sinister past and I loved him! This man captured my attention, as he did Jonah’s.

Jonah was rich, intelligent, and sensitive. He also fell hard for the Russian and jumped with both feet first. Their relationship started out purely sexual, but soon turned introspective as it evolved. The characterization flourished and Ms. Leigh once again delivered a story worth reading. I was so enthralled that I wanted to dive in the pages of the book and become a part of the story. My only drawback, I wanted more. More Sasha and Jonah. More pages to the book. More, more, more to come because this reader needs a book 2, and maybe a book 3. Ms. Leigh turned my brain inside out, that in my mind’s eye the world she created in one story became a series.

Thank you, Garrett Leigh, for creating the book that reached top three on my reading list of M/M romance.

Definite S.E.X.

A five handcuff review



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2020 ©Evelise Archer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.

Friday, October 9, 2020

S.E.X. Review~ The Sex Coach by Garrett Leigh

 




Cover Design: Black Jazz Design

Length: 61,000 words approx.

The teacher and the student. The stable hand and the single dad. First times and friendship turn to love.

Toby
There’s nothing attractive about a twenty-four year old virgin, especially not one who blushes every time a hot dude looks his way. But I can’t help the heat that ripples through me every time I see Cole Maguire. And the clench of my heart when I realise how unhappy he is. He’s a city boy with a baby on his hip—we have nothing in common—but if he can teach me how to own my sexuality, perhaps I can teach him he’s worth loving.

Cole
I don’t like horses. But I love my daughter, and there’s nothing I won’t do for her, including leaving the city for life on a farm. I’m ready for that, but I’m not ready for blushing stable hands who make my heart race and my blood run hot. Toby has no idea how beautiful he is. I can teach him that, if he can handle the heat, but after one night with him…damn.

Maybe it’s me that has a lot to learn.

The Sex Coach is an MM summer romance with first times, a virgin stable hand, a single dad pilates teacher, and guaranteed happy ending.




Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer and book designer.

Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.

When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.

Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.

Website: http://www.garrettleigh.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/garrettleighauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Leigh



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The Sex Coach by Garrett Leigh was a stand alone, but to get the full impact of the dynamics of the men living on the rescue horse farm, I would recommend reading the Skins Boxed series. As a reader and fan of Ms. Leigh, you will not be disappointed.

Toby worked on the farm for the better part of a decade. The stable boy and all-around handy man, this shy boy kept to himself and really knew nothing of love. That was until Cole moved to the farm as a physio instructor, a man with much baggage and little confidence in himself.

Both characters were so much more than the initial, it’s learning about sex for Toby and I’ll teach you for Cole. Ms. Leigh created flawed characters with inner wounds that ran deep enough to affect their everyday lives and encounters. The Sex Coach was a slow journey of acceptance and finding the one person who was made to calm your soul.

The patience both men had with each other was delivered aptly, yet with realistic bumps in the road. The secondary characters from previous books only added to the appeal of the overall storyline and kept this reader absorbed and intrigued.

A good Ms. Leigh book is one I won’t put done, and TSC hit all the marks.

Definite S.E.X.

A five-handcuff review 


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2020 ©Evelise Archer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.

Thursday, September 17, 2020

S.E.X. Release Blitz & Review~ Skins: The Box Set Vol 1-4 by Garrett Leigh

 




Cover Design: Black Jazz Design

The bestselling SKINS series.

“I can’t get enough of this gorgeous series. Heartfelt and beautiful, I’m totally addicted."


Dream

When unrequited love leaves Dylan Hart sleepless and nursing his wounds, instinct draws him to the one place he's found mindless respite in the past—Lovato’s. It’s a place for every fantasy—where a night of insane NSA fun with former ballet dancer Angelo brings relief to Dylan’s fragile feelings.


Friends to lovers, hurt comfort, angst.

Whisper

Lonely physiotherapist Harry Foster has the world at his feet. A full client list, a six figure Instagram following, and a publishing deal for a book he doesn’t have time to write until his agent offers him a break—a retreat to the wild south west coast.

Cornish horseman Joe Carter is lonely too. On paper, they have nothing in common, but Joe is beautiful…glorious, and when an accident puts his life in Harry’s healing hands, the whisper of true love is inevitable. If the trouble that put the farm on its knees in the first place doesn’t get in the way.

Friends to lovers, hurt comfort, horses, forced proximity.


Believe

Flight paramedic Rhys Foster is hooked on adrenaline. By day it’s blood and guts, by night it’s the thrill of the club. Entertainer Jevon Campbell is a play therapist like no other—dancer, magician, acrobat. Their connection is instant. As the days slip by, Rhys must learn to believe he’s worth the happiness Jevon is offering.

Friends to lovers, first times, men in uniform.

Crossroads

Angelo Giordano and Dylan Hart are more in love than ever. As the end of a tough year approaches, they reach a crossroads. Dylan returns to Cornwall for Christmas and Angelo can’t imagine watching him leave again. Can the love that surrounds them on Whisper Farm show them the way home?

Christmas novella, favourite characters, found family.


Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer and book designer.

Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.

When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.

Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.

Website: http://www.garrettleigh.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/garrettleighauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Leigh


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Garrett Leigh’s box set Skins contained four separately intertwined stories, each uniquely Ms. Leigh.

I enjoyed each story as we caught a glimpse into the men’s lives as separate human beings and as couples. Each person brought a realism to their storyline and the others, that gave way to drama, friendship, and love. Ms. Leigh caught this reader off guard as to how much I became invested in their stories. Just when I thought I loved one couple, another would pop up and make me smile even wider. By far, Dylan and Angelo tugged at my heartstrings.

Ms. Leigh wove their tales together that created four separate stories with a single purpose.

A must read from start to finish.

Definite S.E.X.

A five-handcuff review



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2020 ©Evelise Archer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.

Friday, September 4, 2020

S.E.X. Review~ Redemption Audio~ Narrated by Dan Calley

Redemption audiobook cover artReformed gangster Luis falls hard for his boss. When friendship turns to love, it’s up to Paolo to convince him second chances are worth the pain.
Luis Pope is back on the street after a six-year stretch in prison, but life on the outside seems just out of reach, especially when the whole neighborhood knows his face for all the wrong reasons. 
Paolo’s temper makes it hard to keep staff, and he knows Luis’ rep all too well. But his nonno believes in redemption, and Luis isn’t the tough guy Paolo remembers. Prison has left its mark, inside and out, and all the kindness in the world can’t fix the three inch scar on Luis’s skull. 
And it can’t keep ghosts locked up. Luis is the best worker Paolo’s ever had, and Luis is happier than he’s ever been. But his old life doesn’t want to stay in the past. Trouble comes to call, and when it makes him an offer he can’t refuse, keeping Paolo safe hurts the most. 
Redemption is an angsty, stand-alone M/M romance novel, with second chances, found family, friends-to-lovers, and buckets of hurt/comfort themed loveliness.


Redemption by Garrett Leigh was a dark and emotional roller coaster. Not your typical romance- edgy infused with patches of love.

Luis Pope, recently released from prison, needed a new start apart from the thug life in his brother’s gang. Quiet, reserved, a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders, Luis simply desired peace.

Paolo ran the café once owned by his grandparents- kept tradition alive- but worked himself to sickness. Luis entered his establishment like a man on a mission, but with no mission to attain.
Ms. Leigh brought together two vastly different men on the surface, yet very similar at the same time. Each man brought forth his own set of insecurities, however for some reason they synched. Ms. Leigh’s writing ability delivered characters that on the surface should have stayed miles apart from each other, but her carefully placed words gave credence to opposites do attract and everyone deserves a second chance.

What I most enjoyed about the book, was the fact that since the book revolved around gangs and nefarious dealings, she never sugar-coated what the outcomes could be. Yes, Luis and Paolo found love and created a lifeline to each other, but it was done tastefully and realistically. There were no flowers and little hearts in your eyes. The curve balls of life, the expectations of family, and the hope to find something better surrounded the pages of Luis and Paolo’s story.

The sadness and sorrow permeated throughout and kept me interested in the hopes that all would work out. I hated characters, I loved characters, but never did I want to put the book down and walk away. Ms. Leigh has a way of capturing the reader, drawing them into the story, and keeping you on the edge of your seat.

A must read. Redemption was …..

Definite S.E.X.
A five handcuff review

Audio Review

I loved Mr. Calley's narration of Redemption. I had no idea what Luis and Paolo would sound like, but as soon as the story began, the men jumped through my e-reader and I was transported into their lives. The angst filled story created by Garrett Leigh came alive as each character spoke and the vocalization ensued. The descriptors were vivid and only enhanced by the storyteller.

Paolo's grandfather was even more enigmatic and energetic that originally told through the written word- kudos Mr. Calley for bringing him alive.

A sure-fire winner!

Definite S.E.X.
A five handcuff review


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2020 ©Evelise Archer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.