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Color of Grace Update

COLOR OF GRACE (Cost of Repairs #2) is now available for pre-order from Samhain! The page also has a nice little excerpt for your enjoyment. 

Looking to the future begins with forgiving the past.

Cost of Repairs, Book 2

Barrett McCall once lived like there was no tomorrow. Now the reformed party animal savors each day as a gift. His short order cook job at Dixie’s Cup pays the rent, and he’s content with his sober—if solitary—life.

When a fire leaves him homeless, Dixie’s offer to let him move into her basement apartment puts him on a collision course with her nephew, art teacher Schuyler Rhodes. The heat between them crackles, but in Schuyler’s eyes Barrett recognizes the same demons he exorcised long ago.

Dixie’s kind-hearted offer couldn’t come at a worse time for Schuyler. It’s the anniversary of his teenage cousin Matty’s drowning. Everyone believes it was an accident, but Schuyler knows the truth—and so does the culprit. For fifteen years that truth has burned a hole in his soul…and now it keeps Barrett at arm’s length.

One lingering kiss melts away the barriers between them, but when the other witness to Matty’s death shows up in town, Schuyler is forced into a confrontation that could cost him Barrett’s love—and possibly his own life.

Cover Reveal: Color of Grace (Cost of Repairs 2)

COLOR OF GRACE, releasing 1/1/13 from Samhain, is the follow-up to COST OF REPAIRS, and it's Schuyler's story.



I absolutely love this cover! Barrett's tattoos are there, and the lake image is gorgeous.  I don't have an official blurb yet, but here are the broad strokes:  Schuyler Rhodes is an art teacher with a secret that sends him spiraling once a year, on that event's anniversary.  Barrett McCall is a former tattoo artist who's already hit bottom and is building his life back up again. When their lives collide in an unexpected way, Schuyler will have to learn to drop his walls and let go...in more ways than one.

News and Reviews

First, I want to say a hearty and heart-felt THANK YOU to everyone who has bought "Cost of Repairs" since its release last week. I never imagined the awesome response to the story (Samuel and Rey thank you, too).

Reviews by Jessewave has an amazing review posted, which just makes me giddy every time I think about it. CoR was also a weekend recommendation at the USAToday Romance blog!

A few folks have also commented that they hope to see more Stratton stories, specifically about Rey's ex Schuyler, and all I can say....you will. Samhain has contracted the second Dixie's Cup book, UNDER HIS SKIN, which is Schuyler's story. It's tentatively scheduled to release in January '13.

More on that as it develops.

COST OF REPAIRS

Coming June 5, 2012 from Samhain Publishing!

Fixing the home can heal the heart—if you can find all the pieces.

   Police officer Samuel Briggs is getting to know the people on his new, third-shift beat, but he’d prefer they not know too much about him—or the painful past that drove him away from New Mexico to start fresh in small-town Stratton, PA.  All he wants is peace, a manageable routine, and time to fix up his project home. There’s no room in his broken heart for a new relationship. It’s crowded with too many memories. But there’s something about the Dixie’s Cup short-order cook, who’s flirty one minute, distracted the next, that piques Sam’s interest.

  

Part-time cook, part-time hardware salesman and full-time handyman Rey King lives to work—but not because he loves it. Relationships? No time. Until one glance at Sam’s haunted eyes sends a plumb line straight to his wary heart. One afternoon of impulsive, no-strings sex begins to grow into a cautious friendship. But when Rey is seriously injured protecting a friend, the cracks in their already shaky foundation begin to show. Falling in love wasn’t in either man’s recovery plan…and this time, the risk could be too great.

Frozen: A Prodigal Story

FROZEN is a follow-up story to PRODIGAL, set in the same world of demons and blood pacts, but with a fresh set of characters.  The story releases March 23, 2012 from Musa Publishing (sorry there's no link, but Musa doesn't have it up yet).

At fifteen, Lee Mitchell and Roman Carmichael are sure their fledgling relationship can survive any heartache or hardship--until a spring canoeing trip ends with Lee in the hospital and Roman missing. With his memories of that final, tragic trip gone, Lee spends the next ten years building a life around the river where he lost Roman, existing on the hope that one day he'll find a clue as the fate of his first love.
During a late March snowstorm, Lee finds a stranger wandering the road and offers him a ride. Lee's shock and confusion at discovering this stranger is Roman, older and confused by his long absence, is fast tempered by relief and joy. But Roman isn't back to stay, and as they work to repair the fractured pieces of their past, the emerging truth of the night Roman disappeared may be the one thing that their enduring love cannot overcome.

PRODIGAL

My debut novella, PRODIGAL, is now available at Musa Publishing. You can also purchase from Amazon.

When the bizarre murder of an old  classmate reunites ex-lovers Ethan and Jesse, a shared childhood secret draws them back together as an otherworldly killer tries to tear them apart for good.

After escaping its mysterious grasp twelve years ago, Ethan Wilde never thought he'd return to Kingston, North Carolina—until the murder of an old schoolmate draws him back to the hometown he fears and the love he left behind.  Rooted to Kingston by a force he can't explain, Jesse couldn't leave with Ethan when he asked, and it's a choice he's always regretted.  A choice based on a terrible secret they share with four others.  When they were nine years old, the six of them were taken into the woods, and no one is exactly sure what happened to them.  Only that they came out changed.  Marked.  Twenty years later, the evil that hunted them is back and it's collected two souls already.  Ethan and Jesse's love defeated the monster once, but are old feelings strong enough to save the survivors a second time?

Edited: March 5, 2012

My debut novella, PRODIGAL, is now available at Musa Publ...

My debut novella, PRODIGAL, is now available at Musa Publishing.

When the bizarre murder of an old  classmate reunites ex-lovers Ethan and Jesse, a shared childhood secret draws them back together as an otherworldly killer tries to tear them apart for good.

After escaping its mysterious grasp twelve years ago, Ethan Wilde never thought he'd return to Kingston, North Carolina—until the murder of an old schoolmate draws him back to the hometown he fears and the love he left behind.  Rooted to Kingston by a force he can't explain, Jesse couldn't leave with Ethan when he asked, and it's a choice he's always regretted.  A choice based on a terrible secret they share with four others.  When they were nine years old, the six of them were taken into the woods, and no one is exactly sure what happened to them.  Only that they came out changed.  Marked.  Twenty years later, the evil that hunted them is back and it's collected two souls already.  Ethan and Jesse's love defeated the monster once, but are old feelings strong enough to save the survivors a second time?

Edited: March 5, 2012

Hello World!

Welcome to my blog!  This site will also do double duty as my website, so bear with me as I get things situated.  A brief bio is to your left, if you were curious about me.

I can also be found on Twitter as AM_Arthur (something else I'm still getting the hang of).

More content will appear shortly. In the meantime, feel free to drool over the hotness that is Ethan and Jesse on my cover for PRODIGAL, coming soon from Musa Publishing!