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November 8, 2013
COLLIDE is live on Amazon!
It feels like I've been waiting forever for this day! FINALLY, it's here. LOL. I really loved writing this book. I've always been a fan of friends to lovers stories. With Noah and Cooper, they've always sort of felt each other on a different level and it was really cool to get to explore that with them. I hope you guys enjoy it too!
Collide is live on Amazon. Coming soon to Barnes and Noble and iTunes.
At ten years old, Noah Jameson and Cooper Bradshaw collided mid-air when they dove for the same football. For three years, they were inseparable…until one day when Noah and his parents disappeared in the middle of the night.
Noah and Cooper never knew what happened to each other. Now, seventeen years later, after finding his boyfriend in bed with another man, Noah returns to Blackcreek looking for a fresh start. And damned if he doesn't find his old friend grew up to be sexy as sin. Coop can’t believe Noah—the only person he trusted with the guilt over his parents’ death—is back. And gay… Or that Cooper himself suddenly wants another man in his bed for the first time.
There’s no denying the attraction and emotion between them, but can they overcome the ghosts of their pasts to have a future together?
This title contains two strong, sexy men, and a passionate friendship that transforms into a sizzling hot romance.
Goodreads
Amazon
Collide is live on Amazon. Coming soon to Barnes and Noble and iTunes.
At ten years old, Noah Jameson and Cooper Bradshaw collided mid-air when they dove for the same football. For three years, they were inseparable…until one day when Noah and his parents disappeared in the middle of the night.
Noah and Cooper never knew what happened to each other. Now, seventeen years later, after finding his boyfriend in bed with another man, Noah returns to Blackcreek looking for a fresh start. And damned if he doesn't find his old friend grew up to be sexy as sin. Coop can’t believe Noah—the only person he trusted with the guilt over his parents’ death—is back. And gay… Or that Cooper himself suddenly wants another man in his bed for the first time.
There’s no denying the attraction and emotion between them, but can they overcome the ghosts of their pasts to have a future together?
This title contains two strong, sexy men, and a passionate friendship that transforms into a sizzling hot romance.
Goodreads
Amazon
October 17, 2013
Cover Reveal: STRIPPED CLEAN
Blurb:Carlos O'Shea is stuck. He knocked-up a girl in college after a night of too much drinking, and then married her to be honorable. With little money, fewer options, and no degree, he winds up cleaning the floors in a small town gentleman's club and thinking desperate thoughts about the handsome owner that'll lead to nothing but trouble.
Greg Moorehouse only invested in a nudie bar to help his best buddy out of a financial crisis. Now his drug-dealing ex boyfriend, his reverend father, and a parade of surgically-enhanced DD's are driving him insane. But what's really stripped him of all good sense is his growing obsession with his married employee, Carlos.
They circle each other in a push-pull of misunderstandings and growing attraction. Carlos needs to get his boss out of his head, and Greg can’t abide cheaters and married men. So what are a strip club owner and the guy who cleans going to do with their undeniable desires?
Please note: This is an adult GLBT romance (male/male romance), for mature readers only. Contains explicit love-making between two hot-blooded men, angsty dark moments, and cupcake-baking exotic dancers.
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Romance requires a hopeful ending and that is why Ellis Carrington is driven to write it. She loves to create original stories that are gritty, witty, and a little unexpected, just like the heroes who inhabit them. Her guys come in both human and non-human form because spirit guides and vampires deserve love too. Her favorite things are great friends, great music, and books that make her sob like there’s no tomorrow.
Enchantress of Books Blog ToursSeptember 27, 2013
Cover and blurb reveal: COLLIDE
Or I guess I should say cover re-reveal? Either way, I'm VERY excited to share the new cover of COLLIDE with you. I love it so much. I can't stop looking at it! LOL.
And...for the first time, I'm sharing the blurb as well! I hope you like it.
At ten years old, Noah Jameson and Cooper Bradshaw collided mid-air when they dove for the same football. For three years, they were inseparable…until one day when Noah and his parents disappeared in the middle of the night.
Noah and Cooper never knew what happened to each other. Now, seventeen years later, after finding his boyfriend in bed with another man, Noah returns to Blackcreek looking for a fresh start. And damned if he doesn’t find his old friend grew up to be sexy as sin. Coop can’t believe Noah—the only person he trusted with the guilt over his parents’ death—is back. And gay… Or that Cooper himself suddenly wants another man in his bed for the first time.
There’s no denying the attraction and emotion between them, but can they overcome the ghosts of their pasts to have a future together?
Cover design by B Design.
COLLIDE will be available November 2013.
Here's an unedited excerpt. This is the first time Cooper is really acknowledging is attraction for Noah.
As much as the words scared him, he couldn’t not share this. Couldn’t not trust his friend with what he was felling, even though it killed him. “I saw you with him.” It was hell when the one person you always felt like you could tell everything to was the one to have you tied in knots. The one you wanted to run from. Needed, too, yet Cooper couldn’t make himself flee. “Jesus. I saw you kissing that guy and…what the hell is wrong with me? I had a beautiful woman in my bed and…shit.” Cooper shook his head. Slid both hands through his hair and yanked as though that would somehow change things. “I wanted to kill him.”I wanted to be him…Dizziness hit him. All he could do was thank God he was already sitting down. Noah watched him. His eyes intense, looking, searching, always finding things inside Cooper that no one else could see. They burned Cooper’s skin and were bright with…fuck. He didn’t even want to think of that. Noah took a step toward him, but when Cooper shook his head, he stopped. He only had on jeans, the button undone and Cooper hated himself for even noticing that. For looking at the cut of his abs, and the long muscles of his arms. He jerked his head the opposite direction. Still he couldn’t quiet his brain that kept telling him he shouldn’t be thinking the things he was, and everything else that begged him to explore them. “Cooper,” Noah started, but Coop squeezed his eyes shut and Noah stopped talking. Which made no sense considering Noah couldn’t even see his face, but somehow he’d known. “I’ve never felt jealousy like that in my life.” He spoke so softly he wondered if Noah could even hear him. Somehow he knew he could, which was good since he didn’t have it in himself to speak any louder. He saw Noah’s hands on the other man’s waist as he’d kissed him against the wall. Saw Noah’s nails digging in. Saw how roughly Noah had practically slammed the other man into the wall. He hadn’t had to be gentle. It had been rough and primal and it splintered every fucking thing Cooper thought of himself. Hit buttons he didn’t know he had and sprouted feelings he wanted to forget. “It’s wrong. Tell me it’s fucking wrong, Noah. That I shouldn’t feel this way. It’s not right.”He heard Noah come toward him. Knew his friend stood across from him, probably leaning against the back of the couch, but Cooper still couldn’t make himself look at him. “You think I’m wrong, Coop? The way I live my life? That I shouldn’t feel or be attracted to who I am?”Cooper heard it. The pain, disappointment, and anger in Noah’s voice. “No.” He finally managed to look at him. He was such a pussy, sitting on the floor like this, but couldn’t make himself move. “If that’s who you are then there’s nothing wrong with it.” But it was different for Coop. Wrong for Coop. He wasn’t gay. He loved women. He’d had a lot of them. He’d been raised to believe it should be one man and one woman. “So why does it make it wrong for you to—” “Wonder what your hands would feel like on me like that?” He hated himself for admitting it, but needed to say it too. Needed the words out because they were the only truth he understood right now. “Wondered how it would feel to touch you? To feel you?”Noah cursed and for the first time, Cooper couldn’t read him. Had no idea what his friend was thinking. Probably because he didn’t know what he was thinking either. “What’s wrong with me?” Cooper hated the weakness in his voice. The need to ask such a question. He knew who he was and what he wanted. He’d never been the type to try and bend to fit someone else, but this? Wanting another man? This was different.“There’s nothing wrong with you.” Noah’s voice was hard—not angry, but firm, telling Coop he believed what he was saying. And then he took a step forward. And another one.Cooper’s heart stopped. It was like a fist tightened around his chest keeping him from breathing. Noah hadn’t shaved and he noticed the stubble on his jaw. Why the fuck was he noticing that shit?Cooper couldn’t move as Noah kept walking toward him. Didn’t know if he wanted to. He should because he wasn’t gay and shouldn’t crave Noah to keep getting closer but he did. Noah stopped in front of him. Looked down at Coop while he looked up at his friend. His eyes said so much, but nothing at the same time. All Cooper knew was they were intense beams pointed right at him. Noah kneeled in front of Cooper.“What the fuck are you doing?” he asked panicked. Forget that Noah hadn’t even done anything yet. “I don’t know,” Noah replied, the same confusion in his voice that Cooper felt. Noah reached out and touched Coop’s hand that rested on his knee. He looked down to see it was red, swollen from punching the wall. But that’s not what he paid attention too. He watched Noah’s fingers trace his muscles. Watched as a hand that matched his in size, fucking caressed him. He wanted to punch Noah. Wanted to run. Wanted to ask for more. The touch shot up his arm as Noah explored. It wasn’t like they’d never touched each other before, but this was different. This was…intimate, which in a lot of ways Cooper felt was a stupid word for what they were doing, but it was all he could come up with. Noah’s fingers traced his, as though he was drawing them. Then slowly…slowing trailed up his arm. Push him the fuck away! Cooper knew he shouldn’t but he watched—fascinated—and felt. His fingers brushed his hairs as they ran up his forearm. His bicep. Cooper shivered. Couldn’t take his eyes away. Noah reversed his path, heading down again. Cooper risked a glance at him to see awe in Noah’s eyes as he watched what he was doing to Cooper too. Which made no sense. This was normal for him. It was what he did, but that’s the only way Cooper could explain it. When he got to Cooper’s wrist, he circled it with his fingers. They touched. A woman would never be able to wrap one hand fully around his wrist like that. And he liked it. He fucking did and he tried to blame all sorts of things: having his friend back in his life after all these years, drinking tonight. None of it was true though and he knew it. Noah lifted Cooper’s hand toward him. His cock ached, and the fist around his chest tightened. His brain screamed at him to be a man and use his fist to punch Noah in the face, but he didn’t. He watched. Watched as Noah bent toward his hand. Watched as Noah pressed his lips to Cooper’s swollen knuckles. Watched as Noah’s eyes squeezed tight, his mouth still pressed to Cooper’s hand. And then he opened them. Pulled away and Cooper finally let a heavy breath escape his lungs. “There’s nothing wrong with you,” Noah said, before he stood up. “Nothing at all.”He took a few steps backward and Cooper wanted to ask him to stop. Ask him where he was going, but he didn’t. Couldn’t. Part of him hoped Noah would walk out the door and never come back, because if Noah left, he could forget about wanting him. Coop could block these thoughts from his head and just keep going the way he had been for his whole life. But the other part… It wanted to trap him here. To find a way to keep Noah to himself so he could explore the desires inflaming him.“Take care of your hand. You should clean it and wrap it. I…I…” for the first time all evening Noah skipped over his words, but found his ground quickly. “I have to go before I do something both of us will regret in the morning.”And just like that—no shirt and all, he walked away, grabbing his keys off the table and slammed the door. Cooper didn’t stop him. All he could do was sit there and look at his hand.
And...for the first time, I'm sharing the blurb as well! I hope you like it.
At ten years old, Noah Jameson and Cooper Bradshaw collided mid-air when they dove for the same football. For three years, they were inseparable…until one day when Noah and his parents disappeared in the middle of the night.
Noah and Cooper never knew what happened to each other. Now, seventeen years later, after finding his boyfriend in bed with another man, Noah returns to Blackcreek looking for a fresh start. And damned if he doesn’t find his old friend grew up to be sexy as sin. Coop can’t believe Noah—the only person he trusted with the guilt over his parents’ death—is back. And gay… Or that Cooper himself suddenly wants another man in his bed for the first time.
There’s no denying the attraction and emotion between them, but can they overcome the ghosts of their pasts to have a future together?
Cover design by B Design.
COLLIDE will be available November 2013.
Here's an unedited excerpt. This is the first time Cooper is really acknowledging is attraction for Noah.
As much as the words scared him, he couldn’t not share this. Couldn’t not trust his friend with what he was felling, even though it killed him. “I saw you with him.” It was hell when the one person you always felt like you could tell everything to was the one to have you tied in knots. The one you wanted to run from. Needed, too, yet Cooper couldn’t make himself flee. “Jesus. I saw you kissing that guy and…what the hell is wrong with me? I had a beautiful woman in my bed and…shit.” Cooper shook his head. Slid both hands through his hair and yanked as though that would somehow change things. “I wanted to kill him.”I wanted to be him…Dizziness hit him. All he could do was thank God he was already sitting down. Noah watched him. His eyes intense, looking, searching, always finding things inside Cooper that no one else could see. They burned Cooper’s skin and were bright with…fuck. He didn’t even want to think of that. Noah took a step toward him, but when Cooper shook his head, he stopped. He only had on jeans, the button undone and Cooper hated himself for even noticing that. For looking at the cut of his abs, and the long muscles of his arms. He jerked his head the opposite direction. Still he couldn’t quiet his brain that kept telling him he shouldn’t be thinking the things he was, and everything else that begged him to explore them. “Cooper,” Noah started, but Coop squeezed his eyes shut and Noah stopped talking. Which made no sense considering Noah couldn’t even see his face, but somehow he’d known. “I’ve never felt jealousy like that in my life.” He spoke so softly he wondered if Noah could even hear him. Somehow he knew he could, which was good since he didn’t have it in himself to speak any louder. He saw Noah’s hands on the other man’s waist as he’d kissed him against the wall. Saw Noah’s nails digging in. Saw how roughly Noah had practically slammed the other man into the wall. He hadn’t had to be gentle. It had been rough and primal and it splintered every fucking thing Cooper thought of himself. Hit buttons he didn’t know he had and sprouted feelings he wanted to forget. “It’s wrong. Tell me it’s fucking wrong, Noah. That I shouldn’t feel this way. It’s not right.”He heard Noah come toward him. Knew his friend stood across from him, probably leaning against the back of the couch, but Cooper still couldn’t make himself look at him. “You think I’m wrong, Coop? The way I live my life? That I shouldn’t feel or be attracted to who I am?”Cooper heard it. The pain, disappointment, and anger in Noah’s voice. “No.” He finally managed to look at him. He was such a pussy, sitting on the floor like this, but couldn’t make himself move. “If that’s who you are then there’s nothing wrong with it.” But it was different for Coop. Wrong for Coop. He wasn’t gay. He loved women. He’d had a lot of them. He’d been raised to believe it should be one man and one woman. “So why does it make it wrong for you to—” “Wonder what your hands would feel like on me like that?” He hated himself for admitting it, but needed to say it too. Needed the words out because they were the only truth he understood right now. “Wondered how it would feel to touch you? To feel you?”Noah cursed and for the first time, Cooper couldn’t read him. Had no idea what his friend was thinking. Probably because he didn’t know what he was thinking either. “What’s wrong with me?” Cooper hated the weakness in his voice. The need to ask such a question. He knew who he was and what he wanted. He’d never been the type to try and bend to fit someone else, but this? Wanting another man? This was different.“There’s nothing wrong with you.” Noah’s voice was hard—not angry, but firm, telling Coop he believed what he was saying. And then he took a step forward. And another one.Cooper’s heart stopped. It was like a fist tightened around his chest keeping him from breathing. Noah hadn’t shaved and he noticed the stubble on his jaw. Why the fuck was he noticing that shit?Cooper couldn’t move as Noah kept walking toward him. Didn’t know if he wanted to. He should because he wasn’t gay and shouldn’t crave Noah to keep getting closer but he did. Noah stopped in front of him. Looked down at Coop while he looked up at his friend. His eyes said so much, but nothing at the same time. All Cooper knew was they were intense beams pointed right at him. Noah kneeled in front of Cooper.“What the fuck are you doing?” he asked panicked. Forget that Noah hadn’t even done anything yet. “I don’t know,” Noah replied, the same confusion in his voice that Cooper felt. Noah reached out and touched Coop’s hand that rested on his knee. He looked down to see it was red, swollen from punching the wall. But that’s not what he paid attention too. He watched Noah’s fingers trace his muscles. Watched as a hand that matched his in size, fucking caressed him. He wanted to punch Noah. Wanted to run. Wanted to ask for more. The touch shot up his arm as Noah explored. It wasn’t like they’d never touched each other before, but this was different. This was…intimate, which in a lot of ways Cooper felt was a stupid word for what they were doing, but it was all he could come up with. Noah’s fingers traced his, as though he was drawing them. Then slowly…slowing trailed up his arm. Push him the fuck away! Cooper knew he shouldn’t but he watched—fascinated—and felt. His fingers brushed his hairs as they ran up his forearm. His bicep. Cooper shivered. Couldn’t take his eyes away. Noah reversed his path, heading down again. Cooper risked a glance at him to see awe in Noah’s eyes as he watched what he was doing to Cooper too. Which made no sense. This was normal for him. It was what he did, but that’s the only way Cooper could explain it. When he got to Cooper’s wrist, he circled it with his fingers. They touched. A woman would never be able to wrap one hand fully around his wrist like that. And he liked it. He fucking did and he tried to blame all sorts of things: having his friend back in his life after all these years, drinking tonight. None of it was true though and he knew it. Noah lifted Cooper’s hand toward him. His cock ached, and the fist around his chest tightened. His brain screamed at him to be a man and use his fist to punch Noah in the face, but he didn’t. He watched. Watched as Noah bent toward his hand. Watched as Noah pressed his lips to Cooper’s swollen knuckles. Watched as Noah’s eyes squeezed tight, his mouth still pressed to Cooper’s hand. And then he opened them. Pulled away and Cooper finally let a heavy breath escape his lungs. “There’s nothing wrong with you,” Noah said, before he stood up. “Nothing at all.”He took a few steps backward and Cooper wanted to ask him to stop. Ask him where he was going, but he didn’t. Couldn’t. Part of him hoped Noah would walk out the door and never come back, because if Noah left, he could forget about wanting him. Coop could block these thoughts from his head and just keep going the way he had been for his whole life. But the other part… It wanted to trap him here. To find a way to keep Noah to himself so he could explore the desires inflaming him.“Take care of your hand. You should clean it and wrap it. I…I…” for the first time all evening Noah skipped over his words, but found his ground quickly. “I have to go before I do something both of us will regret in the morning.”And just like that—no shirt and all, he walked away, grabbing his keys off the table and slammed the door. Cooper didn’t stop him. All he could do was sit there and look at his hand.
September 15, 2013
Visual Inspiration...
Needed a little inspiration for writing today. I thought this would do the job...
Happy Sunday... Collide is so close to being finished :)
Happy Sunday... Collide is so close to being finished :)
May 25, 2013
I'm on Facebook
I'm now on Facebook. I'd love to connect there and chat books. Find me HERE.
Have a great weekend!
Riley
Have a great weekend!
Riley
May 11, 2013
Sexy Saturday: Teaser--COLLIDE
Cooper slid down the wall and crumpled to the floor. He sat there, back against the hard, blue surface behind him, but feeling like he had nothing to hold him up. “Coop.” Noah’s voice cracked and Cooper couldn’t stop himself from looking at his friend. The pain and understanding in his dark brown eyes simultaneously comforted, scared, and embarrassed him. In that moment Noah saw something in him Cooper knew no one had ever seen before. Saw deeper than even Coop knew was there. And he couldn’t turn away. “I saw you with him,” he found himself saying. It was hell when the one person you always felt like you could tell everything to was the one to have you tied in knots. The one you wanted to run from. Needed to escape, yet Cooper couldn’t make himself flee. “Jesus. I saw you kissing that guy and…What the hell is wrong with me? I had a beautiful woman in my bed and…shit.” Cooper shook his head. Slid both hands through his hair and yanked as though that would somehow change things. “I wanted to kill him.”I wanted to be him…
Unedited excerptCopyright: Riley Hart
Hope you enjoyed! COLLIDE coming fall 2013.
April 26, 2013
Anticipation
Sometimes there's nothing sexier than a kiss. Or a near kiss. That moment when you feel the first soft brush of lips, anticipation for more a wild, dangerous heat, burning through you. At least...that's what it's like for Noah and Cooper :)
COLLIDE coming fall 2013....
COLLIDE coming fall 2013....
April 7, 2013
March 30, 2013
Sexy Saturday....
I probably won't be blogging much here until I get a bit farther into COLLIDE, but I want to at least try and share a Sexy Saturday post with you. It will usually be a picture and maybe a sexy sentence or two. Hope you enjoy this week's Sexy Saturday...
"Come here," he calls. "I want you."
My cock goes hard with just those words. That and the fact that he's sexy as hell.
"Fuck yeah. I want you too." I rip my shirt off and climb on top of my lover, dropping my head to fucking own his mouth... Just like I own the rest of him.
Have a good weekend!
"Come here," he calls. "I want you."My cock goes hard with just those words. That and the fact that he's sexy as hell.
"Fuck yeah. I want you too." I rip my shirt off and climb on top of my lover, dropping my head to fucking own his mouth... Just like I own the rest of him.
Have a good weekend!
February 6, 2013
Riley Hart
This is the blog for m/m romance author Riley Hart. My first book, COLLIDE is coming in 2013. It's a story of finding love in an unexpected place. About following your heart, friendship and love. More information coming soon. Thanks for stopping by.
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