Excerpt: THE VIRGIN BILLIONAIRE and the EVIL TWIN

THE VIRGIN BILLIONAIRE AND THE EVIL TWIN wasn't an easy book to write. Most of the book is from the evil twin's POV, which means he's seeing Luis and Jase in a completely different light. I even went back and changed a few parts during edits so he wouldn't come off looking too critical. But there is a happy ending, and a few unexpected emotional scenes between the twin brothers.

I based a lot of this book on personal experience. I don't have an evil twin. But I do have a gay brother close in age and I understand the dynamics in the relationship. The relationships between siblings can be complicated at best. In other words, I'm not standing on the outside looking in this time, which is usually the way the process works when writing fiction.

Chapter One
Gage Weston never wore hats, especially not baseball caps. He had
thick, wavy hair that he kept longer than most gay men in their late twenties did; he worked hard not to look like everyone else. He parted it in the center and bleached it himself with a drugstore frosting kit because he couldn't afford to waste money on foil wraps in an expensive New York hair salon. He even cut it himself, with three mirrors and a cheap pair of scissors he'd purchased at a beauty supply on Broadway.

His wardrobe revolved around six white dress shirts, three pairs of
jeans, and two black blazers. He owned three neckties, a pair of good black leather quarter boots, and a pair of running shoes. The black belt he owned was ten years old and his beige jeans and black dress slacks were almost twelve. Everything else in his small closet was either a castoff he'd found in a secondhand shop for less than five dollars or something he'd owned since he was a teenager.

On the morning he went to the opening of the new building for the
Angel Association in the West Village, he wore a black baseball cap on purpose. He also wore a white shirt, his darkest jeans, his black quarter boots, and the newest of his black sport jackets. He wanted to look nice, because this was one of those almost-formal affairs. But he didn't want to be recognized.

As he entered the Angel Association building, he lowered his head
and pulled the brim of the cap down as low as he could, practically covering his eyes. He shoved his hands into his pockets and hunched over a little. Gage had the kind of natural walk that could turn heads even when he wasn't trying for attention, and he wasn't trying now. His body seemed to swagger and his hips swayed a little. An older woman in a Chinese red dress standing beside the entrance door smiled and stepped aside. He noticed the way she glanced up and down at his legs and he sent her a smile so fast his
head didn't move and the corner of his lips hardly turned up. A group of pudgy gay men in their forties standing near a refreshment table sent him quick, individual glances and gaped at his crotch as if they hadn't seen a decent crotch in years. Gage kept walking as if he didn't notice them. He crossed through the main lobby, lowering his head even more, and stopped behind a group of people who were listening to Luis Fortune give a speech.

Gage knew more about Luis Fortune than anyone else in the room.
Luis was "married" to Jase Nicholas, who had been dubbed the Virgin
Billionaire by the press because he had made his billions with his Virgin Alaskan Spring Water company. Gage had been following Luis Fortune's life in New York for some time, ever since Luis had accidentally become mixed up in a sordid drug ring that involved Luis's used underwear and a few older gay real-estate agents in Manhattan who had fallen on hard times.

Gage had read Luis's sappy blog posts on that ridiculous gay romance blog called Elena's Romantic Treasures and Tidbits. He'd seen Luis's photos in magazines for which Luis had modeled professionally more times than he cared to recall. Gage even knew Luis and Jase had a weekend house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, called Cider Mill Farm; they traveled to Alaska as much as they could to spend time with Jase's family; and they had a preschool-aged son named Hunter who was really Jase's biological child.

It wasn't difficult to follow Luis Fortune's life now that he was
married to the Virgin Billionaire, especially since Luis had recently made headlines for getting involved with a shifty character named Dariussomething who had been harboring a grudge against Luis Fortune for exposing an underage pornographer in Los Angeles.