S.A. Collins
I am working on my BIG epic (and slightly deceptive) work: Angels of Mercy. This series is my real pride and joy. It is about an out high school gay boy in his senior year (Elliot Donahey) who has kept to the shadows of his entire school life just so he can survive another hellish day. He goes out of his way not to be noticed. Eating alone, secluded from others. He has only one friend on campus and he doesn't get to interact with him as much as he'd like.
Enter Marco Sforza, the start quarterback of their high school - The Mercy High Avenging Angels. Marco is the local god on campus. He's heartbreakingly beautiful in that way that certain boys are. He's got that whole Jon Snow/GOT look going on but with a decidedly Italian flare. Every girl is gunning for him. Only Marco's got a secret. He's been secretly pining over all things Elliot.
What this series does is it tells how these two boys from opposing worlds come together and through their blossoming relationship, try to navigate the final months of high school so they can begin their lives together. It poses the question of what would happen when the shy, but out gay kid on campus finds himself squarely in the arms of the most high profile jock on campus? How would he fair? What would be the fallout from Marco's teammates who've assumed up to this point (only because Marco never said/did otherwise) that he was the total ladies man on campus and now find him hovering around this quiet shy boy that everyone makes fun of?
The story starts in volume 1 from Elliot's perspective, you find him at the end of his summer vacation heading into his senior year when Marco finally makes his move after watching Elliot for 2 years. The boys grow very close very quickly. A heady and steamy romance ensues; all the while a threaded danger lurks in the background stalking the boys. The story ends on a violent climax that leaves you wondering what will happen to them next.
Volume 2 picks up from Marco's POV where you get to go back those 2 years as he falls desperately in love with Elliot but from a distance. The pressures he finds himself to "stick with the script" all jocks go by. The unspoken rules that he has to deal with when all he wants is Elliot, front and center and in his arms. This book leads you through the same sequence of events but explains some of the mysterious happenings from Elliot's book through the violent event that nearly breaks them to a reemergence from that dark terrible night.
Volumes 1 and 2 will be released simultaneously and Volume 3 will be told by yet another boy who has been present all along but the reader may not have picked up had a very big role in it all along. Volume 3 will be released by the end of the year (fingers crossed).
It is a character study that begins with a heady romance but devolves and descends into a hellish turn of events that presses Marco and Elliot to dig down deep and commit to what their love really means for each other to come out the other side stronger for it. It is also a tale of revenge and of murder. But there is a brilliant and lasting light at the end.
I hope I've intrigued you enough to visit my site at http://www.sacollins.com/works/storie... to read more about Elliot and Marco and the great ensemble of characters I've put together in this small Northern California Coastal town near Big Sur. It is my greatest work to date yet. I hope you'll be enticed enough to check it out when volumes 1 and 2 are released at the end of the first quarter this year (2015).
Enter Marco Sforza, the start quarterback of their high school - The Mercy High Avenging Angels. Marco is the local god on campus. He's heartbreakingly beautiful in that way that certain boys are. He's got that whole Jon Snow/GOT look going on but with a decidedly Italian flare. Every girl is gunning for him. Only Marco's got a secret. He's been secretly pining over all things Elliot.
What this series does is it tells how these two boys from opposing worlds come together and through their blossoming relationship, try to navigate the final months of high school so they can begin their lives together. It poses the question of what would happen when the shy, but out gay kid on campus finds himself squarely in the arms of the most high profile jock on campus? How would he fair? What would be the fallout from Marco's teammates who've assumed up to this point (only because Marco never said/did otherwise) that he was the total ladies man on campus and now find him hovering around this quiet shy boy that everyone makes fun of?
The story starts in volume 1 from Elliot's perspective, you find him at the end of his summer vacation heading into his senior year when Marco finally makes his move after watching Elliot for 2 years. The boys grow very close very quickly. A heady and steamy romance ensues; all the while a threaded danger lurks in the background stalking the boys. The story ends on a violent climax that leaves you wondering what will happen to them next.
Volume 2 picks up from Marco's POV where you get to go back those 2 years as he falls desperately in love with Elliot but from a distance. The pressures he finds himself to "stick with the script" all jocks go by. The unspoken rules that he has to deal with when all he wants is Elliot, front and center and in his arms. This book leads you through the same sequence of events but explains some of the mysterious happenings from Elliot's book through the violent event that nearly breaks them to a reemergence from that dark terrible night.
Volumes 1 and 2 will be released simultaneously and Volume 3 will be told by yet another boy who has been present all along but the reader may not have picked up had a very big role in it all along. Volume 3 will be released by the end of the year (fingers crossed).
It is a character study that begins with a heady romance but devolves and descends into a hellish turn of events that presses Marco and Elliot to dig down deep and commit to what their love really means for each other to come out the other side stronger for it. It is also a tale of revenge and of murder. But there is a brilliant and lasting light at the end.
I hope I've intrigued you enough to visit my site at http://www.sacollins.com/works/storie... to read more about Elliot and Marco and the great ensemble of characters I've put together in this small Northern California Coastal town near Big Sur. It is my greatest work to date yet. I hope you'll be enticed enough to check it out when volumes 1 and 2 are released at the end of the first quarter this year (2015).
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