The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.
I'm switching to snippets from The Spymaster's Secret this month. It's a book I had so much fun writing, and I don't think I've shared snippets from it in quite a while. Alexander is a flirtatious, charming young royal with hidden depths who develops an unexpected but not unwelcome attraction to a mysterious older widower. In turn, Marcus is fascinated by the vibrant Alexander, but as the Crown's spymaster, he knows being involved with him is dangerous. Marcus also can't seem to stop himself from becoming more entangled with Alexander even as he tracks a ring of spies and danger creeps up on Alexander. This week's snippet follows not long after last week's. Alexander asked Marcus to leave the masquerade ball and meet him. Marcus decides to go but just to tell Alexander they couldn't get involved. It doesn't turn out quite like he planned...
The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.
I'm switching to snippets from The Spymaster's Secret this month. It's a book I had so much fun writing, and I don't think I've shared snippets from it in quite a while. Alexander is a flirtatious, charming young royal with hidden depths who develops an unexpected but not unwelcome attraction to a mysterious older widower. In turn, Marcus is fascinated by the vibrant Alexander, but as the Crown's spymaster, he knows being involved with him is dangerous. Marcus also can't seem to stop himself from becoming more entangled with Alexander even as he tracks a ring of spies and danger creeps up on Alexander. This week's snippet follows not long after last week's. Alexander asked Marcus to leave the masquerade ball and meet him. Marcus decides to go but just to tell Alexander they couldn't get involved. It doesn't turn out quite like he planned...
Tonight, the gallery was dimly lit, the art lining the walls mostly in shadow, the frescoes and gilt on the high ceiling barely discernible glimmers. Marcus’s footsteps echoed as he walked into the first in the series of three long, connected rooms. Alexander wasn’t waiting near the entrance as Marcus had expected, but if Alexander was expecting a tryst, he wouldn’t stay where someone unintended could find him, would he?
Marcus ventured farther into the shadowy room. As he neared the arch dividing the first room from the second, he found him. Alexander lounged against the wall, leaning in a way that gave the impression of laziness but had the quality of a cat about to spring. Where had the comparison come from? How did Alexander look so different?
“I wasn’t sure you’d come.” Alexander straightened from the wall and reached up to untie his mask, each movement fluid and graceful, liquid almost. The ornate mask came away to reveal the heartbreakingly beautiful face. The low light highlighted the contrast in his coloring, the dark hair and pale skin. His large eyes seemed to glow. “I’m glad you did.”
He bit his lush lower lip. And Marcus was lost.
You can find out more about The Spymaster's Secret here. Thanks for reading!
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