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.
In July, I'm sharing snippets from The Scholar's Heart, the third book in the Chronicles of Tournai series, though the books in the series do all stand alone. It's a friends to estranged friends to lovers romance between Etan, a scholar and cousin to the crown prince, and Tristan, a merchant's son and best friend of the prince consort. Etan and Tristan become close, but Tristan doesn't notice that Etan has fallen in love with him. And when Tristan announces he's going to marry at his dying father's request, Etan's heart is broken and so is their friendship. After Tristan is widowed, they are drawn back into each other's orbits and Etan has to decide if he can trust Tristan enough to open his heart again. This snippet follows directly after last week's.
He sat there, book forgotten as he watched Tristan, the morning sun streaming in through the window and glinting off Tristan’s bright gold hair. Tristan seemed to bring the sunshine into the room with him, brightening what had been an ordinary morning until that moment.
“Good morning, Tristan.”
“Good morning to you.” Tristan sent a flirtatious smile in his direction and skirted the table, coming closer.
“It’s good to see you.” He probably sounded ridiculous, but he hadn’t seen Tristan in a few days and, well, he’d missed him.
Tristan’s smile warmed, turning a bit softer. “You too.”