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Rainbow Snippets June 12-13

6/12/2021

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​It's weekend, and time for more Rainbow Snippets! 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+

This week, I'm sharing the first lines of The Merchant's Love. I've often described this book as a warm hug in book form—it's the story of a bookish royal and the merchant besotted with him from the start falling in love over books and baked goods. There's some magic gone wrong and some family drama, but overall, this is a pretty warm and fuzzy book. Here's Faelen (aforementioned bookish royal) returning home to Tournai.
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In the last decade since his father was appointed ambassador to the kingdom of Teilo, Faelen had been on the grounds of Tournai’s royal palace three times, if he included today. The relief, happiness, and utter sense of home flooding through him as soon as he stepped off the boat had been shocking in its intensity, but not surprising otherwise. Sometime in the middle of the journey, he’d been hit with the bone-deep certainty that he needed to be back in Tournai. He’d mentioned it to Alexander, who admitted feeling the same—which Faelen was happy to hear from his twin, even if it did make the whole thing stranger.


He tried not to dwell on it, which was made a bit easier because of his discomfort that they were arriving unannounced and uninvited.

You can learn more about The Merchant's Love here. And it's currently 50% off at NineStar Press with code PRIDE2021, along with my other books. 
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Addison Albright link
6/12/2021 12:22:21 pm

Ooh…ominous. Interesting that his twin is feeling the same. ❤️

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P.T. Wyant link
6/12/2021 03:53:17 pm

"...unannounced and uninvited" -- that really makes me want to know more!

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K.S. Trenten link
6/14/2021 10:34:18 am

That sense of home sounds so welcoming and beautiful...only I fear he's right in his unease about all not being well.

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Cie from Naughty Netherworld Press and Readers Roost link
6/15/2021 11:02:02 am

Sounds like an intense situation filled with mixed emotions.
Your book is included in this week's Roost Recommendations, featuring a link to this post, a buy link, and a blurb. I share the Roost Recommendations posts on Twitter with readers looking for their next read.
https://ornerybookemporium.blogspot.com/2021/06/roost-recommendations-15-june-2021.html

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Aldrea Alien link
6/17/2021 10:49:17 pm

Interesting that his twin felt the same way. What terrible things await?

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Jana Denardo
6/19/2021 10:38:42 am

There's a nice subtly ominous tone to this

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