Blurb:
After a bad breakup, Adam Kavanaugh returns to his sleepy old river town to find himself. His family hasn't changed, but he has some work to do readjusting to small town life, so much that he wonders if he's made a mistake by coming home.
But from the moment Leith Marshall pops out of the Ohio River and smiles at him, there's no turning back. Between Leith's swimmer body, sweet laugh, and gentle soul, Adam is head over heels. Leith lets Adam into his little world bit by bit, from his mother's abandoned aquarium shop to his elderly father's fairy tale delusions.
Which might not be so delusional after all. Leith does have a certain affinity for water. It seems almost to listen to him. The current never pulls him downriver, the tub doesn't splash, and the pool hardly moves around him even at an all out sprint. He can't spend a night away from his river, and then there's the way he sings. Adam has to admit, he'd steer his ship straight into the rocks for that.
So maybe Leith inherited a few things from his mysterious mother. It doesn't mean he'll disappear like she did. That's absurd.
Right?
Author Info:
Katey Hawthorne is an avid reader and writer of dark fiction and superpowered romance, even though the only degree she holds is in the history of art. (Or, possibly, because the only degree she holds is in the history of art.) Originally from the Appalachian foothills of West Virginia, she currently lives in the D.C. Metro Area. In her spare time she enjoys comic books, B-movies, loud music, Epiphones, and Bushmills.
Website: http://www.kateyhawthorne.com/
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Excerpt
When
they relaxed and disentangled, Leith
rose to
his knees, panting.
Adam
began to ask, “Wha—”
Leith
crawled into his lap, sat down directly on his cock, and
reached around behind
himself, between his legs, to arrange it in the split of his
ass.
Leith
held it there, his thighs still shaking from his orgasm,
while he rocked his
hips. Held so tight, in that particular place, especially as
slick as it was
right then, Adam’s cock gave another swell, and the world
spun. Leith kissed his
face, then put his forehead against Adam’s.
He never stopped moving, his hand holding the head of Adam’s
cock in place when
it thrust out, then guiding it back into the groove. Adam
grabbed for his hips,
fingers pressing tight into his ass on either side,
slipping, desperate for a
good grip. The water was so hot, swishing around them
gently, much more gently
than what little brain was left to Adam would’ve thought
possible, and he
was so hot, and…and…and…
“I
want you, Adam. I want you forever.”
Adam
didn’t know when always
had turned
into forever, and
he didn’t care
because he meant them both and might’ve from the beginning.
He wanted to reply
but couldn’t remember how. Adam kissed him, though the
constant movement made
it difficult to aim.
Leith
rubbed at Adam’s right nipple with two fingers, then took it
between them,
pinched, squeezed it out, and started all over again. The
fuzzy, sharp-hot
thrill raced through him and into his dick, squeezed tight
with Leith’s ass and hand,
his balls, all tight and caught
between them. Adam groaned so it echoed off the tile.
Leith
crushed his lips into Adam’s again. “Harder?”
“Please.”
Adam bucked into Leith with his hips, burying his dick in
the split of Leith’s ass
one more time.
Quickly,
Leith sat up and readjusted
so Adam’s cock was
between their bellies. He sat back down and started jerking,
one hand tight and
slippery around Adam in the water, the other still pinching.
Adam flexed his
hips with it, quick, sharp, hard. The sensations at either
end of the hotwire
flared into one; his head hit the tile behind him, and he
moaned, riding out
the very edge of his climax, holding it, holding it…
Leith
said, “Come on. I’m watching. Let me see.”
Adam
gasped as he came, feeling nothing and everything at once,
so much pleasure and
heat that he teetered at that teeth-gritting spot, on the
verge of the high
almighty nothingplace, for long seconds.
When
it passed, he relaxed his grip on Leith,
leaned back, and let out a long, heavy breath. “Ohhhh,
ffffuck.”
Leith
laughed like the water splashing and edged backward,
nestling between Adam’s
knees, where he had been at first. He wrinkled up his nose,
looking down into
the bath. “Sex is so gross when it’s done.”
Adam
laughed, still breathless. The hot water prolonged the
after-pulse in his dick,
like one long but minor mini-orgasm.
Still
grinning, Leith cocked his
head. “Weird?”
“You?
Or the sex?”
“Yeah.”
“Yeah.
And I love you both.”
“I
know.” Leith turned around
and pulled the
plug. “C’mon. I’ll wash your hair in the shower.”
But
Adam wasn’t even close to functional yet, so he leaned back
into the tub seat,
head against the cool tile. He admired Leith
as he arranged the soap and shampoo, occasionally stopping
to unselfconsciously
watch the water make a little funnel as it sucked down the
drain.
~Katey has offered one copy of By The River to one of my pants losing peeps~
~Katey has offered one copy of By The River to one of my pants losing peeps~
- Must be 18yrs or older
- Leave a comment on this post with email
- Winner has 24hrs to reply to my email
- Contest runs until August 5th 11:59pm EST
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Art history majors unite (I was one, too)! I've been wanting this one, too...love swimmer boys. Sigh.
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Just saying thanks for checking it out, y'all--and thanks to Darien for letting me stop by and drop Adam and Leith's pants. Er...
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There's definitely something of that in him, June. Of course, it's all a bit hazy...
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Gah, thanks so much everyone for stopping in, checking it out, and entering. It comes out tonight so I'm buzzing along. <3
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