About Leather Nights
by Patricia Logan
344 pages / 88400 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-034-3
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When widowed, jobless, and about to be homeless Jake Maxfield inherits
his Aunt Becky's home in Texas, the California native uproots his teenagers
and moves. Still trying to rebuild his career after the mortgage crises, and
to reconnect with the kids he's been too busy for, the last thing Jake is
looking for is love. Especially with a man.
Cade Littlebear isn't looking for love either, but he and Jake have an
immediate attraction that neither of them are able to deny. Just when they
think that combining their lives and their teenaged families is going to be
their toughest challenge, their very existence is threatened by narrow-mined
bigots. Their determination not to hide who they are and refusal to live in
the shadows only adds fuel to the fire. Can Jake and Cade survive and bring
their lives and families together? Or will hatred win the day?
Review
Alexa Snow, author of Sleeping Stone, writes: Jake Maxfield had, once
upon a time, had the perfect life -- a happy marriage, a lovely home,
two wonderful children. But his wife Molly died and, upside down on his
mortgage, he had no choice but to move his grieving teenagers to
Westburg, Texas and the one acre farm his aunt had left to him. Jake is
shocked to discover that the house he's inherited is huge and perfect,
but he's even more shocked when he meets the President of Monroe High
School's PTSA, Cade Littlebear, and finds himself powerfully attracted
to the man -- something that has never happened to Jake before. Can he
accept his attraction to Cade and create a new life for himself? And
will the people of Westburg accept their relationship?
This story is romantic with a capital "R." The characters emit quite
clearly who they are, not leaving the reader guessing about who can be
trusted and who can't, a quality that gives the reader a feeling of
safety that's necessary given the secondary plot about what it's like to
be persecuted for being gay. The language used by homophobic characters
doesn't pull any punches, reflecting the attitudes of some small towns
and creating an undercurrent of discomfort that, while powerful, is
still triumphed over by the end of the story and its happily ever after.
The writing is clean and satisfying, and the erotic scenes
well-balanced. Sure to please any reader who is in it for either the
warm fuzzies of romance or the hot sizzles of erotica. Or both!
Sample
"Cade..." Jake began.
Cade closed in, backing Jake into the pantry. "Jake, I was so worried. God,
when I saw the bike... I thought..." His eyes filled with tears as he took
Jake's jaw into his hand and lowered his mouth.
The instant their lips touched, it was like a fire consumed them both. Jake
grabbed Cade's hips and pulled him forward, stumbling into the pantry
shelves as the towering man took charge of his mouth. Jake pulled Cade's
hard body against his straining erection and opened his mouth to the man's
kiss. Groaning, Cade wound both hands into his curly brown hair.
Lust slammed into Jake's gut, hard and heavy, and he instantly felt an
impending orgasm. With Cade's magnificent tongue searching out every nook
and cranny of Jake's mouth, tangling with his tongue, Jake couldn't speak.
He just ground his hips against Cade's, thrusting against the man over and
over as he moaned.
Jake's hands ripped at Cade's tight muscle shirt, pulling it from his pants
as he dug for the touch of Cade's skin. When he finally reached Cade's
chest, he moaned again. Skimming both hands up under Cade's shirt, Jake felt
the rippling hardness of his smooth, tight, abs, sprinkled with just the
slightest covering of peachy-soft hair. Jake panted, hardly believing that
he could be this totally on fire for another person, much less a man. He
couldn't breathe. He couldn't speak. He was lost in the feeling of the huge,
hard body pressed tightly against his own.
Cade’s manhood was straining against his zipper. The leather pants were
tightly filled as his groin humped Jake's hip. He moaned loudly.
Jake panted into Cade's mouth as his fingers pinched and teased the big
biker. "Cade. Cade, oh God Cade... I need, I need."
"Yes, baby, I know what you need," Cade whispered into his mouth. "I need
you too, Jake. You've no idea how much I want you. I've been dying to touch
you for days, but we can't do this here, baby, not now. The kids..."
Jake stiffened in Cade's arms almost instantly, squeezing his eyes tightly
shut as he took deep breaths to calm himself. He knew he was moments from
embarrassing himself and Cade and devastating his kids. He opened his eyes
and gazed into Cade's green ones. His own filled with tears. "What is this,
Cade? I don't understand it. I never wanted -- I never expected -- to feel
this way about a man…"