By
E.D. Parr (Guest Blogger)
Thank
you for inviting me to your blog today with my new release MM
romance, String of Pearls.
Indigo
Vaughn, the warlock head of security, features in the story along
with a new cast of characters. When I wrote The Dreamboat, I
already had the new characters in my head along with their story.
Tobias Mars and Dante Pepper, the elite space pilots for the royal
court, very nearly made an appearance in The Dreamboat, but because
that story is about Indigo at last finding love, I decided they
needed their own story.
Once
upon a time Dante and Tobias were close to becoming lovers, but Dante
met Viridian and fell in love. Tobias has yet to meet his love when
String of Pearls, opens. He’s a man of high integrity, handsome,
caring, but also longing for love and sex. String of Pearls is
his love story.
Blurb
Handsome,
elite space pilot, Tobias Mars is completing a special mission, when
on a water planet, recently ravaged by space pirates, he discovers
Dreft Hann hiding and injured in the sand dunes.
There’s
instant attraction between the two men, but honorable Tobias believes
the fact Dreft is in his care precludes him from showing his growing
love for the young man. What’s worse is his shocking discovery of
Dreft’s real identity. Even so, Tobias can’t deny his feelings
for Dreft.
When
head of royal security, powerful warlock, Indigo Vaughn discovers
Dreft’s secret, he anticipates trouble.
As
beautiful Dreft falls in love with Tobias and dreams of joining the
elite pilot squad, trouble is brewing from someone in Dreft’s past.
Will
love finally win with so many obstacles in Tobias and Dreft’s path?
Warning,
the book contains MM sex, MMM sex, gay anal sex, MM oral sex
Buy the book
On special new release discount price only on the Evernight Publishing website
Excerpt
Tobias
Mars gazed at Dreft lying on top of the bed in room ten of the
infirmary. Hari’s treatment had worked wonders and not only on
Dreft’s wounds. Hari had cleaned Dreft up. His hair, now a
dirt-free glossy hazelnut brown was brushed back to show off the
handsome planes of his face. Hari had replaced Dreft’s strange
boy-like clothes with the infirmary’s grey cotton pants and
t-shirt. The man was, as his colleague,
Dante, put it, deliciously pretty. For a fleeting moment, Tobias
wondered what it would be like to kiss those perfect lips and hold
that muscular body to his own. He shook the thought away.
Dreft
opened his eyes and a shy smile spread on his mouth. As Tobias neared
him, he shuffled up the bed to sit. “Thank you so much for helping
me, sir.”
Tobias
pulled a chair beside the bed and sat. “My name’s Tobias, Tobias
Mars—no need to call me sir. How are you feeling?”
The
handsome man’s eyes held gratitude. “I’m so much better. Thank
you. I noticed the insignia on your jacket, sir.”
Tobias
grinned as his fingers went to trace the gold and blue embroidered
crest. “I’m one of the queen’s pilot explorers. I guess you
could call us the elite unit. All the same, call me Tobias. I’d
like that.”
“I’ve
heard that you have to be aristocracy to be chosen for the unit. Is
that true?”
A
little frown creased between Tobias’s eyes. “Have you? Where’d
you hear that?” A spike of worry prevented him from answering with
the truth. His intense security training from the warlock, Indigo
Vaughn, threw a question into his mind. Could Dreft be a rival
court’s spy or even assassin?
“Sorry.
I mean no harm. I heard a lot of things during my years as a slave.”
Dreft’s voice held anxiety. His blue eyes clouded.
Witnessing
Dreft’s unease, a wave of kindness softened Tobias’s look and
tone. “How long were you a slave?” He remembered Hari’s
description of the scars on Dreft’s back.
Sadness
passed in Dreft’s eyes. “Five years—I’ve been a slave since I
was stolen from my home when I was eighteen. I, I’d become
desperate, hence the leap from the ship when we cruised reasonably
low to take water from the lake on the planet where you rescued me.”
His voice cracked a little.
Tobias
watched fear replace the sadness in the young man’s eyes. He wanted
to lighten the mood. “Hey, are you hungry? I bet Hari hasn’t
given you breakfast and I’ve not eaten yet. Do you feel up to a
little walk? My home isn’t far. I have loads of food—fruit,
pancakes, savory pastries, and coffee. What do you say?”
Dreft
gave him the most endearing look. “I’m very
hungry.”
Tobias
stood and pushed the chair away from the bed. He held out his arm for
Dreft to take and helped him stand. “Hang on. You have no shoes.”
Tobias left Dreft perched on the side of the bed. He went to the
closet inset at the end of the wall and
brought back a pair of felt slip-ons for Dreft.
Dreft
pushed his feet into them. “Thank you. I think the medicA threw
away what I was wearing.”
“Hari
is the best medicA available. I trust him implicitly, but he’s
a hygiene fanatic. He probably burned what you were
dressed in.” Tobias laughed. “Can you manage or will you take my
arm. It’s a gesture of support.”
Dreft’s
gaze raked Tobias’s face and he smiled softly. “I know the
clothes you found me in probably gave you the impression I’m a
pirate’s plaything. I’d like to explain—”
“You
don’t need to—” Tobias hurried to assure Dreft.
“I
want to.” He held Tobias’s arm.
“After
you’ve eaten, then.” Tobias led the way from the room, along
the corridor and out of the infirmary door. His villa was two doors
down from Dante’s and he walked slowly favoring Dreft’s halting
steps.
“I’m
limping but Hari said my legs were only bruised under the abrasions.
Sorry. I didn’t expect them to hurt so much. My ribs don’t and
they were broken.”
“Hari
fixed your ribs and administered slow release pain reliever at the
site. He fixed your abrasions somewhat, but it’s good to heal
naturally where possible. He wants you to rest.” A smile sprang to
Tobias’s lips. “If he sees us, he’ll probably say to me, ‘Sir,
you got Dreft Hann up too soon.’”
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