First,
I’d like to thank NJ for the opportunity to share my newest release with all of
you. An Angel in Eyeliner is my contribution to Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday
Anthology that celebrates the season with a diverse collection of stories by a
wonderful group of authors promoting hope and love.
My
story revolves around Mitch, a lonely former combat medic who just so happens
to love to decorate for Christmas. Growing up, my mother never went as far
Mitch when it came to the extent of his decorating, but she did have a few
traditional pieces that were always displayed. And most of them still are come
mid-December. I pay homage to one of those pieces in An Angel in Eyeliner—the
ceramic Santa statue.
If
any of you grew up in the seventies or eighties your family may have the
winking Santa
Does
your family have any traditional pieces that make your holidays come to life?
Or
maybe an item Mitch displays reminds you of something you have in your
decoration collection?
Check
out An Angel in Eyeliner and let me know!
An Angel in Eyeliner
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Blurb:
All
Mitch wants for Christmas is a quiet holiday free from grief. Patching up the
face of the target of a mugging in the back alley of his bar seems to throw
that wish right out into the cold Chicago night. But the tatted, pierced, and
skinny-jean wearing Keller Graham is fearless and proves to be more than a pair
of icy blue eyes lined in black. Keller may be a thief, but Mitch never
expected him to steal his lonely heart.
Excerpt:
“Hey!” he barked at the group of men crowding around the
chain-link fence across the alleyway. None of them must have heard, for they
carried on with their shoving and cussing. Light was scarce except for the
multi-colored glow above Mitch’s back door, but he squinted toward the group’s
kicking feet, down among the soot-tinged snow and puddles.
Someone was on the ground.
Mitch held the gun up and racked the slide.
They heard that. He hadn’t seen heads turn that fast since the
tank backfired at camp in Fallujah.
“Get the hell out of here!” Mitch yelled as he stalked toward
the group, the gun held high.
The guys instantly took off in all directions, cursing and
scrambling through the snow, slicks, and refuse. Nothing like a shotgun to
scatter a mob. It was too easy.
Once the last of the men had cleared out and he could only
hear distant footfalls, Mitch’s gaze landed on what the jerks had been
crowding. A lanky man wearing all black, lay on his back amid the trash, most
of his face hidden behind his long hair.
As Mitch moved closer, the cracked streetlight cast a
shimmering halo in the pool of water around the man’s head. An angel…with a
bruised cheek and a bloody cut under his eye. But an angel nonetheless.
Author Bio:
Hunter
lost a bet at a blackjack table and begrudgingly traded temperate Southern
California for the sweltering heat of Las Vegas. There she resides with an
extremely tolerant boyfriend and two cats named after her favorite beverage,
Latte and Java.
When
she's not dreaming of returning to coastal living, Hunter works at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, from where she recently received her Master’s
in British history. In order to appease her muse, she writes the kind of
fiction that keeps her sane. She adores romance in all forms, but prefers her
stories with two heroes that find their happily-ever-after with each other.
Find Hunter Here
Authors: S.H. Allan, Larry Benjamin, Rick Bettencourt, L.L. Bucknor, K.C. Faelan, Hunter Frost, Ofelia Gränd, Kathleen Hayes, Hans M Hirschi, Laura Susan Johnson, Terry Kerr, Amelia Mann, Debbie McGowan, Shayla Mist, Raine O'Tierney, Ava Penn, Jonathan Penn, Amy Spector, L.M. Steel, Al Stewart and Claire Davis, J P Walker, Matthias Williamson, Alexis Woods
Language: English
Published: 21st November, 2014
Publisher: Beaten Track
Publishing
Category: Fiction
Genre: Young Adult Fiction, LGBT, History, Romance, Fantasy, Women's Fiction, Short Stories, Humour, Contemporary Fiction, Holidays and Celebrations
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Boughs of Evergreen is a
two-volume collection of short stories celebrating the holiday season in all
its diversity. Penned by authors from the UK, the USA, Scandinavia and Eastern
Europe, these are tales of the young and the not-so-young from many different
walks of life.
Themes of family, friendship and
romance take readers on a journey through some of the major holidays, both past
and present, including Thanksgiving, Advent, St. Lucia Day, Hanukkah, Eid,
Saturnalia, Winter Solstice, Yule, Christmas and New Year. In each we find at
the very least hope, and often love, peace and happiness.
Each story will also be
published individually as ebooks on 1st December, 2014.
Proceeds from sales of this
anthology will be donated to The Trevor Project. The Trevor Project is the
leading national organization [USA] providing crisis intervention and suicide
prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning
(LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24. For more information, visit: www.thetrevorproject.org.
THE STORIES: (links go to
samples and author biographies)
Volume One
Volume Two
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