Snow and Secrets
Stanford Creek, #3
by Rozenn Scott
Date of
Publication: December 1st
2016
Publisher: All
Romance eBooks
Cover Artist: Erin
Dameron Hill
Genre: Gay Romance
First comes trust, then love… then the fight to stay alive.
From The Book Junkie Reads . . . Snow
and Secrets (Stanford Creek, #3) . . .
What
was supposed to be a quite winter getaway and a place of peace and protection
turns into more than either man would have dreamed of. Together Tyler and
Garrett find a safe-haven from the world, but the haven doesn’t last. But
before all hell breaks loose the two find more than they could have imagined
for the holidays.
This
was a standalone in a series but it was richer with the surrounding characters
and their stories to lead you into what was a hot, steaming filled snowy holiday
season with secrets and heat. This Christmas may never be forgotten. This was a
sexy, hot MMR Holiday read.
Stanford Creek
series:
Notes and Roses – Stanford Creek, #1 SEE REVIEW
Love and Hope – Stanford Creek, #2 SEE REVIEW
Snow and Secrets – Stanford Creek, #3
BLURB
Pop star Tyler Hart is desperate for peace
after a humiliating public scandal. It seems like Stanford Creek may well be
the place to lay low. After all, it worked for his friends and former
bandmates, Cody and Danny. He borrows a cabin and settles in for a quiet
Christmas…well, not quite.
Garrett Campbell is on the run. Wounded in
the line of duty, he escapes to the only place he feels safe, Stanford Creek
and his brother’s cabin. Only he doesn’t realize he’ll have a roommate, and a
sexy one at that.
Amid snow falls and winter winds, passion
burns bright. When danger threatens to follow Garrett, he has to decide whether
to run again before his secrets could kill him and the man of his dreams.
“Ty? Ty? Earth to Ty?”
Ty snapped back to the here and now at
the insistent use of his name. He clung to the words and looked at Garrett,
aware he was close to the edge. “Sorry? Was miles away,” he excused himself.
“Yeah, anyway,” Garrett said, and
straightened. “It’s okay, you don’t have to find anywhere else. I have a bed in
town with my cousin if I need it, I can be out of your hair in a bit.”
“No, you don’t have to,” Ty blurted
out, and wished he’d thought about what he was going to say before he said it
as Garrett raised an eyebrow in question. Apparently, he didn’t want to be
alone, because if he was on his own today he might just sit in a corner and
cry, or stare into space and worry. At least with another person in the room,
one who looked at him so closely, he would have to pretend everything was okay
and then he might even believe it. Hell, having Zach watch him so closely was
the only way he kept sane at home.
“It’s okay,” Garrett said with the
softest of smiles. “You didn’t sign up for a roommate.”
“No,” he said quickly, not wanting
Garrett to get the wrong idea and to leave. “I’m used to sharing. Twins! I’m a
twin…” Okay, now he was rambling.
“I know,” Garrett said. He crossed his
hands over his broad chest. What did that mean? Was his body language telling
Ty to back off? All Ty was getting from that was the fact that Garrett was
strong and muscled and sexy and all kinds of imposing. Possibly even a little
scary, but that didn’t make Ty worry, instead it made him feel like he was on the
right side of Garrett, that Garrett could be strong and scary for him, and not
just at him.
God, I’m not even making sense to
myself now. He probably thinks I’m a fucking idiot.
He cleared his throat. “It might be
nice to have the company.”
“It would,” Garrett said, and smiled
at him, the smile was hopeful, agreeing, perfect.
“Okay, so let’s start again.” Ty
extended his hand again. “Tyler Hart, call me Ty.”
Garrett took his hand. “Garrett
Campbell.”
“I’m a singer dancer whatever,” Ty
said with a shrug. “With a need to escape the paparazzi after someone decided
it was a good idea to release a video of me getting a blowjob from a guy in a
bathroom.”
“I know,” Garrett said, but he didn’t
release the hand. He was suddenly stern and serious, looking like he was
moments away from smacking someone, and Ty wished he’d let go of his hand.
“Justin told me what happened. Bastard,” he added, with feeling.
“Did you watch it?” Ty blurted, and
wasn’t sure where that came from.
Garrett frowned. “No, I wouldn’t.”
“I wouldn’t judge you, guys watch
porn.” Ty couldn’t understand why he wasn’t letting this go. Why was he
pushing, because the last thing he wanted was for Garrett to have watched the
damn video.
“That was violation of privacy, not my
definition of porn,” Garrett snapped, angrily and without hesitation.
Intensity marked Garrett’s expression.
Apart from Zach, Ty hadn’t had anyone so viscerally defensive and pissed off
about the whole thing. Ty’s tension shifted, no longer shaky inside but almost
settled, and for a moment he felt like old-Ty. The Ty that could handle
anything thrown at him. Ty who was happy most of the time, and didn’t feel like
his heart would leap out of his chest in fear every single day.
“Not enough pool boys for you?” Ty
deadpanned. It felt good to be able to laugh at this, like it was an event that
happened a long time ago, something he’d come to terms with
Garrett’s expression went from stone
serious to smirking, then he frowned. “Or pizza deliveries.” He looked like he
was seriously contemplating this.
“Oh God, you’re watching the same porn
as me,” Ty laughed. And then he stopped, and knew he was going scarlet. He
didn’t know Garrett from a complete stranger, yet they were exchanging reviews
of the kind of porn that was out there.
Garrett turned serious again, but not
deadly focused, just enough that Ty believed what he said next. “I didn’t watch
the video, Ty, but I read enough comments to see why you’d need a bolt hole.”
“Okay.” Because what else could Ty say
to that?
“Anyway, that’s enough about you being
a musical genius who gets blowjobs in bathrooms. I’m Garrett Campbell, middle
sibling and younger brother to Justin whose place this is, and older brother to
Megan who is marrying your friend Cody.” He said all that in one breath and
then nodded, like that summed up his entire life.
“I’ve heard about you,” Ty said, and
finally released his hand, awkwardly stuck between wanting to hold Garrett’s
hand and to pretend he didn’t like the warm, solid hold. “You’re the brother
who works sales or something.” Although that assessment was broad. He’d also
been told Garrett worked a lot overseas, and that Cody and Danny were convinced
he was a secret agent or something.
“Yep, career of my dreams. You
hungry?”
Ty paused at the change in subject.
He’d been so determined to get here that he hadn’t eaten since last night on
the plane from LAX, and it was nearly lunch time. He wasn’t hungry but he knew
he had to eat, because Zach told him he couldn’t stop eating. “Yeah.”
“Omelet? Bacon, mushroom?”
That sounded good, and he didn’t feel
nauseous at the thought of it. Ty settled firmly onto the stool and rested on
the counter. “Please.”
“If you want to get a shower or
anything, bathroom is the door in the middle, plenty of hot water at the moment
and I can wait on lunch for a while.”
Ty hadn’t even considered a shower,
but abruptly it seemed like the most perfect idea possible.
“Five minutes?” he asked.
“Take your time, I’ll prep and then
cook when you get out.”
Author Info
RJ Scott is the bestselling
author of over ninety romance novels and novellas. From cowboys to
millionaires, SEALS to cops, her stories are passionate, sexy, and always come
with a guaranteed happy ever after. RJ also writes as Rozenn Scott for her new
line of strong men and women who find that it’s always worth overcoming
obstacles to find a forever love.
RJ lives just outside of London,
and has never met a bottle of wine she can’t defeat. For more information on
other books by RJ/Rozenn, visit her website:
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