19 April - Missing in Action
30 April - Anchor to the World (free story with newsletter starring Brandon and Finn)
TBC - Fallen
1 November - A Christmas Less Lonely
Works in Progress
Snowbound (working title) 28762/35000
Getting Off (Bad Cops 3) 5000/10000
Taken by the Kraken 2 2500/5000
Twelve Nights of.... short stories (working title) 71000
Read on for Chapter Two
Holden’s hiding from the press
after his agent stole all his money.
Tyler’s just hiding from
life after Afghanistan stole his leg.
There’s twenty-two years and a wealth of hurt and bitterness between them. It doesn’t stop them wanting each other.
Holden’s been leading a
shadowy existence all his life and his secret is way too explosive to share
with anyone. He can’t talk about the things he needs and craves on a daily
basis.
Tyler’s down on his luck and battling just to stay afloat in a world of pain, flashbacks and nightmares. The two of them are worlds apart, but thrown together by circumstances that have them questioning what’s most important to them.
Themes: hurt/comfort, age
gap, PTSD, disabilities
Warnings: PTSD, mental
health issues, addiction, drug use, mentions of past abuse and rape, homophobia
CHAPTER TWO
Tyler
He heard a car crunching the gravel behind
him. It drew alongside him and the window buzzed down.
“Get in the car, Tyler,” Holden said with
a sigh.
He drove a five-year-old red Hyundai.
Tyler guessed the agent had run off with the Lamborghini too. If he hadn’t have
felt so ill, he might have managed a mean smirk. “Go to hell.” Tyler carried on
walking.
“Come on. Just get in. I don’t want you
struggling home.”
Tyler stopped, bent, and hissed in the
window. “I don’t need you to feel fucking sorry for me, thanks.”
“I’m not feeling sorry for you, I’m
anticipating having to call an ambulance because you’ve collapsed in the dust
and the vultures have started to eat you.”
“Fuck off!”
Still Holden crawled alongside him. “Get
in the car or I’ll call the sheriff back here and tell him you tried to
blackmail me.”
Tyler’s gaze shot to his. Holden’s dark eyes were calm and steady. Trustworthy eyes even though nothing so far had made him inclined to trust this man. He staggered to the car and almost fell as he grabbed the handle. Somehow he got himself in and slammed the door. Then he slumped back, eyes shut, breathing hard. The ice cold air-con was heaven. He wanted to wrench the prosthesis off and throw it from the fucking window. Maybe have Holden reverse over it a few times for good measure.
COMING THIS SPRING
Tyler
The nightmare was the same again. The dust, the blood, the screaming. Then his own cries as he looked beyond his knee and saw nothing but torn and charred flesh. Tyler awoke with a start, dazed, sweating, disorientated. He thrashed on the bed before he took in the small bedroom, the sun streaming through the open curtains. He fell back with a gasp. The nightmares even invaded his afternoon naps now, while the flashbacks were at times near damn continuous. A sudden thud on the door sounded like a gun firing and startled him. He didn’t get visitors, who could it possibly be? He shuffled to the edge of the bed and put his feet down, relieved he’d kept his leg on to sleep. Down the short hallway, he saw a shape behind the frosted glass of the door. He only wore shorts, but he didn’t stop to pull on a T-shirt. He swung it open.
Holden’s hiding from the press after his agent stole all his money.
Tyler’s just hiding from life after Afghanistan stole his leg.
There’s twenty-two years and a wealth of hurt and bitterness between them. It doesn’t stop them from wanting each other.
After a few very difficult and challenging months, I am pleased to announce that I will return in the spring to writing m/m romance as Scarlet Blackwell and gay erotica as Amber March.
My first release is likely to be the fourth book in the Clear Water Creek series and is entitled Missing in Action,
Readers of this series will know its books are my darkest to date and feature such themes as rape, domestic abuse, murder and snuff. While book 1 can possibly be read as a standalone, books 2 and 3 need to be read in order, and characters and events from book 1 are alluded to. Book 4 needs to be read after books 2 or 3 or after all 3 books for maximum enjoyment. It features returning characters Finn, Brandon, Jonah and Jordan amongst others and a brand new couple, Holden and Tyler.
Thank you to all those readers who supported me in 2023 by buying or borrowing my books. I will return to publishing in Spring 2024.
Release schedule 2023-2024
TBC Taken by the Kraken (erotica by Amber March)
TBC Missing in Action (Clear Water Creek 4)
December 2024 A Christmas Less Lonely
Release schedule
15 October Blood Kisses
22 October Blood Tears
31 October Blood Wine
TBC November Taken by the Kraken (erotica by Amber March)
TBC 2024 Missing in Action (Clear Water Creek 4)
TBC (2023 or 2024) A Christmas Less Lonely
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“You act like you hate me and I don’t know why. All I did was love you. It wasn’t a crime.”
Ten years ago, the vampire Severin fell in love with the mortal Nikolaus in Vienna and abandoned him, rather than take his life.
He and his friend, Istvan, are invited to the vampire king Emil’s castle where he finds out that Nikolaus now belongs to Emil. Jealousy eats Severin alive. The twin lusts of blood and sex are intertwined for all vampires, ruling their lives. The only way to possess Nikolaus now seems to be to accept an invitation to share Emil’s pet for one night. But Emil is a despot, ruling all vampires with an iron fist. There is long, painful history between Severin and his maker, and a strange kind of relationship between the placid Istvan and the cruel Emil.
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This series was originally published under one of my other pseudonyms (I have a few!). It has been revised and re-edited with hot, hot, hot new covers by my amazing cover artist. It is ultra spicy with scenes not for the faint hearted.
Read the first chapter from Yours below. Out 16 September
The blurb:
“If you’re not in love with Matt, then you must be in love with me.”
Lewis Green has his world ripped apart on the eve of the opening of his best friend’s bookstore. Matt Harmon’s almost killed in a car accident on his way to the launch and Lewis doesn’t know if he’ll survive. In his hour of need, he turns to his other friend, Nick, for solace.
Coming 16 September
“If
you’re not in love with Matt, then you must be in love with me.”
Lewis Green has his world ripped apart on the eve of the opening of his best friend’s bookstore. Matt Harmon’s almost killed in a car accident on his way to the launch and Lewis doesn’t know if he’ll survive. In his hour of need, he turns to his other friend, Nick, for solace.
Release schedule
16 September Yours (Damaged Goods 1.5)
TBC Taken by the Kraken (erotica by Amber March)
TBC 2023 Missing in Action (Clear Water Creek 4)
December 2023 2 x Christmas shorts
Works in Progress
Missing in Action (Clear Water Creek Book 4) - age gap, hurt/comfort - 40790/35000
Release schedule
TBC 2023 Missing in Action
December 2023 2 x Christmas shorts
Works in Progress
Being somewhat flighty at the moment, I have a ridiculous number of works in progress.
Missing in Action (Clear Water Creek Book 4) - age gap, hurt/comfort - 33752/35000
Lewis and Nick (working title). Prequel to Heal Me - 20734/30000
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A Mediterranean cruise. A broken-hearted passenger. The hottest captain to ever wear a uniform.
Release schedule
1 July
Falling for the Captain. Released on Amazon 1 July, out everywhere else now.
Works in progress
Missing in Action (Clear Water Creek Book 4) 10000/35000
Lewis and Nick (working title). Prequel to Heal Me 20734/30000
Professor Plum (working title) - 3435/21000
The Captain of his Heart - in editing
Here's an excerpt from one of my current WIPs, working title Professor Plum. This is very rough and unedited, as evidenced by the unfinished names in this draft.
Jayden
Ten inebriated students fall about on the makeshift stage,
shoving each other, laughing and generally dicking about. Their high spirits
hide their nervousness, I’m sure of it. I’m more relaxed. I’m standing there
waiting to go to my doom because it is
what it is. My motto. There are bigger things to get riled up about in this
life, like global warming or the dictators having the world in a choke-hold.
This isn’t worth a drop of worried sweat. It’s something I step over on my path
to… whatever. The only way I’ll start to sweat tonight is if I’m auctioned off
to him.
I can see him standing at the bar. He sticks out like
a sore thumb, a head taller than most of the men here tonight at six-two or
three. He’s become my nemesis and I want to do all I can to stay under his
radar.
Professor Plum. The jokes have been done to death and yet they still get whispered as he approaches.
New Releases
28 May
Healing - bonus scene to Heal Me, 13k, free with my newsletter
1 June
Save Me - 80k novel
