Zack and the Dark Shaft (Zara's Bois 1) by Gracie C. McKeever
Please don't make me comment on the title...
Zara is a spoilt white wasp brat. She is selfish and childish. But she has to have something good in her, cause Quincy, a black businessman of success, considers her his bestfriend. And so Zara asks Quincy a financial help when she wants to open an exclusive gay club. Yes cause, even if Zara is deeply in love with Quincy, Quincy is gay and has no idea to be involved with Zara in something more than friendship.
Then Zara is killed in a casual accident, she falls in a lift dark shaft (yes this is the real "dark shaft" of the story...) and she reawakens in a Limbo with two angels who give her a chance: two weeks on earth to fullfill her desire to be with Quincy. And to realize her desire she has the opportunity to share the body of her twin brother, Zack (what a convenient chance, in this way she will have also the necessary "equipment" to draw Quincy...)
Quincy is a very good friend with Zara. So good that, when he met Zara's twin, Zack, and he was immediately attracted by the cute man, he has rejected his feelings knowing that Zara was in love with him. But now Zara is dead, and he has no intention to let Zack go away.
Suddenly Zack is very "open" and "friendly" with Quincy. And Quincy accepts this unexpected gift; but then Zack begins to fade in front of his eyes: weight loss, restless sleeping... Maybe Zara has no intention to leave Zack's body after two weeks?
The story is good and original, but I have the feeling that Gracie McKeever has closed it too soon. The first part is very well plotted, but the end is a blurr of scenes... maybe this is due to the fact that this is the first book in a series and we will have the chance to read more in the next enstallments.
http://www.sirenpublishing.com/graciecmckeever/zatds.aspAmazon Kindle:
Zack and the Dark Shaft [Zara's Bois 1] (Siren Publishing Classic Manlove)Publisher: Siren Publishing (November 21, 2007)
Ingenue's Choice (Zara’s Bois 2) by Gracie C. McKeever
Second in the Zara's Bois series, where a soon-to-be angel, who was a very spoilt and selfish woman in life, has to play the role of matchmaker for human soulmates (mostrly men) who haven't found yet the way to met.
This time is mission is to help Patryk, a wasp fair good boy, a bit workaholic, to find his happily ever after with Keir, a former painter, now bartender, who happens to be also a very hot African American guy with a tendency for D/S play.
Patryk is out from an abusive relationship with a lover who has misjudged Patryk's need for domination as weakness. Now Patryk has some problem issue to trust again a man, but Zara is ready to push him a little toward Keir. Keir has lost his iper jealous lover in an accident soon after their last quarrel. Still hanted by remorse, he has given up his art. But when he meets Patryk, inspiration blossoms in his heart together with love.
But there are some problems to overcome, like their different social environment, and Keir's fear to be again the only one for a man.
The story is prettry simple and smooth, with not much drama. It flows quite till the end. Very pretty the scene of the first date between Keir and Patryk.
http://www.sirenpublishing.com/graciecmckeever/ic.aspAmazon Kindle:
Ingenue's Choice [Zara's Bois 2] (Siren Publishing Classic Manlove)Publisher: Siren Publishing (February 7, 2008)
Bouncer's Folly (Zara’s Bois 3) by Gracie C. McKeever
Of the three on the Zara's Bois series I read, this one is maybe my favourite.
Zara has been a good girl in her last mission, and so her angels want to reward her: she will return on Earth, her soul in the body of another lost soul who left too soon. What they didn't say to Zara is that her new body is a male one, and when Zara reawakens in the arms of sexy bouncer Ramsey, also another part of Zara's body awakens, a part she isn't used to have!
But Zara is a girl of many means, and she plays all the better she can with what she have. And the fact that Ramsey is very attracted by Trevor, the twinkie in which body Zara is now, is a plus: Zara will finally have the man she is attracted, since this time she has the right body! Only that Trevor was a drugs addicted and his old friends are not all willing to leave him alone. And then there is also the problem of Travis, Trevor's twin, that understands since the first time they meet, that the soul inside Trevor's body is not his brother's one.
I like how the author manages Zara's transition from woman to man: since she awakens, Zara thinks and acts like a woman, but the first time she has sex with Ramsey, and she fully understand the difference between a woman and a man (with a first hand experience), she stops to be an "her" to become an "him".
I think this is the last in the series, unless the author wants to tell the story also of Travis (who is straight for now) and Trevor (who has the "little" problem to not having a material body in this moment...). All the story till now were a bit short, this one is less than 80 pages, but pretty original.
http://www.sirenpublishing.com/graciecmckeever/bf.aspAmazon Kindle:
Bouncer's Folly [Zara's Bois 3] (Siren Publishing Classic Manlove)Publisher: Siren Publishing (August 12, 2008)
Amazon:
Zara's BoisPaperback: 284 pages
Publisher: Siren Publishing, Inc. (September 30, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1606011650
ISBN-13: 978-1606011652
Series: Zara’s Bois
1) Zack and the Dark Shaft
2) Ingenue's Choice
3) Bouncer's Folly
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debbie1701 pointed me to this youtube: it's a scene from an american series, a prime tv, "Brothers and Sisters" where a gay man makes a marriage proposal to his lover; Debbie said that for her is the first time she has seen something like that in an american television. Truth be told, the scene is very sweet: 
Zack and the Dark Shaft (Zara's Bois 1) by Gracie C. McKeever
Ingenue's Choice (Zara’s Bois 2) by Gracie C. McKeever
Bouncer's Folly (Zara’s Bois 3) by Gracie C. McKeever
This tale has an homey taste. Adam is returning home from Iraq after spending the last two years far from home. Probably when he signed in soon after high school, he really didn't understand what he would do and see. And reality was maybe too much for a now nearly twenty-one years old guy. Again at home he has lost all the link he had with his previous life, and the links he has made on army seem to disappear one at home: Tom, the man that has shared a secret love affair with him abroad, is now ready to marry and get pregnant his girlfriend.
This tale has an homey taste. Adam is returning home from Iraq after spending the last two years far from home. Probably when he signed in soon after high school, he really didn't understand what he would do and see. And reality was maybe too much for a now nearly twenty-one years old guy. Again at home he has lost all the link he had with his previous life, and the links he has made on army seem to disappear one at home: Tom, the man that has shared a secret love affair with him abroad, is now ready to marry and get pregnant his girlfriend.