GayRomLit Ebook Giveaway: Jessica Freely - Dharma Cafe

I asked to all the authors joining the GayRomLit convention in Albuquerque in October (http://gayromlit.com/authors.php) a personal favor, a special Ebook Giveaway: every 2 days I will post 1 book from each author, and among those who will leave a comment, I will draw a winner. Very easy and very fast ;-) I will send a PM to the winner, so remember to not leave anonymous comments!

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Today author is Jessica Freely (http://jessicafreely.com/)

Dharma Cafe by Jessica Freely
Publisher: Loose Id LLC (January 16, 2012)
Amazon Kindle: Dharma Cafe

Welcome to the Dharma Café, a restaurant like no other. There is no menu. The waiter, Samura, uses mystical powers to read what each customer needs, and the cook, Agatha, prepares the food with ingredients like love, hope, and courage.

The café is a refuge for the new busboy, Charlie, who was kicked out of home on his eighteenth birthday. Irresistibly drawn to Samura, Charlie soon discovers that the stern, formal waiter harbors a heartbreaking past and a dangerous secret.

Samura lives in fear that one day, the darkness inside him will burst forth to destroy all he loves. Now that includes brash, infuriating, delectable Charlie, who has broken through all Samura’s defenses and taught him to trust himself.

Just when Samura thinks it might be safe to reveal the truth, his worst nightmare walks back into his life: His father, Akio, the evil food sorcerer who runs the burger stand on the other side of town. Akio’s business is expanding and he wants his son to manage his new location, where the Dharma Café now stands.

It will take the combined resources of an ancient cook, a novice dishwasher, and a cursed waiter to fight Akio and protect the café. But when Samura succumbs to Akio’s magic, will it be enough?

One Small Thing by M.J. O'Shea & Piper Vaughn

Sweet, almost peaceful, the love story between party boy Rue and OCD afflicted sci-fi writer Erik is told in both point of view of the main characters. I have the feeling that, this being a co-authored book, the two authors wrote the different point of view, matching then them together in the novel.

Rue has never dreamed to become a father, he is 100% gay hairdresser and family and long-term partner are not part of the picture; but one only mistake is enough to make him a father and now juggling between daily courses at school and nightly work in a gay private club is not simple.

Erik is a nice guy, but way, way into the nerdy side of life; a Star Wars fanatic, junk food addicted, he managed to go through high school and college without interacting much with the world, and now he is enjoying an early retired life in a detached small house with back yard garden. But then reality comes knocking at the door, the small paradise that is Erik’s house is on sale and he has not enough money to buy it. Erik moves next door to Rue, and when Rue realizes his neighbour is an at home worker, asking him to babysit little Alice is the logical next step. Now if I was a mother (and I don’t have motherly instinct so it’s a lot for me to say it), I would probably not leave my newborn baby with a perfect stranger, but maybe this is giving you an idea of how little prepared Rue was to be a father.

Obviously Erik falls for Alice way before falling for her pretty and cute father; actually it’s a fight between who is cuter, if Alice of her father, but in any case, Erik has no chance to come out from the situation unscathed. Considering he is a virgin to EVERYTHING, het or gay sex, putting him side by side with experienced and available Rue is like having straw near a fire.

I really liked not only both main characters, Erik and Rue, but also Dusty; actually I think Dusty is so nice and good that I wanted to read his story as soon as this one was finished, need to check if they have already written it… it’s impossible they have no thought to that, since Dusty is too layered to be only a supporting character.

http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=2906

Amazon: One Small Thing
Amazon Kindle: One Small Thing
Paperback: 214 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (May 4, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1613724969
ISBN-13: 978-1613724965

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