Welcome JL Merrow and Riptide Publishing who are here today promoting the latest in the Porthkennack series, Love at First Hate! Find out more about this contemporary romance and this series set in a seaside Cornish town and be sure to leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway of a $10 Amazon credit! Good luck!
Hi, I’m JL Merrow, and I’m delighted to be here
today as part of the blog tour to celebrate the release of Love at First Hate, the second of my contemporary MM romances in
Riptide’s multi-author Porthkennack
series.
Love at First
Hate
features a romance between a newcomer to Porthkennack and a character whom
readers of my first two Porthkennack books, Wake Up Call and One Under,
will have already met: Bran Roscarrock. As you might imagine, Bran, who is an
antagonist in the first two books, is on something of a redemption arc. But
we’ll also get to see where he’s been coming from, and why he’s acted as he
has.
About Love
at First Hate
First impressions can doom second chances.
Bran Roscarrock has been
living in the closet all his life. As heir to an expansive family legacy in the
town of Porthkennack, old-fashioned ideals of respectability and duty were
drummed into him since childhood, and he’s never dared to live—or love—openly.
Sam Ferreira, an old friend
of Bran’s brother, Jory, is a disgraced academic desperate to leave his
dead-end job. When Jory asks him to take over as curator of a planned
exhibition on Edward of Woodstock, the fourteenth-century Black Prince, Sam
leaps at the chance to do what he loves and make a fresh start.
But Bran’s funding the
exhibition, and though sparks fly between the two men, they’re not all happy
ones. Bran idolises Prince Edward as a hero, while Sam’s determined to present
a balanced picture. With neither of them prepared to give ground, a hundred
years of war seems all too possible. And if Bran finds out about Sam’s past,
his future may not be bright, and their budding romance may be lost to history.
About Porthkennack
Welcome to Porthkennack, a charming Cornish seaside town with a
long and sometimes sinister history.
Legend
says King Arthur's Black Knight built the fort on the headland here, and it’s a
certainty that the town was founded on the proceeds of smuggling, piracy on the
high seas, and the deliberate wrecking of cargo ships on the rocky shore.
Nowadays
it draws in the tourists with sunshine and surfing, but locals know that the
ghosts of its Gothic past are never far below the surface.
This
collaborative story world is brought to you by five award-winning, best-selling
British LGBTQ romance authors. Follow Porthkennack and its inhabitants through
the centuries and through the full rainbow spectrum.
The
Porthkennack novels are standalone stories; release order and era are:
● A Gathering
Storm by Joanna Chambers
(historical)
● Wake Up Call by JL Merrow (contemporary)
● Broke Deep by Charlie Cochrane (contemporary)
● House of Cards by Garrett Leigh (contemporary)
● Foxglove Copse by Alex Beecroft (contemporary)
● Count the
Shells by Charlie Cochrane
(historical)
● Junkyard Heart by Garrett Leigh (contemporary)
● Tribute Act by Joanna Chambers (contemporary)
● One Under by JL Merrow (contemporary)
● Contraband
Hearts by Alex Beecroft (historical)
● Love at First
Hate by JL Merrow (contemporary)
About JL Merrow
JL Merrow
is that rare beast, an English person who refuses to drink tea. She read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, where
she learned many things, chief amongst which was that she never wanted to see
the inside of a lab ever again.
She writes (mostly) contemporary gay romance
and mysteries, and is frequently accused of humour. Two of her novels have won Rainbow Awards for
Romantic Comedy (Slam!, 2013 and Spun!, 2017) and several of her books
have been EPIC Awards finalists, including Muscling
Through, Relief Valve (the
Plumber’s Mate Mysteries) and To Love a
Traitor.
JL
Merrow is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, Crime Writers
Association, International Thriller Writers, Verulam Writers and the UK GLBTQ Fiction Meet
organising team.
Connect
with JL:
●
Twitter: @jlmerrow
●
Facebook: facebook.com/jl.merrow
● Goodreads: goodreads.com/.J_L_Merrow
To celebrate the
release of Love at First Hate, JL is
giving away a $10 Amazon credit! Leave a comment with your contact info to
enter the contest. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on September 8,
2018. Contest is NOT restricted to U.S. entries. Thanks for following along, and
don’t forget to leave your contact info!
Sounds interesting gjordan0609@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteThanks! :)
DeleteIt does indeed sound intriguing. I hope to read more.
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I like the cover. It really makes me want to read the book.
ReplyDeleteI've read some of these novels and loved all I've read. This one is another must for me. Congrats on the release, Jamie!
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I hope you're having a lovely release week.
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