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Blue Notes Series: Book 6

A Blue Notes Novel

British lord Cameron Sherrington has hit rock bottom. The love of his life, opera sensation Aiden Lind, is marrying another man, and Cam knows it’s his own fault for pushing Aiden away. Then someone tries to set him up and take away his family business. Facing arrest by US authorities on charges of money laundering and with no money to return to London, Cam decides to run. But with no money and no place to stay, it’s not exactly the Hollywood thriller he’d imagined.

When Cam hears Galen Rusk play in a lonely subway station, he’s intrigued. But his assumptions about Galen are all wrong, and their unusual relationship isn’t exactly what Cam bargained for. Add to that the nightmares that dog him nightly, and Cam’s world is shaken to its core. Cam figures he had it coming to him, that it’s all penance due on a life lived without honesty. He just never figured he might not be able to survive it.

Note: Blue Notes Series novels are standalone stories, and can be read in any order.

Cameron Sherrington lives a life of luxury, laziness and idiocy. Coming from a wealthy family he has already blown through his inheritance left by his late father, and now lives off a monthly allowance until he’s old enough to claim his trust fund. His days consist of random one off’s with strangers, lunch with friends, parties and an occasional business meeting. But underneath all that privilege he has grown accustomed to, there is a gentle soul hiding, he only need open his eyes and ears.

Galen Rusk is a part time music teacher, and he loves to play his trumpet in the subway. Acoustics and people are great and he even gets a tip or two. He noticed the tall, lithe, well dressed blonde man a while back. Always in a hurry. Always checking his watch. On this particular day though the man stops to help an elderly woman when she drops her grocers, and at one point actually looks over at Galen. Afterward Cam stops to listen to Galen play, asks him to play something classical. There is a moment when both men are captivated and the initial attraction is born.

Cam has put his trust in the wrong person though and his life is about to take a nose dive. No money, no friends, no place to live and on the run from the FBI for something he didn’t do, Cam is now sleeping in the subway station. At the end of his rope, he entertains the thought of ending it all, but the gorgeous man with the green eyes is there, laying his hand on his shoulder. With all other options exhausted, Cam has no choice but to take Galen up on his offer to come stay with him. And slowly, painfully slowly, the two men get to know each other and build that trust that both of them have very little of.

One thing leads to another and the two finally become lovers. But the scars these two men carry both mentally and physically threaten to break the weak bond they’ve created. They will be put to an even greater test when they are separated by thousands of miles, while Galen fights for the job he loves, and both men refuse to admit they’ve fallen in love, though anyone with eyes can see it’s true.

Anthony’s Blue Notes is one of my favourite series. I love all the varying characters and how their lives as individuals still runs concurrent with the other characters in the different stories. My personal favourite will always be David and Alex, but Cam and Galen have worked their way under my skin. I really enjoy stories where the two ML have to struggle to find their way to each other. They are flawed and human and maybe by the grace of god and their love for one another, they can find a balance and a way to coexist together. These two in particular are the most stubborn I’ve met in the series. Strong, loyal, compassionate and stubborn. It makes for some fantastic reading, I assure you.

I highly recommend this series, and while the books can be read as a standalone, I’d urge you to read them in order. It just makes the experience with all these couples that are all entangled in each other’s lives in one way or another, that much better.

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Dissonance Playlist:

“Night and Day,” by Cole Porter (Ella Fitzgerald)

“Ain’t Misbehavin,” by Fats Waller (Fats Waller)

“Moon River,” by (Audrey Hepburn)

“Ain’t No Sunshine” (Bill Withers)

“Blue Moon” (Billie Holliday)

“Stairway to Heaven” (Led Zeppelin):

Partita No. 2, by Johann Sebastian Bach (Hillary Hahn)

Prelude No. 4, by Frederic Chopin (Khatia Buniatshvili)

“Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwin (Leonard Bernstein)

Haydn Trumpet Concerto (Wynton Marsalis)

“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” Variations by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Natalie Schwamova, age 11)

“Vocalise” (Rachmaninoff)

"Luka Sulic, cello", (Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano)

Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata, 2nd movement (adagio)

“Summertime,” from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin (Ella Fitzgerald)

Bach, French Suite, Sarabande (Merce Villanueva Molas)

I’ve always been a complete sucker for a happily-ever-after. But at some point I remember thinking, “What comes after the happily part?” I think that’s why I’ve always been drawn to stories that focus on what happens after the two main characters realize they love each other. How do they make it work? How do they stay together? Why do they stay together? Those are the questions that inspired me to write the Blue Notes Series.

Each Blue Notes Series novel is a relationship-driven story that seeks to answer the question of how real men make relationships work. Each story can be read independently of the others and in any order, but all of the characters inhabit the same, classical music universe and connect in ways that are often surprising. There’s a little bit of me in each of these novels, and many of the storylines are inspired by my own experiences as a classical musician (violinist and opera singer).

If you’re looking for a change of pace from contemporary romance, you might want to check out my high fantasy, sexy pirate shifter/mermen series, The Mermen of Ea. The second book in that series, Into the Wind, has a tentative publication date of May 2014. -Shira

Bio: In her last incarnation, Shira was a professional opera singer, performing roles in such operas as “Tosca,” “i Pagliacci,” and “La Traviata,” among others. She’s given up TV for evenings spent with her laptop, and she never goes anywhere without a pile of unread M/M romance on her Kindle.

Shira is married with two children and two insane dogs, and when she’s not writing she is usually in a courtroom trying to make the world safer for children. When she’s not working, she can be found aboard a 36’ catamaran at the Carolina coast with her favorite sexy captain at the wheel.

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