The Deep of the Sound virtual tour | Spotlight, Excerpt & COMMENT #giveaway {Riptide Publishing}

Cal McCorkle has lived in Bluewater Bay his whole life. He works two jobs to support a brother with a laundry list of psychiatric diagnoses and a great-uncle with Alzheimer’s, and his personal life amounts to impersonal hookups with his boss. He’s got no time, no ambition, and no hope. All he has is family, and they’re killing him one responsibility at a time.

Avery Kennedy left Los Angeles, his family, and his sleazy boyfriend to attend a Wolf’s Landing convention, and he has no plans to return. But when he finds himself broke and car-less in Bluewater Bay, he’s worried he’ll have to slink home with his tail between his legs. Then Cal McCorkle rides to his rescue, and his urge to run away dies a quick death.

Avery may seem helpless at first, but he can charm Cal’s fractious brother, so Cal can pretty much forgive him anything. Even being adorkable. And giving him hope. But Cal can only promise Avery “until we can’t”—and the cost of changing that to “until forever” might be too high, however much they both want it.

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Excerpt: 

He got home, partially hammered on Motrin and a giant triple cheeseburger from In-N-Out, and let himself into the apartment.

Billy wasn’t there, but then, Avery imagined, he probably hadn’t had to catch a bus from Anaheim to North Hollywood, either. Not if he’d been blowing his boss for the last two weeks. Feeling sad and lost and thoroughly beaten, he drifted to his computer and tried to wrap his head around what he’d just decided to do.

Gi-Gi was online. Oh, thank God. Gi-Gi was online.

Heya, Avery. How goes things?

How goes things?

Avery poured his heart out on her, from the short, painful resolution with Billy to the frustration-fest of his parents. He finished feeling silly and guilty and all sorts of dumb for sucking up her time with his personal problems.

So, you’re moving to Washington in two weeks?

He laughed to himself. Yeah. Why the hell not?

That’s awesome! We live north of Portland—we can come visit. You and me, we can see each other more than just at the convention! Won’t that be awesome?

Oh my God.

YES! He found himself laughing semihysterically in his empty, bitter apartment. Gi-Gi, that’s the best news I’ve had all day.

And it was the news that would get him out of California and up past Seattle. It was the news that would let him start his life all over again.

Out there, in the great wide beyond, Avery had people who would understand him. He would have friends.

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Amy Lane exists happily with her noisy family in a crumbling suburban crapmansion, and equally happily with the surprisingly demanding voices who live in her head.

She loves cats, movies, yarn, pretty colors, pretty men, shiny things, and Twu Wuv, and despises house cleaning, low fat granola bars, and vainglorious prickweenies.

She can be found at her computer, dodging housework, or simultaneously reading, watching television, and knitting, because she likes to freak people out by proving it can be done.

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