A Balls to the Wall Romance JJ LaRousse looks like a quarterback but acts like a queen. He’s trying to be proud of who he is—until a robbery at the famous Laguna Winter Fantasy brings JJ face-to-face with tough cop Ryan Star. JJ hears Ryan likes manly men, so he drops his voice an octave, colors his pink hair, and tries to pass as a football fan.
Ryan Star may be tough, but he keeps his sexuality to himself at work. He learned in New York that being a gay cop can be deadly. His attraction to JJ threatens his secret, but he’s finding it hard to back away from a guy who’s so totally his type. Then, during a ski trip and a confrontation with JJ’s biggest nemesis, all the façades come crashing down. In the aftermath, can Ryan love JJ for who he really is? More importantly, can JJ?
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Cat gives this one 5 Meows...
I loved this cover. I could really envision JJ as I read.
Snow Balls is JJ’s story. He is 6-4 and almost two hundred pounds of flaming queen. Sweet, charming , fluttering , scared of spiders flamboyant but all his hookups expect him to be a top because of his size. What JJ wants is a man to love, a partner like his other friends have found. He is in search of his Alpa man when a robbery takes place at the Winterfest and he is a witness.
Ryan tried to come out in New York and decided moving to California even in Laguna he was staying closeted. By having men that are macho, into sports, hiking, skiing, a real man’s man he could get by with sex on the sly and ‘dates’. Flaming gay guys and twinks are not his type. But gorgeous JJ may be. That is, the Jj he meets.
I absolutely loved this story. Each book is better and better. I fell in love with JJ. The date at the football game was to die for! I liked Ryan too. The storyline is interesting with a touch of mystery and we get to see most of the other guys from previous books.
Tara Lane hit another out of the BALL park. Pun intended. This is book 6 in the Balls to the Walls series but it can stand alone. However I suggest reading them in order to get to know all the other characters as well. Besides each book is awesome!
Excerpt...
Chapter One
“OH MY God. Rodney, did you hear about the robbery? I saw them. I talked to them!” JJ LaRousse fluttered his hands, but he couldn’t help it. At six foot four and one ninety-eight, fluttery hands might be an incongruity, but sometimes his emotions won. Sometimes? Well, maybe all the time.
“Take an end before I drop it.” Rod’s short arms could barely grasp the edges of the giant painting, and it tipped precariously as he approached the booth. Rodney Mansfield’s small stature didn’t match his enormous personality.
“Sorry.” JJ grabbed the painting with one hand and lifted the burden. He glanced at the semi-impressionistic portrait of a drool-producing nude man lying on the grass in the sun, his big, relaxed cock illuminated by a ray of sunshine. Why can’t I find a guy like that? Well, maybe not lying on the grass nude, but a special guy. Still, having a partner meant taking care of someone, and that was so not his forte.
JJ set the canvas on the floor of the booth at the back beside the boxes of little clownish dolls they were hoping to sell for holiday gifts at the Winter Fantasy Art and Craft Show.
Rod leaned against the sales counter and pulled off the bright aqua scarf he’d wrapped around his neck three times. It might be December, but it was still a good sixty-five degrees outside. California winter. “Yeah, I heard people talking about the robbery when I came in. What happened, darling?”
JJ flopped down on a wooden crate that held more items from the gallery for the booth. “These two guys dressed like Santa Claus and an elf apparently came in early this morning when people were just starting to set up. Everybody thought they were part of the Santa’s Village display, so nobody suspected anything until Suzanne and Ollie saw them hanging around some of their jewelry boxes. Before Suzanne even realized what they’d done, the guys had stolen expensive stuff from them and a bunch of other booths too. When they went to look for them, the two men were gone.” He took a deep breath. “But I saw them!” His hands started to flutter, and he curled them into fists. “They came right by here. I talked to them!” He fanned his face. Fluttering again.
Rod reached out and grasped JJ’s hands. He smiled. Rod was so great at calming him down. Yes, he was a drama queen, but Rodney knew how to handle him. “What did you say to them?”
“Something about where they’d left their reindeer and weren’t they traveling a little early. God, how dumb could I be?”
Rod gazed at him intently. “Not your fault. Did they answer?”
“Yes.”
“And what did they say?”
“The big guy, Santa, said their sleigh was double-parked and you know how tough the meter maids are in Laguna. Oh hell, I laughed. Damn.”
“You’re going to have to tell all this to the police.”
JJ sighed. “I know. A cop in a uniform came over and said that a detective will be here soon to question me.” He pulled his hand from Rod’s grasp and started fanning again. He just couldn’t help it. “Oh God, I could die.”
Rod pointed to the back wall. “So let’s get the painting hung, and you can set up the rest of the booth. That’ll take your mind off it.”
“Okay.” Rod always knew what to do. JJ stood up and grabbed a hammer and hook he’d brought for the purpose. With Rod’s guidance, the gorgeous painting by Roman, the nom de plume of Rodney Mansfield, soon dominated the back wall of the booth. They probably wouldn’t sell it here. Most people attending the exhibition were looking for Christmas gifts, and a $15,000 painting wasn’t exactly a stocking stuffer, but it would attract people to the gallery later.
Rod stepped back. “Looks great.” He pointed at JJ’s head. “By the way, I like the new do.”
JJ patted a hand against his longish hair. He’d dyed it pink that morning from its usual brown. “I had a great role model.” It was true. Rod was JJ’s best example for how to be himself.
Rod laughed and flipped his red-and-green bangs. “I’m doing a holiday motif.”
Voices sounded from two booths down. “Ma’am, I’d like to ask you a few questions, if you wouldn’t mind.” JJ shivered. Was he scared of the police or reacting to that low, gravelly voice? He walked to the edge of the booth and peeked around the corner. Sweet dreams of baby gay boys—that was a hunk. JJ pulled back and started fanning.
Rod glanced up from his inspection of a piece of sculpture. “What?”
Tara Lain writes the Beautiful Boys of Romance in LGBT erotic romance novels that star her unique, charismatic heroes. Her first novel was published in January of 2011 and she’s now somewhere around book 36. Her best-selling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Paranormal Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, Best Gay Characters, and Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. In her other job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm. She often does workshops on both author promotion and writing craft. She lives with her soul-mate husband and her soul-mate dog near the sea in California where she sets a lot of her books. Passionate about diversity, justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it will say “Yes”!
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This sounds like fun. Makes me want pink hair.
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