Living On Air by Susan Mac Nicol | Cat's Review & #giveaway @SusanMacNicol7

For aerialist, Cary Stilwell, aside from performing forty feet in the air, life holds little comfort until he meets Rhys McIntyre, who punctures all of Cary's defenses. PIERCING THE NIGHT Cary Stilwell has been existing since he was ten years old, and each year it gets harder to find meaning in his bleak life. The only exception - his work. As a top-billed aerialist in a popular travelling circus, he enjoys accolades and applause, but little else. When notable photographer, Rhys McIntyre, joins the circus to catalogue its inner workings, Cary fights the attraction that hits him from the moment they meet. But a kind soul wrapped in a beautiful body has a way of battering all the walls Cary has built around his cold, dark heart. WITH LIGHT Rhys McIntyre is on his third iteration of reinventing himself. Once a hotdog financier, he embraced his passion for photography and became an eminent war photo journalist. Until one too many bullets lodged in his body, and he gave up the front lines for the softer side of chronicling life. When he accepts the assignment to record life in a circus, the last thing he expects is to find the man crush of his dreams. Except Cary Stilwell is a cold, tortured man who seems incapable of any warm emotion, never mind love. But Rhys is known for his persistence, and this time the pay-off might be more than he could have ever imagined.

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Cat gives this one 5 Meows with a 1 Purr heat index...

Warning; There is mention of pedophilia, rape, child abuse, violence,(these are off the page) and self-cutting. None of these scenes are gratuitous. They also fit into the story and show us Carey's past and what he went through that makes him how he is today.

Living on air is a work of art in itself. Ms, Mac Nicols created a beautiful story full of intriguing and quirky characters.  The story is beautifully written and poignant. It is a real page-turner. There is a lot of angst and I wanted so bad to grab care and hold him. I know all about cutting having ad a family member with that problems.

This book reminded me of some old movies my hubby and I used to watch like Big Top and The Greatest Show on Earth.

If you like lots of angst, circus stories, unique characters, broken men, friends to lovers and an allover intriguing read this is for you. bring along the tissue.

Sue writes steamy, sexy and fun contemporary gay romance stories, some suspenseful, some gritty and dark, and others just plain ahhhh....

Lover of angst and conflict, she enjoys putting her characters through the emotional wringer and bringing them out the other side with an HEA or at the very least, a HFN.

Sue is a PAN member of Romance Writers of America and also of the Romantic Novelists Association in the UK. She’s also Editor in Chief at http://www.divinemagazine.biz, an online LGBTQ e-zine, and she’s a Charity Board trustee at http://www.beingmecampaign.com in London. 

She’s passionate about research for her books and has stayed in a circus, taken lessons from a blind person on how it feels to be non-sighted, and travelled to a lighthouse with maintenance crew to see first-hand what it’s like inside. She’s also written a screen play with Hollywood actor and heart-throb Nicholas Downs, with a view to taking her latest release, Sight Unseen, to the big screen.

Website: https://www.authorsusanmacnicol.com/

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