I was quite nervous about re-releasing this story. I wrote it in 2015 and it was published as a novella. Since receiving my rights back I was able to add in lots more content because there was no word limit restriction, as previously it was for a submission call with a max word count. In the end I added about 50% extra content, although the story, characters and setting remained the same. 

It was great fun revisiting Brad and James and being able to improve the story. I'm so pleased readers are enjoying it too!

You can read the GoodReads reviews here. 

If you're looking for some steamy opposites attract romantic fun, be sure to grab yourself a copy on Amazon. 

Liam Livings 
xx

I'm so pleased this is back out in the world. It's a steamy, opposites attract, small town gay romance.

It was originally written and released in 2015 as a novella called Heatwave Astoria. It’s now revised and enhanced as a full-length novel, with 50% extra content. The plot, characters and setting are still the same.

I enjoyed revisiting this story and these characters. As it was written for a submission call with a maximum word count, it was lovely to return to the story and layer in lots of the things I couldn't due to word count restrictions. I ended up adding about 20,000 words.

Here's the blurb:
British software engineer James, clings to carefully made plans in his perfectly unadventurous life. He avoids people-ing at all costs and has no need of a boyfriend. Forced to spend the summer at the Oregon office, his ordered world is thrown upside down.

Awkward in his home-made jacket, and melting in the heat, isn’t how James expects to meet one man tour-guide & player Brad, who’s keen to show James the sites of Astoria. Including his bed.
James's old habits are discarded, his carefully guarded heart opens, as a casual one nighter develops into much more. But James isn’t prepared to find a man who’s as kind and caring outside the bedroom as he’s wanton and inventive inside. Or to start falling in something for Brad, because James must leave at the end of summer.

I'll return to 'the story behind the story' in another post.

Meanwhile, be sure to grab yourself a copy on Amazon.

And isn't that cover perfect?

Love and light,

Liam xx