Author Spotlight - Max Vos - Excerpt from Life After Living

 

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT and BACKLIST PROMOTION

MAX VOS 

 

BOOK 1

Book Title: Going Home (Book is also available in French and Italian)

Cover Artist: A. J. Corza

Length: 47 021 words/ 122 pages

Release Date: February 14, 2016

Pairing: MMM

Genres: Menage

Tropes: Forbidden Love

Heat Rating: 5 flames 

It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.

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Is Love truly ‘Love is Love’?

 

Blurb 

Journalist Carter Roberts was required to interview Carl Foltz and Matt Evans for an article on their lives. It was not an assignment he relished: he just wanted to get there, get it done and get out. Thinking about the subject matter made his stomach churn. The interview reveals as much about himself as about the two men, and for the first time, Carter learns what a real home feels like. He never would have expected that meeting the two men would change his way of thinking - and his life - forever.

 

BOOK 2

Book Title: Play Chopin for Me

Cover Artist: A. J. Corza

Length: 222 pages

Release Date: May 2017

Genres: M/M Fairy Tale

Themes: Music, Cuisine

Heat Rating: Three flames

It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.

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Fire ignites love with music and food.

 

Blurb 

After a devastating fire, Dale Lusk shows up at his sister’s door in nothing but his boxers and a raincoat, desperately needing her help. Losing both his restaurant and home has left Dale without direction or a place to live. While pushing her handsome brother into a new wardrobe to match his model looks, Chrissie introduces Dale to Al Borkowski. Al is in desperate need of a roommate before his grandmother takes more control of his life. Little did Chrissie know when she pushed the two men together the sparks that would fly and the changes that would happen in all of their lives.

 

BOOK 3

Book Title: The V Unit

Length: 83 866 words/290 pages

Release Date: July, 2014

Genres: M/M Romance

Themes: Military, Paranormal

Heat Rating: 5 flames

It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.

Content Warning: This books contains a scene of sexual assault.

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Blurb 

Only a select few in the human world knew of the existence of the V-Unit, a small group of highly trained Marines - who happened to be vampires.
And it would have stayed that way.
But when events in the vampire world threatened the stability of the human world, the powers that be called for the unit's specialized services.
An intrepid war correspondent, Bronson Rudan, who'd seen more than his fair share of fighting, stumbles across the unit by accident, and is drawn into their world.
Bronson has no problem with that, given that he gets to spend time with a hunky Marine Lieutenant, Sarge. Although he won't remember any of this when they're through.
At least, that was the plan...

 

BOOK 4

Book Title: Life After Living

Length: 96 350 / 300 pages

Release Date: June, 2016

Genres: MM, Romance, Military, Fiction, Contemporary, Drama, Disability 

Themes: PTSD, Male Bonding

Heat Rating: 5 flames

It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.

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Blurb 

Two men: each trying to cope with PTSD. 

Vance Spence is suffering from yet another loss. The episodes are becoming more and more frequent. Only time will tell if he will be able to cope with yet another person leaving him. 

Wade Farmer recently returned from Afghanistan only to have his family disown him for loving another man. He also is suffering from loss. When the two are put together, neither are comfortable with the situation, but agree to give it a try. 

Two different lives. Two different men. Two different experiences, but common ground gives each of them understanding. Are they strong enough to battle their own demons as well as the others? Only time will tell.

 

Excerpt from Life After Living

After a trip to the bathroom, Vance made his way to the coffee maker. He stood there a moment, mystified as to why there was no coffee. As the cobwebs finally cleared he remembered that Jeff was no longer here. He was the one who had always set up the coffee maker the night before. Sighing heavily, Vance went about making coffee.

“Was it four or five scoops?” Vance asked out loud, even though he was the only person there.

The black-and-white Border collie, Bonnie, cocked her head to one side as she watched the human struggling with making a simple pot of coffee.

Vance looked down at the dog. “If you think it’s so easy, you do it.”

Bonnie whined and then turned and went out through the doggie door.

“Yeah, didn’t think so,” Vance grumbled while he filled the pot with water.

When the smell of coffee started filling the kitchen Vance sat down on one of the stools at the breakfast bar and waited. He looked out the window over the sink. It was another beautiful sunrise. The sight was so familiar that he could close his eyes and still visually see the hues of deep purple fading to pink that would turn to pale yellow as the sun rose higher in the sky. Even so, it was as if his eyes were open, he had it so firmly imbedded in his mind. It was a sight that he never grew tired of. Only now he would be seeing it each morning alone. Jeff was gone.

Vance took a sip of the hot, black coffee when it finally finished brewing. He sat and enjoyed his coffee for a few minutes before walking towards the bedroom. Stick to the routine.

 Socks, a clean jock, jean shorts, and a faded Grateful Dead T-shirt would be the attire for the day, just like any other day, though a different T-shirt. A quick trip to the bathroom to brush his teeth and he’d be ready to go. He looked in the mirror. “Almost time for a haircut,” he said to his image. His hand froze in mid-air, the comb seemingly mocking him. Who is going to cut my hair? Jeff always did it, but Jeff… is gone.

“Vance? Where are you?”

“I’m in the bathroom, Janice. I’ll be right out.” He quickly ran the comb through his hair, wiped his mouth once more with the hand towel before carefully folding it over the towel bar. Stick with the routine. Looking in the mirror one more time, sighing, he turned, leaving the room that he and Jeff had taken such care in planning and renovating.

“You’re such a good girl, Bonnie,” Janice soothed as she filled the empty stainless steel food bowl. “Did Daddy not feed you this morning?”

“I would have gotten to it,” Vance said, clomping into the room, his work boots still untied. “Jeff… normally took care of that.”

Janice looked closely at Vance, her eyes squinted. “Vance? What are you doing?”

He looked up from tying his boots. “What’s it look like I’m doing? I’m tying my boots.”

“Honey, your husband just died. You’re entitled to take a day off you know? Besides, aren’t there other things that… you need to take care of?” Janice kept watching Vance. “Um… did they… like, say conclusively what… you know…?”

Vance stood up, his face blank, knowing what she was asking. “Yes. Major heart attack and yes, Janice, everything has already been taken care of. I did that last night at the hospital. Jeff always said that he wanted to be cremated then his ashes spread around the property. He never wanted a big fussy funeral. I released his body to the local funeral home while at the hospital and they’re going to call me when he’s ready to be picked up.”

 

BOOK 5

Book Title: A Christmas Memory

Length: 22 293 words/ 55 pages

Release Date: November 2013

Genres: Contemporary MM Romance, Christmas, Holiday Romance, Short Story

Tropes: Teacher falls for the football coach.

Heat Rating: 5 flames

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Santa Claus Delivers

 

Blurb 

J.J. has always hated the holidays. Presents, decorations, the traditional family Christmas…It’s all his colleagues in the staffroom can talk about. J.J. avoids these conversations like the plague. He’d do anything to keep his co-workers from seeing the real J.J, the gay man who doesn’t want to be noticed. When he slips up and reveals that he is all alone with no plans for Christmas, the well-meaning ladies of his high school want to take him in for the holidays.
Oh hell….
Enter Coach Adam Sutton who comes to his rescue—and now J.J. is trapped by this hulk of a man who won’t take no for an answer. And he would have to be someone J.J finds attractive, wouldn’t he? Too bad he’s straight and J.J’s not about to step out of the shadows and make a move on him. He likes his arms where they are, thank you very much.
But Adam has a secret, one which is going to turn J.J’s world upside-down. Adam wants to give J.J. a Christmas to remember, but as it turns out, both men’s lives are never going to be the same again…

 

 

About the Author 

 

Max Vos is best known for his ‘inappropriate’ side. Bringing readers a range of stories with an unexpected edge. His bestselling novel My Hero is a hot and steamy romance, while his banned book Going Home questions what you know of love. With something for everyone, there is a Max Vos book for you.

Creativity has been a lifelong passion for Max, who retired from being a chef in 2011 and turned to writing. His strong relationships with the women in his life influence his stories and Max’s Southern charm shines through. Each new book will give you something to explore and love.

 

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