Damn, I'm sorry about the late announcement (I suppose it would be small excuse to murmur that I've been busy, working on the next Amaranth title...?) - but the new Amaranth title is out now! It's been out for, ooh, hours!

It's called Runaway Heart, it comes from Loose Id as ever, and here's the cover:




When Marc steals Finn, his favourite slave, wicked Baron Thiviers will stop at nothing to hunt them down. Finn has to run from this new young master he adores; but Marc comes after him, risking his own life for possession of the boy he loves.

Need to know more? 'Course you do! Click here for further details, and opportunities to buy...

People, I have a new title coming out next week! From Loose Id, as ever: it's called Red Light, it's contemporary gay romance, and it's a companion-piece to my previous White Flag: set again among the wine-makers of France. With repeat performances from Charlie and Matthieu and Juliette, alongside the new boys.

You can read all about it here. It'll be published on the 8th of this month, which is next Monday; in the meantime, just enjoy the cover...

People, I am so sorry that you've had to wait so long; be assured, there won't be such a delay before the next one, 'cos that is sitting on my editor's desk already. More on that later: but in the meantime -

Hidden Heart is now available from Loose Id!




Make with the clicky to embiggen the pretty slave boy. Or indeed to buy the book. You know you want to.

Okay, people. You've all been wonderfully patient, and I've been appallingly slow, and I'm sorry about that; but patience need not be its own reward after all, there can also be a book.

Hidden Heart will be published by Loose Id, possibly around November-time. It is of course another tale of Amaranth, and I am hoping for another gorgeous cover from Anne Cain.

More news as it firms up...

Just a couple more reviews for Healing Heart:

one from Night Owl Romance, that gives it four hearts out of five and says "Healing Heart is a story of journeys," which I like;

and one from Literary Nymphs that gives it four nymphs out of five and says "I found this sequel to Dark Heart a delightful read." Yay.

Couple of early reviews for Healing Heart, in case you're interested -

Rainbow Reviews likes it rather well, while

Dear Author finds that the slavery issue gets in the way of the story. Which I take as a slap on the wrist, because it shouldn't.

Aaaand it's out! This very day as ever was, Healing Heart goes on sale from Loose Id!

Please to form orderly e-queue. And enjoy...

(And let me know what you think: I do this for you, y'know. Yup, you. The one with the pink bedsocks, you...)

What the subject line says, basically: here's the cover for the next Amaranth novel, Healing Heart. Please to clicky to embiggen; you know you want to...




Om-nom-nom, say I. It's by Anne Cain, of course. I do dearly love what she's doing for this series.

One day, I swear, I will post actual content...

For now, though: here's a new review of Dark Heart. With a couple of reservations about the slave/master dynamic (but, as she acknowledges, that is deliberate on my part), and otherwise a great deal of cheer: "...this is a wonderful story. The prose is engaging and the author's voice as told in first person through Tam is instantly captivating ... The world building and characters draw the reader in immediately and carry the journey to the end, leaving hope for a sequel."

Hope shall be contented, sort of. It's not exactly a sequel - though Tam and his Master Luke do indeed feature - but Healing Heart will be out from Loose Id in just a couple of weeks now. August 25th, I think. Can't wait...

SarahF at "Dear Author" has reviewed White Flag, and enjoyed it: "It’s a gentle little book, evocative of French wine-country, beautifully descriptive of Matt’s special wine, piercingly emotional when necessary." And then she jumps off from that into a discussion of romance, what it is and why we read it: "And what White Flag shows for me so beautifully is that all romance is about self-negation. All romance comes down to the conflict and the compromise to make the relationship work, in real life as well as in fiction." Go read, it's worth it.