Elin Gregory

Sometimes it’s really worth checking out backlists. There are some marvellous books out there but with hundreds of new titles every week it can be very hard to find them.
Authors – have you got a title a year or more old that could do with a little love?
Readers – have you got a favourite book that you think deserves some attention?

Message or email me and we’ll set something up.

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This week I’m hosting an old friend, both book and author 🙂 When I started reading m/m I stuck very carefully to historicals only with just the occasional dip into other genres. Branded, then the two Gold Warrior books,  was one of my first excursions out of my rather narrow little comfort zone 🙂 I really enjoyed the adventure and physicallity of it, and it was surprisingly sexy too [you have to bear in mind that I’m a bit tone deaf to erotica and things that have other people fanning themselves and demanding cold showers leave me  scrolling on to find where the plot picks up again]. So this book is both fun and a great adventure and has recently been reissued as a one volume edition.

Blurb:

Maen is a Gold Warrior, an elite defender of Aza City, respected by his fellow soldiers and favored by his imperious Mistress for services both in and out of the bedchamber. His loyalty and commitment are unwavering until he recruits Dax, a captivating and challenging Bronzeman who, despite his youth and inexperience, seduces Maen with his fierce hero worship. When they’re captured by enemies of the City, Maen risks everything to save Dax: his position, his faith, and even his life. But he loses his lover to the rebels and upon his return to the City is stripped of his rank.

In Aza, where a soldier’s only lawful devotion is to the City and his Mistress’s pleasure, the disgraced Maen is placed under the watchful guard of the arrogant Gold Warrior Zander and relegated to preparing a Royal History for the new Queen. But his discoveries cast a new and shocking light on the past and threaten to stir revolution in both citizens and rebels. With the help of the lively and inquisitive scribe Kiel, Maen initiates a chain of events that will change their world forever—and offer him the chance to regain both his honor and his heart’s desire.

Bio:

Clare took the pen name London from the city where she lives, loves, and writes. A lone, brave female in a frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home, she juggles her writing with her other day job as an accountant.

She’s written in many genres and across many settings, with award-winning novels and short stories published both online and in print. She says she likes variety in her writing while friends say she’s just fickle, but as long as both theories spawn good fiction, she’s happy.

Most of her work features male/male romance and drama with a healthy serving of physical passion, as she enjoys both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic and sexy characters.

Clare currently has several novels sulking at that tricky chapter 3 stage and plenty of other projects in mind . . . she just has to find out where she left them in that frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home.

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/clarelondon

https://twitter.com/clare_london

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1276146.Clare_London

http://www.amazon.com/Clare-London/e/B002DEQA8C

I asked Clare for a recommendation of another backlist novel and this is what she said:

I read this story many years ago, but it lingers in my mind as a breath of fresh, vibrant air. It’s a sophisticated blend of murder mystery, the study of amnesia, and the broken relationship between two passionate men. There are no concessions to a romantic trope in sight, and the men are emotionally apart for much of the book. It’s ambitious in that it covers many years of their lives, both together and apart, through flashback and current events. It doesn’t shy away from depicting characters with a realistic, pragmatic and sympathetic range of flaws. They love, they care, they’re rash, they make mistakes both mild and major, they’re in pain for a lot of the book. Good grief, I can feel my throat closing in empathetic tension, just thinking about re-reading it!