Color of Grace

✍ Scribed by A.M. Arthur

• Publisher: Samhain Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 128 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1619216345

✦ Synopsis

*Looking to the future begins with forgiving the past. *

Cost of Repairs, Book 2

Barrett McCall once lived like there was no tomorrow. Now the reformed party animal savors each day as a gift. His short order cook job at Dixies Cup pays the rent, and hes content with his soberif solitarylife.

When a fire leaves him homeless, Dixies offer to let him move into her basement apartment puts him on a collision course with her nephew, art teacher Schuyler Rhodes. The heat between them crackles, but in Schuylers eyes Barrett recognizes the same demons he exorcised long ago.

Dixies kind-hearted offer couldnt come at a worse time for Schuyler. Its the anniversary of his teenage cousin Mattys drowning. Everyone believes it was an accident, but Schuyler knows the truthand so does the culprit. For fifteen years that truth has burned a hole in his souland now it keeps Barrett at arms length.

One lingering kiss melts away the barriers between them, but when the other witness to Mattys death shows up in town, Schuyler is forced into a confrontation that could cost him Barretts loveand possibly his own life.

Warning: Contains a hot man-on-man romance between a slightly uptight art teacher and a free-spirited tattoo-artist-turned-line-cook, a bucket of guilt sprinkled on top of past regrets, and the improper use of bamboo kabob skewers.

Review

all the characters felt like friends to me, and I was saddened to see it end. [] It gives room for hope, and second (and third) chances, and two men who could have had a very depressing story find in each other the strength they need to let go of the past and fully embrace a futuretogether.
Gay List Book Reviews on Color of Grace

A.M. Arthurs debut, Cost of Repairs, is a emotionally heart tugging male/male romance about pain, loss, and forgiveness. Smoothly written with a viable plot and interesting sub plots that intertwine and pull together to give us a poignant realistic story.
Smexy Books Romance Reviews

This was a beautiful, well thought through story with multi-layered, well drawn characters that lingered in my mind long after I finished reading and which Ill definitely read again.
Reviews by Jessewave on Cost of Repairs

Book Description

Cost of Repairs, Book 2

Reformed party animal Barrett is content with his short order cook job, and with his soberif solitarylife. Then he meets Schuyler. The heat between them crackles, but in Schuyler, Barrett recognizes demons he exorcised long ago.

For fifteen years, a secret has burned a hole in Schuylers soul. He knows the truth about his cousins deathas does the culprit. One lingering kiss with Barrett melts all barriersuntil the other witness shows up in town, and Schuyler is forced into a confrontation that could cost him Barretts loveand maybe his own life.