Length: 70,000 words approx.
Cover Design: Garrett Leigh @ Black Jazz Design
Blurb
Lucky Coleman is on his knees when he meets a man with more money than sense. It’s a Grindr hook-up for cash, not a love match, but dreaming of his desperate, kind eyes earns a place amongst his numerous bad habits.
Meeting once was risky, twice pushes Dom’s courage to the limit. Losing Lucky seems inevitable, but his tight grip on his image counts for nothing when Lucky starts to fall.
Catching him could cost Dom everything, but if he can set his heart free, getting Lucky long term might be a risk worth taking.
Review
Life in the closet is hard. Dom may be able to convince
himself that he doesn’t have any sexuality, or need for intimacy, at all for
months at a time but inevitably the moment will arrive when his need overcomes
his fears and he surrenders to yet another anonymous hook-up.
Lucky isn’t a prostitute. Hooking up for money is something
he does because his circumstances mean he doesn’t have a choice if he wants to
survive. In fact, meeting Dom for a paid blow-job is Lucky’s first time
exchanging sex for money.
Two men who couldn’t be further apart if they tried. Dom is
successful, famous even and appears to live a dream, except that his life as a
professional footballer means he can’t come out as gay. And that makes all the
advantages his career provides fade into the background as he becomes ever more
frustrated. Lucky, on the other hand, is never more than a few minutes away
from his whole house of cards collapsing around his ears, holding it together
barely and very much against the odds.
Despite their differences the attraction between these two
men is undeniable from the moment they first set eyes on each other. And
despite both of them keeping their personal business very close to their chest
and although Dom knows he’s playing with fire, they continue their hook-ups. It
isn’t long before what was only about sex turns into something more…something
neither is willing to acknowledge or knows how to deal with.
Between Dom’s self-imposed isolation because he doesn’t trust
anyone and can’t afford to put his trust in the wrong person was heartbreaking
and proof, if anybody needed it, that lots of money does not make up for any
and all discomfort. Lucky’s everyday struggle to not go under in a world that
really doesn’t care for the likes of him, was hard to read…but to balance it
all out, there’s always Lucky’s approach to life. So much stronger than he
thinks he is and through and through good, despite the curve balls life
continues to throw at him, he doesn’t give up and makes the best of what he
does have despite fear and hunger. He brought tears to my eyes on more than one
occasion while I found myself cheering him and his resilience on, every step of
his at times tortuous way.
Dom’s situation just made me angry. Not even so much because
of what happens in the story, because the outcome there was just about perfect
(and much better than Dom could have ever expected). No, what got me going
there was the reality of the painful situation he finds himself in. Out
football players are few and far between and that is, obviously, not because
there are no gay football players. It infuriates me that there still are whole
(sub)cultures in which it is almost certainly professional suicide to come out.
So yeah, this book had me experiencing all the feels. The
scenes in which Dom and Lucky were together were nothing short of glorious, not
to mention mostly incredibly hot. But as soon as they were apart, fighting
their individual demons, my anxiety levels would rise, leaving me wanting to
comfort them.
Garrett Leigh does hurt/comfort stories like few others, and Lucky
is no exception to that rule. Well written and captivating from the start,
Lucky will take you on an emotional rollercoaster that may come close to
breaking you once or twice but will ultimately leave you uplifted and enriched.
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Author Bio
Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer and book designer, currently working for Dreamspinner Press, Loose Id, Riptide Publishing, and Fox Love Press.Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.
When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.
Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.
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