Cover Design: Sloan J Designs
Length: 35,000 words approx.
Blurb
For struggling film student Isamu Taylor, life's refrain is about to change from boring documentary about a passionless delivery boy to a blazing and wildly erotic love story.
After spending weeks admiring handsome but older Manhattan executive Brian Gilles while delivering brioche to him in Bryant Park, the man of his lusty dreams has just expressed a desire to get to know Isamu better. A night on the town is just the beginning of a whirlwind romance that will span not only four seasons but countless years.
Amid the beauty and charm of Bryant Park, New York City, two men are about to discover that love knows no age or economic boundaries. This is a collection of four short stories starring these two amazing men, their one sublime love, and the park where it all started.
Review
Tales of Bryant was exactly what I needed to read today. A
sweet, mostly angst-free and captivating story about two young men learning how
to be together and trust their feelings for each other. Add to that the touch
of May to December and my afternoon was well and truly made.
Weeks before Brian at last talks to Isamu and
invites him for an evening out, Isamu is already dreaming about the rich,
successful, and somewhat older man who regularly orders coffee and a brioche
from the shop where Isamu works part-time.
One evening out soon turns into more, but Isamu
can’t quite believe Brian could truly be interested in him, a student and basically
a nobody, when Brian could get just about any man to follow him with just one
crook of his finger.
The path to true love is never smooth and rarely
easy, so it takes four seasons before both men are ready to reveal exactly what’s
in their heart and in their past, but their journey to that moment is
wonderful, imaginative, charming, and rather sexy.
This could easily have been a too-sweet-for-its-own-good
story but cleverly avoids that trap because neither Brian nor Isamu are
portrayed one-dimensionally. Isamu’s issues and moments of doubt and
unreasonable behaviour may be mostly due to his youth, while Brian’s issues
stem from a past he keeps very close to his chest for the longest time, but
thankfully, these two men had the sense to not jump to dramatic conclusions and
talk their shit out. I can’t begin to tell you how happy it makes me to read a romance
in which both characters have the sense to actually talk to each other about
the important stuff.
This story was written so well, it almost read
itself. It also conveyed a love for New York City and Bryant Park which was
obvious from the vivid descriptions we got of both. I loved the imaginative
ways in which Isamu’s hand-held video camera was used, just as I adored the
organic nature of this developing relationship.
Long story short, Tales of Bryant is a
wonderful feel-good read and I’m delighted there’s one more instalment to come
(May 2019). I, for one, can’t wait for the moment when Brian and Isamu will get
their official happily ever after.
Author Bio
USA Today Bestselling Author V.L. Locey – Penning LGBT hockey romance that skates into sinful
pleasures.
When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in one hand and a steamy romance novel in the other.
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