Hello, Snippetteers! — I’m having SO MUCH FUN typing this, because Her Majesty Grace O’Malley the Pirate Queen of Ireland has decided my hands are the only place in this apartment fit for her to sit… this week’s Snippet is from STONE COLD, my WIP and the eighth book in the SoulShares series. This snippet stars Kevin Almstead, the human MC from HARD AS STONE (SoulShares #1), arriving at the Purgatory construction site just after sunset.
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Kevin eased his Mercedes into the gap between buildings that was eventually going to be the new Purgatory’s valet parking area. Letting the steering wheel glide back to center under his palms, he was happy to see that his hands had finally stopped shaking.
Fuck premonitions.
Switching off the headlights, he eased out of the car, quietly closing the door and locking it behind himself. Conall’s ward masked sound at least as well as it did sight, but it was a bare-bones, low-wattage affair, and Kevin didn’t trust it entirely. And some of the subcontractors occasionally had people on the construction site at night, to whom it would be awkward to explain the invisible back door into Purgatory.
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My usual couple of links is being expanded to four today, to cover a Very Special Occasion *grins*
First, Rainbow Snippets on Facebook, for more LGBTQIA+ goodies: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowSnippets/
Order links for UNDERTOW (SoulShares #7), coming out July 19 (this Tuesday!!):
Amazon e-book: http://ow.ly/zJum302jq5T
Amazon paperback: http://ow.ly/xTJz302jq7R
And, finally, I’m throwing a party on Facebook, on release day, July 19, from 2:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon, Central US time, and I would LOVE to have y’all come! https://www.facebook.com/events/252662915117937/
Rory Ni Coileain 
I’m already intrigued by the setting and the name, ‘Purgatory’. 🙂
Purgatory is the club where Tiernan and Kevin met, all the way back in HARD AS STONE, and it’s the center for a lot of the action in the series — a triple-X gay club in Washington, D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood. With a few secrets…. *winks*
I totally read it as being the actual purgatory, and then read it again after seeing your reply above. It works great both ways! 🙂
Oh, wow! I’m intrigued now.
I love that a club called purgatory will have valet parking. Perfect. And congrats on the imminent release!
Thank you! ❤
Fuck premonitions. – That caught my attention
Hm, yes. I suppose an invisible back door might be hard to explain. (Then again, any construction workers trying to talk about it would probably get fired for drinking — or worse — on the job.)
I started thinking about Supernatural and back doors in Purgatory until I saw it was a club. Nice snippet.
Invisible doors are definitely hard to explain. 🙂