Release Blitz, Excerpt & Giveaway: American Dream By C F White
Flying into Love, Book 8
Can acting out the American dream with his dad’s best friend change an unyielding fantasy into reality?
British actor Eddie Brownlee’s Hollywood dreams turn to nightmare when his safety is threatened.
Ex cop Lee Everett steps in as his reluctant bodyguard.
Stuffed together in hotel rooms with only one bed and navigating the vast desert landscape for their location filming, Eddie’s long-standing crush on his dad’s best friend complicates things. Especially when Eddie ignites something in Lee he’d thought he’d left at the top of a mountain.
Struggling between desire and duty once again, Lee faces a whirlwind of emotions that could threaten everything he holds dear.
This time it’s not his career on the line, though. It’s Eddie’s life.
And his heart.
American Dream is an age gap, dad’s best friend, forced proximity, bi awakening standalone MM romance novel in the steamy Flying into Love . series featuring a lawyer’s son determined to make it big and an ex-firearms cop on a late path to self-discovery.
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Rupert held out his hand and Lee shook it with more professionalism that time. “I cannot thank you enough for agreeing to this. I’ve been having nightmares about what could happen to him.” Rupert tightened his grip and his voice dropped as it filled up with the emotions he couldn’t keep in. “I can’t lose him, Lee. I can’t go through it all again.” “You won’t.” Lee tugged on his hand and drew Rupert in for a hug, squeezing his neck. “Trust me. I’ll guard him like he’s my own.” Rupert stepped out of his embrace. Smiled. And the melancholy in his eyes had Lee’s chest tightening. He wished he could take Rupert’s pain away. If there was any man on the planet who deserved the world, it was Rupert Brownlee. But he could only offer himself in any way Rupert needed him. And if that was to babysit his kid to America, then he’d do it. What else did he have to do? He saw Rupert to the door, kicking away stray bags and boxes to pull it open for him, and Rupert stepped onto the communal walkway, turning to face him. “I’m sorry,” he said. “For everything that happened to you. For not being able to fix it.” “It’s not down to you to fix my marriage, Ru.” “No. But I could have fixed your career and she might not have left you.” “She would have. I couldn’t give her what she wanted.” “It isn’t your fault you couldn’t give her a baby.” Lee drew in a breath. “It wasn’t just the baby thing. I’m…not an easy bloke to love.” “I beg to differ. And, hey, you know the Americans swoon over a British accent.” Rupert winked, then sauntered off toward the end of the walkway. He then swivelled around in an afterthought. “By the way, um…Eddie’s gay.” Lee folded his arms, leaning on his doorframe. “Oh. Right.” “He’s, uh, out to us. His family. Friends. Etcetera. But not publicly.” “Okay.” “Yet.” “Right.” “He thinks it might hinder his chances of getting leading roles.” “Huh.” Lee nodded, unsure what to say. What should he say? Congratulations? Commiserations? What was the appropriate response to someone when their son comes out as gay? He wouldn’t know. But there was an uncomfortable tightening in his chest. “I take it that doesn’t change things?” Rupert stared at him through lowered lashes, the way he’d cross examine a witness. “Of course not. Why would it?” “For some people, it would.” “I’m not some people.” “I know. And that’s why I love ya.” Rupert winked. Lee breathed through a laugh. “And you.” Rupert nodded with finality, spun and disappeared, braving the lift that would take him down to ground level. Lee sighed, gazing out at the view of the London skyline comprising housing estates. He then shut the door and glanced at his life in bags. New career role then. Babysitter. He chuckled. When he’d been sixteen, Joanna Maskell had invited him on one of her babysitting gigs. He’d had his first feel of boobs over her bra while the kids were asleep. Maybe this babysitting gig would come with such perks? Lee doubted it and trudged over his life to grab another Bud from the fridge.
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About the Author:
Brought up in a relatively small town in Hertfordshire, C F White managed to do what most other residents try to do and fail—leave.
She eventually moved West to East along that vast District Line and settled for pie and mash, cockles and winkles and a bit of Knees Up Mother Brown to live in the East End of London; securing a job and creating a life, a home and a family.
After her second son was born with a rare disability, C F White’s life changed and brought pen back to paper having written stories as a child but never the confidence to show them to the world. Now, having embarked on this writing journey, she can’t stop. So strap in, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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