A Matter of Trust

A new novel by AC Katt

Donald "Bear" Drummond has almost everything he could want: a high profile, successful real estate career, co-ownership of the city's most exclusive gay BDSM club, and a string of gorgeous boys interviewing to be his live-in sub. But the boy of his dreams eludes him-- until he meets Brian Murphy, a kindhearted and broke IT specialist with a troubled past. Before Bear can win Brian's trust and forge the relationship he has always desired, he'll need to overcome his own deep-seeded wariness to save Brian from his abusive family and a murderous ex-con seeking revenge against Bear.

For Bear and Brian, it's all A Matter of Trust

Excerpt

In slow degrees, the tow-headed boy woke on the hard floor. A faint moan, an eyelid twitch, a soft flutter of pale lashes, and then a blue eye opened face-to-antenna with a cockroach. The Sears Toughskin jeans he opened as his birthday gift two days ago felt wet around the crotch and smelled of both urine and feces. His new plaid shirt with the pearl cowboy buttons was torn and bloody. He swallowed hard, past the dry lump the size of a baseball stuck in the back of his throat. He opened his left eye, the one nearest to the bug. It looked as if his bone stuck out of his shirt, a handhold under his elbow; the right arm bent at an unnatural angle just below the tear.

It took a few additional seconds for the pain to hit, long enough for him to realize he did not know how he got here or why. Then, it struck, shock abated.

He hurt, bad. Even so, he knew enough not to cry out. He heard Mama pounding on the door of the bathroom and Aunt Mary in the distance, along with the whine of sirens. Then the pain took him away, and he rode it back to safety.

A Matter of Trust is available from XOXO Publishing at www.xoxopublishing.com.