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#Rainbow Snippets - October 7


Rainbow Snippets is a group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week to share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation (snippets are 6 sentences long–one for each colour in the Pride flag). You can find all the snippets by clicking here.

Today's Snippet is from First Season, the second book in the Harrisburg Railers Hockey Series co-written with V.L. Locey.

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I’d had two clients before this, big companies with interesting problems, where my lectures on sensitivity awareness had been well received. I could handle rough feedback, crappy tweets, Facebook discussions about inappropriate shit, but they were corporate clients, not hockey players.

It was me and them.

Alone.

Talking one-on-one with hockey players and the support network around them about how it was okay for one of their players to be sleeping with their coach. Also that gay was good, love was love, and oh yeah, could they stop tweeting shit about anything to do with gender, politics, and sexual orientation, to name three things on my list.

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The Book - OUT NOW

Layton wants success, Adler wants a family. How can love make both these things possible?

Layton Foxx works hard for what he's achieved. The condo, the career, the chance to make his mark...it's all down to the sacrifices he's made. With tragedy in his past, he doesn’t want or need love. Then he meets Adler Lockhart, the extroverted, sexy winger for the Harrisburg Railers, and abruptly he can’t avoid love even if he wanted to.

Adler Lockhart has had everything handed to him his whole life. Cars, villas, cash, college tuition at the finest Ivy League schools. The only thing he doesn’t have is parents who care, or the love of a good man. Then Layton walks into his privileged life and shows him what real love can be like.



Harrisburg Railers Series

Changing Lines (Book #1)
First Season (Book #2)
Deep Edge (Book #3)
Poke Check (Book #4) WIP


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First Season (Harrisburg Railers #2) - OUT NOW!


Cover by Meredith Russell

The Book

Layton wants success, Adler wants family, how can love make both these things possible?

Layton Foxx works hard for what he has. The condo, the career, the chance to make his mark, is all down to the sacrifices he has made. With tragedy in his past, he doesn’t want or need love. Then he meets Adler Lockhart, the extroverted, sexy winger for the Harrisburg Railers and abruptly he can’t avoid love even if he wanted to.

Adler Lockhart has had everything handed to him his whole life. Cars, villas, cash, college tuition at the finest Ivy League schools. The only things he doesn’t have are parents who care or the love of a good man. Then Layton walks into his privileged life and shows him what real love can be like.

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Harrisburg Railers Series 

First Season (Book #2)






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First Season (Harrisburg Railers #2) with V.L. Locey

Cover by Meredith Russell

The Book

Layton Foxx has worked hard for what he's achieved. The condo, the career, the chance to make his mark...it's all down to the sacrifices he's made. With tragedy in his past, he doesn’t want or need love. Then he meets Adler Lockhart, the extroverted, sexy winger for the Harrisburg Railers, and abruptly he can’t avoid love even if he wanted to.

Adler Lockhart has had everything handed to him his whole life. Cars, villas, cash, college tuition at the finest Ivy League schools. The only thing he doesn’t have is parents who care, or the love of a good man. Then Layton walks into his privileged life and shows him what real love can be like.

Layton wants success, Adler wants a family...how can love make both these things possible?

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Harrisburg Railers Series

Changing Lines (Book #1)
First Season (Book #2)
Deep Edge (Book #3)

Reviews

"First Season is an excellent follow up to Changing Lines and solidifies this series as a must read for anyone who enjoys hockey or a sweet romance between strong men." Joyfully Jay

"...When you mix that all together in the story First Season, it all comes together in a romance that hooked me in from the very start, made me love its characters from the main couple to the secondary cast and kept me invested as well as connected in everyone’s story." Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words 

"...First Season is of the same high quality writing, character and plot development that has become the norm for RJ Scott and V.L. Locey." Jim's Reading Room

"On the surface, this is probably one of the most unlikely pairings that I’ve encountered in a while but at the end of it all, it’s also one of the sweetest." My Fiction Nook 



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Teaser Tuesday - MM Hockey

A short unedited teaser from First Season, Railers Hockey 2, written with VL Locey.

Book 1, Changing Lines, is available to pre-order now and is releasing 12 July.


Excerpt


Layton's first meeting with Adler... Layton's POV



“I think you would benefit from some sensitivity training,” I began.

“Hell no, I’m sensitive, I can be sensitive.”

“It’s standard procedure,” I reassured and lied at the same time.

“Oh,” he deflated a little. “You mean everyone has to do it?”

I wish at that moment I had just said yes, because that would have stopped Adler in his tracks. But no, I had to be all cagey. “That’s confidential.”

He frowned. “So not everyone then.”

“Like I said, confidential.”

“What about Arvy?”

I couldn’t for the life of me think why he was picking on Arvy as an example, so I missed another opportunity to cut this dead. “Confidential,” I said.

“I see, so he has this gay cousin which gives him an out from an entire day wasted listening to shit about what I can and can’t say?”

“Mr. Lockhart—“

“So if you know someone who knows someone then you have an out. Right?”

“That’s not how it works—“

“I know Arvy,” he said, and sat back in his chair. “I have to think about what I say in front of him, so that is me being sensitive.”

“You’re missing the point,” I began patiently, and then I really screwed the pooch. “Wait, Arvy was there when you were handling your junk in the parking lot.”

“Oh,” Adler said and sighed noisily. Then he scrubbed at his eyes with his fingers. “Hate that political correctness shit,” he muttered.

I assumed he meant the sensitivity training, but I wanted to move on from this. “It’s all common sense, and with the changes on the team it’s vital we have a united front to any and all media inquiries.”

“Hell, I don’t care what Ten and the Coach do.” He looked at me and I waited for more because he seemed like he was going to add to that sentence. Only he didn’t, his lips thinned like he was trying very hard to hold someone back.

I took that as a sign that he was about to say something crass and almost felt proud that he’d held back. I looked down at my sketched notes.

“This is a question you don’t need to answer, but it would be helpful to know if you have any religious objections to the situation that we should make a note of.”

“Christ no,” he said, and then snorted a laugh at his own joke. He quickly stopped and schooled his face into all serious business. “Sorry, couldn’t stop myself.”



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