Series Blog Tour & Excerpt:
More Heat Than The Sun Series
By John Wiltshire
Book 2: Conscious Decisions of the Heart
Out Now
Releasing January 15th
Ben Rider and Nikolas Mikkelsen learn that danger comes in all shapes and sizes and often in places you least expect it. Nikolas’s dark past calls to him, inexorably dragging him back into its seductive embrace.
While he goes on an errand of mercy to Russia, Ben travels to Denmark to learn Nikolas’s language. Convinced Russia’s vastness will swallow Nikolas, Ben doesn’t see the enemy much closer to home. Thinking he has lost Nikolas, Ben then makes a terrible decision that threatens to destroy everything they have together.
Focused on this very personal horror, bound by a new level of commitment, they have no idea that a greater threat is coming. And when it arrives, it changes everything—even the definition of commitment.
Warning: This story contains the violent death of a minor character and some graphic violence and gay sex.
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Excerpt from Conscious
Decisions of the Heart
“Where now? Another hotel?”
Nikolas shook his head. “We
move maybe into another place I have.” He shrugged nonchalantly. “It was
an investment.”
The investment turned out to be back
at the restaurant they’d eaten in the night before, but instead of getting the
driver to stop at the hotel, Nikolas directed him to a block of glass
apartments next door. Ben stared up at the towering mass of reflected
light.
“Ugly. But I guess they’ve got
good views.” Nikolas gave him a strange look but nodded.
It took some time for them to get
through the extensive security. Mainly because as soon as they entered
the lobby and Nikolas went over to speak to reception, Ben recognised one of
the suited men loitering by the lift doors. He grinned and went up to
him, slapping him on the back.
“Hello, soldier.” The man
grinned too and began to pump Ben’s hand.
“My God, Diesel. You working
here, too?”
Ben frowned. “You’re working
here?”
“Private security. Best gig in
town. We’re all ex-Regiment. What’re you doing here, then?”
Ben had one of his rare flashes of
insight that it might be better not to tell his old mate he was about to move
into one of the apartments with his…He shook himself slightly.
“Yeah. Bodyguard. Guy
over there. How long you been out, Squeezy?”
“Year. Stuck it longer than
you. You been good since you left?” Ben nodded, not sure how good would
exactly be defined. All that was good in his life was currently across
the other side of the lobby, and Nikolas had been strangely remote since their
meeting with the Russian.
“Cool dog. He yours?”
Ben glanced down at Radulf.
Would the hired help have a dog? “The boss’s.” He glanced about.
“So, what’s it like here? Good pay?”
The man laughed. “One of the
fucking places sold for a hundred and forty million last week—supermodel we’re
not allowed to speak to, ’parently. Course, we chat her up every time we
fucking see her. She loves it really. So, yeah, pay’s good,
perks’re good. Life’s good. What does your guy do?”
Ben was still processing, very
slowly, what his friend had just boasted. He was remembering a
conversation with Nikolas…You have four point two million pounds?
I have a little more than that…He swallowed, wondering, yet again, if
he’d committed his life to a complete stranger. He looked at his friend
and for the first time in a long time, Ben wished he too could be a simple,
private security guard with an uncomplicated life.
“He’s into mergers.”
“Huh. Anyway, I’d better get
back to looking fuckingly cool and hard.”
Ben smiled. “Yeah. I’m…on
duty, too. See ya.”
“You up for a drink with the boys one
night?”
Ben perked up and nodded with a sly
look. “Rat-arsed?”
“Rat-arsed.” They briefly
touched knuckles, and then Nikolas was there. He appeared to pick up on
some vibe from Ben. Knowing Nikolas, he’d probably been aware of the
whole exchange, so he didn’t look at Ben as they waited for the elevator and
then only nodded to his bag for Ben to pick up and carry. They entered
the lift.
Ben glanced over. Nikolas was
acting cool and unconcerned. “There’s a swimming pool here. You’ll
be able to improve your technique.”
“Great.”
“And food is delivered from that odd
place we ate last night.”
“Good.”
“You’re, as you’d say, pissed at me.”
“Not exactly. So…four point
two? Do you enjoy making me look stupid?”
“Ah, well.” Nikolas turned to
Ben. “I laid you down on the bare floor of our real house and fucked you
for free, Ben. That was the real me, remember? This is all
illusion. Pleasant, but merely smoke and mirrors.”
Ben turned to him, dropped Radulf’s
lead, pushed him up against the wall of the elevator and pressed the emergency
stop. It was very quiet. Very deliberately, Ben undid the button on
Nikolas’s suit trousers. He lowered the zip. Hard and fast, he
turned Nikolas to face the wall, and then, scrabbling, urgent, he entered
him. Nikolas’s head came back and collided with Ben’s face. Ben
kept his nose pressed into the delicious-smelling hair and flexed his muscles,
pumping himself into the welcoming hole. With one hand, he thrust into
the front of Nikolas’s clothes and released him, working him.
They came together, a tangle of
clothes and flesh and muted exclamations of desire.
Ben tried to make them decent again,
but Nikolas stilled his hands. When he released the emergency stop, the
elevator exited into their own exclusive lobby, so no rearrangements were
necessary. They fell to the beautifully carpeted floor, ripped off the rest
of their clothes and did it all again; this time Nikolas topping and working
Ben until Ben’s jaw ached for an hour afterward from the tight clench of pain
and pleasure. Only when they were totally spent did they bother to rise
and explore the apartment.
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Book 3: The Bridge of Silver Wings
Releasing January 22nd
Nikolas and Ben discover that bonds aren’t forged with blood or scars, but in the hearts of men strong enough to love.
Siberia in winter isn’t a place for good men. There is nothing Nikolas won’t do to keep Ben alive. Nikolas has exorcised his demons, but when they end up stranded in Russia, the monster inside needs to be let loose. Ben discovers the truth of the adage, ‘be careful what you wish for’!
Home again, Nikolas then faces an enemy he can’t defeat: Ben Rider himself. Discovering a new family, Ben realizes he’s been living too long in the shadows cast by Nikolas’s all-consuming love. For the first time, life apart from Nikolas is possible.
Is Nikolas strong enough to let Ben go?
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Book 4: The Other Country
Releasing January 29th
Nikolas is the sanest, straightest, person Ben knows, so can anyone tell him, why is he on a gay therapy course?
Nikolas Mikkelsen could make a very long list of unpleasant things he’s endured in his life. Then order it from ‘nearly killed me’ to ‘extremely horrific and don’t want to do again’. And what did it say about his forty-five years that being hit by a tsunami would be a considerable way down this list? But nothing, not torture, imprisonment, nor starvation has prepared him for what he now has to endure for Ben Rider’s sake-attendance on a residential, gay therapy course. At least he has a new contender for the top spot on his ‘my awful life’ list.
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Books 5-8 Coming Soon
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