Hi. Today, I am taking a quick break from talking about the Delamere Files and my other Victorian MM Mystery series, because I want to highlight a book I published back in 2018.
Here’s what one review begins with:
Having read all four novels in author Jackson Marsh’s “mentor” series this, the third book on the surface seems to be the most straightforward m/m romance but believe me it’s not, the story has so much depth to it I am still thinking about it.
The blurb:
Burnt out from his life as a musician and record producer, 35-year-old Matt Barrow takes on Lonemarsh House, an isolated manor in the Kent marshes. When he meets 23-year-old Jason Hodge, a brilliant violinist, Matt knows this is the young man he wants to share his new life with. But Jason is closeted and at the mercy of his treacherous friends.
Jason is trapped by fear and Matt may be his escape, but should he jeopardise his safety for the love of an older man?
I’ve no special reason for mentioning this MM romance today except as a way of highlighting a promo that another of my romances is taking part in. This selection of titles is all Romance, and why I didn’t put Lonemarsh House into it, I cant remember. Maybe I will push that one next month. For this month, we’ve got ‘The Students’ highlighted over at the Friends-to-Lovers: Romances promo. There, you will also find roommates, boyfriends, firefighters, sportsmen, athletes, students and billionaires falling into friendships that lead to love, which is kind of what happens in Lonemarsh House.
My romances (and I admit, they are not full-on MM heat and humping ‘romances’ of the naked-chest-on-the-cover ilk) tend to be more about plot than simply boy meets boy etc. Lonemarsh house not only takes the older/younger theme, but also burn out, prejudice, and isolation. As that review says, there’s some depth to it and, to my mind, it’s my most romantic book to date, as in typical romance, rather than romance as a general style.
Friends to lovers romance promo
See you back here on Wednesday!
