Book Name: Investigating Love (series) Individual titles are: Rasputin’s Kiss, Evil’s Embrace, Tarot’s Touch
Author Name: L M Somerton
Author Bio: L M lives in a small village in the English countryside, surrounded by rolling hills, cows and sheep. She started writing to fill time between jobs and is now firmly and unashamedly addicted.
She loves the English weather, especially the rain, and adores a thunderstorm. She loves good food, warm company and a crackling fire. She’s fascinated by the psychology of relationships, especially between men, and her stories contain some subtle (and not so subtle) leanings towards BDSM.
Where to find the author:
https://www.facebook.com/lmsomerton
https://www.facebook.com/lmsomertonwrites
http://www.twitter.com@lmsomerton
http://pinterest.com/lmsomerton
Publisher: Totally Bound
Cover Artist: Emmy Ellis
Blurb(s):
SERIES:
Being thrown together in extreme circumstances is not the best foundation for a relationship. Alex and Conor must juggle the demands of their jobs as police detectives with their personal lives. With Alex as demanding in the bedroom as he is at work, will Conor be able to accept that submission is not weakness. Finding out will be the most important investigation of their lives.
Rasputin’s Kiss:
What if the last thing you felt was the kiss of a knife?
Rasputin’s kiss is lethal. He’s a ghost—killing and disappearing into the night. With few leads and four bodies on his conscience, Detective Inspector Alex Courtney and his team are running on empty and it’s only a matter of time before Rasputin strikes again.
When Alex recruits a young detective to play the part of his boyfriend and provide a tempting target for a killer, he knows he is taking a huge risk. He doesn’t expect Conor Trethuan to be a perfect potential submissive. When their mutual attraction becomes more, Alex has to face the conflict between his possessive instincts and the need to push his young lover into danger.
Investigating their feelings has to come second to investigating the case. There’s no time to decide if what they feel for each other is real. With Rasputin closing in, they may not live to find out.
Evil’s Embrace:
Never underestimate the power of obsession.
After the trauma of the Rasputin case, Detective Inspector Alex Courtney and his boyfriend, Detective Constable Conor Trethuan, are in desperate need of a holiday.
The peace and tranquillity of Cornwall can’t eradicate Conor’s nightmares, though, and the unbearable prospect of losing Alex drives him to confess feelings that he isn’t sure are reciprocated. Alex responds in the best way he knows how—by issuing orders and claiming Conor’s body as well as his heart.
Prematurely recalled to work, they are thrown into a dangerous trafficking case focused on a leather bar with a hardcore reputation, Spikes. Conor is sent in undercover, not knowing that he is only a decoy. When Alex learns that the motivation behind his team’s involvement in the case might not be as straightforward as it seems, he realises that his actions might jeopardise not just their relationship, but Conor’s life, too. A shadowy figure from Conor’s past is about to step into the light.
Tarot’s Touch:
Can truth be found in the cards?
DI Alex Courtney and his lover, DC Conor Trethuan are under enormous pressure as their team investigates an arson case and a murder.
It soon becomes apparent that the two cases are linked and the race is on to find a vicious killer. A tarot card is left with the first victim and the detectives are left to interpret the clues it provides. When Conor receives a note from the killer making reference to another card, the whole team is shaken. Their worst fears are realised when a second body is discovered, along with another tarot card.
Conor suspects he has been followed, then a hit and run leaves him injured. Alex wants nothing more than to wrap his lover up in cotton wool and protect him from the world. But is Conor the killer’s target or just a pawn in a much more sinister game? As the clues come together it seems that the motive for murder might be revenge.
Categories: Contemporary, M/M Romance, BDSM, Mystery, Crime Drama
Excerpt:
From Rasputin’s Kiss:
Conor pulled Inspector Courtney’s office door softly closed behind him and took a slow, deep breath. He limped a couple of paces then stopped and leaned against the corridor wall. It felt deliciously cool through his shirt, though he couldn’t understand why he was so hot—his skin burned feverishly. Reflexively, he bent his left leg up to take the pressure off his knee, which ached sporadically and had chosen that moment to cause him not insignificant pain. It was probably owing to the tension in his muscles. He forced himself to relax. After months of recuperation and physical therapy, he still walked like an old man some days. His grandparents would probably have said it was something to do with barometric pressure. Conor just found it bloody frustrating.
Stopping to rest gave him a much needed chance to gather his scattered thoughts, which he was grateful for. It was almost worth the pain, though the throbbing ache was subsiding rapidly. Conor felt overwhelmed by the conflicting emotions that swamped him. There was an immense sense of relief that he would no longer have to deal with the bigoted, bullying Sergeant Satan every day, excitement at the prospect of joining a respected investigative team and working on a high-profile case, but overshadowing all of that was nervous anticipation at the thought of being in close proximity to Alex Courtney. The inspector’s icy blue eyes had seemed to bore into the depths of his soul. In a few short minutes Conor felt like he’d been subjected to some kind of test—one he had apparently passed. He shivered. Alex Courtney exuded power and control with frightening intensity and, somewhere deep inside, Conor recognised a burgeoning need to experience that control at first hand.
“Christ, what’s wrong with me?” he muttered to himself. He’d never felt this way before, such an instant, deep attraction—and it scared him. “Pull yourself together, you idiot. He’s your new boss, not some random piece of eye candy.”
Tour Dates/Stops:
January 2
January 5
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words
January 6
January 7
January 8
January 9
January 12
January 13
January 14
January 15
Sales Links:
https://www.totallybound.com/author/lm-somerton#books
https://www.amazon.com/author/lmsomerton
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Congratulations on your new release! New to me author that I look forward to reading.
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Thanks for hosting the tour, it’s lovely to be here 🙂 LM xx
Thanks for hosting the tour, it’s lovely to be here. LM xx
congrats on your latest release
I haven’t read LM as yet