FREE E-BOOK- June 21 – 25

East Van Saturday Night – Short Stories and a Novella

"...adventures were undertaken, friendships were forged, and character was created."

Download your copy now at

https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B003DS6LEU

East Vancouver in the '50s and '60s was a low income, blue-collar neighbourhood. Kids grew up with minimum supervision. They left home in the morning, showed up for dinner, and were gone again until "the gun" sounded at 9 p.m. During the time away adventures were undertaken, friendships were forged, and character was created. East Van Rules was not only meant as a challenge, but also a code to live by.

These four short stories and novella highlight coming of age events; a ten-year-old playing for the elementary school softball championship, a teenage tough strutting his stuff at the local dance, a hippie youth hitchhiking across Canada during the Summer of Love.

Watershed moments told from a perspective that explains why you can take the boy out of East Van, but you'll never take East Van out of the boy.

WATCH THE PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

https://animoto.com/play/zkccQowD4WH9gdesTlXCDg

@SignalBoostPR, @debbiereadsbook, @vllocey, #Contemporary, #MM, #Romance, 5 out of 5 (exceptional)

Can the love they once shared be saved or has the pain of the past eclipsed it?

It’s been twenty years since Kye McLeod left the quaint little mountain town of Spruce Lake, Maine to play professional hockey. He’s had his share of ups and downs, but his choice to hit the big city and not look back has paid off handsomely. The future hall-of-famer is now ready to retire and come out of that dark closet he’s been sequestered in since his first secretive kiss with Davy Aguirre in high school. Now that he’s heading home to keep an eye on his feisty grandfather, there might be the chance to rekindle the flame between him and Davy.

Kye quickly learns that the boy he left behind isn’t the man he’s now knocking heads with. He always imagined grown-up Davy—who now insists on being called David—would be beyond the pain that Kye’s youthful blunder caused him, but now he’s not so sure. When the wildlife conservation officer squares off with the ex-hockey captain their connection is incendiary, and there are more than just fireworks. However, winning back the man he walked away from may not be as easy as he thought…

"Slow Dances Under an Orange Moon" is without a doubt my favorite book in this series so far. I've enjoyed all of the stories in V. L. Locey's 'Colors of Love' series but this one...well for me this one just ended up being all that and a whole lot more.

Kye McLeod is returning home after a successful 20 year career in professional hockey and he's got a two objectives for his return. The first one is to take care of Dunny, his grandfather. He's going to get Dunny's home repaired and believe me it's much needed repairs with a list that just keeps growing and growing. Objective number 2 is to get back the love of his life a certain sexy Wildlife Conservation Officer..."call me Dave or David not Davy Aguirre".

There was so much that I loved about this story first there was Kye McLeod. I loved Kye both his comments and his inner monologues. Then there was Dunny. Kye's grandfather he was so freakin' adorable and just totally blunt in the things he said...Gee! I wonder where Kye got it from. 

Next there's Davy call me Dave/David. I really liked him. I loved that he didn't fall all over himself when Kye said he wanted to fix things between them but he also didn't say 'no'. He made Kye prove himself by planting roots to show that he wasn't going to run off again and as Kye went about planting his roots hijinx ensued.

Along with all this there's Davy's parents and their elderly neighbor, there's the town folks of Spruce Lake, there's a goose and it's goslings, there's hockey coaching for the wee one's and I do mean wee ones we're talking 4 -6 year olds so not a lot of hockey going on here more like some fun on ice...again it's adorable and of course there's small town homophobia and poachers. It sounds like a lot but really it's just a lot of fun.

I know it seems like there's a lot going on in this story but really there's not. For the most part things that happened were there to add to the story and give it depth and believability and for me that's what it did. It all added to the story without taking the focus away from Kye's wooing of Davy. 

While there were a few serious moments in the story none of them were enough to change the tone of the story. I think I started smiling somewhere on page one and basically the only thing that changed from page to page was whether I was smiling or laughing. It's been a while since I've read a book late at night that I've enjoyed so much that i had to worry about waking my husband up when I started laughing. 

For me the heart of the story remained that love is worth fighting for and that it can and should make a person happy. This one's definitely recommended for anyone looking to read a story that's sweet and light and will help them to remember that 'love should make a person happy'. 

*************************

An ARC of 'Slow Dances Under an Orange Moon' was graciously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

Ella and her friend Leanne were at an auction Leanne told Ella she should bid on a picture of wolves to go above her fireplace and Ella got the picture. Two men rushed into the auction and offered Ella fifty dollars for the picture which she had said she paid eight dollars for it Ella went to walk away with her picture one of the men grabbed her arm and Ella  felt warmth usually Ella hated any stranger touching her normally. Ella doesn’t care for really hot looking guys who will not treat her as a equal. Then Ella realized why the one man looked familiar.He was Robert Colbert from Designed By Colbert. He had been on a tv show about how Robert and his team designed and decorated high priced places. Lucas and Robert were brothers and that was a family picture Ella now owned. Jeanette was their sister and was hanging with a Los Lobos gang member and sold the picture.With Jeanette and the Parker family the pack was really getting divided . Lucas was to take over leadership from their father. Robert had an incident with the SPCA and got neutered and that took his ability to become the alpha of the pack as he couldn't produce a future heir to take his place when it was time.  Robert mentioned EL TV had called to talk about a new show. When Ella went into the garage to get her picture hanging things  Robert had been sleeping in wolf form and he bit her. It looked like a wolf but there were no wolves in Seattle. There were several holes in her leg that healed just as quickly before Ella’s eyes. Robert and the pack were werewolves and now Ella would become one. Lucas told Robert he better go to the woman and explain that she was now a werewolf so Robert went to tell her. Ella worked at LoveLifeStyle. Ella told Robert to prove he was a werewolf and he switched forms in front of her.. In six days during the full moon Ella will shift . Ella agreed to go out to dinner with Robert if he gave her an interview about his show as Robert never did interviews. After the show was canceled Robert was offered a couple acting jobs but turned them down as he didn’t feel he would be good at following a script. When Robert asked Ella why journalism Ella said it was rebellion, her mother wanted her to marry and have lots of babies even picked out her mate for Ella and Ella didn’t agree. Ella said maybe someday she would marry but no children she just wouldn’t be a good mom. Robert and the family have to be careful about what they say and do as no one can learn of them being werewolves. Ella’s mom disowned her when she was twenty that was all the true family Ella had. Sher had disowned Ella as she wouldn’t go for the arranged marriage. Robert wanted to sleep with Ella . Ella also wanted Robert. Robert asked Ella to go out again the next night and Ella accepted. But then she had to cancel as it was Leanne’s birthday. Men constantly came to the table once Leanne and Ella were out. Then two men started to fight over Ella and Ella got Leanne and they left. Lucas told him the way he was acting Ella was his mate. Lucas was mated with a human named Rosie and he was very happy with her and didn’t mind giving up his freedom. Lucas said it was worth it. Ella wasn’t Robert’s usual type : sophisticated, women more career driven, and taller women. But every fiber in Robert’s body ached to possess Ella. Robert realized Ella was his mate during sex and he needed Ella to be his forever.

I absolutely loved this story. It was a fun read. It was a fast paced read and kept my attention  and it even made me laugh out loud, I loved Ella’s determination that she wasn’t going to turn at the full moon. I also really liked how out of nowhere all kinds of men are noticing Ella and wanting to be close to her. This just had a delightful plot. It was a quick read and a great read. I loved the characters and the ins and outs of this story and I highly recommend.