Title: Conning Colin
Author: Brad Vance, Elsa Winters
Publisher: Zirconia
Publishing, Inc.
Release Date: 6/2/17
Heat Level: 4 - Lots of Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 60,000 words
Genre: Romance, LGBT
Synopsis
Hamilton
Dillon is a high class Manhattan escort, polished, well dressed, and cultured.
Colin O’Neill is recently divorced, questioning his sexuality, and disappointed
by his first fumbling gay hookups. So he figures, why not hire the best of the
best to show him the ropes?
What
he doesn’t know is that Hamilton Dillon is really Henry Davis, yet another New
Yorker living on the financial edge, cobbling together several jobs to make a
living. “Hamilton” has one great suit he can wear on an overnight date, but
Henry’s got a good friend at GQ who makes a nice side income renting designer
men’s wear for weddings, job interviews, and oh yeah, high end escorts on long
weekend assignments. The “top agency” that represents “Hamilton” is really just
a smartass lady in India with a Skype account, whose face Henry’s never seen.
Oh, and Henry’s also the gruff and very unpolished New York Straight Man
“Dillinger,” a solo porn star.
In
other words, he’s not at all who Colin thinks he is. Which is just fine, until
their relationship gets… complicated.
Excerpt
He’d looked at Hamilton’s Rentmen.com ad a hundred times, at least, over the last three months. He’d looked forward to new profile photos the way a kid keeps an ear cocked for the ice cream truck. Even though all the profile pictures had been beheaded for discretion, it didn’t matter. Hamilton Dillon had a way of posing that expressed more personality with his body than most other guys ever did with their faces.
The way he sat on a park bench in nothing but a pair of running shorts and Nikes, shirtless, manspread, his arms thrown over the back of the bench, his strong graceful neck taut, telling you that the face just out of frame was tilted up towards the Central Park sunshine, that the man was reveling in his easy beauty, the unique joy that comes from being young and hot and free in New York City…
Then the way he floated in the air in those same shorts and Nikes, leaping for a football, the camera capturing him from behind in the moment the ball touched his fingers, the imminence of his success apparent, ordained, the muscles in his back bunched, the mass of his shoulders gathered together, sweat flying off his brown hair, in the seconds before you knew he landed on the lawn, arms curled around the ball, surely to rise in triumph and be slapped on the back by all his equally hot and shirtless buddies…
The way he sat at a café table, in a slim fit navy blue polo shirt, one of his sculpted vascular arms holding open a well-worn copy of The Fortress of Solitude and the other just toying with a cup of espresso as if it was the back of another man’s hand…
Colin often did something that very few men did anymore, which was to masturbate furiously and successfully to a series of still photos. And with no penises in sight, to boot. He’d done it so often over the last three months that he’d stopped donating his old t-shirts, because he needed them for cleanup duty, at least until they became hopelessly stained.
He had been divorced for six months now, amicably, from a wife who’d pretty much always known he was gay but had decided to let him figure it out for himself. Elspeth was a career woman whose need for a husband was seasonal, from the company picnic in July to the company Christmas party in December, with various client dinners in between.
He was twenty seven years old, and had engaged in sexual intercourse with one woman and two men. Intercourse was pretty much the word for it, he thought. It sounded less like passion and more like, well, cars merging on the freeway, and all three partners had been just about that exciting. (Actually less so, since on the freeway there was always the thrilling risk of death at the hands of someone who’d rather kill you than let you merge.)
Then one night, half drunk and inhibitions lowered, he’d thought, Fuck it, let’s hire a professional and see how it feels when it’s done right.
He’d paged through the escort ads on Rentmen, hundreds of them in Manhattan alone. It was mind numbing, the diversity, and it was overwhelming, the number of choices. He knew he didn’t want to visit Master Bob in his safe and private play space, and he knew he didn’t want to party with Anaconda Joe. The ones who caught his eye were, well yeah, the ones who looked… classy. The one thing he knew he didn’t want was to get ripped off.
And he didn’t want it to feel... He didn’t want to feel like he’d got a burger in a fast food drive through. He wanted it to be special, if that was really possible with a paid companion and not just something that happened to teenage boys in Hollywood movies.
But even the upscale-looking ones, well, there was something about them that… He knew it was good business, to offer yourself up as “versatile,” and available for “mild to wild,” but… Well, the more he saw what he didn’t want, the more a picture began to form in his mind of what he did want. He didn’t want someone who looked like an investment banker but whose profile also said, “Hey I look classy but I can drop it if you just want a dirty pig fest and you’ve got the money for it.”
No. He wanted someone who was one thing. Who wasn’t whoever you wanted him to be. But who was what he said he was. Classy, for real. Not “up for anything.”
And then he found Harrison Dillon.
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Hi, I’m Brad Vance, author
of Conning Colin. Here’s a little “character interview” I cooked up for Henry
Davis, one of my two MCs.
Character interview
1)
What do you find attractive
in a man?
In my job as an escort, I’m
not always with a man I’d date in “real life.” But I learned long ago that the
way to engage with a client is to find the one attractive thing about him,
whether it’s his eyes, or his intelligence, or his smile. The job has really
left me open to different kinds of guys; if I ever had a type I don’t anymore –
you never know what you’ll find in someone new.
2)
The first thing that went
through your head when you saw Colin.
I could tell he was
definitely a first-timer. He was shy, nervous, but also very attractive. I knew
that the challenge with him would be the emotional part, helping him get
comfortable with his sexuality. Physically, I knew it wouldn’t be hard work at
all!
3)
Do you think you’ll insist
the author visits you again?
Hard to say. Colin and I are
at the beginning of our relationship, and there’s certainly a lot of ground we
have yet to cover. We’re just getting to know each other’s “real selves,” so
it’s possible…
4)
Before you met Colin, what
was your ideal man?
I’d say someone who like me,
“just a guy.” In my job as “Harrison Dillon,” I had to masquerade as Mr.
Glittering Manhattanite, sharp suits and high life and all that, when really
all I want is to lounge on my couch with some Ben and Jerry’s and Netflix,
watching White Collar for the 7th
time.
5)
You’re going out for dinner.
What’s your favorite food?
Honestly, a hot dog in
Central Park. I did a lot of “fine dining” in my job as “Harrison,” and it’s
nice to just relax and not worry about getting mustard on my t-shirt!
Meet the Author
Brad Vance writes romance stories and novels, including the breakout
hits "A Little Too Broken" and "Given the Circumstances."
Keep up with Brad at BradVanceAuthor.com, email him at
BradVanceAuthor@gmail.com, and friend him on Facebook at
facebook.com/brad.vance.10.
Author
Links
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/BradVanceAuthor
Email: bradvanceauthor@gmail.com
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