Title: The Kinsey Scale
Series: Campus Connections Book 1
Author: CJane Elliott
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: 11/9/18
Heat Level: 3 - Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 89 pages
Genre: Romance, New Adult, contemporary, friends to lovers, college
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Synopsis
Life is good for Eric Brown. He’s a
senior theater major, an RA for a freshman dorm, and has a great circle of
friends. Single since sophomore year, Eric isn’t looking for love. But then
Will Butler—fellow senior, co-RA, and the cutest guy Eric’s ever seen—walks
into his dorm. Will has a girlfriend he sees off campus—a minor disappointment
that becomes a major problem when a housing shortage causes Will and Eric to
become roommates, and Eric is forced to witness Will’s hotness day in and day
out. For protection, Eric asks Jerry, his ex-boyfriend, to pretend they’re
still together. Jerry warns him it’s a stupid idea, but he reluctantly agrees.
Too bad it won’t save Eric from losing
his heart.
Will Butler has never believed in
himself. His dysfunctional family saw to that. Although Will has loved music
since childhood, he’s never seriously considered pursuing it, and the person
he’s dating doesn’t encourage him. Then he and Eric Brown become roommates, and
everything changes. Eric believes in Will and his talent. He’s also gorgeous
and playful and fast becoming Will’s best friend. And that’s not good, because
Will is hiding some big things, not only from Eric, but from himself.
Excerpt
“So how’s it going with Hottie the
Roommate?” Jerry asked. He lounged in the armchair at the coffee shop and took
a languid sip of his latte.
“Fine.” Eric made a face. “We stay out
of each other’s way. It sucks, but nothing we can do about it now.”
“I’m surprised you haven’t taken
advantage of the situation.” Jerry arched his eyebrow.
“He’s straight. He has a girlfriend who
doesn’t go here. I guess he sees her on the weekends. I don’t know. We don’t
talk about that.”
“Don’t talk? Oh honey, that doesn’t
sound like you at all. What’s up with that?”
“I don’t know. Shut up.”
“Touchy, touchy. God. You’re not usually
this grumpy. Maybe you should look at changing this RA thing, because it sounds
like it’s causing you stress.”
Eric shifted in his chair and sipped his
latte. Jerry knew him too well. He was grumpy lately, but it wasn’t the RA
thing. He enjoyed being an RA and counseling the kids. He and Will functioned
well as an RA team, seeming to know instinctively when one of them would do
better than the other in handling a situation, and then debriefing about it
later. They talked about stuff really easily, and laughed a lot, having
discovered they shared the same kind of crazy humor. And Will composed his own
songs, which Eric thought was totally cool. He loved lying on his bed listening
to Will play his guitar and sing.
“Yeah, it’s not that bad. We get along
great, actually.”
And it wasn’t true that they never
talked about Will’s girlfriend. Her name was Jessie, and Will sometimes
mentioned her in passing, but Eric never pressed for details. In fact he had a
strange reluctance to regale Will with his own sexual escapades, the way he
always had in the past with friends or roommates. It was a weird thing, almost
like a force field or something. They both shut up whenever the conversation
veered too close to sex or relationships.
And then having to look at Will every
day, with his bedhead when he woke up and his naked chest when he came out of
the bathroom in his sleep pants, or when his face was animated and he threw
back his head and laughed at something Eric said and…. God. No wonder he was
grumpy.
“Let’s go out tonight. You need to dance
and get laid.” Jerry’s voice brought him back.
“Okay.” It was Friday, so Will would be
out of the room, thank God. Maybe Eric would even get lucky and bring someone
back with him tonight… or go to their place, given the shitty dorm beds. He
yawned, all of a sudden weary.
“Oh yes.” Jerry peered at him
critically. “We’ve got to get you back to your perky self, my dear. I’m getting
you another latte, for starters.”
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Meet the Author
After years of hearing characters
chatting away in her head, CJane Elliott finally decided to put them on paper
and hasn’t looked back since. A psychotherapist by training, CJane enjoys
writing sexy, passionate stories that also explore the human psyche. CJane has
traveled all over North America for work and her characters are travelers, too,
traveling down into their own depths to find what they need to get to the happy
ending.
CJane is an ardent supporter of LGBTQ
equality and is particularly fond of coming-out stories. In her spare time,
CJane can be found dancing, listening to music, or watching old movies. Her
family supports her writing habit by staying out of the way when they see her
hunched over, staring intensely at her laptop.
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