I'm getting to where I hate taking a redeye from the west coast to the east. I can't sleep on a plane; I just doze which does no good. And I'm tired of making trips on the cheap. The only positive thing about last night's journey home was I had a row of seats to myself so wound up working on both FRT and a synopsis for Underground Guy.
UG is one of my rough gay novels, where sex is used as a weapon, and it's proving to be problematic when it comes to working up an idea of the story. This is what I've got...
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Devlin Pope is fighting to maintain control of his life. After a week in London on a business trip, the day before he was set to return to New York, he got a call from the state police in New Jersey. They may have found the remains of his mother, who vanished 22 years ago, and want him to provide a DNA sample to verify the body.
This couldn’t come at a worse moment for Dev. The company he owns with his brother is finally doing well after nearly being destroyed by fraud. He's also getting all the sex he wants with men who are into the same sort of dominance games he enjoys. He’s even at the point where his long-deceased father’s physical abuse has become little more than a bad memory. But the suggestion that his mother didn't run off but was killed by his father, something he suspected but was able to ignore till now, wipes all of that aside and sends him crashing into chaos.
His turmoil explodes out of control as he’s riding back to his hotel on London’s Underground; he fixates on a young man with a tattoo that looks just like his mother’s, shifts into predator mode, follows the guy off the train, kidnaps him, and sexually assaults him. But instead of calming the beast within, as it used to do in the past, his turmoil increases and he is wracked with guilt over what he has just done.
Devlin winds up being arrested and learns the man he attacked is an undercover cop named Reg, who was acting as a decoy to try and trap a serial killer. Three men who resembled Reg had been raped and murdered, in the last few months. Thanks to Devlin’s interference, that number has now increased to four. Naturally, the British Police think Dev’s the maniac’s accomplice, and there is nothing he can say or do to change their minds.
In fact, the evidence against him keeps mounting. What’s more, the shame he feels for assaulting Reg brings up more issues and memories he thought long buried. He careens into a brutal re-evaluation of his life even as he does all he can to track down the killer before another man dies...because it’s looking more and more like, thanks to Devlin’s actions, Reg has been marked as the killer’s next target.
UG is one of my rough gay novels, where sex is used as a weapon, and it's proving to be problematic when it comes to working up an idea of the story. This is what I've got...
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Devlin Pope is fighting to maintain control of his life. After a week in London on a business trip, the day before he was set to return to New York, he got a call from the state police in New Jersey. They may have found the remains of his mother, who vanished 22 years ago, and want him to provide a DNA sample to verify the body.
This couldn’t come at a worse moment for Dev. The company he owns with his brother is finally doing well after nearly being destroyed by fraud. He's also getting all the sex he wants with men who are into the same sort of dominance games he enjoys. He’s even at the point where his long-deceased father’s physical abuse has become little more than a bad memory. But the suggestion that his mother didn't run off but was killed by his father, something he suspected but was able to ignore till now, wipes all of that aside and sends him crashing into chaos.
His turmoil explodes out of control as he’s riding back to his hotel on London’s Underground; he fixates on a young man with a tattoo that looks just like his mother’s, shifts into predator mode, follows the guy off the train, kidnaps him, and sexually assaults him. But instead of calming the beast within, as it used to do in the past, his turmoil increases and he is wracked with guilt over what he has just done.
Devlin winds up being arrested and learns the man he attacked is an undercover cop named Reg, who was acting as a decoy to try and trap a serial killer. Three men who resembled Reg had been raped and murdered, in the last few months. Thanks to Devlin’s interference, that number has now increased to four. Naturally, the British Police think Dev’s the maniac’s accomplice, and there is nothing he can say or do to change their minds.
In fact, the evidence against him keeps mounting. What’s more, the shame he feels for assaulting Reg brings up more issues and memories he thought long buried. He careens into a brutal re-evaluation of his life even as he does all he can to track down the killer before another man dies...because it’s looking more and more like, thanks to Devlin’s actions, Reg has been marked as the killer’s next target.
And to Dev's shock, he would sooner die than let that happen.
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