Running Hot (M/M Contemporary Romance)

Running Hot
by Yolande Kleinn
M/M Contemporary Romance
[49 Pages / 15,800 Words]


Running Hot is no longer available for individual purchase,
but can be found in the collection:
Hearts Right Here

Kurt Trench and his sister Lena make a good team, running the auto shop they inherited from their dad. Lately Shane Dolan—loyal customer and cheerful gearhead—has been coming by the garage all the time, and Kurt's pretty sure he knows why.

Shane isn't the first guy to hang around mooning over Lena. He is the first she's let stay. The fact that Kurt is drawn to Shane too shouldn't matter. Even if the feeling were mutual, he won't steal Lena's boyfriend. He would never hurt his sister that way.

But watching the two grow close is torture, and Kurt can't seem to rein in his jealous heart.


( Excerpt )

 

Cover Reveal and Publishing Update

Much as the timing has been a challenge (<—understatement), I've been making steady progress toward getting my back catalog released into the wild. Today Running Hot is up for preorder. Some sites lag a little in their new listings, but I'll get everything updated as the links go live.



Release date will be August 25, 2019.

I really do appreciate everyone's patience while I work on this. Getting "Running Hot" up and running (lol) made me more certain than ever that I need to take the time to give every one of these titles a fresh editing pass. I've grown so much as a writer since I first sold these stories. I don't intend to overhaul them or make substantial changes, but even simply polishing up the prose feels good and necessary.

I know there's a fine line between perfectionism and necessary revisions, but it will be worth it for the finished product.

The main things slowing me down are the other projects I'm revising simultaneously. I've got multiple drafts I'm working on, right on the cusp of submission-ready. It's not as simple as picking one and declaring it the highest priority—everything is a top priority—I don't want to leave my back catalog to languish, any more than I want to slow myself down with regard to the exciting new stories no one has seen yet. Finding a balance is challenging, but I'm doing my best to give everything the brain-space it needs.

On a lighter note, I have a cover reveal to share! With "Simple After All" not re-releasing until November, I'm going to try and get one more novella up in September/October. "Restless Shadows, Waiting Roads" was one of the first stories I ever sold, and rereading it has been fun as hell. For some reason, I don't seem to be writing much magic and fantasy lately. This magical-romp-in-the-woods-with-a-demon has given me an itch to do more.

( Meanwhile, for your enjoyment, here is the new cover  )