Teaser for ‘Leopard’s Leap’

To the good and kind people who keep buying Moro’s Price: thank you. In between Real Life Dramas, I am working on the next installment, Moro’s Shield. I am also playing with a spin-off sci-fi M/M erotic romance novella provisionally titled Leopard’s Leap. If and when it finds its way to an outlet near you, I will let everyone know. In the meantime, here is the working blurb:

Arena gladiator Jason Kee-DaSilva sold his body to pay his family’s debts, but they shun him once he’s set them free. Only his distant cousin Mateo stands by him after Jason loses first his heart, then his status, to the legendary fighter Dogleash. Mateo has long idolized his famous cousin, but Jason’s obsession with Dogleash nearly drives Mateo into the clutches of a duplicitous corporation intending to lure or drag Jason back into their service. 

And here is the first paragraph:

Mateo’s life changed on his fifteenth birthday, in a Taverna DaSilva storage room far from the chaos of an extended family celebrating several name-days at once. He’d hidden behind a stack of crates to get away from some girl’s gropes. He calmed his breath in the dark, spice-scented peace; no longer puzzling over why he’d run away, but how to break the news to Papa DaSilva.