To celebrate the release of Out! in audiobook (click on the link if you’d like to enter the Audible giveaway), this week’s snippet is from Out!

Here, our hero Mark is getting sartorially challenged by his teenage daughter, Fen, and his ex PA David (who gets his own romance in Spun!)

Mark frowned down at his shirt, which was a perfectly decent brushed cotton with a tweedy check. “What’s wrong with what I’m wearing?”

[David:] “Nothing at all, if you were in your dotage. Put it this way, I’m no longer surprised there’s yet to be a second Mrs. Nugent.”

“I told him,” Fen put in, more animated now. “Everything he wears is brown or grey. It’s horrible. Totally. Like he’s someone’s grandad. Someone’s dead grandad. In, like, a programme on the History Channel about rationing or something.”

“Well . . . brown can work,” David said, his head on one side as he stared at Mark’s lower half with disconcerting intensity. “He does have rather lovely brown eyes.”

Mark smiled, flattered—not to mention relieved to discover David’s gaze did apparently lift above crotch level, if only occasionally.

“And brown will bring out the remaining colour in his hair,” David added.

Mark stopped smiling.

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When love wars with principle, which one will win?

Mark Nugent has spent his life in the closet—at least, the small portion of it he hasn’t spent in the office. Determined to make amends to his neglected teenage daughter from a failed marriage, Mark swears off work—and love—so he can give her a stable home environment. But Mark’s resolve to keep his heart under wraps is tested when he meets an out and proud young man he’s instantly drawn to.

Patrick Owen is a charity worker with strong principles. He doesn’t trust easily, but he’s blown away by his attraction for the older man who’s so new to his own sexuality. Yet Mark is adamant he’s not coming out to his daughter—and Patrick refuses to live a lie.

What with Mark’s old-fashioned attitudes and his flirtatious ex-colleague who’s determined to come between them, Patrick begins to wonder if they’ll ever be on the same page. And when Mark’s career as a tax advisor clashes with Patrick’s social conscience, sparks really start to fly—in all the wrong ways.

Now in audiobook, narrated by the talented Mark Steadman:

 Amazon | Audible

Also available in ebook and paperback:

Riptide Publishing  | Amazon