Length: 70,000 words approx.
Cover Design: Garrett Leigh @ Black Jazz Design
Blurb
Lucky Coleman is on his knees when he meets a man with more money than sense. It’s a Grindr hook-up for cash, not a love match, but dreaming of his desperate, kind eyes earns a place amongst his numerous bad habits.
Meeting once was risky, twice pushes Dom’s courage to the limit. Losing Lucky seems inevitable, but his tight grip on his image counts for nothing when Lucky starts to fall.
Catching him could cost Dom everything, but if he can set his heart free, getting Lucky long term might be a risk worth taking.
Review
So it should come as a shock to absolutely NO ONE that I am a huge
Garrett Leigh fangirl. I've read everything she's written to date (some
books multiple times- hello Pete and Ash <3) and while I've loved
some books more than others, I've enjoyed every single one of them. I'm
also a huge fan of sports romances-hockey and soccer especially- so when
I saw that she was going to be writing her first sports romance, I
couldn't wait to see what she would do. I expected the compelling
characters, the angst, the chemistry between the main characters, but
what I didn't expect was just how invested I would be in the love story
between Dom and Lucky. From the very first page of Lucky I was thoroughly sucked into their lives and couldn't put the book down.
Dominic
"Dom" Ramos is a professional football (soccer to us here in the US)
player and has been deep in the closet for so long he doesn't see a way
out. He's miserable, has lost his love for the beautiful game, and above
all else, extremely lonely. His only relief, if you can even call it
that, comes from anonymous Grindr hookups. There are no connections, no
intimacy, just an outlet for pent up sexual frustration. It's a hard
life, one that has beaten Dom down, made him angry and apathetic to
everything around him until he meets Lucky. From the very first moment
they meet, Dom knows that nothing will ever be the same again. He tries
to resist, he tries to keep his life the way it is, no matter how
unbearably unhappy it makes him, to the point there are physical
manifestations as well as making it extremely difficult for Dom to allow
himself to be close to anyone. He has no friends to speak of, no family
he's close to, and his teammates are more like a means to an end than
anything else. I ached for Dom. Truly. I felt his fear of coming out,
his anger at himself and the world around him, felt his shame for being
afraid to be himself, his desperate need to feel anything.
Lucky
Coleman is exactly who Dom needs to jump start his heart and bring
color into his life. Oh, Lucky isn't easy by any stretch of the
imagination. He's practically homeless, has erratic behavior, uses drugs
when the world closes in on him, but this man who is so opposite of Dom
in every way--from attitude to looks and stature--is exactly who Dom
needs. I adored Lucky. His personality, though not exactly bubbly and
effervescent, is full of hope. Even when things looked their darkest,
Lucky still clung to the hope that things could get better. One of the
things Garrett does better than almost any other author I read, is her
ability to show how gritty and raw life can be sometimes. And how when
faced with the realities of life, you don't always make the best
decisions. Her characters are flawed, they make mistakes, they get angry
and say things that hurt or are cruel ... but man, this IS life, right?
Garrett's books are definitely romances, but the HEA's her characters
achieve are hard fought and never easy. I appreciate the battles her
characters fight, with themselves, with each other and with the outside
forces around them and it makes her characters so real and so easy to
relate to.
While Lucky isn't an easy
book to read, it's one that you won't be able to put down. Dom and
Lucky, together and apart, are fascinating characters full of heart and
emotion and yeah, there's some (or a lot depending on your viewpoint) of
angst, but it's so good and really just so HOPEFUL that you'll be
rooting for these two right from the get go. I loved everything about
this book. The pacing was perfect, the dual point's of view (another
thing Garrett excels at!) was handled with just the right touch, the
characters, the emotions, the sex scenes. All of it was done in the
brilliant way only an author with Garrett Leigh's immense talent can
pull off. Don't let Lucky pass you by people, its a gem and
you'll fall so in love with Dom and Lucky just like I did. I'm SO super
excited this is a series and I can't wait to see what the next book
brings!
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Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.
When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.
Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.
Website: http://www.garrettleigh.com/
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Leigh
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