Shane and Trey
Series: Enemies to Lovers (Book 1)
Publisher: self-published
Free for a limited time only: January
20th – 24th
Length (Print & Ebook): 66000 words
/ 230 pages (print)
Subgenre: Light hearted, sweet, new
adult gay romance
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, sister's
boyfriend, college, roommates, forced proximity, inconvenient attraction, first
time, slow burn romance
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About the book:
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Shane is a little bit screwed, he's just started college and stuck rooming with that bastard Trey. His sister's boyfriend. His sister's damn fine boyfriend. Uh-oh. This so wasn't going to happen. But try as he might, there's just a little too much to ignore between the two of them...
Each
of the four fun & sexy gay romance novels in the "Enemies to
Lovers" series can be read as a stand-alone and in any order.
Read what Anyta Sunday has to say about
SHANE AND TREY:
Enemies to Lovers - who doesn't love this trope?!?
I really enjoy romances that pair guys that can't stand
the sight of each other... but then, slowly, realize there's more to the
other...
My "Enemies to Lovers" series is full of these
stories, and right now you can grab the first book, "Shane and Trey",
for FREE!
This classic Anyta Sunday new adult gay romance has over
70 Amazon reviews and over 2000 ratings on Goodreads.
Review
An easy read by a great author! Shane and Trey were easy to
love even with their flaws and baggage.
It was easy to fall into this world with Shane coming out
and the consequences that follow. And some of those consequences were sad—losing
people in his life—and some were good finding a true friend in a what could’ve
been a meet-cute moment. I felt for Shane
through some of the story. He struggled with his attraction to Trey and was
often left confused as to what was going on between them. Because to him, Trey
was straight and his twin sister's boyfriend.
I know this is labeled
an enemies-to-lovers romance, but for me,
it wasn’t. because for much of the story Shane and Trey got along and even
became friends. The enemies-to-lovers was
a very short part of the storyline, even
though the explanation and forgiveness for that didn’t come until near the end.
But that never surprised me because of who Shane was.
There were many things that I loved in the book. The many
secondary characters that were important, Syd and his storyline, Trey and his
sly flirting and the German saying that had me cracking up, but one thing I did
not like was June, Shane’s twin sister. The way I viewed her in this book was
selfish. Yes, I get that she had dated Trey first, so it was expected to be a hard pill to swallow for her that he was
gay and liked her brother. BUT she only dated him for a short time (6months), and she even said she had an idea that he might
be gay (they never slept together). She strung her brother along for the
permission he needed to move forward with Trey because he wouldn’t betray her
that way. Then knowing how mentally abusive their father was to him growing up, she asked him to try with the man and forgive
him FOR HER. Like…no. Because it’s not about you, June. It’s about the abuse
and oppression your dad pushed onto your brother that maybe you should have
some compassion for him.
I could go one about that because really it pushed some buttons for me. I never hated her but never liked her either. She didn’t ruin my overall enjoyment of these guys and
their evolution because the rest was so well done and so easy to love. Trey and
Shane were such good men, and they truly were very opposite in most ways, they
truly fit together, and it felt right. I
loved them, and I was so happy to see
Shane start to stand up for himself and Trey reveal his secrets and accept
himself.
Excerpt
Near the end of the movie, Trey took another handful of chips. Actually,
it might have been the rest. But he balanced them poorly and one fell onto the
bed between my legs. In a movement so fast it may as well have blurred, Trey
stuffed the chips in his mouth and shoved his hand down the tiny triangle of
space in my lap.
I sucked in a hard breath, holding it as Trey moved about trying to find
his chip. I should have found it for him, or moved or something, but I’d
frozen. There was only one muscle able to move now, and I was doing my best to
avoid that happening. Trey was still glued to the screen, like he had no real
idea what he was doing. Just a voice in his head whispering for him to find the
chip. That delicious crunchy chip. Fucking
chip!
Finally he found it and came out, managing to brush his hand over my
inner-thigh as he did. Bastard. I scowled as he brought the chip to his mouth
and began nibbling it. Nibbling it. Like, what was this guy doing to me?
Was it possible to wish for scary Trey back? The Trey that made me want
to be best buddies with my dictionary. Because, in all honesty, I think that
might have been easier to handle.
As the credits rolled up, Trey rested a hand on my shoulder. I jumped a
bit, and he met my gaze directly.
Trey spoke, dropping his hand suddenly, like before. “Guess it’s about
time to get ready for that date of yours.”
Syd. Shoot! I sprung off his bed and checked the time. I had ten minutes
before I was meant to meet him. I shrugged out of my T-shirt, quickly folded
it, and slipped on a causal black shirt. Patting myself, I calculated what else
I needed. I turned around, and Trey held my wallet out to me.
I shoved it in my pocket and found my keys, slipping those in behind my
phone. “Right. I gotta run.”
Trey opened the door wide, but as I
passed him, he stopped me, one hand curled around my wrist. His warm breath
tickled my neck, and, in the lightest of whispers, he said, “Don’t sleep with
him.”
About the Author
A
bit about me: I'm a big, BIG fan of slow-burn romances. I love to read and
write stories with characters who slowly fall in love.
Some
of my favorite tropes to read and write are: Enemies to Lovers, Friends to
Lovers, Clueless Guys, Bisexual, Pansexual, Demisexual, Oblivious MCs, Everyone
(Else) Can See It, Slow Burn, Love Has No Boundaries.
I
write a variety of stories, Contemporary MM Romances with a good dollop of
angst, Contemporary lighthearted MM Romances, and even a splash of fantasy.
My
books have been translated into German, Italian, French, and Thai.
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