Blog Tour: Keeping Cade by SE Jakes #Review #Excerpt #Giveaway

Keeping Cade

Crave Series, Book 1

SE Jakes

Gay Menage Romance

Release Date: 05.24.19

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Protection has its price, but so do fantasies…

Fantasy Week happens twice a year at Crave, and it’s always a big hit—a way to live out your wildest fantasy in a safe, sane, and consensual manner.

But when Cade comes in with his Fantasy Week invitation, he’s not happy about it. He’s stoic as hell and his preferences don’t seem to match his fantasy at all…and yet, despite that, he enjoys himself with Tegan and Vic. At least at first.

When it becomes glaringly apparent that the fantasy isn’t something Cade’s comfortable with, it’s confusing for the men he’s been paired with, and Tegan and Vic put a stop to the scene immediately.

What Cade doesn’t know is that Tegan and Vic are not only co-owners of Crave, but they’re also owners of a mercenary group, Gray Ops, that’s run out of Crave. They’ve also been circling each other for years… but nothing sparks until their session with Cade.

What happened in Room 4 is something none of the men can forget…but it’s got nothing to do with a fantasy and everything to do with blackmail. Can Tegan and Vic help Cade keep his secrets, while keeping all of them safe at the same time? Because the threatening to spill out aren’t only Cade’s…

*This series is set in the MEN OF HONOR world, in the bar called Crave from Bound By Honor

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Review

If romantic suspense is your jam, then I have the most excellent news for you. SE Jakes has a new book out, Keeping Cade, and it was one wild, hot, rollercoaster ride from beginning to end. Just when you think you might have things figured out, bam! There’s a twist and they keep right on coming. If you are looking for a book heavy on action and with some intense alpha males, then Keeping Cade is definitely the book for you.

The book starts out with Cade entering BDSM club, Crave, for Fantasy Week. You’d think with all the interesting things for him to look at, he’d be excited to be there, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. When he hands over his exclusive invitation and his fantasy begins, Cade is pretty much a mess. The fantasy wasn’t his choice, but to protect his best friend, Theo, Cade has to go through with it. Enter Tegan and Vic, two badass ex-military guys who are more than willing to fulfill the fantasy written on the invitation. Until, they both realize Cade would rather be any place else.

Secrets and past trauma bring these three together in an explosive way, and the intensity doesn’t let up until the very end. If you’ve read SE Jakes’ Men of Honor series, this is a spin-off, but have no fear if you haven’t.  While there are appearances of some of those characters (yay for Paulo and Law!) they don’t play a big part and you can follow along just fine. I admit to being a bit confused in the beginning. I felt like I was missing something, but couldn’t tell what it was, but as the story progressed I found myself sucked in and couldn’t put the book down.

I really enjoyed the emotional intensity that Jakes’ portrays for all these characters. It made them vulnerable and real and I couldn’t help but hope that everything worked out, so they could be together. Ménage isn’t an easy thing to pull off, but Jakes does an excellent job showing the relationship between Cade, Tegan, and Vic as equal and not just about hot sex. Though there is plenty of that!

Keeping Cade is a fast-paced, action packed good time from beginning to end and I’m super excited to see what comes next in the series.

Excerpt

“Am I being chauffeured or can I take my own truck?” Cade asked as they walked out the back door of Crave, leaving behind Oz’s yells of “I can’t promise what I’ll do if you leave me alone with him.” “We’ll drive you,” Tegan told him. “Why don’t you just carry me across the threshold of the fight club when we get there?” Cade muttered. “Didn’t know you needed that level of romance,” Vic said seriously. “I’ll keep it in mind.” Cade sighed heavily and got into the back seat with Vic, while Tegan drove. He guessed it was for protection, and arguing wouldn’t change a damned thing. He needed to preserve his strength anyway. Vic handed him a Gatorade and a PowerBar. “Eat up.” Cade muttered, “Fucking starving and this shit tastes like cardboard.” “Fight first, then I’ll get you a goddamned buffet,” Vic promised. “There’s a McDonald’s on the corner,” Cade pointed out hopefully. “You had an entire pizza recently,” Vic reminded him. “Recently to me is the last hour.” Cade bit into the PowerBar and stared at Vic. “I think this went bad.” Vic frowned. “They can’t go bad.”

 

SE Jakes writes m/m romance. She believes in happy endings and fighting for what you want in both fiction and real life. She lives in New York with her family and most days, she can be found happily writing (in bed). No really…

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Guest Post: SE Jakes~ Keeping Cade #Giveaway

Diverse Reader is super excited to have author SE Jakes (Stephanie Tyler) with us today! I'm a long time fan and when you're a fan you know meeting or talking with your favorite authors is daunting. Well, SE Jakes is probably one of the kindest, funniest, most delightful out there. Her new book Keeping Cade shows you why shes doing what she does. Her talent is amazing! She's got a guest post for you a look at her new book and a giveaway where there are two winners. Check it out!

Thanks so much for having me here at Diverse Reader!  

I’m SE Jakes and my new release, KEEPING CADE, is an MMM romance and it’s the 1st book in a new series called Crave.  Crave is the name of a bar / club that readers first stepped into with BOUND BY HONOR: Men of Honor Book 1, which came out 8 years ago this past March. **

Readers have always asked if I’d be writing more in the Men of Honor series, and I was always open to that, if the right story came along.  The right story finally did, but the MOH series had been finished for years…so while Cade and Co. lived in that world, they also had their own energy. 

I always say that my characters walk on fully formed, ready to either spill their backstory or sit and stare at me until I yank it out of them. They’re usually broken when they come to me.  Half the time, they fight what’s good for them, because they’ve been fighting for so long, they’re not sure of any other way. 

Sometimes, one of them will wait in the wings for a long time, and if that happens, it’s usually because his other half hasn’t announced himself yet.  So we wait, patiently.  Or not.

For example, Cade burst onto the scene, fighting. Literally, that was the first flash of scene I had of him, fighting Vic.  And then Vic was fighting Tegan, and while they all came out of nowhere, they were easy—relatively speaking.  And then more characters came out of the woodwork, like they’d been waiting for me to realize that Crave Club’s been open this entire time and they were ready for me to help them find their other half.  And they all wanted me to write them right now.   

And then Strider peeked his head out and glared at me before inserting himself in KEEPING CADE.  And I was like, “this isn’t my fault—I’ve been waiting.”  And I have been.  The files with his original scenes (that will one day end up in his book) are probably from 2013 or so.  I kept presenting him with different options, but he’d turn his back.  I was putting him with the wrong tribe or the wrong person, trying to force things…and he’s been silently judging me ever since. 

He’s still judging me, by the way, but from what I’ve heard from readers, they’re pretty happy with him.  It happens that way a lot for secondary characters—I know myself, as a reader, I tend to fall for a lot of them.

So, in order to be eligible to be entered to win one of (2) $5.00 Amazon Gift Cards, talk to me about your favorite characters who started off secondary characters and spoke to you. 

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** You don’t need to have read the Men of Honor series to pick up KEEPING CADE.  But if you like it and you like Law, you’ll want to pick up at least Bound By Honor and Bound By Law, since that will tell you more about him.

KEEPING CADE is in Kindle Unlimited (and the rest of the series will be as well).  Book 2 is SAVING SWAY and it will be out in late June, followed at the end of August / beginning of September with TAMING THEO, with many more to follow.  The Men of Honor series is now also in Kindle Unlimited for the first time. 

Protection has its price, but so do fantasies…

Fantasy Week happens twice a year at Crave, and it’s always a big hit—a way to live out your wildest fantasy in a safe, sane, and consensual manner.

But when Cade comes in with his Fantasy Week invitation, he’s not happy about it. He’s stoic as hell and his preferences don’t seem to match his fantasy at all…and yet, despite that, he enjoys himself with Tegan and Vic. At least at first.

When it becomes glaringly apparent that the fantasy isn’t something Cade’s comfortable with, it’s confusing for the men he’s been paired with, and Tegan and Vic put a stop to the scene immediately.

What Cade doesn’t know is that Tegan and Vic are not only co-owners of Crave, but they’re also owners of a mercenary group, Gray Ops, that’s run out of Crave. They’ve also been circling each other for years… but nothing sparks until their session with Cade.

What happened in Room 4 is something none of the men can forget…but it’s got nothing to do with a fantasy and everything to do with blackmail. Can Tegan and Vic help Cade keep his secrets, while keeping all of them safe at the same time? Because the threatening to spill out aren’t only Cade’s…

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SE Jakes writes m/m romance. She believes in happy endings and fighting for what you want in both fiction and real life. She lives in New York with her family and most days, she can be found happily writing (in bed). No really…
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