Paint It Black

Amy Lane

Aug 2019 · Beneath the Stain Book 2 · Dreamspinner Press

About this ebook

A Beneath the Stain Novel

Everybody thinks Mackey Sanders’s Outbreak Monkey is the last coming of Rock ’n’ Roll Jesus, but Cheever Sanders can’t wait to make a name for himself where nobody expects him to fill his famous brothers’ shoes. He’s tired of living in their shadow.

Blake Manning has been one of Outbreak Monkey’s lead guitarists for ten years. He got this gig on luck and love, not talent. So hearing that Cheever is blowing through Outbreak Monkey’s hard-earned money in an epic stretch of partying pisses him off.

Blake shows up at Cheever’s nonstop orgy to enforce some rules, but instead of a jaded punk, he finds a lost boy as talented at painting as Mackey is at song-making, and terrified to let anybody see the real him. Childhood abuse and a suicide attempt left Cheever on the edge of survival—a place Blake knows all too well.

Both men have to make peace with being second banana in the public eye. Can they find the magic of coming absolute first with each other?

Ratings and reviews

So first off, I would not call this a standalone. I highly suggest you read Beneath The Stain First, since you meet all the characters there, some of the story overlaps a little and the other characters play such a big part. there is plenty of backstory, but I do not think it is enough to give you the full gist of the book. That is my opinion. This is Cheever, Mackey, Kell, and Jefferson's little spoiled brother's story and more of Blake. Cheever has lived in his famous bothers' shadows most of his life. they gave him everything they didn't have growing up, except the one thing he craved...being with them. Now 21, broken alone in art school he faces a downward spiral killing himself with drugs and sex. With Mackey in the hospital after a bad accident, Blake is sent in to find Cheever and help him. Both men lean on each other then give into an attraction but will this break Blake? All I can say is OMG!!! This book was fantastic. I read it with tears in my eyes or fanning myself most of the time. Amy Lane creates the best characters and can tell such a believable story you feel right there in it and it has so much feels, the emotion sweeps over you like a tsunami. And heat? Oh Yeah, this book is full of that too! So if you like lots of emotion, dealing with addiction, Age gap, rock stars, family and hot man-sex this is for you! Highly recommended!

Beautiful!

About the author

Amy Lane lives in a crumbling crapmansion with a couple of growing children, a passel of furbabies, and a bemused spouse. She’s been a finalist in the RITAs twice, has won honorable mention for an Indiefab, and has a couple of Rainbow Awards to her name. She also has too damned much yarn, a penchant for action-adventure movies, and a need to know that somewhere in all the pain is a story of Wuv, Twu Wuv, which she continues to believe in to this day! She writes fantasy, urban fantasy, and gay romance—and if you accidentally make eye contact, she’ll bore you to tears with why those three genres go together. She’ll also tell you that sacrifices, large and small, are worth the urge to write.
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