Release; Scorpio Hates Virgo



Title and cover:
Scorpio Hates Virgo


Series (name + # in series):


Signs of Love #2


Publisher:

Anyta Sunday (self published)


Release Date (Print & Ebook):

September 1st, 2017


Length: 245 pages


Subgenre:

Contemporary M/M gay romance, friends-to-lovers


The title includes: sarcasm, sexual content, and a slightly sappy HEA


All buy links:

http://www.anytasunday.com/#scorpio-hates-virgo

 
This year is all about healing the heart, Scorpio. It’s time to leave negative attitudes and stoic facades at the door and let others see the real, more vulnerable you.

Percy Freedman is not grieving. Absolutely not, take that back at once. No, he’s entirely sure that selling his dead aunt’s home and leaving the neighbors he’s known for years is the sane thing to do. Who in their right mind would keep the house that smells like all the hugs he’ll never have again?

Nobody, that’s who.

Well, except his cul-de-sac neighbors. They all seem to think some paint and new furniture will clean the emotional slate. They all want him to stay.

Even his old nemesis, Callaghan Glover.

Especially his old nemesis, Callaghan Glover.

Lured into a game of Sherlock Gnomes, Percy finds himself hanging out with his neighbors more than might be considered healthy. Along with juggling new and surprising verbal grenades from Cal, and his burgeoning friendship with Gnomber9, Percy is starting to wonder if selling might have been the grief talking after all . . .

That’s right, Scorpio. With a little patience, heartbreak might be a thing of the past . . .

“Scorpio Hates Virgo” contains sarcasm, sexual content, a slightly sappy HEA, and an unhealthy obsession with dinosaurs.

It can be read as a standalone.


Themes: Light-hearted, friends-to-lovers, slow burn

Genre: New Adult, light-hearted contemporary gay romance 


Review

Slow burns. We all love them, especially after we read all these hot and heavy passionate reads in which the characters can't help but get close to each other. But these friends or in this case enemies to lovers romance books have a special hold on my heart. 
Scorpio Hates Virgo is a slow burn. A very slow burn. You have Percy and Cal who pretend to hate each other. The way these two flirt is by insults and sarcasm. And isn't that the best? I would love to meet someone in which insults equals flirting. I-much like Cal and Percy-use sarcasm as a default. 

Percy has recently lost the only person in his life who has really loved him. He's not taking it very well, just don't tell him that, to Percy he's taking it better than everyone thinks. To Percy moving away from the only home he's ever known is the right thing to do. So why is he having conflicting emotions? 

Cal has been Percy's sworn nemesis since the day they met. So why are they spending most of the summer together? 

Things are always so much better once you stop pretending. 

I loved how the friendship between the characters went from tentative to full-blown they see each other every day type. And not only between Cal and Percy but between everyone in Cal's family as well. 

As Percy learns more and more about his supposed nemesis he has to think long and hard about what he wants. He has to trust himself and he has to learn to trust Cal if they ever have a chance. 

This is the first book by Anyta Sunday's I've read. I'm a little sad this book was written in third person, as I'm not a fan, but it was fun and light and easy to read which makes up for it. Will I read more books by this author? I already have. Her writing is easy to read. Her stories are that perfect mix of lightheartedness, angst, and  sweet love. I want more in this series and can't wait to see what she comes up with. 

-Abri

Excerpt

The image of Cal in his shower stuck in his head like a nasty thorn, following him back to his place an hour later. It took a concentrated effort and a ton of porn to knock it from behind his retinas.

It really didn’t help when, on the edge of coming a second time, he realized he was sliding the soles of his feet over the sheets Cal had given him.

It knocked the generic porn-dude out of his head and he found himself imagining Cal’s form through lightly fogged glass.

Cal stroked himself, his thick cock sliding through a slickened hand. He choked on a groan, his head rolling back. His eyes widened when he glimpsed Percy on the other side of the door watching but his hand didn’t stop. He stroked faster. His voice was mellow and dripped of sarcasm. Sarcasm and curiosity. “Perseus.”

“Callaghan.” Percy entered the shower, straining and naked. He walked through the mist spraying off Cal’s gently coiled muscles and pushed him against the wall. “You’re not meant to star in my sex-fantasies.”

Cal set those measuring eyes on his, bottom lip parting, the slick sound of his working hand growing louder. On every upward stroke, his hand grazed Percy’s stomach. “Sex in the shower is one of your fantasies? How highly imaginative of you.”

“Since your favorite weapon is your mouth, I think that’s what you should use.”

“To what?”

“Ruin me for any other man.”

Cal dropped to his knees, looking up smugly. “Like my mouth doesn’t do that already.”

Percy’s toes curled and pinched the sheets, and his cock unloaded hot and heavy, the orgasm wringing through every damn inch of his body.

Well. Wasn’t this peachy? 
About The Author
 
Slow burn romance that quickens the heart.

Anyta is a big, BIG fan of slow-burn romances. She loves to read and write stories with characters who slowly fall in love.

Some of her 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.

Anyta writes a variety of stories, Contemporary MM Romances with a good dollop of angst, Contemporary lighthearted MM Romances, and even a splash of fantasy. Her books have been translated into German, Italian and French.

Member of Romance Writers of America.

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