Take A Chance on It by K.A. Mitchell Intro & Excerpt!

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Hi guys, we have K.A. Mitchell popping in today with her upcoming release Take a Chance On It, the third book in her Ready or Knot series, we have a short intro from K.A. and a great excerpt, so check out the post and enjoy! <3 ~Pixie~

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Take A Chance on It

(Ready or Knot 03)
by

K.A. Mitchell

Left at the altar by his long-time lover Spencer and in desperate need of quality health insurance, now, Dane Archer can’t say no when his best man and best friend Gideon DeLuca steps in.  But Dane and Gideon have history, tangled and passionate and complicated.  

After seventeen years of cat-and-mouse, Gideon has realized Dane isn’t the kind of man who ever wants to be caught, and he’s stopped playing Dane’s game.

For Dane, it’s never been a game, but sexual fidelity isn’t his strong suit.  Love is too beautiful for limits, something he’s never been able to get Gideon the control freak to understand. Now Dane has nothing but limits, including the timeline on this paper-only marriage to Gideon. 

Gideon’s the only person Dane trusts enough to lean on, and Gideon will do anything to get Dane through this crisis.  Anything but fall for Dane again.

Living together forces Dane and Gideon to stop circling and face what’s been between them all these years.  They just don’t know if they have the power or the time to make things right.

What they do know is that they’re not ready for it to be over.

 Release date: 19th October 2016
Pre-order: Dreamspinner Press | Amazon | B&N | Kobo

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K.A. Mitchell!

Hi!

Thank you for having me on the blog.

Take a Chance on it is the third book in my Ready or Knot series, and I loved the chance to hang out with old friends—err, characters. The guys in this book have known each other for almost twenty years, so they know where the buttons are. In this excerpt, they’re getting ready for the wedding of their friend Dane to his longtime partner, Spencer. I hope you enjoy. Take a Chance on It is available October 19.

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Excerpt

Gideon’s chest tightened around nothing.

He knew it was part of Dane’s self-defense mechanism. All of it was. The ties, the wedding, the jokes about not being around much longer, they were how Dane was dealing, but Gideon needed to get his lungs working.

He escaped into the hallway.

Theo found him there. He didn’t say anything, just put Gideon in a bear hug. Yeah, Kieran was good for Theo.

Gideon allowed himself to accept the embrace, clinging to the fleeting sensation that he wasn’t alone.

Of course, Kieran’s influence or not, this was still Theo, and he wasn’t silent long. “Hell, do you have to walk him down the aisle too? Give him away?”

Gideon lowered his arms to his sides. With Theo in the way, Gideon couldn’t adopt his usual armor of crossed arms, so he folded his lips in over his teeth instead to buy himself time to steady his voice.

“Now you know Dane would never engage in anything so heteronormative and antifeminist. Plus, you were at the rehearsal.”

The arrangement was that Dane and Spencer would stand with their friends and family on either side of the officiant and then walk from the sides to meet her and her purple flowing goddess robes under the arch of driftwood and ribbons.

Theo pressed tighter into Gideon.

Though he didn’t resist, Gideon kept his hands at his sides and injected all of his considerable stock of disdain into his voice. “Save it for Dane. And Kieran, if he lets you spew emotion all over him.”

“You’re a real shit sometimes.” Theo brushed a kiss across Gideon’s cheek before he could jerk out of reach, but let him go.

“Thank you for noticing.”

“Anytime, since you put so much effort into the performance.”

Dane came out behind them, tie crooked and loose from his fussing with it. “I can’t fucking believe it. My bio dad showed up.” His voice held so little emotion, Gideon might have uttered the words himself.

Theo nudged Dane into the wall and adjusted his tie.

Dane made a sharp choking sound.

“Did I hurt you?” Theo’s hands shot up like he was facing the police. “He’s being a baby.” Gideon leaned on the doorjamb.

“Is it a problem that your dad is here?” Theo loosened Dane’s tie a bit.

“No. I’m just surprised he came. He’s more antimeaningless antiquated ritual than I am.”

“It’s not meaningless.”

Dane mimicked a nasal voice. “Then sign the paper and be done with it.” He resumed his normal range. “Cue a rant about healthcare inequality, big pharm, and pesticides altering our genes.”

“So basically, chip off the old block?” Jax came down the hall, completing the four-headed monster that had been the only constant thing in Gideon’s life. “Hey, I know you said no dead plants, so I got you and G these to wear.”

Jax aimed for the lapel of Dane’s suit, so the thing in Jax’s hand was some sort of boutonniere. As he pinned it on Dane, Gideon got a better look. Seashells glued together, one pearlescent, another pale brown and white on a lacy skeletal shell frame. Gideon thought it might have been from a whelk, but he hadn’t majored in marine biology.

“Mollusk skeletons. How festive.” Dane went a little cross-eyed peering down.

“I’m sorry. Did you become a vegetarian? You weren’t eating seafood paella last night?” Jax snapped over his shoulder as he came at Gideon with his pin and seashells.

Gideon suffered the abuse to his Armani. “Charming. Did the children make them?”

Jax’s role as stepparent was guaranteed to shift the attention away from Dane. Gideon hadn’t agreed with Jax being the only one kept in the dark about the reason behind the sudden wedding, but now wasn’t the best time for him to notice Dane’s ten-pound weight loss.

“No, the girls didn’t make them. I bought them. And these, you snarky bastard.” Jax handed off two small blue Tiffany boxes.

“Thank you.” Dane hugged Jax.

Kieran appeared at the end of the hall and held up a pair of fedoras. Theo went to take them from him. “My contribution.”

With Dane’s blond curls slicked back, it wasn’t obvious there were fewer of them, but they’d decided on the hats to be sure.

Gideon sighed. “Borrowed.”

“Of course.” Theo grinned. “From the costuming of Two for the Show.”

“I’m up to my eyeballs in luck, then.” Dane tapped his blue tie. “Wait. Where’s my old?”

“Standing right next to you.” Gideon nudged Dane forward. “Let’s get this over with.”

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About K.A.

K.A. Mitchell discovered the magic of writing at an early age when she learned that a carefully crayoned note of apology sent to the kitchen in a toy truck would earn her a reprieve from banishment to her room. She never stopped making stuff up and was pleased to find out that people would pay her to do it. Over twenty books later, she’s still in love with writing. Reviewers and readers alike have called her a “gateway drug” to gay romance. Although the men in her stories usually carry more emotional baggage than even LAX can lose in a year, she guarantees they always find their sexy way to a happy ending.

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