Hi guys, we have Rain Carrington stopping by today with her newest release and the last book in her Apishipa Creek Chronicles, The Music Never Dies. We have a fantastic excerpt, an awesome giveaway and Cat’s review of not just The Music Never Dies but of Crazy Little Man Called Love and Big Bad Mooney so enjoy the post and click that Rafflecopter link
The Music Never Dies
Rain Carrington
In this the 6th and final installment of the Apishipa Creek Chronicles, we find out the fate of Rebel Marino, who in the last book was in a terrible accident, left to the ghosts of the past and the tenacity of his fiancé.
This gripping look at the lives of all of the couples we have grown to love is a testament to hope, faith and endearing strength that they have found in each other and the friendship that holds them all together as they face maybe the hardest trials yet. Each of them come up against past demons and future fears as one of their own must stand against sickness and pain.
Rebel, Jack, Lonnie, Travis, Binx, Nathan, Pappy, Sidney, Brandon, Joey, Andy and Lin as well as the people of the town of Apishipa Creek and the leather club Manacle band together to save a new love that none of them saw coming as well as fight the evil of the young men who left Rebel to die.
Come once more to the town tucked in the mountains of Colorado and fall in love again…
Excerpt
Lonnie didn’t leave the scene until morning, and Travis never left his side. Lin said that the club wouldn’t open, and although Travis was technically the owner of Manacle, the BDSM club in St. Martin, ever since Travis had bought it from Lin, he knew that his best friend would always have the last say in the running of it.
Lonnie was exhausted, but Travis knew his man. Lonnie wouldn’t rest until he’d found the man who did it, or men. It looked to be more than one.
When they left the scene together, they went straight to the Apishipa Creek Sheriff station, where Patsy, the receptionist/dispatcher, was waiting, still wearing the dress she’d been in at the church. “Lonnie! Any word?”
“No, Pats. Sorry.” He left it at that and walked past the front desk and into Jack’s office where he shut the door as soon as Travis was inside. He threw himself at Travis and kissed him hard, holding on for dear life.
Not that Travis didn’t need the closeness, he did. It wasn’t the time for the way Lonnie was grinding into him. Not here, not in Jack’s office. “Lane, come on, we’ll go home if you want this.”
“I’m scared, Travis. Master! I’m fucking scared!”
Travis saw it in Lonnie’s eyes, those dark, beautiful eyes he adored. There was a deep terror there and Travis didn’t understand. “What are you afraid of?”
“Everything. What will Jack do without him? What if I fuck up this investigation? What if Rebel dies? He’s, he’s like my brother.”
Here, so far inside of him that he barely knew it was there, Travis’s own, selfish fear was that if Rebel died, Lonnie would want Jack. He’d been in love with him for so long, before Jack had fallen for Rebel. Now, he saw that that was as far from Lonnie’s mind as could be. He was terrified of losing his friend.
“Lane, get what work you need done and meet me at home. I’m driving down to check on Jack.”
“I wanted you to do that hours ago.”
Travis kissed him deep and long, holding his face still as he did so. When he pulled back, Lonnie was noticeably calmer. “I love Jack and he’s my friend, but there was no way I was leaving my man alone for a minute. I’ll go now, but not for long. I’ll check on things and be back. You work for a couple of hours then hand it to the troopers if you can. This is an order, don’t fucking disobey me.”
“No, Sir.”
Lonnie gave him a ghost of a smile and he left, knowing Lonnie would try his best to do exactly that. They had butted heads about work versus his submissive duties before. Lonnie didn’t know his limits as far as what he could pile on himself. That was what Travis was there for. Well, one of the things.
He left the station and headed down the hill to St. Martin. All of it reminded him so much of Lonnie’s close brush with death that he felt sick to his stomach. It hurt him inside and outside. Every muscle in his body ached as did the muscle of his heart. That day had been the worst of his life. Moreover, though, it showed him what Lonnie meant to him.
At the hospital, he found Jack in the waiting room of the surgery wing. Lynn was with him and smiled at Travis, giving him a quick hug and whispering to him, “He’s not had a thing to eat or drink.”
Travis patted her back and pulled back, telling Jack, “Everyone is praying.”
Jack didn’t look at him at all, just stared down the hall. “Good, good, I appreciate that.”
“Why don’t we go get a cup of bad coffee?”
Without flinching, he answered, “Nope.” Lynn left them alone then and Travis sighed in resignation.
Travis understood. No one could’ve moved him with a crane. He sat next to Jack and said, “Dennis should be down here soon. He had to go home and take his meds for his arthritis.”
Jack nodded slowly, but didn’t look his way. He could be that guy, the one to tell him all the bullshit about taking care of himself, that he should have hope, that he should eat, sleep…but he knew that not only was that advice pointless, but it would be ignored. No one except the doctor coming out of surgery would be able to tell Jack a thing that he’d listen to.
“When Lonnie was here, I think I lost ten pounds overnight from the stress. When you were here, I thought Rebel would lose his mind.”
Jack closed his eyes for the briefest moment and nodded again. Jack had been shot by a sniper who was hired by Travis’s father. Travis’s father had thought Jack and every other gay man who knew Travis was the reason Travis was gay. Now Conway Walton was in prison for at least twenty five years. “I guess it was your turn to worry, huh?”
Jack cracked a small grin. “I guess. I would gladly have been the one again, though, in there.”
“I’m sure Rebel would argue that. He was a wreck.”
Jack sat up and finally looked at Travis, his eyes tired and red. “He’s not going to die. I can’t let him.”
Lynn came in and sat back down, handing them both a cup. “Now there is a Dom speaking.”
Other books in the series
Rebel Yells
A small town sheriff, mourning the death of his husband, never thinks love will find him again until a man rides through his town, and his life. His husband’s apparition comes to Jack Colton time and again telling him to embrace a new love but can he move on or be forever lonely?
Rebel has a troubled past and lives up to his name. When he meets the hot older sheriff he wants to see himself finally staying in one place and finding the happiness that has always eluded him.
Lonnie Lane had loved Jack from afar for years but was too timid to do anything about until he sees Jack moving on with someone else. Will he destroy the happiness the two have found or just destroy himself?
Penny’s Lane
Brokenhearted and lost, Lonnie begins to search for something to replace the long held love of a man who is in love with another. His search takes him on a dangerous slope with alcohol once more but there to pick him up and dust him off if an unlikely hero.
As his life begins to turn around he finds real love and his dreams are all starting to come true, including a dream he didn’t know he had. To be a man’s submissive. While his discovers new desires and feelings that are more intense and encompassing than ever, he finds the road to his dreams isn’t an easy one.
More explosive than Rebel Yells, Penny’s Lane will take you on a ride that will leave you breathless with hot love, evil vengeance and deepening friendships.
Pappy Don’t Preach
They say opposites attract but in the case of a preacher and a man of science, things get downright incendiary. Mark (Pappy) Rafferty is an ex priest recently moved to Apishipa Creek to start his own church in the beauty of the Rockies. Nathan Lee is the smooth talking Atheist doctor of the town’s clinic. They start jogging together every morning for safety but their hearts become in peril from one another.
Dayton Binx is a submissive actively searching for a Dom. Travis Walton feels a kinship to the younger man because of their similar backgrounds but soon passes the pain in the neck off to Pappy. Pappy, who believes nothing can come of the overwhelming attraction he feels for the doctor, takes the sub on and begins to fall in love with him. A slip of long awaited passion between he and Nathan threatens to tear Pappy’s sub from him, but never underestimate a sub on a mission!
With more intrigue, suspense and hot action between sexy men, Apishipa Creek heats up once again as three men find an uncommon bond while two others are ripped apart because of stubborn pride. Can everyone live happily ever after or will those wishing revenge complete what they started and kill those who get in their way?
Crazy Little Man Called Love
Running to America to lick the wounds of a broken relationship, Sidney Haxby still could not find the Dom he desired. Set to go back to London, he decides to stay a few more days, taking in the solitude and beauty of Apishipa Creek to spend a few days with his father, big bad Dom Lin.
When Brandon Love crashes a dinner party and offers to take Sidney home, they get snowed in for days, forced to confront the feelings they had for each other each time they met at the BDSM club, Manacle. Seeing in each other what they’d always longed for, they want to begin a relationship, putting Sidney where he wanted, on his knees at the feet of the Master he feared he would never have.
A trip to London so Sidney could settle his affairs and past puts him in peril. Can Brandon save Sidney? Will their pasts get in the way of their future together? And what is the mysterious stranger trying to tell them about the house in Apishipa Creek they all live in at one time or another? Find out in Crazy Little Man Called Love….
Big Bad Mooney
Lin Mooney, a man that has always been in control of his own life, suddenly finds himself at the mercy of not one man but two. Joey Pino comes back to Manacle, beaten and in need, and Lin wants to be the person he turns to. That is except for the fact Lin’s already hopelessly in love with another man, The British beauty, Andy White. These much younger and smaller men have him by the heartstrings and he can no longer deny his feelings, despite his imperfect health and age. He wants them both more than he’s ever wanted anything.
Brandon is out to prove a point and Sidney goes along, blindly following his Master until he can’t do it anymore. Can bringing another man into their bedroom make them stronger as a couple or tear them apart?
Five men contemplate the question…How many in a life or a bedroom is too much? Love is tested again in this, the fifth book of the Apishipa Creek Chronicles, and the end will leave you breathless and ready to scream. One of the men of Apishipa Creek is on his way to the most important day of his life when tragedy strikes.
About Rain
Hi I’m Rain and I write contemporary M/M romance some with a BDSM slant. My book Honky Tonk, is the first I am publishing but not the first I’ve written. I have a whole library full that are about to be rewritten and revamped a bit and published as well. Please enjoy my books and let me know what you think!
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Review
Title: Crazy Little Man Called Love
Series: Apishipa Creek Chronicles 04
Author: Rain Carrington
Genre: Contemporary, BDSM
Length: Novel (355 pages)
ISBN: B00OC4CF6C
Publisher: AAS Publishing (October 20, 2014)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 5 Hearts
Reviewer: Cat
Blurb: Running to America to lick the wounds of a broken relationship, Sidney Haxby still could not find the Dom he desired. Set to go back to London, he decides to stay a few more days, taking in the solitude and beauty of Apishipa Creek to spend a few days with his father, big bad Dom Lin.
When Brandon Love crashes a dinner party and offers to take Sidney home, they get snowed in for days, forced to confront the feelings they had for each other each time they met at the BDSM club, Manacle. Seeing in each other what they’d always longed for, they want to begin a relationship, putting Sidney where he wanted, on his knees at the feet of the Master he feared he would never have.
A trip to London so Sidney could settle his affairs and past puts him in peril. Can Brandon save Sidney? Will their pasts get in the way of their future together? And what is the mysterious stranger trying to tell them about the house in Apishipa Creek they all live in at one time or another? Find out in Crazy Little Man Called Love….
Warning: Contains scenes of gay sex and BDSM
Product Link: http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Little-Called-Apishipa-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B00OC4CF6C
Review: This is book four of the Apishpa Creek Chronicles and it is best read in order, though I think you could follow it without the others, you may not enjoy it as much not knowing all the other characters.
Oh boy where do I start? There is so much going on in this book it is like a whirlwind of sexy Dom’s and subs. This is Sid and Brandon’s story, but of course Binx is up to his meddling as well.
Sid has come from England to visit his father and find his way in the lifestyle. He didn’t do it at Manacle where Lin (his father) works because his father thinks he is a Dom like him, not a sub that wants to be a full-time slave. After a year or so of trying the scene and Dom’s Sid is disappointed that he can’t find what he is looking for until he meets Brandon.
Brandon is a Dom at Manacle, but he isn’t well-liked since he is searching for a 24/7 slave and he is very sadistic. He is also a very small man so it is harder to gain the respect he demands as a Dom.
I loved all these stories and this was no exception. There is sex on every page and it is extremely explicit, but I feel it’s part of the story. There is several stories going on in the background since we got more Binx (I love the little toppy sub). He adds a bit of fun to the seriousness, sex and mystery of the story. We also got more Lonnie and Lane as well. Jack and Rebel made appearances but I would have loved more of sexy Rebel too.
Rain has a style of mixing all the hot sex with a bit of mystery, lots of romance, and a touch of humor. I learn more BDSM stuff every book. Some in this one made me cringe.
One of my favorite things is the titles of each book being songs and in this one we find out a bit of why. I believe in fated love and this was sooo cool!
I will warn ya, make time for this one since you won’t want to put it down and be sure to have a fan nearby its smoking hot!
If you like hardcore BDSM, a lot of explicit sex (tastefully done), love at first sight, D’s lifestyles, mystery, drama, and a very good romance this is definitely for you!
Title: Big Bad Mooney
Series: Apishpa Creek Chronicles 05
Author: Rain Carrington
Genre: Contemporary, BDSM
Length: Novel (258 pages)
ISBN: B00V8ZD4CC
Publisher: AAS Publishing (April 7th 2015)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 5 Hearts
Reviewer: Cat
Blurb: Lin Mooney, a man that has always been in control of his own life, suddenly finds himself at the mercy of not one man but two. Joey Pino comes back to Manacle, beaten and in need, and Lin wants to be the person he turns to. That is except for the fact Lin’s already hopelessly in love with another man, The British beauty, Andy White. These much younger and smaller men have him by the heartstrings and he can no longer deny his feelings, despite his imperfect health and age. He wants them both more than he’s ever wanted anything.
Brandon is out to prove a point and Sidney goes along, blindly following his Master until he can’t do it anymore. Can bringing another man into their bedroom make them stronger as a couple or tear them apart?
Five men contemplate the question…How many in a life or a bedroom is too much? Love is tested again in this, the fifth book of the Apishipa Creek Chronicles, and the end will leave you breathless and ready to scream. One of the men of Apishipa Creek is on his way to the most important day of his life when tragedy strikes.
Warning: Contains scenes of consensual gay sex and BDSM
Product Link: http://www.amazon.com/Mooney-Apishipa-Creek-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B00V8ZD4CC
Review: This is the 5th book in the series where it can stand alone these books are better if you read in order.
These books never cease to amaze me. I really liked Lin and his story a lot and was happy to get more into Sid and Brandon’s relationship as well. In this one however we had Lonnie surprise us with interfering instead of Binx and that was quite a shocking but fun surprise, especially when it was Joey Pino coming back after trying to get Travis as his Dom.( That was Penny’s Lane and I can’t tell you anymore about that.
I was nervous about the story with Brandon and Sid and my heart nearly broke in two.
Well there was a lot going on as usual. A bit of drama, not as much mystery or suspense as previous books. There of course is a lot of sex, very explicit and tells you about some of the stuff used in the Bdsm lifestyles. There is plenty of romance. And oh man what a shocking, cliffhanger of an ending. It left me breathless. Now I must read The last book!
If you like BDSM, the D’s lifestyles. Ménage, slaves, drama, some really hot manse and some sweet romance as well this is definitely for you.
Title: The Music Never Dies
Series: Apishpa Creek Chronicles 06
Author: Rain Carrington
Genre: Contemporary, Drama, BDSM
Length: Novel (196pgs)
ISBN: B00X2UDYXK
Publisher: AAS Publishing (May 7th 2015)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 5 Hearts
Reviewer: Cat
Blurb: In this the 6th and final installment of the Apishipa Creek Chronicles, we find out the fate of Rebel Marino, who in the last book was in a terrible accident, left to the ghosts of the past and the tenacity of his fiancé.
This gripping look at the lives of all of the couples we have grown to love is a testament to hope, faith and endearing strength that they have found in each other and the friendship that holds them all together as they face maybe the hardest trials yet. Each of them come up against past demons and future fears as one of their own must stand against sickness and pain.
Rebel, Jack, Lonnie, Travis, Binx, Nathan, Pappy, Sidney, Brandon, Joey, Andy and Lin as well as the people of the town of Apishipa Creek and the leather club Manacle band together to save a new love that none of them saw coming as well as fight the evil of the young men who left Rebel to die.
Come once more to the town tucked in the mountains of Colorado and fall in love again…
Warning: This book contains BDSM and scenes of consensual sex between two or more men
Product Link: http://www.amazon.com/Music-Never-Apishipa-Creek-Chronicles-ebook/product-reviews/B00X2UDYXK
Review: This is book 6 and the final book of this season. I do recommend you read them all in order at least the last one since this one picks up where book 5 left off. I absolutely loved the play on song titles with this series.
The last book left us with a very upsetting cliffhanger. The blurb above says it all so I won’t go over the details of the story.
I loved this book and it was wrapped up so nicely. This one however was quite a bit different from all the others but in a good way. This one doesn’t just focus on Rebel, but all the other couples as well, though Rebel conquering his injuring is the major plot. We also see the town that hated Rebel rally together as well. There is still a lot of dram and suspense, nail-biting suspense at time. And several times I had to reach for a tissue. Especially near the end.
I found the very end a charming surprise and the bit of humor lightened the mood of the story. Of course there was sex. Lots of hot yummy man-sex.
I will miss these guys but I bet Rain has something else in store for us soon.
If you like good romance, hard core BDSM, drama, a variety of loving, fun interesting men, this book is for you. I highly recommend this series if you like any of the above.
I have not read any of your books but I am looking forward to it.
rain is a new author for me and cant wait to see some of these books
Rain is new to me, and I would love to win one of her books. 🙂
Rain is a new to me author. I can’t wait to get started on this series.
I haven’t read this series yet. I’ve added all the books to my wishlist. Thank you for the giveaway chance!