Jacob Flores: Chasing the Sun


Tharp-Flores--(1179)__06_12_13Hi, everyone! I’m Jacob Z. Flores, and I’m excited about being here at Michael Rupured’s blog. This is my first time here, and I’m honored that Michael has allowed me to sully his blog with my presence. I met Michael at GRL, and let me tell you, he’s such a sweet guy. It makes being here that much grander.

So why am I here taking up space? Well, Michael has graciously offered to be the last stop on my blog tour promoting my latest release, Chasing the Sun, which is the second book of my Provincetown Series.

For those interested, I have included a blurb and excerpt below. Additionally, as part of my blog tour I’m holding a contest. All you have to do is leave a comment to this post, and your name is entered to win a free copy of Chasing the Sun. If a reader happens to follow all my blog stops, then she or he can leave a comment at the other sites a well. At the end of the tour, a winner will be chosen and announced.

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Blurb:

As a physician and prominent citizen of Victoria, Texas, Dr. Gil Kelly took a hard fall when his vengeful wife revealed his infidelity with other men. Closing ranks around her, the town’s elite ostracized him, and his relationship with his children was nearly destroyed.

After spending his life focused on living for others, he has no idea how to live for himself. He wants to find love but now settles for anonymous sex that only further clouds his world with shame and guilt. Gil believes finding true love is an unobtainable dream, what his father used to call “chasing the sun.”

Then he runs into Tom Martinez, his son’s childhood best friend, who returned to town a grown man and offers everything Gil needs. But Gil hesitates to fall into Tom’s arms, because after his high-profile divorce, the potential scandal of loving a younger man could separate him from his children permanently.

Spin off of When Love Takes Over (1st Provincetown Series book)

He learned that dating for gay men was different than when he dated and pretended to be straight all those years ago. When he dated his wife, he quickly realized it for what it was—a cat-and-mouse game. She flirted. He advanced. When he made a move, she pulled back. If he followed her lead and didn’t pursue, she flirted, which started the cycle all over again.

It was basically one big tease.

That wasn’t how men pursued other men. Sure, teasing abounded. Why else did most gay men wear such revealing clothing or send naughty pictures of themselves over dating sites like Cyber? To tease and attract someone, just like women tempted men with a peek of their bosoms barely contained by plunging necklines or skirts so short they hardly covered up the goods.

The big difference between pursuing women and gay men, though, was follow-through. Gay men didn’t continue the game. Once both players accepted the rules, the good times rolled. For gay men, dating was about sex, sometimes anonymous, which apparently cranked up the hot factor by ten.

He found the idea intriguing at first, but the horror stories online made Gil not want to chance a private meeting, ever.

He’d read articles about guys being robbed or even attacked by gay bashers, who lay in wait for some unsuspecting man with more boner than common sense to head over to some stranger’s house.

Over the past five years, he’d made enough of a spectacle of himself to not want to add a gay bashing to his long list of scandals.

This town had feasted upon him enough as it was.

Gil accepted the mistakes he made that destroyed his family. He would continue to repay that debt for the rest of his life, if he had to. But he didn’t owe anyone else another damn drop of his blood, even though the social elite constantly circled him like the sharks they were.

He would no longer be the chum in their blood-infested waters.

“Dr. Kelly?”

The man’s voice startled Gil out of his thoughts. When he looked up, fear crawled down his spine like a spider taking a leisurely stroll along the length of his back.

“Tommy?” he asked, embarrassed that he sounded like a teen caught doing something naughty by his parents. To recover, he inhaled deeply. “It’s been, what? A year? How are you?”

“Okay, I guess,” the younger man said, pulling out the chair across the table and sitting down. “But please, call me Tom. It hasn’t been Tommy since I graduated high school, which was many years ago.”

Gil smiled and nodded.

Tommy Martinez had been his son’s best friend since elementary school. Back then, Tommy and Zach were inseparable, and Tommy proved to be much sweeter than the hellion Zach always pretended to be. Where Zach was defiant to authority, Tommy showed only respect to adults. He never complained when he and Zach were told not to get dirty, to take their baths, or to eat their vegetables. He simply nodded, smiled, and did what was asked.

As they entered puberty, Zach’s wild streak worsened. His son never seemed happy. It was as if Zach constantly searched for something beyond his grasp. Tommy, on the other hand, appeared more grounded. By the time they were teens, Tommy possessed self-confidence envied by most adults. He understood his life was of his making, and he was bound and determined to make his way in the world. When Tommy didn’t return to Victoria after college, Gil hadn’t been surprised.

Over the past few years, Tommy had returned to town a few times, and Gil hadn’t been surprised that the respectful boy, who had always smiled underneath a full head of messy jet-black hair as a child, had matured into a striking man.

His hair, still as black as the night, had finally been tamed. Cut short along the sides, it descended into sideburns that dipped just below his ears. The top was a little longer than the sides, just enough to get a good handful of in more intimate situations, and his caramel-colored eyes that were three shades lighter than his tanned flesh made Gil feel drunk.

“You okay, Dr. Kelly?”

“Yes,” he answered quickly. “How come?” He couldn’t stop staring into Tommy’s eyes. What a lecherous fool he’d become! That was why Gil did his best to avoid him whenever Tommy returned to visit family. Gil had known him as a child, yet all he could ever envision was licking a trail across the stubble that hugged Tommy’s jaw line.

You can buy Chasing the Sun here: https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=4260

And I urge readers to visit me at any or all of my social media sites:

Website/blog: https://jacobzflores.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jacob.flores2,

Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JacobZFlores,

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5142501.Jacob_Z_Flores

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10 responses to “Jacob Flores: Chasing the Sun”

  1. I have been following your blog tour . the interviews have been great! I buy your books as soon as they are listed on the “coming Soon” page. So I don’t need to be entered in a drawing. Just wanted to say ” Great Books” please keep writing!!!!!!

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