
K.L. Noone has a new contemporary MM romance out: “Steadfast.” And there’s a goveaway too!
A love story for the ages! An intimate confession! An epic quest! And happily ever after on the horizonâŚ
Jason Mirelli loves Colby Kent. And Colby loves him. Theyâve told the world. And Colbyâs recovered from injury, so theyâre back at work and back on set. Jason just might have everything heâs ever dreamed of, with a serious leading role, an epic love story, and Colby safe and happy in his armsâbut they only have two weeks of filming to go. Heâs afraid of the dream falling apart, and he knows Colby has a secret to confessâone that could transform both the ending of their movie and their future together.
Colby never got around to telling Jason his final secret before the accident on set. Now that heâs recovered, he wants to share his writing and his silent script doctor work with the man he loves. Besides, heâs rewritten this script to give their characters a proper happy ending. But heâs nervous about making changes to a classic novel, and he wants the authorâs approval.
Colbyâs hoping to seek out the famously reclusive author in question, but first heâll need to trust Jason with this last piece of himself. If he can, he and Jason might finally find their happily-ever-after both on screen and offâfor their characters and for themselves.
About the Series:
An epic motion picture! A gay Napoleonic War love story! Ballrooms and battles at sea! Romantic happy endings on the silver screen! And a film thatâll change everything for its stars …
Jason Mirelli canât play adrenaline-fueled action heroes forever. Heâs getting older, plus the action star parts have grown a little thinner since he came out as bisexual. This role could finally let him be seen as a serious dramatic actor, and he needs it to go well — for his career, and because heâs fallen in love with the story and the chance to tell it.
The first problem? Heâll be playing a shipâs captain … and he hasnât exactly mentioned his fear of water. The second problem? His co-star: award-winning, overly talkative, annoyingly adorable — and openly gay — box office idol Colby Kent.
Colbyâs always loved the novel this filmâs based on, and he leapt at the chance to adapt it, now that he has the money and reputation to make it happen. But scars and secrets from his past make filming a love story difficult … until Jason takes his hand and wakes up all his buried desires. Jason could be everything Colbyâs ever wanted: generous and kind, a fantastic partner on set, not to mention those heroic muscles. But Colby just canât take that chance … or can he?
As their characters fall in love and fight a war, Colby and Jason find themselves falling, too … and facing the return of their own past demons. But together they just might win … and write their own love story.
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Excerpt
Jason steadied Colby and himself as best he could. His heart hadnât calmed down yet. Slamming into his ribsâseeing Colby come running through a doorway, eyes wide, breath quickâhearing Colby ask for helpâ
But Colbyâs eyes were bright. And Colbyâs hand on his arm was exuberant, not frightened.
ââIâve saved them, you see,â Colby was saying, voice tripping all over itself in excitement, accent rippling and delighted. âIâve worked it out, the happy ending, and Iâm very sorry youâll have to lose an arm, but that wonât be too dreadful, and your Stephen can come home to Will after all, but if Iâm going to change anything that drastic I do want to explain, so Iâll need your help, but anyway, here, tell me whether you think itâs all rightââ
âYouâre okay,â Jason said.
âOh.â Colby blinked at him, then smiled. Willâs dressing gown slid off one shoulder; Jason moved to tug it back up, but Colby already was, unselfconsciously graceful. âYes. Very much.â
âYouâŚsaved Will and Stephen?â He took offered script pages. âYou changed the ending?â
âYes, I had toâI couldnât let them be tragicâyes, go on, read itââ
Serenity the PA had tactfully wandered down the hallway and was pretending to be texting. Night fell like a slowing carousel around them, through tall curtain-framed windows full of stars.
Jason kept an arm around Colby, who believed in happy endings. Found the beginning of the new scenes.
After a minute he said, âHoly shit yes.â
âYes, I thought so too, did you like the bit when Stephenââ
âHang on, Iâm not doneââ It was good. It was so good. He wanted to leap headlong into Colbyâs words, to plunge into this imagined historical future. He could see himself playing it out, knowing exactly the quaking weight in Stephenâs steps toward Willâs townhouse, fearful and hopeful, reunion only a possibility until it became triumphantly realâŚ
He knew how Stephen would gather Will close with his one good arm, and how the tears would burn: Will lived, Will still wanted him, they would face the rebuilding of their lives together.
His chest ached, because Colby had written words that reached in and gripped his heart and shook it apart and then soothed it into a soft safe rhythm again.
He looked up, after. âThis is right.â
âYes,â Colby said. âYes. Itâs a good historyâtwo men getting to be happy together, because they did, they could, we have to tell those storiesââ
âBut itâs also right for them. What they do with the house, with their livesââ
âI wanted it,â Colby said, âto feel like joy.â He looked like joy too, wrapped up in an embroidered period dressing gown.
âIt does,â Jason said. âIt does.â
âBut to make that changeâŚâ Colby hesitated, excitement not dimmed but reshaped. âFirst weâll have to tell Jillian. Itâll alter the tone of the film.â
âSheâll love it. I do.â
âI think she willâweâd talked about the ending, and Iâd said I wasnât entirely happyâbut itâll mean a longer shoot. I can put more money into it, thatâs not a problem, but weâll be asking the crew to extend their commitment. Iâll understand if some of them canât, of course.â
Jason mentally skipped over the financing comment. It was a reminderâColby had a hell of a lot of money even compared to Jasonâs action-hero income, enough to casually fling at a production in needâbut heâd already made peace with that. He knew Colby used it to help people.
More importantly, he guessed that most if not all of their crew would stay on. If not for the paycheck, for Colby. âBet theyâll want to. This is big. This kind of story. Telling it.â
âThatâs the other part. I know how much the novel means to the people who love it.â Colby squared shoulders. âI think, in order to do thisâŚwe should go and find George Forrest and ask. Not permission, preciselyâhe gave that when we agreed on the rights, and he said he didnât want to be involvedânot bothered by all that nonsense, was how he put itâbut Iâd like some sort ofâŚâ
âApproval?â
âPerhaps. I want to be respectful. Iâll show him my version, and he can comment, Iâd not mind, he knows Will and Stephen the bestâI wonder if heâd like raspberry tarts as a sort of giftââ
The next realization hit Jasonâs brain like a falling ton of Regency-era bricks. âColby?â
âThatâs the bit Iâd like your help with, not the baking but the travel, becauseââ
âColby.â
âPossibly not tarts?â
âIf you do thisâŚif we do thisâŚâ He had both hands on Colbyâs shoulders. Bracing. âItâll mean telling people. About your writing. Itâll have to. We could try to keep your secret, I know you and Jillâve been good at that, and Iâll help, you know I will. But it wonât work for long. If youâre the one finding the author, if youâre showing him thisâif even one person says even one thingâwith the press weâve already gotâŚâ He gave up, said it again: âYouâll have to tell people. And I know you donât want to.â
Colby didnât flinch. âI know. Iâm fine with it.â
âYou are?â
âI am. Iâd already decided that, last night. I thoughtâŚyes, itâll change things, but Iâm proud of what I write. And I love Stephen and Will, and I believe in romance, and if giving them a happy ending means being a bit brave about sharing myself, I can do that.â
You can, Jason thought. His hands gentled, holding those slender shoulders; his heart skipped a beat, caught breath, felt awe like sunrise. He thought that even without being in love with Colby, which he was, heâd love Colby: someone who cared about happiness deeply enough to face the price of it with open eyes. With freshly-made raspberry tarts in hand.
Author Bio
K.L. Noone employs her academic research for writing romance, frequently LGBTQIA, often paranormal, fantasy, or historical. Her full-length romance novels include the Character Bleed trilogy (Seaworthy, Stalwart, Steadfast), Cadence and the Pearl, and A Demon for Midwinter, available from JMS Books, and A Prophecy for Two, available from Inkshares, and sheâs also the author of multiple romance short stories with JMS Books, and previously with Less Than Three Press, Circlet Press, and Ellora’s Cave. Her non-romance fantasy fiction has appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress and the magazine Aoife’s Kiss.
With the Professor Hat on, sheâs published scholarly work on romance, fantasy, and folklore, including a book on Welsh mythology in popular culture and a book on ethics in Terry Pratchettâs fantasy. She is happily bisexual, married to the marvelous Awesome Husband, and currently owned by a long-legged black cat named Merlyn.
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