Length: 40,000 words approx.
Cover Design: Meredith Russell
Blurb
Javier seems determined to bring fun and laughter back into Sebastian’s life during this holiday season, and Sebastian is both grateful and enchanted. After a family Christmas and a word of advice from his great-uncle, Sebastian starts to look at Javier in a different light. Is Javier as fond of Sebastian as he appears, or is Sebastian being misled by his own need? If he’s reading the signs right—and if he’s ready to move on from his previous heartbreak—could he and Javier be much more than friends?
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Review
“If
something was meant to happen between us, there would be a sign. Something from
him besides the smile on his lips, the way he kissed my cheeks and the way he
hugged me. There would be a sign to tell me. I would have to wait for that sign
to come.”
Poor
Sebastian has a problem seeing what is right in front of him.
First
there is Elliot, his boyfriend and business manager. When Elliot deserts
Sebastian and takes someone else on the holiday that should have been a
Christmas away for the two of them, it comes as a bolt out of the blue for
Sebastian. Until he thinks about his recent past with Elliot and comes to
recognise that he just missed the warning signs.
But,
obviously blindness is a stubborn thing, because it plagues Sebastian just as
much when it comes to Javier. It is (almost painfully) obvious that Javier has
fallen for Sebastian, but our jilted lover first doesn’t see it, then refuses
to believe that what he sees is actually there, no matter how many others point
out the obvious to him. Sure, his reluctance to believe in love and to submit
to attraction makes perfect sense given what he’s just been through, but still,
on more than one occasion I would have lovingly slapped him; if only because
his (lack of) actions had to be difficult for Javier.
Javier.
*Sighs*. Now there’s a man worth waiting for. Patient, considerate, a good
friend first and lover second, Javier is everything Sebastian needs when his
life falls apart and, if he can just take of the blindfold, everything he’ll
ever need for the rest of his life.
This
is a sweet, touching, and adorable story, not to mention that at times it is
laugh out loud funny. It features two adorable MCs, but more than that, it also
gives us a fabulous cast of secondary characters. Top of that list is, of
course, Buster, Sebastian’s Chihuahua.
But his family comes a very close second, as do his friends and colleagues,
especially Dave aka Miss Belle End.
If
you’re in the mood for a story that will pull on your heart strings in all the
right ways and will leave you with a smile on your face and a sigh on your
lips, you probably want to pick up On the Third Kiss.
Author Bio
George was about eighteen when he told his friend that he was going to be a writer. It took him another eighteen years before he finally did anything about it and wrote his first short story. A typical Englishman, he drinks buckets of tea with milk—but no sugar, because he is sweet enough. His Nan told him so.
George lives just outside of London, but close enough to enjoy Soho and the West End, where you will find him in a bar with a pint, in a club dancing into the early hours of the morning, or enjoying a musical in the theater; but more than likely he will be in a coffee shop reading a book or writing a new story. Currently single, but taking applications for future husband position, George enjoys crafting romantic stories in which he hopes that one day, life will imitate art.
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