Brackets

Review Mychael Black, author of the Breakdown Series, writes: Austin is a photojournalist who grew up on the mean streets of New York. With the assignment of covering a family hit hard by the war in Iraq, he heads to the mountains -- somewhere quite out of his element. There he meets Brack Edge, the burly mountain man who�s to be his guide for six weeks. While the attraction between them is immediate, little does Austin know that Brack -- and the Jenkins family, and a young man named Randy -- will all change his life for the better. Brackets is an amazing story of letting go of the past and building a new future. Austin and Brack were made for one another, the chemistry between them undeniable. As the resident gay man in a town with gay-bashers, Brack�s learned to hold his own quite well, and the way he cares for Randy is admirable. Austin�s flashbacks to a moment in his past, sparked by meeting Randy, were emotional and strong; but nothing compared to the stories Homer Jenkins tells of his lost children. And little Bethany, the Jenkins� daughter, stole every scene she was in. If you enjoy beautiful stories without the usual angst, ones that just put a smile on your face, then you absolutely need to read Brackets . Photojournalist Austin Edmunds is something of a loner, preferring his own company to all of the people his friends try to set him up with. A new assignment in the Smoky Mountains might just change all that, though, when Austin meets big, sexy hunk, Brack Edge. Austin has never experienced an attraction as immediate as the one he feels for Brack, and he loves the scenery and people he encounters in the Smokies. Despite all that, life isnt all fun and games for Austin and Brack. They take on helping out a local kid with his homophobic family, and Austin has a story to finish. The hardest part might just be how Brack and Austin will handle the fact that Austin is a Manhattan man to the core, and Brack is a mountain boy, through and through. Can they find a way to keep it together?