Trowchester Blues

Michael May is losing it. Long ago, he joined the Metropolitan Police to escape his father's tyranny and protect people like himself. Now his father is dead, and he's been fired for punching a suspect. Afraid of his own rage, he returns to Trowchester-and to his childhood home, with all its old fears and memories. When he meets a charming, bohemian bookshop owner who seems to like him, he clings tight.

Fintan Hulme is an honest man now. Five years ago, he retired from his work as a high-class London fence and opened a bookshop. Then an old client brings him a stolen book too precious to turn away, and suddenly he's dealing with arson and kidnapping, to say nothing of all the lies he has to tell his friends. Falling in love with an ex-cop with anger-management issues is the last thing he should be doing.

Finn thinks Michael is incredibly sexy. Michael knows Finn is the only thing that still makes him smile. But in a relationship where cops and robbers are natural enemies, that might not be enough to save them.

Alex Beecroft is an English author best known for historicalfiction, notably Age of Sail, featuring gay characters and romanticstorylines. Her novels and shorter works include paranormal, fantasy,and contemporary fiction.

Beecroft won Linden Bay Romance's (now Samhain_Publishing) Starlight Writing Competition in 2007 with her first novel, Captain's Surrender, making it her first published book. Captain's Surrender went on to become an Amazon bestseller.

On the subject of writing gay romance, Beecroft has appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine, Charleston City Paper, LA Weekly, the New Haven Advocate, the Baltimore City Paper, and The Other Paper.

She was a regular reviewer for the blog Speak Its Name, which highlights historical gay fiction, and after self-publishing her backlist has now begun to write queer Fantasy and Science Fiction and Cozy Mystery in addition to Romance.