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Cover Design: Garrett Leigh @ Black Jazz Design
Blurb
Luis Pope is back on the street after a six year stretch in prison, but life on the outside seems just out of reach, especially when the whole neighbourhood knows his face for all the wrong reasons.
Paolo’s temper makes it hard to keep staff, and he knows Luis’s rep all too well. But his nonno believes in redemption, and Luis isn’t the tough guy Paolo remembers. Prison has left its mark, inside and out, and all the kindness in the world can’t fix the three inch scar on Luis’s skull.
And it can’t keep ghosts locked up. Luis’s the best worker Paolo’s ever had, and Luis’s happier than he’s ever been. But his old life doesn’t want to stay in the past. Trouble comes to call, and when it makes him an offer he can’t refuse, keeping Paolo safe hurts the most.
Redemption is an angsty, standalone MM romance novel, with second chances, found family, friends-to-lovers, and buckets of hurt/comfort themed loveliness.
REVIEW
Review by: Jennifer
(4 Stars)
Fresh out of prison, Luis is sort of spinning his wheels; no clue where to go, no clue what to do or where to start. He does know that he doesn't want anything to do with the life that he had before prison. He ends up getting a job at Toni's, and that’s where he meets Paolo. Slowly Luis starts to get his footing and he and Paolo start something beautiful; but the past is never far behind and threatens to pull him back in the wrong direction.
This was a good read; Luis is a bit damaged from the past and Paolo is just what he needed! It was fate that he saw that sign in the window and that Paolo saw him later at the bus stop. With some really good drama and some spicy naughty bits, this proved to be a very entertaining read and I give it 4 stars.
Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.
When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.
Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.
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