Release Blitz / Giveaway / Review: Ice (The Salisbury Series #2) – Chris Quinton & RJ Scott

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Reviewer's Rating: 5
5.0Overall score

A fantastic sequel to Heat but can be read as a stand-alone.

Ice – Chris Quinton & RJ Scott Release Blitz

Ice by R.J. Scott and Chris Quinton

Ice By R.J. Scott and Chris Quinton

Genre: Contemporary, GLBTQ, MM Romance

Released July 1, 2016

Publisher: Love Lane Books Limited

Series: Salisbury Stories, Book 2

Synopsis

With millions in diamonds at stake, can Jon make Greg see that some things are not worth dying for?

Footloose adventurer, Greg Drakowski used to live for the moment but these days shadows of grief and guilt cling to him. Recklessly following one lead to the next, Greg crosses oceans at the very hint of treasure, and doesn’t care that he rushes into danger.

This time, his quarry is a cache of diamonds, hidden away decades ago. When the clues bring him to the ancient city of Salisbury, he knows he’s close to success.

Renovations expert Jonathan Ellis is part of Ageless Wood Restorations – three generations of knowledge and trade. Focused and hard-working, Jon finds value in recreating the elegance of the past with his own hands, and it will take something – or someone – extraordinary to break into his enclosed world.

When Greg drops into Jon’s lap he finds it impossible to refuse him. Even when the bad guy appears and Jon isn’t sure whom he can trust, he knows he has to stand by Greg, if only to save the idiot from himself.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

A fantastic sequel to Heat but can be read as a stand-alone.

Ice is the second book in the Salisbury series but it also reads as a stand-alone. I’d recommend reading Heat, though because it’s a fantastic book.

This book has everything – romance, suspense, mystery and sexy time. Greg is a man of many faces. He specializes in finding lost treasure and not always within the law. He’s getting tired of the life and vows to give it up after this one final job.

Jon is co-owner of Ageless Word Restorations. His company was hired to repair the damage done by fire to the prestigious restaurant, the Laurels. He’s facing missing his contract deadline if he can’t find someone to replace his uncle who fell and broke his arm.

Enter Greg. One of his many talents, besides treasure hunting, happens to be carpentry and he’s an expert craftsman. When his current treasure hunt takes Greg to Salisbury and the Laurels it seems like a gift from the heavens to Jon and he fears it’s too good to be true.

Both Greg and Jon have trust issues because of their pasts and Jon also has a policy to not get involved with his employees. Greg challenges Jon at nearly every turn and Jon finds it impossible to resist his charm. Greg and Jon’s path to their HEA is fraught with challenges but they do manage to get there. The epilogue was a perfect cap to a great story.

As I read I became totally immersed in the story; I didn’t want to put it down. I loved how there were humorous times to help balance all of the mystery and suspense. The descriptions of the carvings and various settings in the book make me want to visit these places for real and not just in my imagination.

Ms. Scott and Ms. Quinton make a great writing team.

 

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Excerpt

Greg woke up a good hour before his alarm went off and rolled out of bed to shower and shave, and dress in his usual jeans and T-shirt ready for work. He drank instant coffee and ate the small wrapped cookies that came with the room, then took out all his notes and spread them out in chronological order on the floor, holding down recalcitrant corners with anything he could find.

A mug held down one, a notebook another, a pillow near his knee, and a shoe furthest from him.

Not exactly the best way to have this laid out, but he couldn’t pin everything up on the wall.

Andrey would laugh at him, seeing him on his hands and knees like this. Familiar grief welled inside him. A year and he could still conjure up Andrey’s face. He held the pendant that hung around his neck in a tight grip.

Greg sat back on his haunches to get a better perspective on the papers and to get a grip on the heartache that wouldn’t leave him. Instead he focused on why he was doing this: a mental promise to Andrey to find the Khlebnikov Diamonds. Somehow, in his screwed-up brain, he had rationalized the guilt he felt over Andrey’s death with finding the diamonds. Like it would restore some sort of cosmic balance in his life.

“Stupid,” he muttered to the empty room. “Find the diamonds, give them to Mack, get your cut, give the money to Lena, and fucking retire, already.”

His own island in the Aegean, beaches, warm water, peace.

Find the diamonds.

 

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About the Author Green
RJ‘s goal is to write stories with a heart of romance, a troubled road to reach happiness, and most importantly, that hint of a happily ever after.

RJ Scott is the bestselling gay romance author of over ninety MM romance books. She writes emotional stories of complicated characters, cowboys, millionaire, princes, and the men who get mixed up in their lives. RJ is known for writing books that always end with a happy ever after. She lives just outside London and spends every waking minute she isn’t with family either reading or writing.

RJ also writes MF romance under the name Rozenn Scott.

The last time she had a week’s break from writing she didn’t like it one little bit, and she has yet to meet a bottle of wine she couldn’t defeat.
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Chris Quinton started creating stories not long after she mastered joined-up writing, somewhat to the bemusement of her parents and her English teachers. But she received plenty of encouragement. Her dad gave her an already old Everest typewriter when she was ten, and it was probably the best gift she’d ever received – until the inventions of the home-computer and the worldwide web.
Chris’s reading and writing interests range from historical, mystery, and paranormal, to science-fiction and fantasy, writing mostly in the male/male genre. She refuses to be pigeon-holed and intends to uphold the long and honourable tradition of the Eccentric Brit to the best of her ability. In her spare time [hah!] she reads, embroiders, quilts and knits. Over the years she has been a stable lad [briefly] in a local racing stable and stud, a part-time and unpaid amateur archaeologist, a civilian clerk at her local police station and a 15th century re-enactor.
She lives in a small and ancient city in the south-west of the United Kingdom, sharing her usually chaotic home with an extended family, three dogs, a frilled dragon [lizard] and sundry goldfish and tropicals.
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