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Blog Tour Guest Blog and Giveaway: Beach Balls by Tara Lain

Submitted by on June 1, 2012 – 4:00 am26 Comments

Boys on the Beach

It’s so great to be back at Paperback Dolls! Today I’m celebrating my new book, Beach Balls, that is released TODAY! Beach Balls is a MM enemies to lovers story that takes place on, in, and around the sea. It was so fun putting my heroes in compromising positions underwater! On the beach! In a boat! So today I thought we could celebrate the fun of guys on the beach and have a little photofest.

No beach matches Brazil for just plain hunkiness as you can tell from this group shot.
I hope you like brunettes.

Australia knows the beach and Aussie Bums beachwear pretty much sums it up. Take a look at these two solid representatives of the beauty down under.

Beach Balls is the third book in my Balls to the Wall series. The first book in the series is Volley Balls and has a few super sand volleyballers to make you swoon. Like this guy.

And while you have the water, may as well take advantage of it, don’t you think?

I hope you enjoyed my beach review. And I hope you enjoy Beach Balls.

Before you go, would you like a chance to win a $10 gift card? Just leave a comment here WITH YOUR EMAIL. The drawing for the winner will be held on June 9th. And if you’d like a chance to win a Volley Balls or Fire Balls T-shirt or a Fire Balls carry bag, be one of three people to follow the most blogs and events on the blog tour. (US only. Sorry) Everyone who follows any events will be eligible to win. If you are one of the top three, you get a prize.  All the events are listed at along with extra chances to win prizes. Come on over.

Tara Lain never met a beautiful boy she didn’t love – at least on paper. A writer of erotic romance, mostly ménage and male/male, Tara loves all her characters, but especially her handsome heroes. A lifelong writer of serious non-fiction, Tara only fell in love with EROM in 2009 and, through perseverance and lots of workshops, had the first novel she ever wrote accepted for publication in 2010. She’s now on book six. After an exotic life of travel all over the world and work in television, education and advertising, Tara settled in Southern California with her soul-mate husband and opened her own small marketing business. She paints, collages, and started practicing yoga “way before it was fashionable”. Passionate about diversity, justice, inclusion and new ideas she says on her tombstone it will read, “Yes”.

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Beach Balls by Tara Lain; MM Contemporary

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Adam James is so far in the closet he could find Narnia. But coming out would threaten all he’s built as the lead attorney for WMA Development, and the million dollars he can get when he finishes pushing  a big land remediation project through the City Council. Then on an early morning scuba dive, Adam meets a tall, lean rebreather diver named Sky who makes him want to live a different life. But Adam’s dreams are shattered when he walks into the council meeting and finds the fire-breathing environmentalist who’s screwing up  his chances of winning is none other than that same beautiful man. Sky Sea Mickeljohn doesn’t compromise, so how could he find himself lusting after a damned developer? And what happens when somebody open’s Adam’s closet door? These two better start telling the truth if they’re ever going to find world peace.

Excerpt from Beach Balls by Tara Lain:

Movement. Was that a diver? Adam swam toward the wavering outline. No bubbles. Couldn’t be a diver. A shark? Excited, he swam closer. It was a person. The diver’s wetsuited back was to Adam. The tall, lanky guy seemed to be studying something closely.

How the hell did he get around so freely? His tanks were small, light. Rebreather tanks probably. That system reused the exhaled oxygen and scrubbed the carbon dioxide. Rebreathers didn’t need such big tanks because nothing was wasted. And no bubbles. Adam had never seen a rebreather rig up close. Not a lot of sports divers used them.

Who was this guy? He might as well be standing in his backyard he looked so at home. And what was he doing?

Adam floated a little closer. He caught his breath. Ah, an octopus. The guy was looking at an octopus. Maybe better to say he was kind of dancing with it. The octopus still had a few of its arms inside a hole in some coral but the rest were waving from side to side. Kind of like it appreciated the guy but was telling him not to come too close.

OK, Adam was losing it. Anthropomorphizing an octopus.

He wanted to see better. His bubbles flowed upward as he swam closer. The other diver turned,  his movements languid. His hand rose up toward Adam, warning him off.

Well hell, it wasn’t his octopus. Adam swam to the right, and the guy blocked him. Asshole. Adam rushed to the right again and got around him just in time to see…the octopus pull back into its hole and disappear. Shit!

He turned toward the guy. Hell, all he’d wanted to do was see the fucking octopus. He put his hands on his hips trying to show his pissoffness. The guy shook his head and waved his arms at Adam. Double asshole. Adam turned back toward the hole where the creature had vanished. Maybe he could get the critter to come back out. He swam forward.

A hard hand grabbed his arm. Damn.Who did this guy think he was? Adam whirled as ferociously as the ocean, a mask, regulator, and two huge tanks would allow, and the other diver backed off with his hands up. Adam frowned and then realized how stupid that was. The man couldn’t see his expression. The octopus was completely invisible, so there wasn’t much going on. Adam wouldn’t get in an underwater fist-fight over a vanished cephalopod.

The other diver was still watching Adam closely.

Shit, he was done. No octopus. No peace. He might as well go back to Carly’s and have sex. With a push of his foot, he swam toward the surface.

A half hour later, he lay on the sand still annoyed about the asshole and the octopus. Why had the guy been like that? They could have shared the creature.

Oh, well. He should go back inside and get another hit of Gary, but it felt good just lying on the sand. He’d purposefully chosen a stretch of beach without many kids. Less noise, but still close to Carly’s.

He raised himself onto an elbow. Everyone else would be up by now. Way up. Maybe he’d see who he could find. If he was honest, Gary was almost too much of a good thing. The guy swore he wouldn’t care or be jealous. Of course, Adam had heard that before. He glanced over at the kayak full of Carly’s scuba gear. Might as well get to it…

And there he was. Rising from the sea like some merman. Not a bubble. Not a ripple. The diver just appeared, manifested by Neptune. Was he the octopus guy? He had to be. A tall, slim figure strode through the shallow water navigating the surf like it wasn’t there. Like it couldn’t drag him down and out to sea.

He stopped at the waterline and pulled off the tanks, unfastened the hood of his wetsuit and shoved it back, then shook his head like a dog and fluffed out light brown curls that surrounded his head like a halo.

Perfect, because from this distance the guy’s face looked totally like an angel. Wide eyes, full lips, and high cheekbones that gave him a slightly hollow-cheeked look.

He walked a few more steps and dropped the rig then dragged down the wetsuit, revealing a long, lean body, thin but well-muscled like a long-distance runner. He must spend a lot of time in the sun if he was a diver, but his skin was only a pale tan. Man, under his bathing suit he would be alabaster. What else was under that bathing suit?

The diver was so mesmerizing Adam forgot to be pissed. The guy started to gather up his stuff. Adam jumped up. “Excuse me.”

The angel face turned toward him. Neutral. Maybe he didn’t recognize him from the underwater encounter.

Adam took a couple steps toward him. “Hey, I’m the guy you chased off the octopus down there. I know you got there first and all, but hell, all I wanted to do was see the thing. You didn’t have to make a huge deal out of it.”

A crease appeared between the arched eyebrows. “Your bubbles. They were bothering her. I had been coaxing her out for over an hour and then you came barging in like some hippopotamus.” The guy picked up his tanks and started walking.

“Wait!”

Angelface stopped and looked back.

OK, why had Adam stopped him? What did he want? “I’m, uh, sorry. I didn’t realize. I just saw the thing and really wanted a better look.”

“There’s a nice aquarium in Long Beach.”

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26 Comments »

  • Suze says:

    Loving all the excerpts – photos were yum too!

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  • Sherry S. says:

    Wonderful excerpt I look forward to reading the book. You have such great covers. I love all of your pictures.
    Linky – Sherry Strode
    sstrode at scrtc dot com

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  • Tracey D says:

    Great pictures and excerpt, Tara. Thank you for starting my Friday off with a bang!!

    Thanks,
    Tracey D
    booklover0226 at gmail dot com

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  • June M. says:

    Congrats on the new release Tara! I really have to get caught up on all the m/m goodness of this series. Have a wonderful weekend :)
    June
    manning_j2004 at yahoo dot com

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  • Yvette says:

    Love the pics! Bought the book and can’t wait to read it this weekend.
    Yvette

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  • Cathy M says:

    Great line up of man flesh, Tara, thanks for sharing them with us.

    caity_mack at yahoo dot com

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  • Tara Lain says:

    Thank you Yvette and Cathy! Yvette, i hope you enjoy the book! : )

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  • peggy says:

    Thanks for the pics, they are HOT!! Cant wait to read the book.

    peggy1984 at live dot com

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  • Tara Lain says:

    Thank you so much, Peggy! Hope you enjoy it! : )

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  • Susan W. says:

    Love the pictures! Really looking forward to reading Beach Balls.!
    suz2(at)cox(dot)net

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  • Tara Lain says:

    Thank you so much, Susan! You’re entered. : )

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  • Emily W. says:

    Thanks for the awesome pics!! One of the reasons I go to the beach is for the hot guys :) Thanks for the new excerpt!

    tiger-chick-1(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  • bn100 says:

    Congrats on the book! Very nice excerpt.

    bn100candg(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  • Tara Lain says:

    Thank you so much! : )

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  • Trix says:

    Wonder who the volleyball player is in the photo? He seems a little too tan to be (the lovely and talented!) Phil Dalhausser, but with the way his head is tilted back, I can’t tell…

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  • SiNn says:

    I love Taras books!@ all of them are awesome this one will be just as great

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  • Anne says:

    Thanks for the eye candy. Loved the line in the blurb about Adam being so far in the closet, he could be in Narnia. ;)

    acm05atjuno.com

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  • Tara Lain says:

    Thank you so much. My editor said it was her favorite all time first line of a blurb. LOL : )

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