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Candy G - Roots
C. Zampa
Release date: September 2, 2015
Welcome to my humble abode…could you tell us a bit about
yourself, your background and your current book?
I was born and raised in Texas and live in a
suburb just east of Houston.
Like most authors, I’ve been writing for as
long as I can remember—beginning with pre-fan-fic of favorite stars of my day
written and shared with me and my pals from school.
If I wasn’t writing, I was drawing stories,
complete with dialogue bubbles, the whole nine yards.
My current book is ‘Candy G – Roots’, a
re-write of my first published book, ‘Candy G’. The story has been a major
revamp of the original, complete with a new plot, some new characters and new
POVs of the main characters.
It’s a man’s struggle to ease back into life
after quitting his career as the lover and exclusive attorney for San Antonio’s
most powerful drug lord. Candelario “Candy” Gonzalez meets and falls hard for
Carlos Alvarez, a beautiful street wise young man who reminds Candy of his past
and all the goodness and happiness that entailed. The track back to that
happiness isn’t that easy, though. And it just might put all involved in a
fight for their lives.
Blurb:
It’s said you can’t go home again….
The last thing Candelario “Candy” Gonzalez
wants is to go back to his roots in the barrio. At sixteen, he grabs a one-way
ticket to luxury and comfort as the lover and protégé of powerful drug lord,
Teirso Flores.
Flores molds beautiful Candy for his own
agenda—to become his exclusive attorney, and Candy’s prowess brings the term
criminal defense to a new level.
But life in the very dark, very fast lane
comes to a screeching halt when a child is killed by one of Flores’s thugs
during a drive-by shooting. Candy walks away from his law practice and away
from Flores, determined to live honestly.
Carlos Alvarez stirs both desire and
confusion in Candy, because young Carlos symbolizes everything Candy left
behind. Inching from his universe of opulence and power and into Carlos’s
world, Candy realizes the only happiness he ever knew was in his past.
Crossing the boundary isn’t easy though, and Candy’s newfound hope draws out
the demons he thought he’d escaped.
Categories: Contemporary, M/M
Romance, Fiction, Gay Fiction, Romance
200 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: Reese Dante
Excerpt:
San Antonio, 2011
SHE PIERCED me with her stare. She willed me
dead.
Who could blame her for wishing a bullet
would find me, kill me, and send me straight to hell? I couldn’t. I was, after
all, the attorney for the man who’d caused the death of her baby. In her eyes
and in the eyes of her community, I might as well have killed the child myself.
Still, even though her hatred tried so damn
hard to annihilate me through the dense forest of bodies in the courtroom, I
wasn’t fazed. I had no conscience. I wasn’t paid to have one of those
things—consciences, that is. I was only paid to defend the man who… caused the
death of her baby.
Baby. Caused the death of.
Goddamn.
Why now, after all these years, had this
alien intrusion—this fucking thing called conscience—begun to creep up?
Because deep in her brown eyes—the eyes of
this mother whose child had been murdered—I saw something else besides her hate
for me. I saw something I recognized and knew intimately. Something that ripped
through me and knocked me to my knees.
I saw pain. And helplessness. And I knew, I
knew so damn well, what an ungodly hell it was when pain, anger, and hate
mingled to create helplessness.
I saw a proud, proud woman whose world had
been gunned down. A proud woman who’d surely been the strength of her family,
who would now—by my hands, by my legal prowess—be stripped of her pride and
confidence.
I saw a woman who had done absolutely
nothing to have deserved the hell my client had brought down on her. Nor had
she done anything to deserve the even worse hell I was about to send her to.
Right then, as though some ungodly tight
mainspring had broken inside me, my soul shattered.
I leaned close to whisper in my smug
client’s ear, “I quit.”
And I walked away.
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