Celebration Boys (Duet)

By Willa Okati

True love comes where you're least looking for it... and where it's been, all along.

Valentine’s Vow: Best friends and frequent bed-buddies Thom and Ryan don't go for any of that "love" stuff. They're so set on their path they swear off Valentine's Day as a holiday for the hopelessly mushy. What they don't know is St. Valentine himself has taken an interest in their case. Flaunt his Holy Day, will they? He'll teach them a lesson they won't soon forget... and show them that there really is a lot more to love than candy and flowers.

Independence Day: With the help of guardian ghosts Edmund and Great-Uncle Joey, Thom and Ryan made the transition from bed-buddies to live-in lovers in Valentine Vow. But their relationship hits the skids when Ryan discovers Thom has neglected to tell people about their new coupledom. Miffed that he's a closeted secret, Ryan's ready to call it quits. Time for Edmund and Joey to step in again, to bring Ryan and Thom back into each other's arms in time for Independence Day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Changeling Press
• Release date: Jan 31, 2020

Willa Okati

Willa Okati can most often be found muttering to herself over a keyboard, plugged into her iPod and breaking between paragraphs to play air drums. In her spare time (the odd ten minutes or so per day she's not writing) she's teaching herself to play the pennywhistle. Willa has forty-plus separate tattoos and yearns for a full body suit of ink. She walks around in a haze of story ideas, dreaming of tales yet to be told. She drinks an alarming amount of coffee for someone generally perceived to be mellow.

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Valentine’s Vow/Independence Day

(Celebration Boys Duet)

Willa Okati

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Table of Contents

Valentine’s Vow/Independence Day (Celebration Boys Duet)

Valentine’s Vow (Celebration Boys 1)

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Independence Day (Celebration Boys 2)

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Epilogue

Willa Okati

Valentine’s Vow/Independence Day

(Celebration Boys Duet)

Willa Okati

True love comes where you’re least looking for it… and where it’s been, all along.

Valentine’s Vow: Best friends and frequent bed-buddies Thom and Ryan don’t go for any of that love stuff. They’re so set on their path they swear off Valentine’s Day as a holiday for the hopelessly mushy. What they don’t know is St. Valentine himself has taken an interest in their case. Flaunt his Holy Day, will they? He’ll teach them a lesson they won’t soon forget… and show them that there really is a lot more to love than candy and flowers.

Independence Day: With the help of guardian ghosts Edmund and Great-Uncle Joey, Thom and Ryan made the transition from bed-buddies to live-in lovers in Valentine Vow. But their relationship hits the skids when Ryan discovers Thom has neglected to tell people about their new coupledom. Miffed that he’s a closeted secret, Ryan’s ready to call it quits. Time for Edmund and Joey to step in again, to bring Ryan and Thom back into each other’s arms in time for Independence Day.

Valentine’s Vow (Celebration Boys 1)

Willa Okati

Best friends and frequent bed-buddies Thom and Ryan don’t go for any of that love stuff. They don’t need it. They have each other for company, hot sex, and good times. What would they need to be in love for? In fact, they’re so set on their path that they swear off Valentine’s Day as a holiday for the hopelessly mushy.

What they don’t know is that St. Valentine himself has taken an interest in their case. Flaunt his Holy Day, will they? He’ll teach them a lesson they won’t soon forget… and show them that there really is a lot more to love than candy and flowers.

True love, comes where you’re least looking for it… and where it’s been, all along.

Chapter One

Ryan stood at the kitchen range, slowly stirring a pot of his special chili. Hot as the seven fires of hell, full of peppers and onions, it let out a smell that made his nose tingle. No one could beat that chili.

He paused in thought. Should he serve it over potatoes? Given a few minutes, he could toss a couple of tubers in the oven and get them baking. Or nuke the things. That’d be quicker. Never tasted the same, though.

Maybe he should serve it plain. Garnish it with a good sharp cheddar and let it stand as the golden god of bachelor cuisine that it was. Beans and all.

He’d gotten the recipe from his great-uncle Joey, grouchiest son-of-a-bitch on earth, and a lifelong bachelor. And, as it turned out, a randy old goat, too. One of the brothers of the flesh and in the closet all his life, although Ryan hadn’t found that out until after the man died and he inherited his cabin. While rooting around in the attic, he’d come across stacks of old letters from Edmund.

Funny what you don’t