Release Tour, Excerpt & Giveaway:
Catching His Fall
By Christie Gordon

Mesa Boys, Book 1
Max has a plan. Tanner doesnโt do plans. Plan or not, theyโre better off together.
Max Thompson has a few problems. Heโs spending too much time at the skatepark watching a mysterious, unattainable young man he refers to as skater boy. Meanwhile, his college fund is running dry in his senior year at Arizona State University and itโs time to find a roommate to help with expenses. Hopefully one thatโs not too weird this time. Heโs spent his college years staying away from love to focus on school, but he canโt get skater boy out of his head.
Tanner Donahue is a hardworking assistant manager at a grocery store, who likes to skateboard and play guitar in a cover band in his spare time. But Tanner has his own problems. The first being the fact that he hooked up with and fell for his roommate and coworker, who has decided a relationship with a guy is not what he wants. Itโs time for Tanner to find a new place to live and learn from his mistake.
When Tanner shows up on Maxโs doorstep with his guinea pig, Stan, hoping to rent the room Max has available, Max jumps at the chance. Max soon realizes heโs going to have to walk a fine line if heโs going to make Tanner his own while living together. It doesnโt help that Tannerโs old roommate wants him back, and Tannerโs family situation is complicated at best. As truths are revealed and problems pile up, can Max and Tanner navigate whatโs thrown at them to come out together?
Catching His Fall is a roommates to lovers, opposites attract romance with an HEA and no cliffhangers. It features a determined college student and a bad boy skater with a heart of gold who only wants to please. This is book one in the Mesa Boys series. Each book features a different couple.
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Excerpt:
As Max opened the door on the condo and stepped inside, he took it all in. โOh, my God. Look at the view.โ He rolled his suitcase passed a dark-wood kitchen with stainless-steel appliances and black granite counters, then into a room with a glass and iron dining table and a modern, wrap-around sectional couch in dark green with colorful throw pillows. He stopped at a wall of windows and sliding glass doors, leading to a wrap-around patio. The ocean spread out in every direction, white caps twinkling in the deep blue as if they were stars in the sky.
Tanner stepped to his side and gazed out the patio door. โI canโt believe it.โ He beamed.
Max wrapped an arm around his shoulders and planted a quick kiss on his cheek. โIโm so glad we could be here together.โ
Tannerโs gaze met his. โYeah, me, too.โ He opened the patio door, his long, sun-bleached hair billowing out behind his head, and stepped out to an iron railing with Max following. โHoly fuck. Look at that, two pools?โ
Max looked over the grounds, some ten stories below them, and grasped the iron railing. Two large pools fed into a circular pool bar cabana. Grass and palm trees made up the landscaping and beyond it all, a set of palapas lined up across the beach. โYou ever watch Bachelor in Paradise?โ
โWhat?โ Tanner creased his brows.
โJesus, Max, donโt tell him you watch that. He might find a new boyfriend.โ Josh chuckled, sidling up to the patio rail.
โShut up, you.โ Max snickered, dipping his head a moment. โThis place reminds me of where they film that show. They put all these couples on the beach and film them pairing up, then breaking up. Itโs very dramatic. Anyway, they film that somewhere in Mexico, too.โ He studied Tanner.
Tanner stared at him. โYou uh, watch The Bachelor?โ
Max faced him. โNo, if you must know. I watch The Bachelorette sometimes. The guys are hot.โ He lifted his chin. He would not be embarrassed about this.
Tanner smirked. โYouโre not watching that anymore.โ
Carter walked out onto the patio. โUh-oh, Tannerโs getting his jealous on.โ He snorted. โBet youโve never seen his jealous side, huh, Max?โ Carter slapped Maxโs arm.
Max let a wide smile grace his lips, focusing on Tannerโs large, hazel eyes, the flecks of green and brown glinting in the sunlight. No, heโd never seen it and Tanner had no reason to be jealous. โI donโt need to watch it anymore. I have you.โ Max placed his hands on Tannerโs cheeks and gave him a long, deep kiss.
Tannerโs chest swelled with the intensity of the kiss, then he grabbed Maxโs hips and pulled them close.
โGo do that in your own bedroom.โ Carter scoffed, waving his arm, then stomped into the condo.
Josh tsked. โAt least get unpacked first.โ
Max broke the kiss, searching Tannerโs face. Tonight was the night. There would be a full moon, and everything would be perfect. โI suppose. Letโs get unpacked, so we can get down to the pool bar and the beach.โ
With a grin, Tanner brushed his fingers over Maxโs cheek. โLetโs do it.โ


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About the Author:
Christie Gordon started writing gay and M/M romance fiction after becoming preoccupied with anime and in particular, the boys love and yaoi genres. Sheโs always had stories in her head and always enjoyed writing, so she took up fiction writing classes at a local community college and published her first book with eXtasy Books back in 2009. Christie likes to write complicated characters with painful pasts that refuse to be ignored until the characters are forced to face them head on. Angst? Yes. Happily ever after? Always. Itโs the struggle to get there that counts.
Christieโs day job is in the high-tech industry with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Masterโs in Business Administration. She currently lives in the Phoenix, Arizona metro area and enjoyed eight years in the Bay Area of California but grew up in Minnesota. She shares a home with her partner of twelve years, a musician by night and a coder by day, who is currently in three bands, giving her plenty of time to keep writing. She is also a mother of two sons, one currently in college for engineering and the other preparing for nursing college. Her one-eyed, rescue pug is always by her side, snoring the day away.
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