Exclusive Excerpt and Giveaway: After Hours by Emjay Haze

We’re so pleased to have author Emjay Haze dropping in today on the tour for her latest release from NineStar Press, After Hours. We have an exclusive excerpt to tease you with today, and there’s also a giveaway so be sure to check out those details at the end.

Welcome, Emjay!

About the Book

Title: After Hours
Series: After Hours: Book One
Author: Emjay Haze
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 90300
Genre/Categories: Contemporary, LGBT, Contemporary, romance, waiter, nightclub, businessman, chef
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Blurb: Alex Michaels is a successful manager for a Wall-Street financial firm and lives in a beautiful hi-rise apartment overlooking Central Park. Anyone looking in from the outside would say Alex has it made, especially his working-class parents who wanted more for their only son.

Nick is working his way through graduate school with dreams of becoming a teacher so he can help kids like himself. With his parents cutting him off and leaving him with nothing but a student apartment and low self-esteem, he’s determined to make something of himself in spite of them.

Even Nick’s club friends think Alex is too good for him, but Alex keeps showing Nick how worthy he is. Alex learns a lot from Nick, too—how not to give up on his dreams.

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The Excerpt

Alex scanned the room and Barb caught him.

“Looking for someone, Alex?”

“What, no.” Was he that obvious? “Just the waiter.” Both Barb and Belinda gave him the eye, smirking, and he immediately clarified. “So we can order.” He rolled his eyes. He had hoped to see the cutie, but he was nowhere to be found. Alex found himself disappointed when another waiter approached their table. He flirted in an appropriate manner with the ladies, but kept throwing seductive glances toward Alex, who wasn’t interested at all.

The waiter, Dan, as he introduced himself, was tall with inky-black hair and dark green eyes, but Alex wasn’t attracted to him in the least. He should have been. The guy was kind of beautiful, in a dangerous way. His friends couldn’t take their eyes off him.

Belinda nudged Alex at the table and whispered to him. “He’s hot, right?”

And all Alex could think was that he wasn’t Nick.

Dan took their orders and kept giving seductive glances to Alex. Finally, Barb put Alex out of his misery, to his humiliation. “Where’s Nick tonight?” she asked.

“He got called in to work his other job. He’ll be here soon. Let me know if I can get you anything else.” Dan seemed disappointed they’d asked for another waiter, or maybe he was jealous. Alex didn’t know. But he wondered what Nick’s other job could possibly be.

Dan returned with their drinks and they never saw him again. After a while, Belinda dragged Alex to the dance floor. It wasn’t too crowded, but Alex got a few sweaty bodies grinding into him while he danced with his friends.

One guy asked to cut in, and Belinda and Barb parted like the Red Sea, allowing him to put his hands all over Alex. He wasn’t amused, but the girls chuckled over it. After Alex peeled himself away, he rejoined his friends.

“Thanks a lot.”

“You need some action, boss. If not here, then where?”

Belinda had a point, but here with coworkers ready to make him the daily gossip? No, thank you. But, maybe he could loosen up a little.

Alex shimmied away from the women and danced by himself for about three seconds before the vultures circled him. He raised his hands over his head and no less than two sets of hands were on his chest and abs before he knew it.

“Hey, sexy,” one man said to him in a deep voice.

A burly dude wearing a leather vest and pants with chains hanging from the sides approached him. Oh, no, I am not looking for a leather daddy.

He turned away from the bear toward the source of the other set of grabby hands that were now pawing at his navel. These belonged to a much slimmer guy about three inches shorter than Alex. This guy was closer to Alex’s type, with soft features and short blond hair, but he seemed too twinkish. Alex humored him and placed his hands on the guy’s shoulders and danced with him as the bear stormed off.

After two songs, the twink tried kissing him and Alex backed away.

“Hey, want to go somewhere?” the twink said panting, and nodding in the direction of the bathrooms.

Uh, no. “Sorry, not interested,” Alex told him, and turned away from him to drive home the point.

The guy huffed and traipsed off, probably pissed that he’d wasted two dances with Alex only to be turned down. This wasn’t Alex’s scene. He wanted more than a hook up.

He couldn’t find his friends on the floor any longer, so he went back to the table to find all four of them in conversation with the waiter. No, not that one—Nick. Alex stopped—and stared—and…

“There he is,” Belinda shouted, like they’d all been talking about him.

“Hi.” Alex knew he was grinning stupidly, but damn, that boy was fine.

“Hey, yourself.” Nick handed him a second glass. It was the drink that Nick had brought him the last time they were there, and not what Alex had ordered from Dan.

He smiled like a goon. “Thanks—Nick.” You remembered. Alex sat down, and Nick gave him a flirty wink before excusing himself. Alex watched him walk away. When he turned around, all four of his friends were staring at him and smirking.

About the Author

Emjay Haze is a pen name for a wife, mother, and writer of gay romance. She resides in Northern Virginia with her husband, two teenagers, a new puppy, cat, gecko, and several fish. She always loved writing and fell in love with the genre seven years ago after discovering the world of fanfiction. She went back to school to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing from SNHU where she graduated in April, 2015, with a renewed desire of making her dreams of becoming a published author come true.

She has a wide and diverse work history in the fields of travel, hotel management, high-tech communications, web development, real estate, and the nonprofit health care industry where she has held positions such as travel agent, hotel concierge, web programmer, Realtor, account manager, and many, many others, giving her a varied and unique set of experiences that she draws upon in her stories and characters. Her interests include music and pop culture, and she is an advocate for the LGBT community.

Her stories delve into all types of romantic relationships, regardless of sexuality, with a focus on first times and new encounters in a lighthearted style with a goal to gain a diverse readership and broaden the minds of those who might not normally pick up an LGBTQ romance because it’s more about the person than the sexuality. She’ll take you on a roller-coaster journey, but you’ll always get a happy ending.

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