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Come Unto These Yellow Sands [Kindle Edition]

Josh Lanyon
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)

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Book Description

Sometimes the adventure chooses you.

 

Lover of fine poetry and lousy choose-your-own-adventure novels, Professor Sebastian Swift was once the bad-boy darling of the literati. The only lines he does these days are Browning, Frost and Cummings. Even his relationship with the hot, handsome Wolfe Neck Police Chief Max Prescott is healthy.

 

When one of his most talented students comes to him bruised and begging for help, Swift hands over the keys to his Orson Island cabin—only to find out that the boy’s father is dead and the police are suspicious. In an instant, the stable life Swift has built for himself hangs on finding the boy and convincing him to give himself up before Max figures out Swift’s involvement in the case.

 

Max enjoys splitting an infinitive or two with his favorite nutty professor, but he’s not much for sonnets or Shakespeare. He likes being lied to even less. Yet his instincts—and his heart—tell him his lover is being played. Max can forgive lies and deception, but a dangerous enemy may not stop until Swift is heading up his own dead poet’s society.

 

Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that Josh Lanyon’s smart, sexy, sophisticated stories may prove hazardous to your heart.



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“Tight pacing and real danger glue all of this together into a package that’s uniquely Lanyon. When it comes to creating men who seem like they could walk and talk in the real world as well as the page, he stands tall in a very elite group.”

—Book Utopia on Somebody Killed His Editor

 

“I think just about anything Lanyon does is the cat’s meow...”

—Reviews by Jessewave

 

“Author Josh Lanyon knows how to develop his characters and reveal the secrets of his cast. He clearly shows that a M/M romance is often as fraught with misunderstandings and missteps as any traditional love story.”

—The Romance Studio on Somebody Killed His Editor

Book Description

Once a bad boy, the only lines Professor Sebastian Swift does these days are Browning, Frost and Cummings. When a student he helped to disappear becomes a suspect in a murder, he races to find the boy and convince him to give himself up before his police chief lover figures out he’s involved.

 

 

Max likes being lied to even less than he likes sonnets. Yet his instincts—and his heart—tell him his lover is being played. Max can forgive lies and deception, but a dangerous enemy may not stop until Swift is heading up his own dead poet’s society.


Product Details

  • File Size: 355 KB
  • Print Length: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (June 14, 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004P1J5M4
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,566 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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4.9 out of 5 stars
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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A new personal favourite June 15, 2011
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I enjoy Josh Lanyon's writing: he always tells an engaging story with wit and charm with a special ability to create characters we enjoy. But Come Unto These Yellow Sands really is Lanyon 2.0. This book works on so many levels. It's beautifully written and intelligent; Lanyon makes five words do the work of dozens. Main characters are carefully drawn and engaging: nothing about them is "canned" or cliche. Other reviewers have described the story with more eloquence than I could muster, but it's as honed as the craft of the book. It's all wave and no flotsam.

I found it an enormously satisfying read, but the best reason for buying it is that I suspect it will re-read even better.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable on so many levels June 17, 2011
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I think this novella is my new absolute favorite of Lanyon's stand alone works. It is so masterfully done and it works on so many levels. The other reviewers already described plot in great details, so I will not go in there either, I will just say that both Swift and Max are quite flawed people, but Lanyon's superb writing never let me feel anything but sympathy for both of them. I really enjoyed the chemistry between them and while mystery was certainly important for the plot, heck it was the plot, I felt that romance was just as important and unravelling of mystery highlighted not just flaws that both guys had, but also their best qualities. And I never doubted for a second that they are better together than apart.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Fantastic Story by Lanyon! June 17, 2011
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"I've never hid my love for Lanyon's writing and I'm not going to do so now. Some are less intriguing than others, most notably the "Dangerous Ground" series which I enjoy but there's something about Lanyon's writing voice in mysteries that does it for me. Wordgasms.

Josh doesn't disappoint with "Come Unto These Yellow Sands".

There IS a formula to Lanyon's mysteries. Usually the one of the male leads is hindered in some way, either physically or emotionally and he is coupled with a stronger, authoritative figure. For most writers, this would be a cliched trope but bhis formula works because Lanyon makes it work. The compromised male lead is complex and his "issue" varies...with Lanyon working those issues into the storyline.

In CUTYS, Sebastian Swift is not just the "Fall Down and Go Boom Bad Boy" of the literary circuit, he is still a recovering addict and Lanyon addresses it within the book (albeit mildly). His lover, Max Prescott, is a cop that Swift half-lies to about a murder... and Swift ends up paying for that hiding of the truth with the damage it does to his relationship with Prescott.

I enjoyed the mystery but I also enjoy the dual plotline of Swift's exploration of his relationship and his fall from grace. THAT is what Lanyon does best... run two or sometimes three plots within a book and does so gracefully and with fantastic pacing.

I highly recommend this book. It's on the re-read for me.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Mystery
I always have such a hard time rating Lanyon books. They are always well written and crafted and the characters are complex and interesting. Read more
Published 21 days ago by Lizzyb
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and satisfying
Come Unto These Yellow Sands is beautifully written, heartbreaking, intelligent, satisfying, overwhelming - a wonderful story. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Johanna
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
I really loved this book. The relationship with Swift and Max was so well written and engrossing that the mystery of who killed Mario Corelli was secondary for me. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Winship75
5.0 out of 5 stars Warning ! Hazardous to your heart !
According to the Surgeon General --and ME-- ! I just loved this book. Well written, thoughtful, interesting, puzzling. And there's nothing wrong with a happy ending, either! Read more
Published 3 months ago by M. Ciruso
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!
What a wonderful book! I loved that each chapter starts with a "choose your own adventure" bit, and i loved the voice of the main character and his remarks after the... Read more
Published 4 months ago by KC
5.0 out of 5 stars great story
I loved this story. The plot and the characters MATCHED; it was easy to follow the plot as it developed. The characters were believable. I loved the ending - great job author!
Published 5 months ago by Frank D. Adams
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing and Intense
Well, Josh has done it again. Written another amazing romantic mystery with realistic imperfect characters and such vivid imagery that I felt so connected with the story and the... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Heather C.
3.0 out of 5 stars Nice characters but a weak mystery and a weak romance
It's hard to adequately express myself on this book. As is always the case, there were things I loved and things I didn't. It was extremely hard for me to get into the story. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Nikyta Jenkins
5.0 out of 5 stars A Rare Find
This book is the reason I don't give out five stars often. Wonderful and amazing are the first two words that come to mind, but that just sounds like empty praise, so let me dial... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Coral
5.0 out of 5 stars A stunning noir-romance that shimmers with pain and poetry
For all the brightness and beauty of this book, I'm gonna go out on a limb and call it a noir and then explain what the hell I mean. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Damon Suede
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More About the Author

A distinct voice in gay fiction, multi-award-winning author JOSH LANYON has been writing gay mystery and romance for over a decade. In addition to numerous short stories, novellas, and novels, Josh is the author of the critically acclaimed Adrien English series, including the Hell You Say, winner of the 2006 USABookNews awards for GLBT Fiction and a Lambda Literary Award finalist for Gay Mystery. Josh is also the author of the definitive M/M writing guide Man, Oh Man: Writing M/M Fiction for Kinks and Ca$h.

Josh is an Eppie Award winner and a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist -- and lives in Los Angeles, California.

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