To Have and To Hostage [Paperback]

G A Hauser (Author), Stephanie Vaughan (Cover Design)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 20, 2010

When he was taken hostage by a strange man Michael never expected he'd lose his heart... Michael Vernon is a rich, spoiled brat with a string of meaningless lovers and an entourage of superficial friends. With no direction in life, he wastes his days spending his father's money and drowning himself in liquor...until he crashes into a man even more desperate than himself, Jarrod Hunter. Jarrod Hunter grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Out of work, about to be evicted, and unable to afford his next meal, Jarrod thought he'd reached the end of his rope and was determined to take his life. Then fate intervened delivering him Michael Vernon. Why not take him home, tie him up, and hold him hostage to get the money he needs? Two men from two different worlds...one dangerous game. Trapped together in close quarters, Jarrod and Michael find themselves sharing their deepest thoughts and fighting an undeniable attraction for each other. As the hours tick by, the captor becomes captivated by his victim and the victim begins to bond with his abductor. This wake up call might prove to be just what Michael needs to set himself free. To Have and to Hostage...sometimes you have to hit bottom before realizing that what you need is standing right in front of you.

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About the Author

Award-winning author G.A. Hauser was born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA and attended university in New York City. She moved to Seattle, Washington where she worked as a patrol officer with the Seattle Police Department. In early 2000 G.A. moved to Hertfordshire, England where she began her writing in earnest and published her first book, In the Shadow of Alexander. Now a full-time writer in Ohio, G.A. has written dozens of novels, including several best-sellers of gay fiction. For more information on other books by G.A., visit the author at her official website. www.authorgahauser.com

Product Details

• Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (August 20, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1449592945
• ISBN-13: 978-1449592943
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #685,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author
Award-winning author G.A. Hauser was born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA and attended university in New York City. She moved to Seattle, Washington where she worked as a patrol officer with the Seattle Police Department. In early 2000 G.A. moved to Hertfordshire, England where she began her writing in earnest and published her first book, In the Shadow of Alexander. Now a full-time writer, G.A. has written over sixty novels, including several best-sellers of gay fiction and is an Honorary Board Member of Gay American Heroes for her support of the foundation. For more information on other books by G.A., visit the author at her official website. www.authorgahauser.com
G.A. has won awards from All Romance eBooks for Best Author 2010, 2009, Best Novel 2008, Mile High, and Best Author 2008, Best Novel 2007, Secrets and Misdemeanors, Best Author 2007.
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L.A. Masquerade
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The Hard Way
Games Men Play
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Of Wolves and Men
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To Have and To Hostage
Love you, Loveday
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When Adam Met Jack
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To Have and to Hostage, May 19, 2008

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M. Nix - See all my reviews
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This review is from: To Have and to Hostage (Kindle Edition)

Michael Vernon is spoiled, arrogant and filthy rich. Jarrod Hunter has just lost his job. His rent and bills are overdue and he's hungry. While driving his fancy sports car, Michael almost hits Jarrod when he attempts to run a red light. Michael yells at Jarrod for getting in his way and that is the straw that broke the camel's back for Jarrod. He pulls a gun on Michael and makes him drive to his apartment where he ties him up and plans to hold him for ransom. As the days pass, Jarrod finds himself attracted to his captive. He's willing to give him anything, except his freedom. Michael has feelings for his captor but he'll do anything to gain his freedom even break Jarrod's heart.

To Have and To Hostage is very good. I've never read anything like it. It's believable and a bit outrageous at the same time. Jarrod is very sweet but Michael is a total jerk. By the end, I liked him too. To Have and To Hostage is erotic and interesting. I liked it a lot.

Nannette
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To Have and to Hostage by G.A. Hauser, May 2, 2008

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Elisa (Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: To Have and to Hostage (Kindle Edition)

Michael is the spoilt son of a very rich family. 25 years old, he has no purpose in life if not be drunk and go out with his friends. Everytime his father tries to talk to him and convince him to find a job, Michael only sees the plastic doll stepmother he has and thinks that, if she can spend the day doing nothing, also he can do that. Michael is not a nice person, he is selfcentered and vain: he spends most of the time in front of some mirror asking to his image who his the best and the most beautiful and answering himself that he is the one...

Jarrod is a nice guy. 22 years old from a too poor family to allow him to go to college, he has left home to arrive in Los Angeles with the hope of a better future. But even if he is a very handsome man, he is like many others and in the end he is nothing special. So now Jarrod is at the end of the rope, without money and starving. And he is alone: he looks around his empty apartment and knows that he has no one in the world who cares for him. He has only two chance: hustling, a thing he can't consider, or suicide, what he chooses to do. So he shoplifts a little gun from a pawnshop and turns his steps towards home... and he is almost run over from a drunken Michael.

Obviously Michael is not the type of man to excuse himself or to ask if Jarrod is all right, instead he yells to Jarrod, and Jarrod snaps out of his suicidal stupor and aims the gun towards Michael: he brings a drunken Michael in his two rooms apartment and ties him up to the kitchen's chair. Now Jarrod is no more alone, now he has Michael.

Among naivee attempts to ask a ransom for Michael, Jarrod begins to see him in a different way than an hostage: he begins to see him like a friend, something he needs so much, and like a lover. And Michael begins to understand that he has no one around him who cares really for him and in the claustrophobic apartment he begins to feel that the only one who cares for him is Jarrod. But it's not so simple: in a situation that is almost a push psicological therapy, Michael continues to run in his mind all the reasons why he is alone, but he never admits that he has some guilty in it, everyone is to blame but him. And everytime Jarrod reaches a hand to "pet" him or to feed him (not only food but also love), he finishes with a bitten hand...

I'm addicted. I always know, even before starting a book, that I will like an Hauser's book and I will love her faulty characters...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't Put It Down, July 2, 2009

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Carlo - See all my reviews

This review is from: To Have and to Hostage (Paperback)

There's not a moment in the story when you're not with one of the two main characters. They are total opposites, but they both have desires that would be fulfilled by the other if the circumstances were different. There was so much passion and sexual tension despite the fact that there isn't much sex in the story. I finished it in a few hours. I highly recommend this.