Highway Man edition by Eden Winters Literature Fiction eBooks
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Killian Desmond’s dreams died in a flash of pain and the scream of twisted metal. He lost it all the night a tour bus sailed off a mountainside, sending his band—with his brother—to their deaths.
Killian is dead too, if the papers are to be believed, and living a half-life of odd jobs, rodeo rides and pick up gigs. The road that once meant freedom is now Killy’s exile. No strings, no ties, no names for the one-night stands.
Answering a tribute band’s ad thrusts him face to face with his past, and into the arms of the one man who just might understand.
Highway Man edition by Eden Winters Literature Fiction eBooks
“Sometimes you have to forget how you feel to remember what you deserve.” ~ unknownKillian (Killy) Desmond is a broken man. Everything he ever loved, including his brother, went up in a horrible crash and now he's lost. Killy doesn't understand why he didn't die as well. On top of that, he feels guilty that when his brother needed him, he didn't do enough to help him. Since then, he's been trying to run away from the pain, to do to forget his past, but nothing has worked. Killy can't run away from the pain; he needs to get past it, but he can't do so with all of that guilt, fear, pain, and grief crowding his mind and his heart.
Killy wears his pain like a cloak; everyone around him can feel it, but few try to get close to him and that's the way he says he wants it. Killy won't stay one place for any length of time because that breeds familiarity which could mean attachment and he has no intention of being attached to anyone or anything for the rest of his life. The one thing he can't let go of is his music. No matter how hard he tries, Killy can't put away that guitar; he can't stop singing or writing lyrics either. From time to time he still performs, but the latest gig he signs on for is something that took him by surprise. It's with a tribute band dedicated to Killy's former band, Trickster. Despite serious reservations, he takes the job telling himself that it's just for one night and he can survive.
When he walks into the seedy bar where he is to perform, he's not impressed with anything except a handsome young man, who as it so happens, is a another band member. Killy is impressed not only with his looks, but with his playing and singing. Against his better judgment, he goes home with him and nicknames him Texas. Killy and Texas are soon having sex like old lovers. He finds himself breaking every rule he's ever made to keep him detached. For some unfathomable reason, Killy trusts Texas. He senses a kindred spirit with troubles of his own. Texas understands things that he has no way of understanding, listens without judging. Despite himself, Killy feels safe enough to confide in Texas while, finally, his tears flow allowing the poison to leak out of his heart.
This is a moving love story about two men who have been scarred by life and are struggling to find new meaning in their existence. Eden described Killy's anguish with such clarity and emotion that I cried—I wanted so badly to help him. The story, although poignant, could have been very sad except for the fact that, when Killy needed it the most, his knight in shining armor showed up with a left-handed guitar and a voice like an angel, capturing his heart and holding it in his healing hands. Thanks, Eden, for giving Killy and Texas a second chance.
Originally published at Rainbow Book Reviews.
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Highway Man edition by Eden Winters Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Eden Winters can write long or short but it's always a good story with great characters. A broken man who has lost almost everything, not recognizing that he's still got something left, finds the man who can bring him back. Killy has been hiding in plain sight for too long and when he recognizes how much music means to him he lets it drag him back among the living. Great short story with fully developed characters. I look forward to anything Eden Winters decides to publish and this one proves why.
I read this in its first incarnation and loved it then, but in its new form we get about twice as much story and I think I love it about twice as much now. This new version is double the original word count and with a different thrust. And hotter than the first time around too.
The original was gritty and raw story of a man who’d been eaten by fame and all the stuff that comes with it, until tragedy let him step away and into the shadows. We get all that and more here—the man Killy beds but refuses to call by name has a much greater part. In a handful of words Tex shows his soul and his past. Three sentences become enough to show why he’s the perfect man for Killy, who never wanted to let anyone close again.
Killian Desmond's running from his demons -- everyone thinks he's dead and he's content to let them believe it, he'd prefer not to be found and connected with the rock star he was, and he's hiding in plain sight, letting his name and everyone's preconceptions cover him. He's leading a drifter's life, never staying on long, never kissing the one-night stands he finds on the Internet or at a truck-stop, and he probably won't stay til morning anyway.
He won't even call the man he makes a date for sex with by his name --that means remembering, forming a tie. Letting the hurt catch up maybe. Killy will call him Texas instead, and isn't prepared for the quiet acceptance of who he is and why he's running.
The music Killy’d grown up with and used to define himself gets a rebirth here with Tex’s help, in a concert scene that grabs you by the throat and shakes you until you can’t breathe but still feel like you’re dancing. Hope and music and pain and maybe even some rough-hewn might-become-love jump off the page.
This is a story of pain and coming to terms with it, and getting back a few vital things that were lost, even if some losses can never be made good. Killy and Tex are going to make a future with a saddle, a guitar, an old Ford Bronco and each other. Dayum but Eden Winters gets a lot into fifteen thousand words.
“Sometimes you have to forget how you feel to remember what you deserve.” ~ unknown
Killian (Killy) Desmond is a broken man. Everything he ever loved, including his brother, went up in a horrible crash and now he's lost. Killy doesn't understand why he didn't die as well. On top of that, he feels guilty that when his brother needed him, he didn't do enough to help him. Since then, he's been trying to run away from the pain, to do to forget his past, but nothing has worked. Killy can't run away from the pain; he needs to get past it, but he can't do so with all of that guilt, fear, pain, and grief crowding his mind and his heart.
Killy wears his pain like a cloak; everyone around him can feel it, but few try to get close to him and that's the way he says he wants it. Killy won't stay one place for any length of time because that breeds familiarity which could mean attachment and he has no intention of being attached to anyone or anything for the rest of his life. The one thing he can't let go of is his music. No matter how hard he tries, Killy can't put away that guitar; he can't stop singing or writing lyrics either. From time to time he still performs, but the latest gig he signs on for is something that took him by surprise. It's with a tribute band dedicated to Killy's former band, Trickster. Despite serious reservations, he takes the job telling himself that it's just for one night and he can survive.
When he walks into the seedy bar where he is to perform, he's not impressed with anything except a handsome young man, who as it so happens, is a another band member. Killy is impressed not only with his looks, but with his playing and singing. Against his better judgment, he goes home with him and nicknames him Texas. Killy and Texas are soon having sex like old lovers. He finds himself breaking every rule he's ever made to keep him detached. For some unfathomable reason, Killy trusts Texas. He senses a kindred spirit with troubles of his own. Texas understands things that he has no way of understanding, listens without judging. Despite himself, Killy feels safe enough to confide in Texas while, finally, his tears flow allowing the poison to leak out of his heart.
This is a moving love story about two men who have been scarred by life and are struggling to find new meaning in their existence. Eden described Killy's anguish with such clarity and emotion that I cried—I wanted so badly to help him. The story, although poignant, could have been very sad except for the fact that, when Killy needed it the most, his knight in shining armor showed up with a left-handed guitar and a voice like an angel, capturing his heart and holding it in his healing hands. Thanks, Eden, for giving Killy and Texas a second chance.
Originally published at Rainbow Book Reviews.
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