Title: Sun and Shadow
Author: Dirk Greyson
Series: Day and Knight (Book 2)
Genre: M/M, Contemporary, Adventure
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: May 4 2015
Edition/Formats: eBook & Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
Dayton “Day” Ingram is recovering from an
injury suffered in Mexico—and from his failed relationship with fellow Scorpion
agent, Knight. While researching an old government document, Day realizes he
might be holding the key to finding an artistic masterpiece lost since WWII.
But the Russians are looking for it too,
and have a team in place in Eastern Europe hunting it down. Day and Knight are
brought back together when they are charged with getting to the painting first.
Knight wants to leave Mexico and everything
that happened there behind, and return to the life he had—except it wasn't much
of a life. When he's partnered up with Day, keeping his distance proves to be
challenging. But Day is as stubborn as Knight and isn’t willing to let him walk
away.
Their assignment leads them through Germany
and Austria with agents hot on their tail—agents willing to do whatever it
takes to get to the masterpiece first. If Day and Knight can live long enough
to find the painting, they might also discover something even more
precious—each other.
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Excerpt:
Contains Strong
Language
“I came to see how you were
doing,” Knight said as he strode inside. “Nice place,” he added automatically.
Day hadn’t done much with
furniture. The place was utilitarian and basic, and that was about all, but it
was home. “Did someone guilt you into paying a visit?” He closed the door.
Knight sighed. “Do we really
need to do this?”
Day walked into the living
room and sat on the blue slipcovered sofa. “No. I don’t suppose it would do any
good. It isn’t like you owe me anything. We were on assignment together, and
things….” Day swallowed. He’d spent most of the time he was alone at home
recuperating thinking about Knight and what they’d done together. Their
assignment to break up a terrorist plot had been a huge success with only one
blemish—a bullet through Day’s shoulder.
“We were in close proximity,
and things got a little out of hand. We both had too much to drink and….”
Knight wandered over to the window. “What happened on the ship needs to stay
there.”
“I think I knew that already,”
Day sniped. “I got that pretty loud and clear when you didn’t even bother to
call to see how I was. That’s your way, isn’t it? If something happens that
doesn’t fit in your little worldview, you just ignore it or lock it away in a
box somewhere in that tiny brain of yours and go on as though nothing
happened.”
“What? You want to come out
and tell everyone in the office what happened?” Knight said, and Day smiled a
little. At least he’d gotten some sort of rise out of him.
“No. I don’t. And I figured
that after the first few days, your assholeness had probably taken over, and
you were digging yourself into a Marine foxhole so deep you were probably
halfway to China.”
Knight whirled around on his
heels, eyes dark and blazing.
Day felt heat start in his
head and slide down his spine, radiating outward. He’d seen that expression
before, and he remembered what had happened afterward—so did the rest of his
body. But he pushed it away.
“Fuck you,” Knight ground out
above a whisper. His body tightened enough that Day could have attached strings
and played him like a cello. “You don’t know shit about anything.”
Day wasn’t sure that was true.
He’d thought plenty over the past week about his time with Knight and what
they’d done together. But there was no way that he wanted to announce to the
office—or to anyone else—that he was gay. Hell, an announcement like that would
likely be the end of a career that he had fought for. He’d just gotten his
first assignment, and he’d taken a bullet to help make sure it was a success.
“You think.”
“I know.” Knight put his hands
behind his back and slowly came closer.
If Day hadn’t known better,
he’d swear he was being stalked. “You can put the Marine intimidation tactics
away. They aren’t going to work on me. I’ve seen you naked, remember? You don’t
have a lot to hide.”
That stopped Knight in his
tracks and seemed to throw him off guard. He scoffed. “I didn’t come here to
fight with you.”
“Well, showing up after a week
of your hiding and egotistical wound licking wasn’t going to get you much
else.”
“So we fucked a few times when
we were on the ship. We were surrounded by gay guys all day long, and they….”
“What? Locked us in the room
together? Poured the booze down our throats so we’d let our guard down and
screw each other into the mattress? Just admit we had a good time.”
“Fine,” Knight said. “But it
can’t continue. And no one can know,” he added sharply enough that Day jumped
slightly. “People in the organization cannot find out.”
“I agree with you. But that
doesn’t mean we can’t be civil to each other. This ‘turn away and pretend
nothing happened’ shit is for schoolgirls. We did spend a week sleeping in the
same bed.” Day stood. “And I know things about you that no one else on earth
knows.” He immediately wished he hadn’t said that because an image of Knight in
bed, mouth open, eyes wide and filled with heat, reflecting Day’s own, flashed
into his mind’s eye. Day swallowed and blinked, pushing it away because those
memories wouldn’t do him any good.
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Author Information:
Dirk is very much an outside kind of
man. He loves travel and seeing new
things. Dirk worked in corporate America
for way too long and now spends his days writing, gardening, and taking care of
the home he shares with his partner of more than two decades. He has a Master’s Degree and all the other
accessories that go with a corporate job.
But he is most proud of the stories he tells and the life he's
built. Dirk lives in Pennsylvania in a
century old home and is blessed with an amazing circle of friends.
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Other
books in the Day and Knight Series
Day
and Knight Book 1
Sun
and Shadow Book 2
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