Bayou Book Junkie: Blog Tour ~ Never (The Pennymaker Tales, #4) by Tara Lain (Character Bio, Excerpt + Giveaway)

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Blog Tour ~ Never (The Pennymaker Tales, #4) by Tara Lain (Character Bio, Excerpt + Giveaway)

When your dreams come to life, do you fall in love — or send them back to Neverland?

Never

(The Pennymaker Tales, #4)
By Tara Lain

Blurb:
Wendell “Wen” Darling lives in a world of shoulds and musts. Left to care for his brother and sister by his dull drudge of a father and wacko irresponsible mother, he suppresses his creativity, slaving in an ad agency seventy hours a week, letting his no-talent supervisor take the credit.

Then his bosses blow the campaign for their biggest client and Wen gets a chance to shine—but only if he can find the artist who painted a wild, glorious wall of graffiti in the subway. Hiding behind a pillar at 2:00 a.m., Wen comes face-to-face with the scarlet-haired, elven-faced embodiment of his divergent opposite—Peter Panachek, the flighty, live-for-today painter, singer, and leader of the rock group the Lost Boys. Everything Wen takes seriously, Peter laughs off, but opposites attract, even if their kisses always lead to battles. Peter’s devil-may-care persona hides a world of secrets, self-protection, and hidden fears, until the day a drug dealer, Vadon Hooker, threatens everything Wen holds dear. Guided by the mysterious Mr. Pennymaker, Peter has to choose between facing responsibility or burrowing even deeper into Neverland.

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Character Bio

Name – Wendell “Wen” Darling

Age – 25

Height – 5’11”

Build – Lean and willowy

Hair – Blond

Eyes -- Blue

Appearance – very youthful, a fact he tries to cover up with more serious clothing

Profession – Ad agency creative director

Family – parents are dead; Wen raises his16-year- old sister, Michaela, and his 12-

year-old brother, John.

Home – a third floor walkup apartment in Brooklyn

Personality – hyper responsible in reaction to his crazy, irresponsible mother

Loves – his “kids”, creativity, and eventually, Peter Panacheck

Excerpt

Peter looked up, stood, and John hurled himself into the air. Peter caught him, although it
knocked him back a step or two. As Wen walked up, Peter and John were laughing.
Wen said, “Hi.” Duh. Wit to spare.
Peter gave him an unreadable face. “Hi.”
Peter set John’s feet back on the floor, but John took his hand. “Thanks, man, for saving me.”
A flicker of some kind of pain whipped across his face. “Wen saved you. I just screwed things up
so you got kidnapped.”
John crossed his arms and frowned. “We’re not back there, are we? Shit happens, Peter.”
Wen sucked in breath to chastise John for the language and laughed instead. “Yes, it does. You
got John in trouble through no fault of your own, and he shouldn’t have been running off to
Neverland at the crack of dawn anyway. ” He gave John a look. “Then you got him out of it. Our
plan wouldn’t have worked without you.”
Peter shrugged.
Wen slowly inhaled. Am I doing this? “There’s something else. I don’t think we work very well
without you either—John and Michaela and, uh, me. I know you’ve got a lot of decisions to
make, but would you throw that into the mix?” He clenched his hands together and hoped.
Peter stared at him. “You’re kidding. I’m a ne’er-do- well with no job and no place to live and a
demanding family breathing down my neck. You’re a head of household with kids to raise and
taxes to pay and a job where they don’t appreciate you that you don’t want to lose. How the
hell does that work?”
Wen swallowed. “I can’t believe you just used ‘ne’er-do- well’ in a sentence.”

The Pennymaker Tales Series

Sinders and Ash

(The Pennymaker Tales Series, #1)

by Tara Lain

Driven Snow

(The Pennymaker Tales, #2)

by Tara Lain

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Beauty, Inc.

(The Pennymaker Tales #3)

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About the Author

Tara Lain writes the Beautiful Boys of Romance in LGBT erotic romance novels that star her unique, charismatic heroes. Her first novel was published in January of 2011 and she’s now somewhere around book 32. Her best-selling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Paranormal Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, Best Gay Characters, and Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. In her other job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm. She often does workshops on both author promotion and writing craft. She lives with her soul-mate husband and her soul-mate dog near the sea in California where she sets a lot of her books. Passionate about diversity, justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it will say “Yes”!

You can find Tara at Lain