Release Review: Liam for Hire by A. Zukowski

Liam for Hire 

(Beaten Track Publishing, Release date: 24.8.2018)

76000 words/270 pages

Tags: gay, contemporary romance, LGBTQ, MM, age gap, new adult, homeless, prostitution, sex trade

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Synopsis: 

Liam Murphy has kicked his drug habit and now pays for the high living costs in London as an escort. His life is finally in balance. His only problem is that he obsesses about the minimum number of times he has to bend over to make ends meet. As long as he has his emotions under control, it’ll be fine. That’s what Liam keeps telling himself until he meets the young widower Alastair, also known as Ali, whose emerald eyes remind him of Ireland.

“I…I want us to have sex as though we’re making love.”

Making love? Jaysus.

I scratch my head. “Okay. You mean more kisses and shit?”

Ali laughs.

“And shit.” His face lights up and he looks about ten years younger. “Like cuddles.”

*Featuring Liam from The Boy Who Fell to Earth, but it is a standalone. This title contains material some may find objectionable or trigger-inducing: mature content, drug use, suicidal thoughts.

Flashback Review: The Boy Who Fell to Earth by A. Zukowski

The Boy Who Fell to Earth 

by A. Zukowski

Blurb:

Jay Palmer is two months away from his sixteenth birthday. He doesn’t realise how his life will be changed forever when a gang of thugs leaves a badly injured boy on his doorstep. The biracial boy and his white single mum Maggie nurse the stranger, sixteen-year-old Aleksander Zukowski, also known as Sasha. Sasha ran away from care two and half years ago. He sleeps rough, is addicted to drugs and sells himself on the streets of London to fund his habit. For the first time in his life, he has a reason to change.

Sasha confirms what Jay already knows about himself but it doesn’t make it easy for him to come out to his macho mates in a largely black neighbourhood. Sasha has an uphill struggle to stay clean when his past threatens to throw him back into the abyss. Are the two boys strong enough to stay together against all odds?