{"id":3521,"date":"2022-10-04T20:28:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2022-10-04T20:28:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:28:27","slug":"hidden-blade-is-out-amazon-and-ku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Blade is out (Amazon and KU)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" I’m excited to have Cam and Erik loose on the world. I hope folks will enjoy them.<\/p>\n

* first times
\n* social anxiety
\n* not-yet-rockstars
\n* bad limericks (Erik’s lucky Cam falls for him anyway.)<\/p>\n

On AZ and in KU: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hidden-Blade-Road-Rocktoberfest-2022-ebook\/dp\/B0B36KV6F5\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(For my wide readers, this one will go wide eventually, but the whole series will be in KU, so it will be a while. Sorry.)<\/p>\n

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excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

Cameron<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou suck.\u201d I glared at Andre as I clutched the puke bucket between my knees.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, you did it, dude.\u201d He took his eyes off the road for a second to grin at me. \u201cYou got through a whole set and walked off that stage with your head held high.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd my intestines climbing out my mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEw, gross image.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re a nurse. You eat gross images for breakfast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andre threw his head back and laughed. \u201cOkay, you got me. But seriously, wasn\u2019t that even a little bit cool?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bit where I puked in the john before I went onstage, or the part where I got as far as the dumpster down the block afterward?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, the dumpster. For sure.\u201d He patted my knee. \u201cI won\u2019t push you anymore. But you were a hit. If you wanted a job or a good fuck, they were lining up to offer it to you. Maybe both at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHah. Bullshit.\u201d I\u2019m skinny and beanpole-tall and I haven\u2019t cut my hair in years because reasons, and I have this nose that I only don\u2019t hate because it\u2019s just like my dad\u2019s was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean it.\u201d At the stoplight he fished in his pocket and pulled out a card. \u201cLead singer of this group was drooling all over your set and he came looking for you like a moose hunting its mate when you were done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou make him sound so appealing.\u201d I took the card from his fingers. \u201cApparently I could\u2019ve fucked a moose. Wow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOr been fucked by.\u201d The light turned and Andre hit the gas. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t that bad, for an older dude. I know you like them with some years on \u2019em.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShut up, Bones.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly the truth, Spock.\u201d<\/p>\n

I chuckled, despite the acid still churning around in my stomach. No one on the planet knew me as well as Andre, and in one regrettably truthful moment years back I\u2019d spilled my attraction to silver foxes and solid older men. He liked to tease me, but never in a mean way, and he kept bigger secrets of mine than that one. \u201cI\u2019m not trying to get laid.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should be. Seriously, Cam, you\u2019ve been with what, two guys in your whole life? A man has needs, or so I tell Lyssa every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat girl is way too good for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWoman<\/i>, <\/i>Cameron. Don\u2019t let the g-word cross your lips. And you\u2019re damn right she\u2019s too good for me. The key is never letting her figure that out, am I right?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSure. Whatever you say.\u201d Andre was the best. His clowning was intended to distract me, keeping my anxious brain from fixating on what-the-shit-did-I-just-do??? <\/i>Which I shouldn\u2019t have let myself think about, dammit, and I flipped the card over in my fingers to focus on something else. Hellsbane.<\/i> A familiar band logo and on the next line, Erik Svenson – lead guitar and vocals.<\/i> With a phone number, an email, Instagram, Bandcamp, and Twitter.<\/p>\n

Hellsbane\u2019s <\/i>business card! I\u2019d known they\u2019d be there, of course, even if we deliberately arrived only just in time for my set, so I hadn\u2019t heard them play. And if they\u2019d been in the audience, I hadn\u2019t recognized a single face in the one panicked look I\u2019d allowed myself. Although\u2026 There\u2019d been a big blond, bearded guy up front who might\u2019ve been their lead singer\u2026 Our eyes had met, and he hadn\u2019t laughed at the fear in mine.<\/p>\n

Was that Erik? Watching me? Fuck, maybe I should\u2019ve played my new song, even if the chorus wasn\u2019t polished yet. Or not skipped that instrumental bridge, except if I\u2019d stopped singing, I might not\u2019ve started again. How bad did I screw up in front of Erik Svenson?<\/i><\/p>\n

****** check out the rest of Cam and Erik’s story, and all of the shared world of rock stars and would-be stars to come in The Road to Rocktoberfest 2022. <\/em><\/strong> : https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0B217ZM2R<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m excited to have Cam and Erik loose on the world. I hope folks will enjoy them. * first times * social anxiety * not-yet-rockstars * bad limericks (Erik’s lucky Cam falls for him anyway.) On AZ and in KU: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hidden-Blade-Road-Rocktoberfest-2022-ebook\/dp\/B0B36KV6F5\/ (For my wide readers, this one will go wide eventually, but the whole series will be in KU, so it will be a while. Sorry.)   excerpt: Cameron \u201cYou suck.\u201d I glared at Andre …