Dirty Laundry: A Tucker Springs Novel #3

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    Dirty Laundry
    Copyright © 2013 by Heidi Cullinan
    Cover Art by L.C. Chase, http://lcchase.com/design.htm
    Editor: Sarah Frantz
    Layout: L.C. Chase, http://lcchase.com/design.htm
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    ISBN: 978-1-937551-77-3
    First edition
    January, 2013
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The course of true love doesn’t always run clean. But sometimes getting dirty is half the fun.
    Entomology grad student Adam Ellery meets Denver Rogers, a muscle-bound hunk of sexy, when Denver effortlessly dispatches the drunken frat boys harassing Adam at the Tucker Springs laundromat. Thanking him turns into flirting, and then, much to Adam’s delight, hot sex over the laundry table.
    Though Denver’s job as a bouncer at a gay bar means he gets his pick of geek-sexy college twinks, he can’t get Adam out of his head. Adam seems to need the same rough play Denver does, and it’s damn hard to say no to such a perfect fit.
    Trouble is, Adam isn’t just shy: he has obsessive-compulsive disorder and clinical anxiety, conditions which have ruined past relationships. And while Denver might be able to bench-press a pile of grad students, he comes from a history of abuse and is terrified of getting his GED. Neither Denver nor Adam want to face their dirty laundry, but to stay together, they’re going to have to come clean.

For everyone who kept saying they wanted more than just a short of Dirty Laundry .
    Thanks for insisting, because I think you’re right. Longer is more fun.
    Thanks too to the Scissor Sisters for Magic Hour , especially “Somewhere.”
    I couldn’t have written this without you.

None of Adam Ellery’s fantasies had ever involved a muscle-bound and cowboy-hat-wearing avenging angel, but they would now.
    In hindsight, it had been a dumb idea to come to the laundromat this late on a Friday night. Assuming there would be less traffic than on Saturday morning, Adam had trekked out on a cool Colorado mountain evening to take advantage of what he’d thought would be the least populated time to wash his clothes. What had ended up happening instead was that Adam became the wash-cycle entertainment for a pack of drunk and high frat boys. They’d taken his blue briefs, his club shirt, and his Ten Reasons You Shouldn’t Bug an Entomologist tee, and when Adam tried to steal one of them back, they stole his glasses too, right off his face, and added them to their giggling game of Keep Away.
    Blushing and terrified, Adam stood in the center of their jeering semi-circle, his back to a table where the contents of his laundry basket had become part of the bullies’ game. He told himself he’d be fine so long as he didn’t panic. They were mostly trying to out-macho each