Release Blitz: The Pretenders of Copper County : May Archer
It was supposed to be a straightforward protection job. Remove the target from Vermont, get him to the safehouse, keep him there until his mafia uncle testifies, get back in my employer’s good graces.
Boom, done. Easy.
But it turns out things get complicated real fast when your target is an adorkable, accident-prone cutie with a shockingly low sense of self-preservation, zero clue that he’s related to the Fromadgio crime boss, and 100% too much inclination to chat happily with strangers.
When Chris compromises our safehouse (and accidentally starts a “lowkey, unavoidable” bar fight), our only option is to go undercover… pretending to be campground hosts in Copper County, New York.
Make that married campground hosts. (Long story.)
Now I’m hiding out with a guy who’s obsessed with action-adventure shows and hand-knit sweaters, and whose most fearsome talent is arranging charcuterie boards, all of which is far less helpful in a gunfight than you might think.
And worst of all… the sweet little virgin I rescued is growing on me.
Somehow I find myself listening to his happy chatter when I should be watching the woods, trying to figure out how his mind works when I should be getting us out of this predicament, and appreciating the way he looks in my shirts when I should be focused on getting my career back on track.
But when the Fromadgios’ enemies finally find us, protecting Chris is no longer just a job. I’ll do anything to protect what’s mine… and there’s nothing pretend about it.
Chris Winowski is a walking disaster. He is a daydreamer who is optimistic, gullible, naive, distracted, and klutzy. He thinks he wants adventure, but in the thick of it, he’s a danger to himself and others. He thought it would be exciting to have someone like his favorite action hero come in and sweep him off his feet. Just when he decides to start taking more chances, he ends up in a situation where he is not sure what’s really going on and the communication issues from the man who picked him up don’t help matters. So with the mix up and after mix up, his decisions make things even more complicated and dangerous and he’s just kind of clueless.
Reed Sunday is exasperated. He was already in trouble with the Division he works for and he was supposed to be doing a good job to redeem himself with this new protection job, but it’s been a cluster since it started. And his protectee Chris doesn’t quite understand that he needs protecting. But at the same time that he’s completely frustrated, he’s also a bit fascinated and attracted to his pint-size chaos Chris.
These two are thrown into their own little adventures and they’re just trying to figure each other out, trying to keep Chris safe, and avoid attempts that derail them. Chris is an adorable, chatty, sweet, kind person who seems to make friends wherever they go. Chris's misconceptions based on his vivid imagination, cluelessness about reality, and misguided attempts to help sometimes cause more problems. Reed is a grumpy, stoic, untrusting, protective, capable agent. He has his hands full trying to keep his protectee in line. Copper County don’t know what they’re in for.
Reed Sunday is exasperated. He was already in trouble with the Division he works for and he was supposed to be doing a good job to redeem himself with this new protection job, but it’s been a cluster since it started. And his protectee Chris doesn’t quite understand that he needs protecting. But at the same time that he’s completely frustrated, he’s also a bit fascinated and attracted to his pint-size chaos Chris.
These two are thrown into their own little adventures and they’re just trying to figure each other out, trying to keep Chris safe, and avoid attempts that derail them. Chris is an adorable, chatty, sweet, kind person who seems to make friends wherever they go. Chris's misconceptions based on his vivid imagination, cluelessness about reality, and misguided attempts to help sometimes cause more problems. Reed is a grumpy, stoic, untrusting, protective, capable agent. He has his hands full trying to keep his protectee in line. Copper County don’t know what they’re in for.
I loved seeing these two start to connect and actually see deeper into the other one's personality and eventually empower the other one to take risks that they wouldn’t have done in their previous life. They both have growth opportunities and it made me happy to see them supporting each other and kind of fumbling into this new forbidden relationship and existence that neither ever thought was possibility, but now that they’re in it don’t wan to think about it ending. But they’re also in the situation for a reason and it’s only supposed to be a short-term one.
This is a witty, adventurous agent and reluctant protectee, opposites-attract, finding love-on-the-run romance. It’s a spin-off of the Sunday Brothers with brother, Reed, and a neighboring small community Copper County (that is next to O'Leary) that’s going to be the start of a new Copper County series.
I enjoyed the small town settings and the sense of community there with the nosy, but helpful neighbors. I admit I haven’t read all of the O’Leary books, but there are a lot of cameos that fans will be thrilled. It also throws in some of the Sunday brothers and their significant others from Little Pippin Hollow. It’s feel feel-good, fun, rom-commy suspense story with shenanigans, sweetness, and two men unexpectedly finding what they did not know they needed and their place in the world.
This is a witty, adventurous agent and reluctant protectee, opposites-attract, finding love-on-the-run romance. It’s a spin-off of the Sunday Brothers with brother, Reed, and a neighboring small community Copper County (that is next to O'Leary) that’s going to be the start of a new Copper County series.
I enjoyed the small town settings and the sense of community there with the nosy, but helpful neighbors. I admit I haven’t read all of the O’Leary books, but there are a lot of cameos that fans will be thrilled. It also throws in some of the Sunday brothers and their significant others from Little Pippin Hollow. It’s feel feel-good, fun, rom-commy suspense story with shenanigans, sweetness, and two men unexpectedly finding what they did not know they needed and their place in the world.
May Archer
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May is an M/M author who lives in Boston. She spends her days raising three incredibly sarcastic children, finding inventive ways to drive her husband crazy, planning beach vacations, avoiding the gym, reading M/M romance, and occasionally writing it. She also writes MF romance as Maisy Archer.
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