A release today!

Sacrifice of the Stone was released today from Ellora's Cave!

I'm really pleased with this one, it's set in the ancient Mayan culture which was a lot of fun to research and write. Did you know the Mayans invented hammocks to sleep in? I didn't either, but they did! And they did all sorts of other things in there too!

Here's a little blurb and an excerpt for you, I hope you enjoy it!

The Underworld is full of secrets, some wondrous, some deadly...

High born Mayan son, Ah Kaht, will do anything to bring Esh, the man he secretly loves, back from the brink of death — even steal a sacred stone and holy scrolls from the temple to perform a forbidden rite. The stone is destroyed, the ritual begun, but something goes awry.

Instead of bringing Esh back to the living, Ah Kaht is transported with him to another place. In the Underworld they live out their every carnal fantasy until Ixtab, patron goddess of men killed in battle, is alerted to their presence. She is not pleased to have an intruder in her land and vows to seduce Esh and send Ah Kaht back to the mortal world.

Now Ah Kaht must wage another battle — for the heart and soul of the man he loves and the life he knows they can have together.


Ah Kaht ran an idle hand across Esh’s chest, pleased to see Esh’s flat nipples grow hard beneath his touch. “Do the priests not say that every wounded warrior will be whole and perfect in the afterlife?” Ah Kaht caught Esh’s eye, anxious to see what he would think of the possibility of spending eternity by Ah Kaht’s side.
“The after—” Esh broke off, eyes wide as he spun in a circle, taking in the strange surroundings once more.
The air around them was cooler than any day either of them had known in their native land, free of the heat and humidity that often plagued the city of Mayapan, and fragranced with the light, sweet scent of flowers. With every passing moment, it became clearer to Ah Kaht that they were no longer in their world, but the knowledge did not disturb him.
He would rather be by Esh’s side in the afterlife than on his own in the earthly realm. Nothing had ever felt so right as when their tongues had tangled in their first kiss. And taking the other man’s cock in his mouth had been…indescribably perfect. In fact, he was already eager to suck him again, tempted to fall to his knees in the soft grass and take Esh’s swelling arousal between his lips once more.
But it seemed Esh did not share his feelings.
“Esh?” He spoke his name softly, worried by the tightly clenched jaw and thinly pressed lips of the other man.
“Ah Kaht, I would not have had you do this.” Esh turned tormented eyes to Ah Kaht. “You have abandoned the world and our people, and risked the anger of the gods.”
“I was trying to save your life.” Ah Kaht felt anger and hurt spear through his chest, wounding him.
“You should have let me die.” Esh turned, pacing away through the grasses, before he turned back to face Ah Kaht. “I was ready to give my life for yours. I knew what I did when I leapt into the flames. I would never have asked—”
“You didn’t have to ask. I was willing to risk Ac Yanto’s wrath, the gods’ wrath, anything to…to return you to me.” Esh was silent, but Ah Kaht could see a softening in his face. Esh did care for him. Now Ah Kaht simply had to convince the other man that he had acted with forethought, and done his best to appease the gods. “I made offerings to the four directions before I began the ritual. And I performed the rite of the garnet exactly as it was written in the scrolls I stole from the Temple of the Bearded Man.”
“You stole from your father, from Ac Yanto?” Esh asked, his tone making it clear Ah Kaht had committed an act as foolishly destructive as inviting a jaguar into his home for breakfast.
“I stole only what I myself thieved for him in the first place.”
“You shouldn’t have risked this,” Esh said, reaching out to take his hand and making Ah Kaht’s heart surge with relief. It was care for him that made Esh worry, not regret to find himself by Ah Kaht’s side in the afterlife. Thank the gods. “Your father will kill you.”
“No, my love, it doesn’t appear that he’ll have that pleasure.” Ah Kaht stepped closer to Esh, bringing the front of their bodies to press together. “As we are both already dead.”
“You are…” Esh’s words trailed off as Ah Kaht ran his hands down the other man’s back, cupping Esh’s ass in his hands and pulling his hips forward, more tightly to his own. Their cocks pressed together, hot, soft skin over stone that grew even harder as Ah Kaht took Esh’s lips for a kiss.
“I am right?” Ah Kaht flicked his tongue out across the seam of Esh’s lips. “I am wise?” Esh parted for him, but Ah Kaht did not invade, merely teased along the edge of his mouth. “I am like a young god, the only man in the great world you would wish to have by your side for the rest of—”
“You are far too talkative.” Esh’s laughter was followed by firm hands on the back of Ah Kaht’s head. Esh pulled him close, savaging his mouth with deep probing sweeps of his tongue.