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    Perfect Catch
    Perfect Catch
    Perfect Catch
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    Perfect Catch

    By N. R. Walker

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    Calvin Lynch and Troy Hoffman have been best mates since they were fourteen years old. They’re both hard-working tradesmen, both love weekends away fishing, both gay, but have never been single at the same time. Until now.
    What is supposed to be a weekend away fishing with a group of mates, changes at the last minute when friends bail out in an attempt to give Cal and Troy some alone time.
    With more than just hooks on the line, can these two see what’s been right in front of them the whole time?
    The Perfect Catch is a short story about falling for your best friend hook, line, and sinker.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherN. R. Walker
    Release dateOct 7, 2017
    ISBN9781370951673
    Perfect Catch
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    N. R. Walker

    N.R. Walker is an Australian author, who loves her genre of gay romance. She loves writing and spends far too much time doing it, but wouldn't have it any other way.She is many things; a mother, a wife, a sister, a writer. She has pretty, pretty boys who live in her head, who don't let her sleep at night unless she gives them life with words.She likes it when they do dirty, dirty things...but likes it even more when they fall in love.She used to think having people in her head talking to her was weird, until one day she happened across other writers who told her it was normal.She's been writing ever since...

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      Exactly what it says on the tin. A very sweet and moderately emotional best friends to lovers. A feel good for sure

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    Perfect Catch - N. R. Walker

    PERFECT CATCH

    N.R. WALKER

    Blurb:

    Calvin Lynch and Troy Hoffman have been best mates since they were fourteen years old. They’re both hard-working tradesmen, both love weekends away fishing, both gay, but have never been single at the same time. Until now.

    What is supposed to be a weekend away fishing with a group of mates, changes at the last minute when friends bail out in an attempt to give Cal and Troy some alone time.

    With more than just hooks on the line, can these two see what’s been right in front of them the whole time?

    The Perfect Catch is a short story about falling for your best friend hook, line, and sinker.

    Copyright:

    Editor: Labyrinth Bound Edits

    Perfect Catch © 2016 N.R. Walker

    Publisher: BlueHeart Press

    Second Edition: January 2017

    Smashwords Edition

    All Rights Reserved:

    This literary work may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic or photographic reproduction, in whole or in part, without express written permission.

    This is a work of fiction, and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or business establishments, events or locales is coincidental.

    The Licensed Art Material is being used for illustrative purposes only.

    All Rights Are Reserved. No part of this may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

    Warning:

    Intended for an 18+ audience only. This book contains material that maybe offensive to some and is intended for a mature, adult audience. It contains graphic language, explicit sexual content, and adult situations.

    The author uses Australian English spelling and grammar.

    Trademarks:

    Esky: The Coleman Company, Inc.

    Guinness: Guinness & Co.

    Tooheys: Lion Pty Ltd.

    Hawaii Five 0: CBS Television Studios

    MasterChef: EndemolShine (Aust) Pty Ltd.

    Iron Chef: Fuji Television Network, inc.

    DEDICATION

    To the wonderful folk in the M/M Daily Grind.

    This story wouldn’t exist without you.

    AUTHOR NOTE

    This was previously released as part of the It Was Always You anthology, released 2016.

    It is now released as a single title. No additional content has been added.

    CHAPTER ONE

    Hey, can you grab the other end of this? Troy asked. He climbed on his knees under the canopy into the back of his four-wheel-drive utility. He gripped one end of the long folded tent that leaned against the tailgate and waited for me to help with the other.

    Sure. I lifted the bottom end, and together we slid the tent onto the tray of his ute. I helped him load everything else on, getting ready for our weekend of camping out and fishing in the mountains.

    I’d just called by his place to drop off the food for our trip and to see if he needed any last minute things. It was Thursday evening, and we were leaving at sunup the next day. You sure you don’t need me to get anything else? I asked.

    He pointed his chin toward a carton of Tooheys Extra Dry on the floor of his garage. Just those.

    I picked up the box of beer and slid it on the tray toward him. Need ice for the beer?

    Nah, we’ll grab it from a servo on the way, yeah?

    I nodded. What about your fishing rods? His fishing rod holder was a two-metre length of PVC pipe, eight inches in diameter. The fishing rods simply slid into it, a screw cap at each end making them secure and well protected.

    I’ll fix that up on top, he replied, sliding out of the back of his ute. Using the back tyre of the ute as a step, he grabbed the top rail of the canopy and effortlessly lifted himself up. Pass it up for me?

    I held the long pipe along the roof of the canopy steady, and Troy fixed it with ratchet clamps. We’d done this so many times, gotten ready to go camping, that we barely needed words. We just kinda knew what the other was thinking. I’d known Troy Hoffman since the eighth grade, been mates since then too. We grew up and still lived in this country town. Life hadn’t always put us on the same page in the ten years I’d known him, but we somehow always ended up hangin’ out.

    He’d been the only other gay kid I’d known when I was fourteen. He caught me checking out the school’s polocrosse captain, and when I thought he was gonna punch me, he just swallowed hard and said, He’s hot, isn’t he? And we were inseparable after that. We were never together in the boyfriends-sense. We kept each other’s secret until we were both ready to come out. He only had his mum to tell, and she took it like she was relieved he’d finally told her. My folks were okay with it; well, my mum and sister were fine with it. I think my dad was just relieved I was still a man’s man. I was still keen to do my building apprenticeship and was one of the hardest hitting guys on our rugby team. I think my old man thought all gay men had a swish to their hips. But when he realised it didn’t change a single thing about me, he said he was fine with it. I had to wonder if he’d still accept me if I was more flamboyant. I’d never really thought parents’ love should have limits, but apparently my dad’s might have.

    Troy jumped down and clapped his hand on my shoulder. You okay?

    I scrubbed my hand over my face, trying to clear my head. Yeah.

    You need this weekend, he said, opening the passenger door. "It’ll take your mind

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