JJQuinn

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 well I actually had someone who is gay and married and told me that he doesn't like this sexy scenes that he skips past them. He sent me a message lOL and I was like okay well I try to let people know that there's going to be a sexy scene but I was like as far as hood and holy water goes it all is sexy until it's not. It starts off with a bang literally from just found Heaven's chapters in Romans point of view which then continues in hood and holy water. But it will get more emotionally charged and normalized LOL there will be story. You know me so it will get there. But I'm trying to edit this dang chapter , kane, and we are at 62 pages in word. That's why I took off the previous chapter portion and made it separate because it was so freaking long but I can't figure out how to shorten this so it's just going to be a really long chapter and God help me so that's why it's taking so long to edit because I'm going through it and I'm like oh this doesn't make sense this needs to be shortened. Or this needs to be taken out. Or this needs to be replaced or something else Etc but it will get up eventually but that's why LOL that is why my scenes takes so long and this has no sex in it at all. It's just max being Max and Roman kind of laying down the law and saying enough . Hopefully it will be worth the wait.

Thanks Cane. I appreciate you doing the word count lol. A lot of people don't realize how long my chapters actually are. And that's part of the reason why it takes me so long to write and edit them. Because they are really really long . So you start losing your place and have to go back and rewrite things and move things around and sometimes I'll take entire paragraphs that were on page 15 and move them to page two or move the entire you know first 15 pages all the way to the end and write a new beginning it all depends on the flow. But I'm glad that at least this will go down as a solid story. I know that not as many people seem to be into hood and holy water because it is a lot of sex but I think when it starts picking up where they're interacting with other characters like Max will be interacting with Adeline soon after this chapter with Roman and he'll be talking to Adrian Sophia and they'll be more going on. And of course when he and Sam and Ben eventually fix things there will just be a lot more of the friends and family building. And of course there will be a part one the general comes to town so there's that as well as Romans sister who he doesn't know about yet LOL . Lots of stuff. 🧡❤️♥️

Aww thanks. The characters will pop up in each other's stories. The book after this is just found heaven. And that takes place on the special day for salmon bun and it's still from the viewpoints of other characters including salmon bed but you also hear from max, tara, and roman. Hood and holy water is the one I'm working on now and that's Max's story. Very different from salmon bun. There's a lot more of a sexual element to it because they're kind of going backwards . Sam and Ben did the slower strangers to friends to lovers. Max and Roman are going from frenemies to lovers and eventually to a romantic relationship . And Tara will have a story also and eventually in the future God willing I plan to expand to stories for detective Whelan and Carter which will be one couple and then Cayden and his partner as well. So they will pop up in each other's stories.

Thank you friend 😊

So lo es.... Only 8 chapters to go

Your grammer is fine. No worries. I understand. There are some difficult chapters in this story, but levity as well as Sam finds his way. After this novel, book 1.5 which is a long novella, is the followup to Halos and told on one particular day but from the POV of Ben, Max, Tara, and Roman, as well as Sam. It's sets up for book 2. Not all of my stories are this intense, but I'd stay away from No Such Thing as Neverland. It isn't finished but it's based on a prompt for how someone can become evil and it's pretty dark. Only a few of my usual readers have tried it. You would probably like the others once they wall done Thanks for following! Have a good day!

@GoodReaderaccording to the million notifications I am getting, it seems you were whipping through the story and are about halfway through! I am assuming that's a good thing lol. Happy reading!

I'm so glad that you're enjoying the story so far. You really ripping through it LOL . That's a good sign. I always attempt to write characters that are as human as possible, so I try to flush them out. Sometimes it's good sometimes it's bad and sometimes it's downright ugly . Real life is messy and that always pretty , but I like to think that I write realistic characters regardless of the fact that they're technically romance novels. I don't like limiting myself so I want readers to really get to know the characters, to feel for them when they're sad or happy, and get annoyed with them when they're dummies lOL. It's going to ebb and flow. Do pay attention to the disclaimers at the top of later chapters. I can't remember off the top of my head which one it is but some of them start to have disclaimers of more difficult topics like the PTSD nightmares and what happens when Sam has one and then just happens to be in the way. The past that it's just going to be up and down through the slow building of their romance as well as Sam coming to terms with the rest of his family. Can't wait to see what you think of as you go along. Take care!

. First because I am a foodie, that pizza sounds delicious and yeah I guess it is weird LOL the pineapple with the ham but it's actually really good. I don't mind the red sauce is the acidity added something to cut the sweetness of the pineapple and even the ham. But I love buffalo chicken pizza well I love all pizza but I can't eat it anymore. But buffalo chicken pizza was awesome and that didn't have red sauce neither the taco pizza or the white pizza that I liked. It just depends on the ingredients Moving on from that though I agree with you. I know that the parents situations and sometimes just the family dynamics that I write can be very triggering for some people. I write what I know and unfortunately a lot of the family Dynamics come straight from my own family . My dad was great for the most part but he tended to cater to my mother and she could be very very difficult. She's still very challenging but I have long since decided that all the things that she has done will be between her and our maker she will have to explain it to god, and all I can do is forgive because as a Christian , yes I know I'm a Christian who writes gay romance novels in addition to Federal romance novels LOL that aside knowing that God expects us to forgive because Jesus gave everything to us and God forgives us for everything that is what I have tried to do with my mother since I lost my dad this January. But her family is horrendous and I have no contact with them so again a lot of what I write in general comes from personal experience or experience with friends and just through life Etc but the family Dynamics are almost always modeled off of either my own family the primary members or the extended, or family members of friends who also have difficult dynamics. And it doesn't always make sense. It's usually ugly not pretty, but you learn to deal with it. And my dad was in a bad dad for wanting to be a good husband and put his wife first , but we suffered because of medicationally . Didn't make my bad person. So as far as Max's mother is concerned she kind of falls into that old world I have to stand by my spouse mentality which is very common among older people honestly. And you'll see next chapter why Max's father is such a prick for lack of a better word. The stoicism is part of it but he also had certain expectations even before Max was born and it just didn't turn out that way so there's a lot of contacts. Not good contacts because he still a creep as far as Max had nothing to do what happened and the reason that the general l resents him in some way. But it's still context. Also from the General's perspective which we won't get tons from but we can kind of see it through salmon away, he's a three-star general. He's seen some stuff he's had to do some stuff to get up that far. You can't get up to those levels without sacrificing a lot. Doesn't make his behavior acceptable. However everybody's just doing the best that they can. And it's just not pretty. But unfortunately I try to as you know, make my characters and situations as realistic as possible and sometimes it's ugly. And I don't like it LOL but I write where it takes me. Also it's should be pointed out from a psychological perspective (Because yes that's what I had studied for and then switched to teaching but I had always wanted to get back into it before i got MS nd now can't but it comes out lol) that a lot of times learn from their parents. Both good and bad. We are not really getting into Max's grandparents . The only one that was mentioned was his Nan and she loved him. But we don't know whose mother she is cuz I haven't stated it and how that influenced whoever was her child. Or how her husband's behavior influenced. My grandmother was very loving towards me. She was my favorite person in the world and I was spoiled and she loved me more than anyone else. But according to my mother she was pretty tough on them. She never raised a hand to me but she smacked them around more than once. So did she soften with age? Regret? I don't know . No one talked about it but we don't always know what happens to make people how they are. It's not justifying their behavior at all. But context does matter. If we know that someone became a serial killer because they had awful parents who were abusive and there was just all sorts of hanky stuff happening in the household come up will that make sense. It does not absolve the person of their crimes or make them a good person in any respect. However you can say that because of the abuse that they suffered they became damaged and then became destructive and hurt other people. It's not always about liking something as much as it is understanding. And like I said sometimes understanding human behavior is ugly and it's not usually something that you see in a romance novel, but even though I have a lot of raunchy scenes LOL I like to think that I write family dramas or comedies or whatever that are not just strict Romance. As far as the good stuff, Roman is going to slowly become the keeper. That's what the whole song was about. It was simply that like harkening back to Tara's chapter and just found heaven Max needs someone who's going to challenge him, love him but also keep him in line so that he doesn't screw himself out of happiness . He has tendency to take everything on and even though outwardly he presents kind of Devil May care that's not always what's going on in his head. Which in the next chapter especially you're going to see a lot of what's going on in his head and why he and Sam didn't work out will make more sense. Of course he in a way strong Sam along and he couldn't commit. That's all been said and it's a reality, but there's always a question why people do things that they do. There's a psychology to humanity and always kind of a why. And you're going to start seeing some of the why. Again it's not that it's Justified but there's contextual reasons. Thanks for still following along. I always appreciate you!

Completely on track. As usual. Because two chapters from Romans perspective in just found heaven this did move along faster than I thought. They already had that connection. Roman saw Max at his most vulnerable and then of course when he walked out on him Max lost his s*** a little bit LOL and flipped on him at the hospital. So there is already that building block and they have mutual friends in common so it's not just two strangers the way Sam and Ben were so this does seem to be moving a little faster. And Roman are very similar in ways that he and Sam differed. And they are both laying claims to each other in subtle ways. Roman is a lot less subtle about it especially in the next chapter LOL he is not playing any kind of games. But you'll see that Max's just hesitant. He loves Sam but it's beginning to become the tea still find himself in love with Sam or does he still love Sam and the idea of what Sam could have been compounded by the guilt that he feels of how he treated Sam and their relationship. There's a lot of nuance here.

🤣😂🤣😂😂 You know if Tara gets involved it's never going to be sweetness and light. She loves Max and you see that he's softens towards him but she needed to put Roman through his Paces before she approved

Muddled how Just because of the weird flavors? Those are actually all pizzas that I have actually had LOL I used to love pizza before I couldn't have it anymore because of my MS dietary restrictions. But I was a pizza connoisseur. I love all pizza and my husband and I used to order specialty pies whenever you want to like really good places and that caramelized pear pie we had in Maine and it was out of this world. Weird but out of this world chicken Basil Pizza was a regular Staple in our house I like Hawaiian pizza and this one place put that hot honey drizzle so that was delicious so yeah they're all like weird pieces that I have actually eaten LOL

Ooooo OK lol

Yes he will,closet to the middle towards the end. He, Sam and Ben will fix it. (shortest response ever I think to you lol but short reply. Let's see what happens next chapter.

I forgot to address this specifically . So this is actually from a song. I did mention it in the chapter but it's a song by Destiny's child. It's really old. Beyonce was featured in it but this was before she started her solo career. The song was titled Soldier. It's a little rough to be honest. Not really my style of music. However there's a sort of play on words because of course Sam was a soldier. He was actually Black Ops in the second half of his career which meant that he did some terrible things things that the military doesn't talk about. Stuff that needs to be done, but haunts The Operators. So he knows how to do difficult things, but his PTSD is a clear sign he doesn't want to anymore. In the song they're using the term Soldier as kind of a tough guy. Idon't want to say criminal but... It's pretty much true. They aren't talking about the good guy, All American soldier types. They mean a semi gangster/somebody who's just rough and tough gets into trouble etc. Roman falls more into that category. Even though he tries to stay out of trouble because of his record, he has less scruples than Sam does when it comes to protecting his people. Because he went to prison, because he lost everything and now has his Misfits to protect, he won't bat an eyelash if he has to hide a body LOL Max is somewhere in between. He doesn't want to hurt people . He is bothered by the fact that he had to kill the would-be bomber in Afghanistan. However, he also has less scruples when it comes to his small circle of friends and family. Like Roman, he would take a bullet for them, or go to prison without hesitation. He would hide the bodies if he had to. So o that's the point of the song as far as how Tara is using it . She's saying that Macneeds someone who is a different kind of tough than Sam was and is. Someone who is more like him (scrappy) who will fight for him, and whom he can fight for.

LOL I would have the same issues with Tara and food lol but Max isn't bothered. Keeping her mouth full keeps her from shrinking him and he's all good with that. The next chapter is a lot more into why Max's so conflicted of his father. They just don't get along but there is a semi reason but not really a good enough reason. He's just a very strict military man. And as a result he doesn't know how to deal well with his only son. His mother loves him and he makes a point of saying that so she tempers most of it but she's also old-fashioned and that she has to kind of Stand by her man. But he's never hurt Max physically . She wouldn't allow that. But the emotional stuff is just as damaging. Max just hides it well to most people. Roman is seeing right through it and next chapter it gets into Roman's past and more of Max's. But Romans made it very obvious what he wants so they're going to go from there. Maybe not love yet, but monogamy is a step in the right direction. Roman and Max had that one night at the hotel which shouldn't have been a big deal, but because max was so drunk and Roman was already intrigued it's sort of escalated things faster so at this point they're picking up on each other's behaviors . They're both very observant, Max because he's a doctor and Roman because he grew up on the streets and then went to prison. Part of the reason that he has cameras everywhere. He knows that there is monsters out there in the night and he tries to stay ahead of it. They are very different than Sam and Ben because they're more realist in some senses. Even though Sam saw horrible things , he pushes it down. Max deals with it head-on 90% of the time. So does Roman. Stay tuned!

Well I would not have known that. You write extremely well so good for you. I'm happy that you can follow along, and now I know that if I need some help should I ever decide to travel down the Italian route for the story, I have someone to ask to make sure I'm accurate😊

It definitely can be in a town where everyone knows your name. Living in a relatively small town means that even when you don't run into everyone in it, gossip does spread and you get Snippets of it here and there. Noah is definitely in love with Luke and although he's strong and tough both mentally and physically, he hasn't quite grown that extra level of Teflon in his spine that he needs to tell Luke how he feels. He will eventually. Mostly because of a kick in his butt from a very exuberant bride to be lol. I hope to be done with this by the end of the year. Let's cross fingers and toes. I was doing well for a while so I started all of these things and now they've had to be put on hold . But I will get there. Thanks so much for following along. I'm happy that you are a new reader and hope that you'll stick with me. 😊

Thank you I'm glad that you enjoyed it!

“A healthy relationship is built on a lot of smiles, and an insane number of orgasms…” -Anonymous ROMAN had ended up ordering two medium pies, and one large. The latter had been for Tara. Both it and the other two, had all been selected from the restaurant’s specialty menu. My admitted lack of culinary variety was due in equal parts to both habit and time constraints, but I was willing to eat most things. I also always tried new foods at least twice to make sure I didn’t like th

LOL Inever thought about their names together . That's hilarious. Of course Max might choke if somebody brings up the idea of a wedding invitation. I do have an idea of how that's going to go. Neither he nor Roman or big wedding people but there will be an end to it at the culmination of the story. Very different from Sam and Ben. But Rings will end up on hands.

Correct, and correct again. There is a background story as you said and we are all shaped by our experiences especially by our family Dynamics. And Max does have his own protective Warrior tendencies in the sense that he has always had Sam's back. Mostly because he had to defend him against whatever trouble Connor got him into. He can throw down with the best of them LOL he just doesn't want to. And just to remind everyone of halos and heroes , and why Max chose to retire.. The fact that he had to shoot a young teenager because he was strapped with a bomb vest and wanted to set it off in the hospital in afghanistan. Max was forced to shoot to kill to diffuse the situation, but it bothers him. He says that he does not have PTSD like Sam and that's true. He isn't haunted the way that Sam is because Sam had to do things that nobody should have to do over and over and over again until he broke. That was on top of an already damaged psyche because of the abuse from his father and watching his mother be beaten and then slowly fade away from the cancer. But Max is very much a family man which readers will see when he interacts with Adeline and Sophia and even aj. He doesn't have siblings and his family is away so he adopts people or rather they adopt him, like Janet at the hospital. Those are all people within his small circle who he would kill for. But he prefers to heal than to hurt. Sam was just better at structure and following orders and disconnecting. It was more of hey okay that's a bad guy then I can do this and shouldn't feel guilt , rather than all the other complications that he had going on in his life emotionally. Max is a little bit better well-rounded because his mother loves him without any hesitation. The colonel just is who he is and so is max. For Better Or worse. The Dynamics will play out.

You're so funny LOL that would be appropriate. I mean he would be the secret love child and he immensely together and that's kind of why the colonel didn't want them together but then it would have to turn out that he's not actually his father but the colonel didn't know that lOL that's how telenovellas go lol but nope it's not that. It's something weird and you'll see. It's real but it's weird and sort of explanation why max wanted to be a doctor but also what he's a little messed up in the head with all this nonsense trauma . I'm trying to edit it now. It's just longer than I thought so I'm trying to get it done . I would have loved to have it up by today but I don't think that's going to happen

Oh my gosh LOL LOL LOL no that is so far off the mark lOL lol. No that would go into some days of our lives, other crazy soap opera things. Ben would probably find a fascinating but no no no no no no no no no no no no no no lOL that is completely off the mark. It's still a Twist but it's not that bad LOL . You know me better than that sir!! LOL

. Again, very perceptive. We'll see more of the Misfits later. They will pop up because Max spends so much time at the club. That's where Roman is, so that's where he will be. And there will be a character introduction later on. Oh ruin it because it doesn't really matter it's not going to be a big secret but Roman's mother got remarried and Roman has a sister. And of course she's much younger, probably a little older than Adeline so that will tie in and she wants to know who her brother is. Roman of course has absolutely no idea about this girl. But club, pretty girl, and Max , and we will see what happens. But Max is in a cheater so at least you don't have to worry about that . But it will be the beginning of an introduction. And the Misfits will of course look after her just what they do with roman. He takes care of his people , but they take care of him too. And we already see that Max does as well.