Title:
Us Three
Author: Mia
Kerick
Publisher:
Harmony Ink Press
Genre:
Young Adult
Description:
In his junior year at a public high school, sweet, bright Casey Minton’s
biggest worry isn’t being gay. Keeping from being too badly bullied by his
so-called friends, a group of girls called the Queen Bees, is more pressing.
Nate De Marco has no friends, his tough home life having taken its toll on his
reputation, but he’s determined to get through high school. Zander Zane’s story
is different: he’s popular, a jock. Zander knows he’s gay, but fellow students
don’t, and he’d like to keep it that way.
No one expects much when these
three are grouped together for a class project, yet in the process the boys
discover each other’s talents and traits, and a new bond forms. But what if
Nate, Zander, and Casey fall in love—each with the other and all three together?
Not only gay but also a threesome, for them high school becomes infinitely more
complicated and maybe even dangerous. To survive and keep their love alive,
they must find their individual strengths and courage and stand together,
honest and united. If they can do that, they might prevail against the Queen
Bees and a student body frightened into silence—and even against their own
crippling fears.
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Mia Kerick is the mother of four exceptional children—all named after
saints—and five nonpedigreed cats—all named after the next best thing to
saints, Boston Red Sox players. Her husband of twenty years has been told by
many that he has the patience of Job, but don’t ask Mia about that, as it is a
sensitive subject.
Mia focuses her stories on the emotional growth of troubled men and
their relationships, and she believes that sex has a place in a love story, but
not until it is firmly established as a love story. As a teen, Mia filled
spiral-bound notebooks with romantic tales of tortured heroes (most of whom
happened to strongly resemble lead vocalists of 1980s big-hair bands) and
stuffed them under her mattress for safekeeping. She is thankful to
Dreamspinner Press for providing her with an alternate place to stash her
stories.
Mia is proud of her involvement with the Human Rights Campaign and
cheers for each and every victory made in the name of marital equality. Her
only major regret: never having taken typing or computer class in school,
destining her to a life consumed with two-fingered pecking and constant prayer
to the Gods of Technology.
My themes I always write about:
Sweetness. Unconventional love,
tortured/damaged heroes- only love can save them.
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