Wow! Check out this amazing review from fellow Author @ryanlawrenceauthor ! You’re still the King of Villains Ryan! • @ryanlawrenceauthor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Read my full 5 Star review on @goodreads and @amazonca @amazon @matthew_dante_author Laying Claim is Book 1 of author Matthew Dante's gay/queer erotic crime thriller Rough Edges Series. This suspenseful opposites-attract love story is a credit to the author's arsenal of seductive M/M nail-biters. Seth Richards, a 24-year-old gay man and amateur detective first introduced in Dante's deliciously deviant Fractured Series, gets mixed up in the dangerous world of New Jersey's O'Brien Crime family. When asked to do some sleuthing for his friend Mark (Fractured's lovable vet sadistic romantic lead--it's complicated) regarding some dead Irish mobsters, Seth reluctantly agrees to the supposedly low-risk, simple intel-gathering job. Not too long later, however, he finds himself in a room, tied to a chair, beaten and bleeding. Next in line to take over his father's crime syndicate, Irishman Mickey O'Brien is a closeted bisexual with major daddy issues. He possesses a killer body, a sexy undercut hairstyle with a thick strip of red running down the middle, and a fierce attitude that commands respect. No one and nothing gets to Mickey. That is until a cute young man, bleeding, tied to a chair but still ferociously defiant, turns his world upside down and his heart inside out. Oh ya, Mickey still needs to find out who's killing his guys. Laying Claim shows real maturity in Dante's writing style, and the elevation of everything I loved in his previous work is front and center: adult themes, character development, and scene setting. I'm particularly impressed by the textual complexity of discourse between his characters, especially in scenes where heightened emotion, contrasting class backgrounds, and sexually provocative language abound… #crimethriller #gaywritersofinstagram #gayauthorsofinstagram #authorssupportingauthors #lgbt #lgbtq #gay #bisexual #suspensethriller #canadianwriter https://www.instagram.com/p/ClSQyICrG62/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=