Title: Captivating
Author: Onley James
Series: Elite Protection Services #2
Genre: M/M Romance, May/December, Voyeurism
Release Date: December 3, 2019
Jayne Shepherd has spent his life blending in. He smiles. He laughs. He’s likable. He’s also a sociopath. His emotions are limited. Love, fear, desire don’t exist in his world. Until he meets Elijah.
Elijah Dunne had everything. Third generation Hollywood royalty. Child star. Untouchable. Until one man ruined it all. Elijah fled LA to try to forget, but now, he’s back on top and back on a monster’s radar. Elijah doesn’t think he’ll ever feel safe. Until he meets Shepherd.
Elijah and Shep only have one thing in common. They both wear masks. Shep makes Elijah feel protected. Seen. Elijah makes Shep just feel. Now that he’s had a taste, he’s not about to let him go.
Everybody warns that what they have isn’t real. Shep is obsessed with Elijah, not in love. But Elijah craves Shep’s obsession. He can’t imagine life without him. In Hollywood, being a sociopath is more a life skill than a diagnosis. Could Shep be the monster Elijah needs to finally slay his demons?
Captivating is the second book in the Elite Protection Services Series and contains age-gap, cum-play, voyeurism and one very sexy interrogation scene complete at 72,000 words with an HEA and no cliffhangers.
Trigger Warnings: This book contains talk of past child sexual abuse
“What’s wrong?” Shep asked.
Elijah took a shuddery breath and then dragged his shirt over his head, dropping it onto the floor.
The blood rushed from Shep’s brain to his dick so fast it made him dizzy. Elijah locked eyes with him as he hooked his thumbs in the waistband of his pajama pants and slid them off, leaving him naked and hard. The look on the boy’s face was so vulnerable, it kicked up an instinct in Shep that was too primal to name.
Elijah seemed to make some kind of internal decision, closing the distance between them to straddle Shep’s thighs. “Tell me this is okay,” he whispered, gaze pleading.
Shep nodded, his hands already skimming across Elijah’s bare thighs, itching to touch as much of the boy as possible. “Yes. Just tell me what you need.”
“Kiss me.”
Shep complied, capturing his mouth in a kiss that turned dirty. Kissing Elijah ignited something in him. Everything about Elijah turned him on. The way he sucked in a startled breath when Shep’s tongue slipped into his mouth, the way he moaned when Shep bit his bottom lip. His scent, the heat of his skin, all of it. Everything.
“Put your arms around me,” Elijah demanded. Shep did as he was told, his palms finding Elijah’s ass and squeezing. “Fuck. Yeah. Like that,” he gasped against Shep’s lips. “You feel so fucking good. I just need to come.”
Elijah’s words had Shep’s cock aching. “Take what you want.”
Elijah took a shuddery breath and then dragged his shirt over his head, dropping it onto the floor.
The blood rushed from Shep’s brain to his dick so fast it made him dizzy. Elijah locked eyes with him as he hooked his thumbs in the waistband of his pajama pants and slid them off, leaving him naked and hard. The look on the boy’s face was so vulnerable, it kicked up an instinct in Shep that was too primal to name.
Elijah seemed to make some kind of internal decision, closing the distance between them to straddle Shep’s thighs. “Tell me this is okay,” he whispered, gaze pleading.
“Kiss me.”
Shep complied, capturing his mouth in a kiss that turned dirty. Kissing Elijah ignited something in him. Everything about Elijah turned him on. The way he sucked in a startled breath when Shep’s tongue slipped into his mouth, the way he moaned when Shep bit his bottom lip. His scent, the heat of his skin, all of it. Everything.
“Put your arms around me,” Elijah demanded. Shep did as he was told, his palms finding Elijah’s ass and squeezing. “Fuck. Yeah. Like that,” he gasped against Shep’s lips. “You feel so fucking good. I just need to come.”
Elijah’s words had Shep’s cock aching. “Take what you want.”
Who are some of your favorite authors and/or books to read when you need to relax?
Oh, man. I have so many. I absolutely love Sloane Kennedy, Lucy Lennox, Lynn Van Dorn and Kyleen Neuhold. Oh, and Stella Starling. I’ve read her Semper Fi series at least three times. Lynn Van Dorn’s Daddy Issues is another go-to reread for me.
If you were approached to have your book made into a film, who would you cast?
I would cast Ezra Miller as Elijah, for sure. Sam Hueghan is the only person who I can think of that is both large enough and ginger enough to play Shepherd. Perhaps a ginger Brock O’Hurn would be the best bet.
It's often asked what is your favorite part of being a writer but what is the easiest or most natural part of the creative process for you?
The easiest part is just figuring out who my characters are as people, what makes them tick, what’s their motivation. How they will interact with each other in the story. As long as I don’t try to fight who they are, I find that it’s the most natural part of the process. They talk to me if I let them.
Is there any one character you've created that is most like you? If yes, who and why?
I think each of my main characters is a little like me. Wyatt always feels like he doesn’t measure up, Linc has suffered major trauma, Elijah feels like he has to be a total chameleon, Shepherd doesn’t quite know how to show affection. They are all me and not me in equal measure.
If you could go anywhere(finances, time, & obligations not an issue) where would you go and why?
I want to go to Prague. My sister and her husband went at Christmas time years ago and she said its magical with white lights everywhere. Also, they have stunning architecture and lots of very old cemeteries and I have a huge thing for graveyards and true crime so it just seems like the perfect place to just go and absorb the atmosphere and take a million pictures.
Oh, man. I have so many. I absolutely love Sloane Kennedy, Lucy Lennox, Lynn Van Dorn and Kyleen Neuhold. Oh, and Stella Starling. I’ve read her Semper Fi series at least three times. Lynn Van Dorn’s Daddy Issues is another go-to reread for me.
If you were approached to have your book made into a film, who would you cast?
I would cast Ezra Miller as Elijah, for sure. Sam Hueghan is the only person who I can think of that is both large enough and ginger enough to play Shepherd. Perhaps a ginger Brock O’Hurn would be the best bet.
It's often asked what is your favorite part of being a writer but what is the easiest or most natural part of the creative process for you?
The easiest part is just figuring out who my characters are as people, what makes them tick, what’s their motivation. How they will interact with each other in the story. As long as I don’t try to fight who they are, I find that it’s the most natural part of the process. They talk to me if I let them.
Is there any one character you've created that is most like you? If yes, who and why?
I think each of my main characters is a little like me. Wyatt always feels like he doesn’t measure up, Linc has suffered major trauma, Elijah feels like he has to be a total chameleon, Shepherd doesn’t quite know how to show affection. They are all me and not me in equal measure.
If you could go anywhere(finances, time, & obligations not an issue) where would you go and why?
I want to go to Prague. My sister and her husband went at Christmas time years ago and she said its magical with white lights everywhere. Also, they have stunning architecture and lots of very old cemeteries and I have a huge thing for graveyards and true crime so it just seems like the perfect place to just go and absorb the atmosphere and take a million pictures.
Onley James is the pen name of YA author, Martina McAtee, who lives in Florida with her daughter, her daughter-in-law, and a menagerie of animals, both good and evil. When she’s not writing m/m romance or supernatural LGBT young adult books, she’s running 7 Sisters Publishing and attempting to maintain both her sanity and her full-time job as an RN.
When not at work you can find her mainlining Starbucks refreshers, whining about how much she has to do and avoiding the things she has to do by binge-watching unhealthy amounts of television in one sitting. She loves ghost stories, true crime documentaries, obsessively scrolling social media and writing kinky, snarky books about men who fall in love with other men.
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