You Saved Me

You Saved Me

By Roslyn Faulk

Yes, there are times when love comes under the most unlikely circumstances, including times of crisis. It can take years before it happens, or it can take only weeks to realize it. That being said, I present to you Roslyn Faulk’s debut entry into Black Love, You Saved Me.

32-year-old book editor Tristan Michaels has just had a day when everything that could go wrong in his life did. At the publishing house, a jealous and slimy coworker framed him to be fired. When his BFF and coworker Cassie Blackwell takes him home, he walks in to discover Devin, his boyfriend of two years, cheating on him with another man. I mean, Tristan can’t catch a break, and the next day he packs his things and leaves Devin for good. At Cassie’s insistence, Tristan goes up to her family’s cabin in the Georgia mountains to heal from his emotional blows and work on his own novel for the next month.

35-year-old Lucas Blackwell is an FBI agent whose team has come off an intense manhunt for the Darkstream Killer, a monstrous serial killer who kidnapped and tortured women before he killed them. After punching out the perp in custody, he is ordered to take leave and see an FBI therapist for his PTSD. Coming from a wealthy family, Lucas has never told his parents or his younger sister Cassie that he was with the FBI, or that he has been struggling with his sexuality.

When Tristan and Lucas meet at the cabin, it’s hardly a meet-cute, not with Lucas pulling a gun on a brotha he didn’t expect to find there. Tristan, having known of Lucas but never met him, takes offense at what he perceives to be Lucas’ homophobic attitude. Over the next few weeks, Lucas comes out as bisexual, and their respective emotional wounds are shared in the healing process. However, the Darkstream Killer has an accomplice, who will stop at nothing to wipe out the FBI team that captured his partner in crime…

In this her first novel, Faulk does an outstanding job in showing the honesty and vulnerability in both Tristan and Lucas during their stay in the cabin, as well as the way the Blackwell family embraced Tristan as one of their own when Tristan’s own parents disowned him for being gay. Truly, Tristan has a wonderful friend in Cassie; she’s the kind of friend I’d want to have my back. As Tristan and Lucas open up and fall in love, and that love grew, I was rooting for the brothas all the way. I loved the way Lucas came into his own in protecting those he loves, which soon included Tristan.

You Saved Me is available through Amazon.

Thank you, Roslyn, for taking your place at the Romancelandia table and for the love you showed in your novel. It shows through and through in Tristan, Lucas, and the Blackwell family. Representation matters, and Black Love triumphs again!