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    The Catalyst Spark
    The Catalyst Spark
    The Catalyst Spark
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    The Catalyst Spark

    By Rob Matthews

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    Marshall is going nowhere fast. His days are spent working hard as a landscaper and his nights are spent alone. He enjoys the comfortable rut he’s settled into, but soon discovers fate has other plans.

    Along comes Sean, a handsome waiter with a charming smile and checkered past who appreciates Marshall’s kind heart as well as his stunning physique. Sean’s charisma is exciting, and Marshall finds himself drawn to the waiter with a desire unlike any he has felt before. Is Marshall too naïve to know what pleasures await him? Is Sean the right man to teach him the ways of love?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateJul 30, 2016
    ISBN9781634861342
    The Catalyst Spark
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    Rob Matthews

    Rob (Bob) Matthews, MBE, went blind as a teenager. Determined to lead as normal a life as possible, he became a runner and represented Great Britain for many years as a gold medal winning Paralympian. Rob and his wife, Sarah, who is a Kiwi, returned to Auckland to raise their young family.

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      The Catalyst Spark - Rob Matthews

      The Catalyst Spark

      By Rob Matthews

      Published by JMS Books LLC

      Visit jms-books.com for more information.

      Copyright 2016 Rob Matthews

      ISBN 9781634861342

      Cover Design: Written Ink Designs | written-ink.com

      Image(s) used under a Standard Royalty-Free License.

      All rights reserved.

      WARNING: This book is not transferable. It is for your own personal use. If it is sold, shared, or given away, it is an infringement of the copyright of this work and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

      No portion of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts used for the purposes of review.

      This book is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It may contain sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which might be considered offensive by some readers. Please store your files where they cannot be accessed by minors.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Published in the United States of America.

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      For Josh who allowed me time and space to create, for M who showed me anything is possible—including two little country kids growing up to be authors, and for Andreah for lighting the way.

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      The Catalyst Spark

      By Rob Matthews

      I told you how I feel about you people walking across my driveway.

      Yes, Mrs. Beasley. I’m so sorry. I’ll go around.

      The last thing Marshall Galloway wanted to do was walk around Mrs. Beasley’s long-ass driveway. He had spent most of the afternoon mowing and weed-eating her lawn for Grass Master Landscapers and he was tired. His co-worker Kip was supposed to be planting and mulching the flowerbeds, but he had kept fairly busy staying out of Mrs. Beasley’s line of vision and lounging in the shade whenever possible.

      Marshall slung his heavy industrial weed-eater over his shoulder and walked several hundred feet to the road, across the front of the driveway, and back up to where Kip was sitting under a crepe myrtle. He sat the weed-eater down with a thump and plucked a showy bright purple bloom from the tree.

      Fuck you, Kip, said Marshall. He held the flower up to his nose. And fuck this crepe myrtle.

      Sorry, man, said Kip who didn’t seem to be sorry at all. I was up all night. I just don’t feel like doing shit today. Especially for that bitch Mrs. Beasley.

      Hey, it’s her house. If she doesn’t want us to do certain shit, it’s her right to tell us not to.

      It’s just how she says it. She’s a jerk and you know it. And what did that innocent crepe myrtle ever do to you?

      Well, for one thing, it’s beautiful, but it doesn’t smell very good. I mean, it’s a tease.

      Kip groaned and collapsed back into the mulch. Talk about a freakin’ tease, man. That girl I told you about? Kelly?

      Yeah.

      "Well, me and Kelly went out last night. I took her to dinner, we went out drinking and dancing. She was all up on me on the dance floor.

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