Anouk de Rooij (she/her) is a Dutch national, born and raised in a small coastal town in the Netherlands where she learned to love books, enjoy music, to value the importance of friendship and the impact of a chosen family. She spent years scribbling down ideas and stories in notebooks and on long forgotten pieces of paper. Music is one of her biggest sources of inspiration.
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Winter Days & Historical Gays
Series: Seasons in the Hollow
Series Number: 1
E-book Price: 1,99
Paperback Price: 10.99
Blurb: Winter Days & Historical Gays is a cozy, small town M/M romance between a stoic divorced history professor and a light-hearted museum curator.
E-Book Price: 1,99
Paperback Price: 10.99
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Professor Daniel Carter’s only positive connection in everyday life is the one he has with his students. When their final field trip is compromised, he’ll do just about anything, even teaming up with the eternally cheerful Henry Mitchell, the curator of the local museum. Daniel’s been ostracized by the town; his harmful divorce and manipulative ex-husband have made sure that he doesn’t feel welcome anymore in the only place that he’s ever been able to call home. Shunned by the community and the tight knit-group of people he once had, he finds solace in his work, his students and tales of romance throughout the ages. In real life, however, love is something that he keeps at arm’s length. For Henry there is nothing more beautiful than love, any and all forms are worthy of being celebrated. Tasked with hosting a fundraiser to ensure that the museum can keep their doors open, he sets out to make sure it’s the brightest event the town has ever seen. Despite his wish for a romantic connection, he’s never quite found the one that can keep up with him. His boundless energy, positive attitude and larger than life personality tend to keep people away. That there’s more to him than what he tends to show doesn’t seem to matter. Will they find their own love story worthy of being documented? Or will they shatter like ancient artifacts?
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Spring Dates & Sprinkled Cakes
Series: Seasons in the Hollow
Series Number: 2
E-book Price: 1,99
Paperback Price: 10.99
Blurb: Spring Dates & Sprinkled Cakes is a cozy, second chance, small town M/M romance between a troubled baker and the sweets-averse local librarian; the one that got away.
E-Book Price: 1,99
Paperback Price: 10.99
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In Heritage Hollow - where everyone knows everyone but no-one knows what’s really happening behind closed doors - two exes find themselves trapped in the lie of a life they were supposed to have together. Small-town baker Casey Abbott has a lot going for him. With a successful bakery, a roof over his head and a loyal best friend, he doesn’t need much else. Unless it involves Ethan Bremer. On that front, it’s less hit and more miss. After an absence of almost four years, Ethan’s return to Heritage comes with a lot of secrets and feelings to work through. There’s a lot Casey is afraid to share - most importantly his heart. As much as he would tell you otherwise, Ethan did not enjoy his years in the city. The loneliness, the fast pace of the day to day – he’d rather spend his days holed up in the older, cozy library in Heritage. It was obvious his return to town would be difficult, he’d just not imagined it being this hard. Getting to know each other again, in a town that thinks you’re closer to getting married than the actual break-up you’re working through. Five dates, that’s all he asks, and if they’ve worked through their differences by the end of those, they’ll try again. How far are they willing to go to stop lying to the town, to their friends - and most importantly, to themselves?
Developing From The Negatives
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Paperback Price: 10.99
Blurb: Developing From The Negatives is a cozy, second chance M/M romance between a closeted Hollywood leading man and a well-meaning filmmaker.
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Paperback Price: 10.99
The thing with Polaroids is, sometimes the clear picture will only develop when it's shaken around a little and left to rest. It’s one of the things Ace lives by. Even if Polaroids get shaken too much, get left out in the sun too long, get damaged, they’ll still tell a wonderful story. No matter how long they might take to develop. Ace Turner's life is luxury, glamour and every expensive brand of wine you can think of. The only problem? He doesn't care for any of it. He’ll take a fruity cocktail over a glass of wine any day. Life in Hollywood isn’t what he imagined whenever he thought of making it big. He's signed away his life to the higher-ups in Hollywood, and he's been paying the price ever since. Hoping to rectify the one mistake that haunts him, he sets out on not only changing his own life, but also that of those around him. Oliver Bennett thought life would get better once he left his college days behind. It turns out he couldn’t have been more wrong. The only thing keeping him afloat is his passion for filmmaking and the one cup of coffee he lets himself have every morning. Having to say goodbye to his passion project, the one film he’s always wanted to make, he's all but forced to take on a project that will, at the very least, keep him fed and off the street. Even if it means dealing with Ace Turner on a daily basis. Will their story be able to survive the vices of Hollywood?