Romancing the Rough Diamond

Where trust is the most precious jewel of all.When Mayfair jewellers Starsmith Stones wins the commission for a British gay royal wedding, CEO Joel Sterling is recommended to the brilliant young designer Matt Barth-only to discover Matt's the man with whom he shared an anonymous and passionate kiss on the celebration night.Disenchanted with the commercial jewellery industry, Matt nowadays prefers muddy archaeological digs to designing. Openly resentful of Starsmith's hostile takeover of his family's firm, he is horrified at the realisation he'll be working with the man who engineered that deal-but the opportunity to create something fabulous and unique for the royal couple is too tempting to refuse.Working as a team reignites the spark between Joel and Matt. But when betrayal from within Starsmith threatens both the project and Joel's confidence, will they have built enough trust to keep their newfound love as precious as the royal jewels?**This story offers you a gruff designer who prefers digging for treasure, a smooth CEO who's too used to his own company, the glamorous Mayfair world of expensive jewellery, enemies to lovers, a gay royal couple who are fond of mischief, and an embarrassing accident on the Buckingham Palace railings!**Note: this is the same book as previously published by Dreamspinner Press, but with a new cover, and now published by the author. Clare took the pen name London from the city where she lives, loves, and writes. A lone, brave female in a frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home, she juggles her writing with the weekly wash, waiting for the far distant day when she can afford to give up her day job as an accountant. She's written in many genres and across many settings, with novels and short stories published both online and in print. She says she likes variety in her writing while friends say she's just fickle, but as long as both theories spawn good fiction, she's happy. Most of her work features male/male romance and drama with a healthy serving of physical passion, as she enjoys both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic and sexy characters.Clare currently has several novels sulking at that tricky chapter 3 stage and plenty of other projects in mind . . . she just has to find out where she left them in that frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home.All the details and free fiction are available at her website. Visit her today and say hello!Join up for her newsletter at http://bit.ly/2WpHlyK and receive a free short story!Clare also writes as Stella Shaw and launched her Love at the Haven series of rent boy romances in 2021.Website + blog: http://www.clarelondon.com / stellashawauthor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/clarelondonTwitter: https://twitter.com/clare_londonGoodreads: http://bit.ly/2lNSfC2Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/author/clarelondonBookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/clare-londonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/clarelondon11/Quids&Quills: http://www.quidsandquills.com (accountancy for UK authors) Delightful contemporary gay romances, with glamorous British settings, familiar and well-loved tropes, humour and drama, and always a Happy Ever After! Every book is a standalone romance.