JUST THIS ONCE (Men of Porth Luck - Book One) by Garrett Leigh | Dual Cover & Excerpt Reveal
September 3, 2025
JUST THIS ONCE
Men of Porth Luck - Book One
by Garrett Leigh
Dual Cover Reveal
Release Date: October 2, 2025
Model & Discreet Cover Design: Garrett Leigh @ Black Jazz Design
Photo: Wander Aguiar Photography
Model: Ben B.
Genre: M/M Romance Standalone
Tropes: Hook up to lovers, forced proximity, hate to love you, tattooed heroes, roommates, military, medical, found family, hurt/comfort, angst
Synopsis
Love hurts. Love heals. Love stays.
The Men of Porth Luck series is a steamy, gritty, and emotional MM small-town romance collection chock full of angst, deep connections, and healing soulmate love.
Just This Once - Men Of Porth Luck, #1
A broken soldier. A guarded nurse. A love that shouldn’t happen—and yet...
"Of course it f**king does."
Mal’s just passing through. Skylar’s the small-town nurse who fixes everyone but himself. Mal swears he won't fall, but Sky’s smile hides shadows he can’t ignore.
Those pewter-grey eyes.
That sun-kissed hair.
That ink.
We’re a mistake waiting to happen.
Inevitable. Excruciating.
So what’s the harm in
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Excerpt
Skylar
We breach the surface at the same time, and he’s closer than I thought he’d be.
Hotter, too. Hair slicked back from the water, I see his whole face—his bright eyes, scruffy jaw, and the cheekbones he’s been hiding behind his messy locks.
Fuck.
The cool water doesn’t stand a chance against him.
I don’t stand a chance against his untamed grin as he tips his head back and laughs.
“Forgot about this place.”
“I figured.”
“How?”
“The state of your face.” I splash him and swim away, diving down to expel a long breath in the water, gliding through stillness until I touch the rock on the other side.
Mal is where I left him, head thrown back again, catching the sun as it filters through the canopy of weeping willow. Up close, I bet his eyes look like dappled leaves. Bet I could get lost in them too, and I feel a pull to him I haven’t felt before, not with such a visceral wrench in my heart.
Go back to him.
I don’t need to.
The water ripples as Mal swims and he’s in front of me before I can take another breath, both fists braced to the rocks, caging me in ways I never let anyone else.
His gaze snares me. “If you’re trying to get away from me, you’ll need to swim a hell of a lot further.”
“Why’s that?”
“Because I’ll never stop chasing you.”
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About the Author
Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer, cover artist, and book designer. Her debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards, and was again a finalist in 2017 with Rented Heart.
In 2017, she won the EPIC award in contemporary romance with her military novel, Between Ghosts, and the contemporary romance category in the Bisexual Book Awards with her novel What Remains.
When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.
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