A Man Named Jax

by Alp Mortal, Morgan Starr (Editor)

Thank you for choosing to read this story. This contemporary gay romance centres on how one man copes with lifelong depression, and the end of a relationship/beginning of a new one. If this is likely to be a trigger for you, be advised to proceed cautiously.

If you, like me, suffer from depression, and you need help and support, please contact the Mind charity (www.mind.org.uk/information-support).

Jax is not really coping very well. Suffering from clinical depression since the age of seventeen; life is a series of battles to overcome the crushing weight of hopelessness.

Things look even less promising when current partner, Rudd, decides they need a break, and Jax is shipped off to the Isle of Wight to the house left to him by his late partner Allen, in the process, displacing his mother, who has lived there for the last five years since Allen died, forcing her to move in with her sister-in-law.

Taking no notice of his mother’s warning to avoid the man camping on the beach, Jax makes the man’s acquaintance.
Bardd, travelling and recovering from burnout, is nothing like any man whom Jax has met before.

Curiosity morphs into the first flutterings of something deeper.

When Bardd makes his move, Jax has to decide if he and Rudd are truly over, and if he wants the guilt of being unfaithful on top of everything else.

Jax’s choice coincides with the decision to finally address some of his issues, chief among them, coming out to his father.

Can love bloom inside the maelstrom?

Thank you.

Alp Mortal
November 2019

107 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 14, 2019

About the author

I'm English by birth, from the Isle of Wight, living in Newport, spending part of the year in the USA, co-managing The Carter Seagrove Project LLC - an independent publishing house, incorporated in the State of Indiana.

I was 51 years old in 2016. I only started writing in 2009, proving, I suppose, that it is never too late. I didn't think about publishing until late 2012, now, nearly four years later, I'm even more energized by the process than ever before.

I'm a qualified English teacher, specializing in teaching English as a second language (TEFL), though I don't do much of that now. In the distant past, I taught software skills. In the very distant past, I was a project manager on big IT projects and at the very beginning of my career, I was an Internal Auditor. I have degrees in Internal Auditing, Computer Auditing and Project Management. I'm studying for my degree in Sustainable Development at the moment. Renewable energy is what really interests me.

I'm a member of The Society of Authors, The Society for Editors and Proofreaders and The Independent Author Network.

I have no great philosophy except "energy follows intention" and "honour your gifts". These two principles keep me sane, very happy and exceedingly busy!

I am always very happy to receive your feedback. If you wish to contact me directly, please email me at: alpmortal@hotmail.com.

Visit the website, alpmortal.weebly.com, for updates on the next gay romantic story or crime thriller that I am working on.

Together with Chambers Mars, I am half of Carter Seagrove, author of Dust Jacket and The Inspector Fenchurch Mysteries.

Alp Mortal, Chambers Mars, Shannon M. Kirkland and Morgan Starr are The Carter Seagrove Project LLC - an independent book publisher. Find us at www.carterseagrove.weebly.com, on Twitter @carterseagrove and on Facebook www.facebook.com/thecarterseagrovepro....