Thaw

PsyCop #1.1

by Jordan Castillo Price

Victor Bayne is a PsyCop, a psychic medium who sees dead people as plainly as if they were alive. People assume that Vic's psychic abilities are his only talent, but in Thaw, he shows his boyfriend Jacob that he's got other secret skills up his sleeve.

Genres: M M Romance, Paranormal, Romance, Short Stories, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary

4 pages, ebook

First published December 1, 2007

About the author

Author and artist Jordan Castillo Price writes paranormal sci-fi thrillers colored by her time in the Midwest, from inner city Chicago, to various cities across southern Wisconsin. She’s settled in a 1910 Cape Cod near Lake Michigan with tons of character and a plethora of bizarre spiders. Any disembodied noises, she’s decided, will be blamed on the ice maker.

Jordan is best known as the author of the PsyCop series, an unfolding tale of paranormal mystery and suspense starring Victor Bayne, a gay medium who's plagued by ghostly visitations.

Reviews

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This sweet, humorous, short story shows a brief glimpse into the lives of Vic and Jacob, when they are not busy fighting crime. Who knew ice-skating could be so fun and sexy?

Download e-book or audio for free here.

Audio version narrated by Gomez Pugh.

[Shurrn · Rating 5 out of 5]

A sweetly romantic interlude...

His lips tasted like winter. His face was cold, even his mouth, but his tongue was hot as he pressed it against mine.

Vic and Jacob take some time to enjoy the Christmas season with a trip to Chicago's ice rink...

No murders...
Only a few ghosts...
And a whole lot of warm fuzzies.

This was a little tiny story - just a little glimpse into the unfolding romance between Jacob and Vic.

READ ALL MY REVIEWS IN THIS SERIES:
I'll update the list as additional books are published.
0.1 - Inside Out - Read my Review here.
1 - Among the Living - Read my Review here.
1.1 - Thaw - Read my Review here.
2 - Criss Cross - Read my Review here.
2.1 - Striking Sparks - Read my Review here.
2.2 - Many Happy Returns - Read my Review here.
2.3 - Mind Reader - Read my Review here.
3 - Body and Soul - Read my Review here.
3.1 - The Stroke of Midnight - Read my Review here.
4 - Secrets - Read my Review here.
5 - Camp Hell - Read my Review here.
6 - GhosTV - Read my Review here.
6.1 - In the Dark - Read my Review here.
7 - Spook Squad - Read my Review here.

[Ingie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Written January 5, 2014

4 Stars - Amazing cute 'V&J' teaser in a few pages

Book #1.1

A winter shortie in the interesting crime-paranormal M/M series PsyCop. (Reviews:
• #1 - Among the Living (3.5 stars)
• #2 - Criss Cross (4 stars)
)

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The PsyCop Victor Bayne, at workdays a psychic medium, shows here his (new) boyfriend Jacob Marks that he's got other secret skills up his sleeve. A winter... ice skill.

Short and very sweet.

‘His lips tasted like winter. His face was cold, even his mouth, but his tongue was hot as he pressed it against mine. My hands in their thick gloves fumbled around his neck, pulling him against me. Jacob blotted out the rest of the world--other than the door handle, which could be ignored, at least in the short term. The whole night with him felt like something stolen out of a much simpler, much happier life. Only it was actually mine.’

I LIKE - and just start to miss these men at once...

[Sun · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars

Gah! I loved this short! It was so freaking sweet!

Our boys go ice-skating!!!! How cute is that?

"The whole night with him felt like something stolen out of a much simpler, much happier life. Only it was actually mine."

Awwwww...*sigh*...

[Gabi]

Sweet! I swear Jacob is like a puppy. (He just wants to hump your leg)
😆

[Rina Pride · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vic e Jacob 💖💖💖💖💖💖❤❤❤❤❤❤😍😍😍😍😍

[Shin Mon Thway · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awwwwww .. that’s super super sweet and romantic. That’s why I always tell Vic is actually a hopeless romantic at heart. Loved it.


4.5 whisk me away in winter wonderland stars
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

[Ninni · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super sweet short story about the boys go skating 💕 My only complain - the story really is short

[Trio · Rating 4 out of 5]

"His lips tasted like winter", damn could these two get any cuter? Love them & Gomez did a fan freakin' tactic job as usual! Fab, and it was free :)

[Lieve · Rating 4 out of 5]

How sweet but it's way too short ! Not enough to review but this is more a little extra , with Vic and Jacob’s unfolding romance on ice .

[Claudie ☾ · Rating 4 out of 5]

These two are so adorable! 😍

[Lyn❤Loves❤Listening to Real Voices Only!!!!❤️🎧📚 Addict ON HIATUS · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm really warming up to Vic and Jacob as a couple.

[♣ Irish Smurfétté ♣ · Rating 4 out of 5]

*happy sigh*

Ice skating. I do love it so. And now I can picture Vic and Jacob loving it, too.

Vic is so great at letting us see so much of Jacob. I love that, too.

Oh and uh, don't mind telephone pole guy.

[* A Reader Obsessed * · Rating 3 out of 5]

A too quick, but sweet glimpse at these two. It warmed the heart and made me smile.

[Bronwyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

This wasn’t even long enough to be considered a chapter. I wouldn’t have missed anything if I had skipped it.

[Maya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sweet. But maybe it should've been placed after book 2?

[Ula'ndi Hart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sweet little insight into their life away from the "office"

[Gerbera_Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awwww! This was so cute! Vic and Jacob on their day off doing couple things without ever present dead people! I loved it. The only way it could have been better, had it been told from Jacob's POV. I wonder if there are any shorts like that?

[Heather K (dentist in my spare time) · Rating 4 out of 5]

A sweet (very) short read about my PsyCop boys.

[Gigi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely adorable ice skating short with Vic and Jacob.

[Meep · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute little extra, not really enough to it to rate higher

[Tina · Rating 4 out of 5]

That's a sweet short story about Vic and Jacob and some ice skating. It's sweet to see them do something so mundane together. :)

“Do you know how happy you make me?” he said.
Good thing it was too dark in that alcove to get a good look at his eyes. That would’ve been way too much. I swallowed hard, the metallic taste at the back of my throat from skating hard mixing with the cool flavor of Jacob’s kiss.
“Same here,” I said.

So sweet.

*deep sigh*

[Shelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

The boys go ice skating.

They share a few sweet looks.

Vic shows off.

The End.

[Sheri · Rating 5 out of 5]

A flash of a scene with Vic and Jacob, but an incredible flash.
*melts*
Ice skating? How frickin' romantic is that?
LOVED IT!

[Kathryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very sweet and short story featuring Vic and Jacob on a date. I liked reading it as it took place between books 1 and 2 and going back to that time of the stories, before certain things happened, was interesting and fun. I need to track down the rest of the PsyCop short stories, especially since I will eventually run out of the books.

[Em · Rating 3 out of 5]

A sexy little short. Simple but very sweet.

[Jennifer☠Pher☠ · Rating 4 out of 5]

That one was REALLY short but a very nice little treat.

[Steven · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredibly sweet. Such a tiny glimpse of their relationship and continues Victor's evolution.

[Plumpka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Czterostronicowy dodatek - wieczór Vica i Jacoba na lodowisku.
Urocze, trochę świąteczne.

[Kelly (Maybedog) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very short little introduction to the main characters in the PsyCop series. There isn't much of a plot, it's more of a character study, but it's adorable and sweet and a delightful read. There is also a tiny little bit where one of them slips on the ice and the other makes a dry joke that is a perfect glimpse of what the longer stories are like. I highly recommend this short and the whole series.

This story is free on Smashwords.