Release Blitz, Excerpt & Giveaway:
Love and Loathing in El Olvido
By Sylvia San Sebastian

El Olvido, Book 1

Harvey and his mother have spent the past twelve years fleeing from the Lucchesi crime family that massacred their clan. But the same day his mother dies of a heart attack, he receives an anonymous letter. Someone knows who killed his family, and they want him to take revenge. They list three killers, plus Nicolas Lung Lucchesi, the heir to the Lucchesi family. He’s young and short on allies, and he’s Harvey’s ticket in.

With nothing left to lose, Harvey returns to his hometown under a fake identity. When Harvey del Rosario meets Nico Lucchesi, it seems like fate—two lonely men attracted to each other’s orbit. Harvey, the sweet and charming outsider; Nico, cool and mysterious. When Nico offers Harvey a job, Harvey digs his claws in deep. He’ll do anything to remain by Nico’s side. He’ll become his friend, his confidante, his lover—all to destroy the Lucchesi family from the inside.

KinnPorsche meets 91 Days in Love and Loathing in El Olvido, a 73k word adult contemporary mafia romance inspired by the tradition of erotic thrillers. This is the first book in the El Olvido trilogy. Harvey and Nico’s story will be continued in the sequel.

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Excerpt

CHAPTER 1:

I bury my mother beneath the blazing heat of the summer sun. Just me and two other

men I paid to seal off the last tomb. There is no priest, but I know she would have

wanted one, so I murmur the same prayers over and over again—the wrong ones, but

they’re all I know.

Here lies Angelina Torres, the tombstone reads. Beloved mother.

That’s not even her real name. She hasn’t spoken her real name in years.

When the men finish sealing her in, they leave. I stand there for several moments

longer. The minutes stretch along with my shadow, beads of sweat dripping down my

neck and staining my shirt.

Here she is, one anonymous name out of hundreds, just the way she wanted it. A

niche that nobody will even know exists unless they want to find it. This is a poor man’s

cemetery. The rectangular tombs are stacked vertically on top of each other like

shipping containers, rather than spread over rolling green grass. An endless grid with

dozens of rows and columns, each one with a faded name.

She died of a heart attack at forty-six, except life had aged her so badly she had

looked sixty.

I memorize the shape of her tomb: every crack and groove, the color of the paint,

the loops of her name. I leave a single bouquet on the ground because I can’t hang it

specifically for her niche.

In a year, I’ll have to pay those same men to replace these flowers, to wash her

grave, to keep her bones here and not throw them out to make space for another poor

man’s wife. But I won’t be in this dead-end town next year.

I might not even be alive.

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About the Author:

Sylvia San Sebastian writes queer romance novels with bite. She lives on a tropical island in Southeast Asia. If you buy her books, you help feed her two cats.

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