Love Gods Magic
Branden loves his college roommate. He’s a strong, serious African—and as overpoweringly gorgeous as a marble statue. He even has a statue’s name: Taharqa, the Black Pharaoh who ruled Egypt and Nubia in Old Testament times. But he’s just Archie to Branden.
When Branden learns the secret that has brought Taharqa to the States, nothing can keep him from joining in the plan to bring needed material to modern technology. But there are forces seeking to uncover their efforts and take the glory for themselves. Their teamwork—and their love—are put to the test at every turn.
Taharqa loves Branden. He’s a joyous wrestler jock and a brilliant classmate. Unfortunately, Taharqa has a task—a world-important stratagem—and he doesn’t want to expose Brand to the perils shadowing his efforts and endangering his secret, ancient people. Complicating things further is a mythic challenge meant to change Taharqa from human to god.
Love overcomes caution as the risks increase. From the States to Sudan, sailing the River Nile, and battling multiple kidnappers across Rome, they confront the dark forces moving in. Will Taharqa’s powers and his love be enough to rescue Brand and save the secret of Nubia and his hidden home?
R. Frank Davis
After forty-five years of writing for himself while editing others, R. Frank Davis entered the gay erotica genre, bringing a few memories and an active imagination. Ask his husband who first-reads his work: “A lot of imagination.”
Davis is a Black author with a romantic streak, and a believer in truth, reality, and the facts of American life. A newspaper reporter, big-city-daily editor and managing editor of a prize-winning magazine before retirement, Davis mixes real news into the fictional lives of his characters. To be a good reporter, one has to have knowledge in many areas. Having been a smarty-pants student, college grad with honors, and achiever of a master’s degree in business, Davis loves to tie what he’s learned to what he hopes readers will want in fun and intelligent ways.
While his paychecks came from relating daily events, his inspiration comes from all forms of fiction: poetry to sci fi, current literary works to American classics. He loves all music—double down on jazz and show tunes—and all movies, including cult films (Choose Me, Evil Dead, or King of Hearts, anyone?)
A life-long Midwesterner (not counting two years in the Carolinas), a proud Chicagoan, and a father of three fully-functioning adults, he’s very happily married to his husband of seven years. (We were among the first gay couples to get a wedding license in Illinois, a year before Obergefell made it legal for all Americans.)
Gay romance has reached an inflection point as legal marriage, social tolerance, sexual freedom,and commercial exploitation mutate the stories of man finds man. R. Frank Davis is excited by the challenge to tell the tales of these changes and entertain readers along the way.
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