• Menu
  • Skip to right header navigation
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Jackie Keswick

Where Endings are New Beginnings

  • Blog
  • Newsletter Signup
  • ARC Team Signup
  • Contacting
  • Blog
  • Newsletter Signup
  • ARC Team Signup
  • Contacting
  • Jackie’s Worlds
    • The Power of Zero World
    • White Knight Security
    • Fantasy & Paranormal Romance
    • Rock & Art Theft
    • Standalone Stories
    • Force intrinsèque – Édition française
    • Series Reading Orders
    • Read Sample Chapters
      • A Box of Wishes
      • A Simple Mistake
      • Caught
      • Grant
      • Rylan
      • Christmas Knights
  • Readers Nook
  • Coming Soon
  • Shop Ebooks
  • Shop Bundles & Collections
  • Jackie’s Worlds
    • The Power of Zero World
    • White Knight Security
    • Fantasy & Paranormal Romance
    • Rock & Art Theft
    • Standalone Stories
    • Force intrinsèque – Édition française
    • Series Reading Orders
    • Read Sample Chapters
      • A Box of Wishes
      • A Simple Mistake
      • Caught
      • Grant
      • Rylan
      • Christmas Knights
  • Readers Nook
  • Coming Soon
  • Shop Ebooks
  • Shop Bundles & Collections

Finally… Fan Bait! 🙂

Fourteen years after I started this story – and granted, it spent many of the years in between languishing on my WiP stack – Fan Bait is out of the house!

Why did I finally decide to finish it?

Because the rest of the Power of Zero world had finally caught up to Max. In A Simple Mistake, which I published last year, Jack had hopped on the plane to Tokyo, and suddenly various old plot strands met and meshed.

Not that finishing something so old was easy. Especially not, since Fan Bait hadn’t been left to gather dust. I’d pulled it out periodically and tried to turn it into something else: Jack’s story. Skylar’s story. Ryu’s story. Nothing worked, because Fan Bait is Max’s tale, and it starts all the way back in Zero Tolerance.

I owe a shedload of thanks to everyone who read and commented on Patreon and in the Readers Nook, to the friends who read early versions and suggested improvements, and to my wonderful editor Sue from No Stone Unturned Editing, who spotted exactly where the story had gone astray and what I could do to fix the mess. Sue’s also excellent at spotting -ly adverbs, repetitions, and stray commas – but we take that one as read.

So here is Fan Bait, an m/m romantic suspense novel set in Japan. It’s a story about a bodyguard haunted by his past, a rock star fighting for his future, and an impossible choice that could destroy them both.

I hope you enjoy – and don’t miss the first of probably several bonus shorts you can download at the end. 😉

Fan Bait

Tempest’s music saved his soul. Now Max must save the musician.

Hunting a gang kidnapping music fans has cost Max Young his best friend’s life, his career, and his peace of mind. But he isn’t giving up. When the kidnappers appear to target Tempest – whose music saved Max’s soul – and Max is offered the job to protect him, he doesn’t think twice.

Working with Tempest threatens Max’s heart and skews his priorities because Tempest is fighting battles of his own and needs a protector, not a man consumed by thoughts of revenge.

Max’s choices? Find his best friend’s murderer or guard the man he’s falling for. Avenge the past or protect the future. Because he can’t do both.

Buy Direct →
Previous Post: « Glimpses: A Halloween-Flavoured Attempt to Take Care of Jack
Next Post: The Space Between »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Look me up

  • Bluesky
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr

Join the Readers Nook

Follow for FREE and have access to:
  • Community posts, recipes, updates, and behind-the-scenes posts
  • Sample Chapters and free weekend reads
Or choose a paid tier for:
  • Instant, unlimited access to all existing and new short fiction
  • Weekly WiP chapters, bonus reads, and exclusive serials
  • Early, complimentary copy of each new release

Join on

PAYHIP PATREON

Power of Zero Series

The Power of Zero | LGBT Romantic Suspsense fiction series by Jackie Keswick

Fall in Love with Jack & Gareth

Zero Rising Series

Zero Rising | LGBT Action Adventure fiction series by Jackie Keswick

Watch Jack Turn Badass

Healing Glass

Healing Glass | LGBT Fantasy Adventure series by Jackie Keswick

Visit the Floating City

Repeat Offence

Repeat Offence | Fantasy love story by Jackie Keswick

Believe in Love over Rules

© Jackie Keswick, 2008-2026, All Rights Reserved.

Disclosure: This blog is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program which is an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com and amazon's international stores.

Home | Contact Jackie Keswick | Privacy Policy

Manage Cookie Consent

You guessed it. This site uses cookies.


We use non-personal cookies to run the site and take care of security. We also use cookies for analytics and marketing.
You can choose to accept all cookies or functionl cookies only.

Functional cookies Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}