Two men suffering from visible and invisible wounds
meet by chance circumstance.
Nick Traynor and Ian Donovan spend a lot of time and effort keeping it very hot, only physical, and purely superficial. But when their resolve starts to slip, a woman is tossed into their midst.
Hannah Williams wants nothing more than to do her job until something better comes along, but is forced to own up to her visceral reaction to Ian, her new boss, and later to Nick, his sometimes lover.
Lust has a funny way of turning into companionship, and eventually evolving into a deeper connection. Faced with the internal and external complications of their potential three-way relationship, they begin to heal and trust, to consider that it might work. Then life tosses them a hardball, forcing them back into their respective corners, where each must choose what is most important.
Three people determined not to commit, thrown together by fate and undeniable attraction--their nights heat up and emotions run high in spite of a claimed mutual desire to "keep it simple." In the process of honest self-discovery, can they learn that while love is never simple, it is definitely worth fighting for?
Nick Traynor and Ian Donovan spend a lot of time and effort keeping it very hot, only physical, and purely superficial. But when their resolve starts to slip, a woman is tossed into their midst.
Hannah Williams wants nothing more than to do her job until something better comes along, but is forced to own up to her visceral reaction to Ian, her new boss, and later to Nick, his sometimes lover.
Lust has a funny way of turning into companionship, and eventually evolving into a deeper connection. Faced with the internal and external complications of their potential three-way relationship, they begin to heal and trust, to consider that it might work. Then life tosses them a hardball, forcing them back into their respective corners, where each must choose what is most important.
Three people determined not to commit, thrown together by fate and undeniable attraction--their nights heat up and emotions run high in spite of a claimed mutual desire to "keep it simple." In the process of honest self-discovery, can they learn that while love is never simple, it is definitely worth fighting for?
Alyssa knelt down beside him, took his hand. “We’re
going to a movie. You okay here with Ian?” she whispered. He nodded but was
very much not sure that he would be. The dog whimpered.
“Later brother,” Gavin called out. “Talk soon Nick.
Good luck next week with the new job.”
Ian walked into the house with the couple, leaving
Nick alone with his swirling thoughts and pounding skull. Brutus repositioned
to Nick’s left, between him and the chair Ian had just vacated. He put his huge
head on Nick’s hand. “Dude,” Nick said softly. “I think I just figured out why
you’re upset. And let me just tell you now, it’s okay. I’m okay. I’m …
agitated, but it’s normal.” He patted the dog’s nose, then leaned back and
stretched his legs out in front of him, relieving the pressure building once more
under his jeans.
He heard Ian rummaging around in the kitchen, opening
and closing the fridge. Nick took a long, deep breath and made a decision. He
smiled when Ian pressed the cold water bottle to his shoulder and took it, but
then set it on the table that he knew was to his front right, where it always
was. His mind kept roiling but he kept a lid on his urge to suck in a breath
when he sensed Ian pulling a chair up on his other side, avoiding the guard
dog. “I don’t think he likes me,” the man declared.
Nick put a hand on Ian’s leg.. He heard the other
man’s breath hitch, and would swear on a stack of procedure manuals he heard
his heartbeat increase. Don’t be
ridiculous, you can’t hear a heartbeat. But he smiled, and leaned back,
leaving his fingers trailing along the denim covering Ian’s thigh. “Oh he’s
fine. But I think I figured out how in tune to me he actually is.”
“Oh?” Ian touched his fingers, brushed the back of
Nick’s hand once, then again, making him shiver.
“Yeah, I think he senses how god damned horny I am.
Since he has no frame of reference for it, it’s making him nervous,
protective.”
“Wow,” Ian leaned over and Nick could feel the other
man’s lips near his throat. “Impressive,” He said, putting his hand over Nick’s
erection.
“Yeah,” Nick croaked out, suddenly nervous. “So, I’m
typically not…”
“Shh…” Ian’s hand left his cock, made its way up his
torso, and wound around the back of his neck. “You are pretty amazing.”
“No, not really. Just blind. Without a real job.
Living in my sister’s house.”
“But you look damn good doing all that, trust me.”
“You make a point of seducing blind guys you just
met?”
“I didn’t just meet you. I remember you from a few
months…before.”
Nick shivered again. This whole thing was somehow
right and wrong at the same time. He needed a physical connection, bad, but was
unsure if it should be with Ian Donovan. This, of course coming from his now
humming and thankfully pain-free brain while his body screeched at him to grab
the guy and kiss him.
Nick sighed when Ian’s fingers twined in his newly
grown hair. He hadn’t had hair this long in over ten years. He’d forgotten what
color it was. He sighed, raised his face to the cooling night breeze when Ian’s
lips found his jaw and made their slow way down his neck, then up. “You
are…very attractive.” Ian’s words made their presence known, curling in and
around Nick’s amped up libido and making him grit his teeth.
Honey Red
Liz Crowe
Contemporary Holiday
M/M M/F M/F/M Voyeurism Anal Play
After hitting bottom Ian pulls himself together. No booze, no pot, no cigarettes and no sex for four years. Ian fights with himself and his sexual desires as he finds himself in different situations.
When he is called to the hospital and handed a baby boy and told he is a father his world zings him into reality. He pulls his life together and raises his son and faces his mixed up life one day at a time. He is gay and maybe a bit bi considering he has a son to prove it.
He and his brother now run a brewery and his brother is getting his life back together after a divorce. When the brother of his girlfriend returns from the service with a life altering injury he is drawn to the man and becomes involved with Nick.
The brewery is growing and doing well but in need of someone to handle the marketing end of things. Hannah fills the job opening and quickly fits into the lives of all.
Ian needs help from time to time with his son who is now four years old. He is not the best father as far as remembering to pick up his son from day care and Hannah steps up to help. Slowly they bond and Ian fights his sexual desires. He is gay but he is drawn to Hannah. After dinner one night when Hannah stayed to help, his young son asks him ... "Daddy, what is or-gas-mic?" Oh yea out of the mouths of babes.
Ian is torn between his deep desire to be with Nick and with Hannah and quite honestly both of them.
Fantastic down to earth humor and wonderful sex that covers every spectrum of emotions.
5 STARS
Liz Crowe
Contemporary Holiday
M/M M/F M/F/M Voyeurism Anal Play
After hitting bottom Ian pulls himself together. No booze, no pot, no cigarettes and no sex for four years. Ian fights with himself and his sexual desires as he finds himself in different situations.
When he is called to the hospital and handed a baby boy and told he is a father his world zings him into reality. He pulls his life together and raises his son and faces his mixed up life one day at a time. He is gay and maybe a bit bi considering he has a son to prove it.
He and his brother now run a brewery and his brother is getting his life back together after a divorce. When the brother of his girlfriend returns from the service with a life altering injury he is drawn to the man and becomes involved with Nick.
The brewery is growing and doing well but in need of someone to handle the marketing end of things. Hannah fills the job opening and quickly fits into the lives of all.
Ian needs help from time to time with his son who is now four years old. He is not the best father as far as remembering to pick up his son from day care and Hannah steps up to help. Slowly they bond and Ian fights his sexual desires. He is gay but he is drawn to Hannah. After dinner one night when Hannah stayed to help, his young son asks him ... "Daddy, what is or-gas-mic?" Oh yea out of the mouths of babes.
Ian is torn between his deep desire to be with Nick and with Hannah and quite honestly both of them.
Fantastic down to earth humor and wonderful sex that covers every spectrum of emotions.
5 STARS
Reviewer: Victoria Storm
Microbrewery owner,
best-selling author, beer blogger and journalist, mom of three teenagers, and
soccer fan, Liz lives in the great Midwest, in a major college town. Years of experience in sales and fund
raising, plus an eight-year stint as an ex-pat trailing spouse, plus making her
way in a world of men (i.e. the beer industry), has prepped her for life as
erotic romance author.
When she isn't sweating inventory and sales figures for the
brewery, she can be found writing, editing or sweating promotional efforts for
her latest publications.
Her groundbreaking romance subgenre, “Romance for Real Life,”
has gained thousands of fans and followers who are interested less in the “HEA”
and more in the “WHA” (“What Happens After?”)
Her beer blog a2beerwench.com is nationally recognized for
its insider yet outsider views on the craft beer industry. Her books are set in
the not-so-common worlds of breweries, on the soccer pitch and in high-powered
real estate offices. Don’t ask her for
anything “like” a Budweiser or risk painful injury.
