When his three-year-old daughter is kidnapped, Eric Wilson doesn’t have many options, and time is running out. With nowhere else to turn, he reaches out to his ex, influential businessman Brock Vencenza, whose money and contacts might be able to save Josie.
Brock never got over Eric’s loss, and he’s more than willing to help when Eric needs him most. Together with law enforcement and private security, they embark on a twisting investigation to find the little girl—and who wants to hurt her and destroy both men in the process. Under the circumstances, confessing he still has feelings for Eric would be inappropriate, but Brock can’t deny what’s in his heart. He doesn’t know if their love can be rekindled or if he can even protect Eric and Josie. But one thing is certain: Brock’s determined to be the hero in reality that he is in Eric’s eyes.
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Cat gives this one 4 Meows with a 3 Purr heat index...
Eric and Brock have been apart for nine years. Then suddenly Eric shows up panicking and asking for Brock’s help. Someone has kidnapped his three year old daughter. He still loves Eric and can’t say no.
Eric has always loved Brock and hoped someday they could work things out and get back together. He always wanted a family, a house in the suburbs, children. Brock was a businessman and his worked long hours and traveled a lot. Can this tragedy bring these two men back together.
I loved this story. Brock is definitely hero worthy and you can’t help but like Eric. My heart went out to him immediately. The story is sweet, captivating, and sexy.
Usually Sean Michael’s stories are very explicit but I liked that this one though was hot later in the book still maintained a moderate level. It works well with a child being in the house. Speaking of which, Josie is beyond adorable.
There is a good plot, some action and a bit of a twist.
I would have like to known more about Brock and Eric’s previous relationship and why they haven’t spoken in so long. I also would have liked more closure at the end but all in all it’s a great book. I read it in one evening.
If you like second chances, teachers, businessmen, gay dads, cute kids, drama and some hit but tasteful sex this is for you. I highly recommend it.
Excerpt...
BROCK VENCENZA glad-handed the board members, smiling and nodding, making all the right noises. He just had to wrap this up and then he was off to the Cayman Islands for some richly deserved R & R. Deep-sea fishing, baby.
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BROCK VENCENZA glad-handed the board members, smiling and nodding, making all the right noises. He just had to wrap this up and then he was off to the Cayman Islands for some richly deserved R & R. Deep-sea fishing, baby.
He saw the last concerned stockholder out the door and headed for his desk, closed down his computer, and tossed a few files into the in-box for Stephanie.
Speak of an angel; his intercom buzzed, Stephanie’s voice coming next. “Brock, there’s an Eric on the phone, says he has to talk to you. He won’t even give me his last name, sir.”
Brock frowned. Eric? Now there was a name he hadn’t heard in a while. Years. A lot of years. Enough years that it couldn’t be the Eric his mind had automatically pulled up.
“It’s probably just a salesman, Steph. Tell him I’m on vacation.” His yacht was calling to him. Calling.
“I already did. Brock, he sounds too upset to be a salesman.”
Brock growled. “Fine. Put him through.” Steph was getting soft if she couldn’t put off a nuisance call. He pressed the button for the outgoing line and barked out his name.
“Brock? Brock, it’s me. Please, love. I need help.” It was his Eric—his silly, goofy, soft-hearted, ridiculously idealistic to the point of absolute fucking madness Eric—with hysteria in his voice.
It might have been nine years and Eric might have dumped his ass hard, but Brock didn’t even hesitate. “What do you need?”
“Help. Someone’s kidnapped my daughter.”
Brock stood and grabbed his briefcase. “Where are you?”
“I’m downstairs. The security guard wouldn’t let me in. Please, Brock. Josie’s only three. She’s got to be so scared.”
“Don’t move. I’m on my way.” He hung up the phone and nodded to Steph as he passed her desk on the way to the elevators. “I’m off. You know the cell number if there’s an emergency.”
“Have fun, Brock.”
He nodded to her again as the elevator came.
Two minutes later he was in the lobby, scanning it for his ex. God, nine years. That was a lot of fucking water under bridges that were long ago burned.
Eric Wilson stood there, looking completely out of place in the glass and steel modernity of the lobby, reminding Brock oddly of the Scarecrow from Oz—still as skinny as always, dressed in a button-down, a pair of khakis, a ball cap. Jesus. The man had no fashion sense and was all arms and legs and nose and huge blue eyes and…. Right. Zero fashion sense.
None.
And he looked like he was stressed to the gills.
A prolific author, Sean Michael takes notes dictated by the men who live in his head and shares their stories. Often referred to as "Space Cowboy" and "Gangsta of Love" while still striving for the moniker of "Maurice," Sean Michael spends his days surfing, smutting, organizing his immense gourd collection and fantasizing about one day retiring on a small secluded island peopled entirely by horseshoe crabs. While collecting vast amounts of vintage gay pulp novels and mood rings, Sean whiles away the hours between dropping the f-bomb and pursuing the Kama Sutra by channeling the long-lost spirit of John Wayne and singing along with the soundtrack to Chicago. A long-time writer of complicated haiku, Sean is currently attempting to learn the advanced arts of plate-spinning and soap-carving sex toys. Barring any of that? He'll stick with writing his stories, thanks, and rubbing pretty bodies together to see if they spark. To learn more about Sean, please visit Sean's website.
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