STAY
K.M. NEUHOLD
M/M PUPPY PLAY ROMANCE
RELEASE DATE: 01.11.19
BLURB
What happens to a couple when one of them discovers a new kink that he’s not sure his partner will be into?
Dear Art,
I’m sure you get messages like this all the time, but I feel like I don’t even know who I am anymore. I suppose I should start from the beginning… Three weeks ago, I saw puppy play for the first time, and now I can’t stop thinking about it. Wait, no, that’s not really the beginning… Ten years ago, my best friend who I’d been in love with my entire life told me he loved me too.
For ten years, I’ve been living in complete bliss with Lars, the man of my dreams. Don’t get me wrong, we have our fights and disagreements (mostly because I do irritating shit, and every once in a while, he reaches the end of his patience), but he is my other half in every way. I didn’t know I could love someone the way I love him.
Then, the puppy thing happened. It’s not so different from when I realized I was gay; there was a moment where everything sort of clicked into place, and my whole body was like “Yes, that’s what we’ve been trying to figure out all this time.” At first, I thought maybe I should just let it go because it’s not the kind of thing I can imagine my partner being into. But last week I went into a kink shop and ended up walking out with a puppy hood. I stashed it in our guest bedroom closet and haven’t even had the courage to take it out and try it on again, let alone show it to Lars. I don’t know what to do. How do I bring this up to him? And what if he isn’t into it? I feel like I don’t recognize myself anymore, and I don’t know where to turn. Please help.
Sincerely,
One Lost Puppy
What I will start with saying is that Jonah and Lars are in a commited relationship, and have been for over ten years. I think the puppy play is something that Jonah had thought about before, but buried it deep in his mind, until he looked at a website and clicked on a link for puppy play.
Jonah finds himself yearning for the puppy play, but has no idea how he should broach the subject with Lars. He sees a shop while driving home from work, and it takes him a while to actually go in. When he does, he finds they sell items for puppy play, and he buys himself a hood and tail, but as soon as he gets home he hides it away.
Lars knows there is something wrong with Jonah, that he has a secret he is keeping, but no idea what it is. Finally, due to an incident while out for the night, Jonah finally confesses to Lars about the puppy play - and he is surprised by his reaction, he wants to learn more.
Jonah and Lars slowly find out more information about everything to do with puppy play, and even go to see someone who knows all about it all, and make their own decisions of what they want from it all.
We go through the journey with both Lars and Jonah, with the ups and downs, and you can see straight away that Jonah thrives with Lars being dominant with him, and it is definitely what Jonah needs.
To me, this book shows yet another aspect of dominant and submissive, but on a more gentle side. Both Jonah and Lars are in demanding jobs, but it seems like Jonah needs this to quiet his mind, and the puppt play does this for him.
I am looking forward to reading more stories in this series, especially a story about Adrian (who works in the store that Jonah visited).
EXCERPT
Jonah stumbles a little on the way to our bedroom, letting me know he had too much to drink as well. When we reach the bedroom, he struggles to get his pants undone, so I bat his hands away and do it for him, carefully unzipping them and then lowering them, along with his underwear. “Step out,” I instruct, kneeling at his feet to get his pants off without letting him trip over himself, his half hard cock swaying near my face. “Mmm,” he hums, running his hands through my hair, his hazy, drunk eyes fixed on me. “Hey, JJ?” “Yeah?” “Why haven’t you been sleeping well this week?” As soon as the words are out, his warm, happy expression shutters, and he frowns at me. I can see the wheels turning behind his eyes, see him trying to come up with an answer. My stomach lurches with the realization that he’s planning on lying to me, again. Is this related to the porn thing earlier in the week or has he decided, after all these years, to make a habit out of lying to me? “Come on, JJ, step out of your pants,” I repeat soberly when I realize he’s not going to answer. This time he does as I say with my help. By the time I stand up, he’s tugging his shirt off and tossing it in the pile of dirty clothes, and I follow suit, the two of us climbing into bed silently. For the first time in our lives, there’s something Jonah isn’t telling me.Author K.M. Neuhold is a complete romance junkie, a total sap in every way. She started her journey as an author in new adult, MF romance, but after a chance reading of an MM book she was completely hooked on everything about lovely- and sometimes damaged- men finding their Happily Ever After together.
She has a strong passion for writing characters with a lot of heart and soul, and a bit of humor as well. And she fully admits that her OCD tendencies of making sure every side character has a full backstory will likely always lead to every book having a spin-off or series.
When she's not writing she's a lion tamer, an astronaut, and a superhero...just kidding, she's likely watching Netflix and snuggling with her husky while her amazing husband brings her coffee.
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