Blurb
Careful what you wish for…
Close to landing a role in a sitcom he hopes will show his father he isn’t a failure, Vane Riley loses everything when his boyfriend dumps him and his father dies. With nowhere to turn, he heads home to regroup and help his sister, Rose, keep the family diner afloat. Trying to ease his grief with a guy in a bar seems like a good idea until the guy can’t get rid of him fast enough. The last thing Vane expects is for his one-night stand to appear at his dad’s funeral with a quirky tarot reader on his arm and a romantic history with Rose.
Doug Moore is a widower who isn’t ready to move on, but he can’t seem to get the clumsy guy he met the night before out of his thoughts. After helping Vane get back into the car he somehow locked himself out of, Doug figured he’d never see him again and can’t believe his lousy luck when Rose’s loser brother turns out to be the hookup he can’t stop thinking about. Doug is determined to keep his distance, but when Rose hires him to renovate the family home Vane is now living in, there’s not much chance of that happening.
Though Doug wants nothing more than to resist him, Vane ticks all his boxes. Clumsy, needy, sexy and… Oh yeah. Paranoid. Not for a minute does Doug believe somebody is out to hurt Vane despite the strange accidents that have befallen him since returning home, but Vane is sure somebody wants him dead.
Doug is solid and steady. Vane is emotional and imaginative. Nobody’s trying to kill him. Doug is sure of it…
At first.
It does seem like Vane is paranoid, but when you first meet him you will totally understand why he is like this. I also believe that in some ways he believes he is a failure - this was due to his latest boyfriend especially. He is not a failure, but it seems like he more or less assumes this will be the case, just so he isn't so disappointed.
Now Doug - he is rather the conumdrum to me. I really wasn't sure what to make of him. He has heard about Vane, and rather than find out the whole story, he makes his decision to dislike him on rumours. When he actually meets him, but doesn't know it is him, he actually rather likes him!!
These two seem doomed from the start, they are so different to each other, and Dougs dislike comes across loud and clear even when he realises who he is. Somehow, they seem to keep meeting and the more they meet the more they seem to get on together.
Vane is rather accident prone, and then becomes convinced that someone is after him, but it seems like nobody believes him - but is he paranoid or is he right?? Doug seems to think he is wrong, but will he ever admit that he may be wrong?
You will have quite the adventure with Doug and Vane, it seems like their best way of communicating is through sex, but I think both of them need more, but both are afraid to say so. What will it take before they will both be totally honest with each other.....
Kayleigh Sky is an m/m romance writer of complex stories of love and redemption that always end in happily ever after. Love matters, and everyone counts.
Peace.