Title: Leaning Into Love
Series: Leaning Into Stories, #1
Author: Lane Hayes
Publisher: Self-Published
Release Date: February 10th
Heat Level: 4 - Lots of Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: Approximately 24K words
Genre: Romance, Erotica, Friends to lovers, surfer, white collar, San Francisco, bisexual
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Synopsis
Eric Schuster is a successful guy. He’s part owner of a highly successful tech firm, he has a supportive family and a great group of close friends. But something is missing. Or maybe he’s reacting to his business partner and ex’s wedding news. He knows his former lover is making a big mistake but he also knows it’s time to move on. And hopefully avoid falling for another friend. Zane Richards is an avid sailor and surfer with a laid-back approach to life. He firmly believes there’s a time and place for everything if you’re willing to take a chance. Like letting his best friend know he’s interested in being much more than friends. Eric has always been half in love with Zane but going from friends to lovers isn’t an easy sell for someone protecting his heart. Eric will have to decide if he’s willing to risk it all by leaning into love. INCLUDES BONUS CONTENTNow at first Eric comes across as someone who has everything, but he is not happy. He knows it is not because of his business partners/ex’s Nicks wedding news, he knows that what they had was not a real relationship, it was just purely friends with benefits. What he does know is that Nick is making a huge mistake, and that he, Eric is missing something from his life, but he doesn’t really know what.
Zane is different to Eric, and I think sometimes although close friends Eric just doesn’t know how to speak to Zane, I mean really speak to him. Zane is also successful in his own right, and I think in some ways Eric is jealous of how laid back Zane can be, whereas Eric is stressed about his work day.
I think what I love most about this book, is that Zane and Eric begin seeing each other, but keep it just between themselves, not telling their other friends. They really get to know each other better, with mutual hand jobs thrown in, but they do get to know the actual person, not the one who is usually on show. I love that they can just sit, relax and talk together, not the usual storyline of one MC trying to impress the other.
I assume that Nick is going to get his own story as he is someone mentioned often in this book, but he was one character who I took a dislike to, he seems to do what he wants when he wants with no thought of the consequences to other people especially Eric.