Title: All the Way to Shore
Author: CJane Elliott
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: 11/23/16
Heat Level: 3 - Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 56,000
Genre: Romance, Contemporary
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Synopsis
Jonathan Vallen has never felt good enough. A gentle musician who loves to garden, he’s woefully unsuited to running Vallen Industries, the family business. When his father hires a hotshot executive, Marco Pellegrini, to save the company, Jonathan moves away and leaves his humiliation behind. A year later and forty pounds lighter, Jonathan runs into Marco on an LGBT cruise. Marco doesn’t recognize him, the sparks fly, and Jonathan pretends to be someone else for the week—Jonah Rutledge—someone good enough to be loved. Marco Pellegrini has always been driven. He rose from poverty to the pinnacle of business success, and he’ll do anything to protect his reputation—including hiding his bisexuality. Having saved Vallen Industries, he’s weary of the rat race and ready for a more meaningful life. When Marco meets his soul mate for that new life—Jonah Rutledge—on an LGBT cruise, he prepares to stop hiding and start living. Back on land, the romance crashes when Marco discovers his perfect man is not only a lie but the son of his boss, Frederick Vallen. Jonathan resolves to win Marco back, but Frederick takes vengeful action. Jonathan and Marco must battle their own fears as well as Frederick’s challenge to get to the future that awaits them on the horizon.Rather than admit defeat with Jonathan, his father then employs a hotshot executive Marco Pellegrini to more or less tutor Jonathan in how to run the company. Jonathan just isn't interested, and once Marco is there, he makes the decision that he was going to leave that life behind and start a new one.
Once Jonathan begins his new life, he is happier than he has ever been, and has manged to feel better about himself, especially as he has lost weight and got himself contact lenses. He is then booked onto a LGBT Cruise by his cousin, and who does he meet there by Marco - who doesn't recognise him.
Jonathan doesn't tell Marco who he really is, and although he loves all the time he is spending with Marco, he knows that he must tell him the truth, but he is enjoying the attention and for being loved for who he is - something that his father never did.
As they disembark from the cruise ship, Marco has someone waiting for him - Frederick Vallen (Jonathan's father), and then Marco realises that Jonathan has been lying to him and wants absolutely nothing else to do with him. He won't listen to anything that Jonathan has to say.
Jonathan is then heart broken, and was trying everything he could think of to try and win Marco back - but strangely it was something his father did that gave Jonathan the ultimate way to show Marco how much he wants a life with him......
I really did enjoy this book, even though as it began Jonathan was not leading the life he wanted. However, it showed his determination to change his life, and do things how he wanted.