PRE-RELEASE REVIEW: 'Losing Faith' by Scotty Cade
Title: Losing Faith
Author: Scotty Cade
Published: June 10, 2016
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: Reese Dante
Genre: Erotic Romance; Contemporary Romance
Length: 200 Pages
Tags: M/M; Gay; First Time; Coming Out; Religion/Faith; HEA
BLURB:
Father Cullen Kiley, a gay Episcopal priest on hiatus from the church, decides to take his boat, T-Time, from Provincetown, Massachusetts, to Southport, North Carolina, a place that holds an abundance of bittersweet memories for him. While on a run his first day in Southport, Cullen comes upon a man sitting on a park bench staring out over the Cape Fear River with his Bible in hand. The man’s body language reeks of defeat and desperation, and unable to ignore his compassion for his fellow man, Cullen stops to offer a helping hand.
Southport Baptist Church’s Associate Pastor, Abel Weston, has a hard time managing his demons. When they get too overwhelming, he retreats to Southport’s Historic Riverwalk with his Bible in hand and stares out over the water, praying for help and guidance that never seem to come. But Abel soon discovers that help and guidance come in many forms.
An unexpected friendship develops between the two men, and as Cullen helps Abel begin to confront his doubts and fears , he comes face-to-face with his own reality, threatening both their futures.
5 HEART READ
REVIEW:
Scotty Cade’s Losing Faith touched me in a deeply personal - but good way. I recommend having tissues ready, as I had silent tears streaming down my face on more than one occasion while reading this book.
It is definitely a heartfelt, yet sexy, five heart read.
Losing Faith is the story of Cullen and Abel. Through their relations the author takes you down a path of learning: That the world can work in mysterious ways.
As the book begins Cullen is on a soul searching vacation. While on his journey he meets Abel, who is doing some reflecting of his own.
Their chance meeting sets them on a course of friendship that eventually grows into something more as they help one another through difficult times.
Through their up and down love story each must deal with their own personal demons and determine if they can help the other.
Is there chance meeting fate, should they risk “more”, but more than that - are they even ready for more?
Through Cullen and Abe, Scotty Cade takes the reader on a pilgrimage of different religions: Their similarities and their differences. With philosophies that are not necessarily right or wrong, they just are. I found the testaments in Losing Faith to be well written, thought provoking and, more importantly, the evident research Cade put into the subject matter gave me a high appreciation for his work.
My greatest hope is that you will read Scotty Cade’s Losing Faith with an open heart and an open mind. Maybe it will hit you personally as well.
Losing Faith was provided to Kimmers' Erotic Book Banter by, Dreamspinner Press, in exchange for our fair and honest opinion.
Scotty Cade left Corporate America and twenty-five years of Marketing and Public Relations behind to buy an Inn & Restaurant on the island of Martha’s Vineyard with his partner of over twenty years. He started writing stories as soon as he could read, but just five years ago for publication. When not at the Inn, you can find him on the bow of his boat writing gay romance novels with his Shetland sheepdog Mavis at his side. Being from the south and a lover of commitment and fidelity, most of his characters find their way to long healthy relationships, however long it takes them to get there. He believes that in the end, the boy should always get the boy.
