Monday Mentions: June 12, 2017
Monday Mentions time again. Are you ready for some unrequited love reads? Who doesn’t enjoy a story of loving someone from afar and fearing for so long you never had a chance, but a second meeting may just prove you were mistaken? Yeah, that kinda love! Chris Scully released Back to You at Riptide Publishing today. In this novel, for Alex, returning home holds bad memories. Except for reconnecting with his childhood friend, Benji, who he never forgot. As the men reconnect turmoil with both their families may derail their future or bring them closer together.
On Wednesday, June 14th, Maria Vickers’ By the Book releases. Joshua has lusted after his teacher since being a sophomore in high school, to the point of running away to forget. Summoned home he now comes face to face with Samuel, who may just share the mutual attraction.
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About Back to You
Journalist Alex Buchanan has come home to the remote British Columbia town he grew up in, but only because his estranged father is dying. For Alex, the homecoming holds a mix of memories, mostly bad. The only bright spot is reconnecting with Benji Morning, the childhood friend he never truly forgot. As boys, the strength of their bond had frightened Alex. But now that he’s confident in his bisexuality, he’s drawn back to quiet, soft-spoken Ben.
Ben isn’t the same boy Alex left behind, though. His life has been overshadowed by the disappearance of his sister two decades earlier, and now a new break in the case threatens to undo the peace he’s worked so hard to attain.
As Alex struggles to repair the relationship with his father before it’s too late, he finds himself caught up in a twenty-year-old mystery, a story he never expected, and a shocking truth that could affect his and Ben’s future together.
About By the Book
Joshua Dayton met the man of his dreams as a sophomore in high school—his mentor and biology teacher, Mr. Cayden. Fearing his love would be considered forbidden and rejected, he ran away to college, determined to move on and forget. Three years later, he is summoned home and comes face to face with the man he tried to leave in the past. The same man he never stopped loving. Samuel Cayden was looking for a fresh start and an escape. What he was not expecting was to develop feelings for his student, Joshua. Yet when the boy returns home a man, Samuel can no longer pretend the pull between them doesn’t exist. Will the student become the teacher, showing Samuel how to open his heart? Will Samuel be able to prove to Joshua that things are not always what they appear? Or will the spark fizzle before it has a chance to ignite? It’s time they got a lesson in love and temptation.
