Genre: GENRE
LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Poly
Reviewer: REVIEWERNAME, Paranormal Romance Guild
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About The Book
Byron is out for what passes for a date with JoJo when choreographer Cole Black keeps him from toppling off the curb and into traffic. By the time he and Cole are properly introduced, JoJo is halfway down the block with his gang, heading to another club. Byron goes to dinner with Cole instead. The next morning, it’s clear something needs to change.
Cole is fascinated by his new man’s not-quite-previous relationship and not at all averse to meeting the much-younger actor. Cole is new to LA but has a lot of connections in the industry. If JoJo needs a hand, why not offer one? Especially when it becomes clear Byron isn’t ready to pull the plug completely.
Byron’s mild case of breakup guilt gets serious when he and Cole learn exactly how JoJo gets by. Between the two of them, they can make up for some of the ways Byron failed the younger man. Along the way, they discover JoJo is just what they need. The only question is does he need them the same way?
The Review
Byron Hartley is a fifty-six-year-old professor at UCLA. He is out with his much younger sometime lover, JoJo. Their relationship is based on spending some time together with JoJo’s young friends. One night Byron trips and falls into the street, with a car coming right at him – until a hand pulls him to safety.
Cole Black is sixty-four, a Broadway choreographer who Byron recognizes immediately, since he teaches drama. Cole has recently moved to LA and is working on a show, but when Byron asks him to join him for dinner, he doesn’t hesitate to say yes.
After dinner, the two men find themselves walking in the same direction, and discover they are next door neighbors. It doesn’t take more than an offer of coffee for them to end up in bed together, both realizing that they want to see each other more.
When the discussion turns to talk about JoJo – and Byron’s relationship with him – Cole has no problem with it, but they try to come up with an easy way to end it. Byron has helped JoJo with his career as an actor, and Cole wants to meet him because he is in a position to help him even more.
Byron and Cole decide to keep their relationship as boyfriends, and they invite JoJo over to meet Cole and offer him help. That’s when they learn about the troubles JoJo is going through. He lives in his car, his adoptive father threw him out when he was eighteen because he was gay and finding a place to sleep is why JoJo surrounds himself with the young men he meets. Unfortunately, many times his payment for the favors is sexual, and he’s come to expect that.
Byron’s guilt over not realizing what JoJo was going through, and the realization that that the times he spent at Byron’s home ensured that he had a place to sleep, make him anxious to help. He wants to make up for the year they were together that he was ignorant of JoJo’s situation.
He offers Jojo the opportunity to live with Cole, since he has a big apartment paid for by the production company he is presently working for. Cole spends many nights at Byron’s, since sex is not something he or Byron want from JoJo for their help.
I don’t want to go into anything else about the three men for fear of giving away spoilers, but I will say that this is a beautiful story full of surprises about two older men and one younger one just trying to find happiness.
Four stars.
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