My thoughts: I give it ♥♥♥ When I got to the end of this book though, I had no trouble moving on to another. I didn’t hate it or love it, I just thought it was fine-just-fine. This is mostly because it’s not often that I like a gay romance novel and yet don’t care whether or not the leading men get together. The mystery/suspense is good. Elliot and Tucker were pretty good characters on their own. Yet, at the end of the book when the mystery was solved and it was time to wrap up the romance, I didn’t really care too much. These two men seem great in bed, but the emotional aspect, the ‘relationship’ was a stretch. I didn’t buy that they were in love. I think they both just missed the sex when they were apart. In the end, they could have convincingly carried on as even-closer now-friends with benefit. Nothing wrong with that. So, two stars lost, because the gay romance shouldn’t have to be padded to be convincing. Overall though, a solid read. Go for it!
Authors Blurb:
A crippling knee injury forced Elliot Mills to trade in his FBI badge for dusty chalkboards and bored college students. Now a history professor at Puget Sound University, the former agent has put his old life behind him, but it seems his old life isn’t finished with him.
A young man has gone missing from campus and as a favor to a family friend, Elliot agrees to do a little sniffing around. His investigations bring him face-to-face with his former lover, Tucker Lance, the special agent handling the case.
Things ended badly with Tucker, and neither man is ready to back down on the fight that drove them apart. But they have to figure out a way to move beyond their past and work together as more men go missing and Elliot becomes the target in a killer’s obsessive game….
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