Nick is a thirty something very traditionalist gay man who lost his hopes for an happy future together with a man. After a bad break with his last lover, Nick is convinced that no gay man out there shares his idea on family and home. Nick is a steady and strong man, with a moral bigger than his big body. For work he build dry stone walls, and his work is just like him, old, precise and made to be eternal. To build something steady like his walls, Nick proposes to a single mother of three, a prim and proper woman, a good mother and probably a perfect wife, even if Nick doesn't desire her.

From the country Brent moved on the big city, New York, with great dreams of being a professional dancer, and now, 31 years old, his careers ended before time, and his last relationship as well, he is again at home to join in his sister's wedding celebrations. When he was young and still lived in the country, Brent was a little brat, always enamored of someone, a little imp who flirted with everyone, but he knew that, sooner or later he would meet Mr. Right and he would have the happily ever after like everyone else in the perfect country life picture of his youth. Now, fifteen years later, he is still convinced that, out there, Mr. Right is waiting for him, and when he meets Nick, he is so sure that he is the one. But Nick is in a denying phase and he is still hurting from the betrayal of his last boyfriend, a man too similar to Brent to not awake in him painful memories. And then Nick is a man of honor, and he can't be unfaithful to his fiancee and above all to her kids.

This is not the first book by Scott & Scott I read, but I'm a little surprise by this one. I don't know, it has a more romantic style; yes, it's true, also the other books were romance, but they were also 'erotic' romance, and the sex was a great part of the book. This one instead is more centered in the feelings, in the game of push and pull between Nick and Brent, that you almost arrive to the end of the story without realizing that they have never done nothing more than kiss. In all the book there is only a 'complete' sex scene (since a second one is an interrupted one) and a lot of teasing, a few kisses and a bit of petting. The teasing above all is the main event, since Brent is a mix between a brat and a slut, liking himself (a bit of Narcissus also) and his body, and liking to parade himself in front of Nick, to prove to the man that he is losing something marrying a woman.

Nick is a nice character, but, well, he has emotional handicaps. I think his mistrust in men is not only a consequence of his past bad relationships, but also of his general attitude toward life: he is a loner, he likes his works because it allows him to be alone, and he also likes to go hiking as hobbies, since it's something he can do alone. So it's real the other men that betrayed him, or it's him that didn't allow to no one to come near? His past relationships ended with all the guilty from only one side of the couple?

I think these two men didn't find Mr. Right before because they were not ready for him. And now that they are ready, they need to make some compromises, as I always say, the life is not right or wrong...

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