*****
Never fall for your best friend…
Pushing thirty, with his reenlistment looming, decorated navy sniper Maddox Horvat is taking a long look at what he really wants in life. And what he wants is Ben Tovey. It isn’t smart, falling for his best friend and fellow SEAL, but ten years with Ben has forged a bond so intimate Maddox can’t ignore it. He needs Ben by his side forever—heart and soul.
Ben admits he likes what he’s seen—his friend’s full lower lip and the perfect muscles of his ass have proved distracting more than once. But Ben's still reeling from a relationship gone to hell, and he's not about to screw up his friendship with Maddox, too.
Until their next mission throws Ben and Maddox closer together than ever before, with only each other to depend on.
Now, in the lonely, desperate hours awaiting rescue, the real challenge—confronting themselves, their future and their desires—begins. Man to man, friend to friend, lover to lover.
Pushing thirty, with his reenlistment looming, decorated navy sniper Maddox Horvat is taking a long look at what he really wants in life. And what he wants is Ben Tovey. It isn’t smart, falling for his best friend and fellow SEAL, but ten years with Ben has forged a bond so intimate Maddox can’t ignore it. He needs Ben by his side forever—heart and soul.
Ben admits he likes what he’s seen—his friend’s full lower lip and the perfect muscles of his ass have proved distracting more than once. But Ben's still reeling from a relationship gone to hell, and he's not about to screw up his friendship with Maddox, too.
Until their next mission throws Ben and Maddox closer together than ever before, with only each other to depend on.
Now, in the lonely, desperate hours awaiting rescue, the real challenge—confronting themselves, their future and their desires—begins. Man to man, friend to friend, lover to lover.
Review:
Ben and Maddox stood out in At Attention. Best friends and roommates? Also, both openly gay SEALs. Yep, we all wanted a story shipping these
two. Fortunately, we got it!
The first chapter sets us up with the knowledge that
SOMETHING happened to strain Ben and Maddox’s relationship. When they end up on a mission that goes
terribly wrong, we slowly get their back story and find out what caused their
current drama. But the story doesn’t start and end on their
mission. SPOILER ALERT…..they do make it
home. They both come home with the
knowledge of how much the other means to them and what they are and are not
willing to do to hold onto each other.
Unfortunately, those things don’t necessarily match up. Ben is excited to re-up with the Navy and
continue to work and live with his BFF.
But Maddox is seriously considering retiring and doing something new. Yeah, their plans aren’t matching up and Ben has
a real issue with it. What he doesn’t
understand is that Maddox has a real issue with unrequited love he’s experiencing
right now.
Friends-to-lovers stories are my absolute favorites. I know I’ve mentioned it before but that love
started with Emma by Jane Austen and it hasn’t waned in the 20 some years since
I first read it. That existing bond that
grows even bigger and grander than anything they could have ever imagined? The fear of losing what they have if they ask
for more? Yeah, total catnip for me. And the cherry on top of this delicious sundae
of a story is that Maddox is a……..total beta hero! Yep, a SEAL that isn’t an alpha
character. I loved Ben but Maddox made
my heart melt.
This story is full of push and pull and the angst that goes with
it. But never so much that I needed to
take a break. On the contrary, I couldn’t
put the damn thing down. I haven’t
given five stars in a REALLY long time but this book earned it. I was instantly immersed in Ben and Maddox’s
story. To the extent that the book
hangover I had after this one was epic.
Do yourself a favor and read this, and while you are at it,
read the first two in the series, Off Base and At Attention.
Nat
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