reviews_and_ramblings | Mile High (Men in Motion 1) by G.A. Hauser

Owen is a wealthy divorced business man. Every week he travels from Los Angeles to Denver to visit his daughter who lives with her mother. To please the kid, he spends all the weekend sleeping in the couch in the den of his ex wife. Is not a wonderful life, but Owen loves his daughter, and then he has no one at home for him. Actually he haven't never realized for sure why his wife asked for a divorce: he was not an oppressive husband, he left her all the freedom she needed, and if she cheated on him, he didn't want to know, and maybe never mattered much. Owen has always considered himself straight, but he sometime finds himself ogling on some explicit advertisement with a beautiful specimen on it, and he has always had a particular fondness for movies with handsome men in it rather than action. All right Owen is not a macho man, and then he doesn't consider himself the type to attract the type of guy he finds attractive: at almost forty years old, maybe he has resigned to be alone with only his dreams to take him company in the night.

But during one of his flights, he catches eyes with Taylor, a very stud of man, exactly every his desires come true. Taylor is a construction project manager from Denver who travels every week on a construction site on Los Angeles. And also for Taylor, Owen is a dream comes true: Taylor is tired to be alone, to have always to travel around the country and not ever have the chance to settle down with a fine man. A fine man like Owen, shy and gentle, with a steady work and a regular life. And so Taylor seduces Owen on the plane, the very first time they meet, and continues to do so for all the other planes they share in the week after, till the time Owen is hooked and ready to be served on a silver plate to Taylor. They only have to find a place where stay together that is not a plane in air...

As always, G.A. Hauser's characters are outrageous and funny, totally sexually driven and happy to be. Luckily they have also the chance to be, since they are among that very important people who can pursue their dreams, since money and obligations seem not important.

This is almost a two men show, since almost all the book is spent following Taylor and Owen on their travels, and only Owen's daughter and ex wife make some appearances. In particular Owen's ex wife, Jenna, makes a pretty interesting evolution journey, from witch to angel: till when she is the ex wife with all the power in her hands, she is evil like a perfect ex wife should be, but when she realizes that her marriage could have failed not for her fault, but maybe since her husband was searching something she obviously couldn't give him, in that moment she turns in an angel and in the best friend of her ex. Still at first the author was not very gentle with this character, and truth be told, Owen was not behaving like a god daddy should do, having his head more on when he would be again with his lover, than on what he should do with his daughter. But again, G.A. Hauser's characters are not notorious to be the perfect hero from fairy tales...

Amazon: Mile High: Men in Motion Book 1
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Paperback: 190 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (July 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449592538
ISBN-13: 978-1449592530

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