Sleeping with the Past by Cassidy Ryan

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Sleeping with the Past can only be defined as a sweet romance with a tinge of suspence.

Asher is a literature professor in a smalltown University with a brilliant parallel career as mystery writer. He is also openly gay and an activist. So when he starts to receive threatening missives, he assumes to have treaded on one more toe, and ignores the matter. But Ellis, his assistant, is not of the same idea and asks help to her father, the handsome detective Nathaniel.

Nat is a single father and a gay in the closet. He has always avoided to be alone with Asher to deny the attraction between them, but when someone nearly kills the professor, he is assigned as his personal bodyguard, and they have to share a lot more time together that he would have wanted.

The mystery is pretty good, Cassidy Ryan gives us three or more possible suspects, and all of them could be the culprit. Maybe from only a clue you can undestand the real villain and I have no intention to say you that.

But as I said I think this one is also a sweet romance: sex is almost nonexistent, but instead there is a lot of sexual tension. I like very much as Cassidy Ryan as chosen to deal with the matter: Nathaniel is a more than 20 years gay in the closet and it would have been quite unbelievable that, all of sudden, he had chosen to coming out, not matter how strong is the attraction he feels for Asher.

Asher instead is very nice, a man really at comfort with his sexuality but who is in love like a teenager with his first crush. But he isn't oppressive and he can wait the right moment to laid his claim on the man he loves.

The book has an open ending, some things are still hanging (not so heavy to not give a close point to the story) and probably they could be a good start for another novel: Asher's family, Nathaniel's family (his daughter and his brother), their lifes after all is happen between them... if so, I would be glad to read it.

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Comments

[cass1969.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the review, Elisa. I'm glad you liked the story. If it sells well enough and people like it then there will be a sequel, but we'll have to wait and see :D

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I think the two characters will worth a sequel. Elisa

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Thanks Paul. I know my friends read my reviews :-) even if they not comment much! Elisa

[annebrooke.livejournal.com]

Sounds one for my list - thanks for the tip!

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[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Is an almost "classic" romance, not too much "erotic", but well built. Elisa