Son of a Gun by A.M. Riley

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Stefan is a children books author living in Los Angeles an apparently comfortable, and successful life; he is gay, and handsome, and so he has no problem to find a body when he wants, but he is not interested in the heart inside that body. Stefan is a bitter man whose only good feelings are in what he writes, not in his real life.

When the story starts, Stefan is coming back home in Texas for the funeral of his best friend Tommy; even if he left his hometown and all his friends years ago, Tommy was still his best friends, and the stories Stefan writes about two boys are the fictional translation of their own boyhood adventures. Even if he was miles distant from Tommy and his family, the same family who welcomed Stefan when he was a orphan boy, Tommy was always with him, in his books, and Stefan had at least the hope that adult Tommy was happy, married to his childhood sweetheart Samantha, and living in the paradise small town where Stefan was not able to live, since he was in love with Chet, and Chet was instead ashamed of Stefan.

When Stefan comes back, apparently everything is the same, but nothing is the same; Tommy is not there, Samantha is disappeared, and strange men, supposedly secret agents, are invading Tommy’s paternal home, the same mansion where Stefan is welcomed again as he was so many years ago. In the house there is agent Evans, big, bold and silent, the epitome of dangerous man, and an irresistible temptation for Stefan. But also Chet is there again, and he is still asking Stefan to be his little dirty secret, and Stefan is unable to resist, above all since it was not him that break up years ago, but it was Chet. And maybe, adult Stefan thinks but with the mind, and heart, of young Stefan, if he is good enough, if he always says yes, maybe Chet will change idea, maybe there is an happily ever after for them.

What apparently is preparing to be a good love story, with Stefan dribbling between Chet and Evans, one step here, one step there, is soon overwhelmed by the dangerous/adventurous plot: someone is out there and he wants Stefan out of town, in the best of cases, and death in the worst. When sex arrives it’s fast but good, and I will not say with whom.

I had my idea on Evans, he is a man you can trust and depend on, he is strong and safe, like an haven, and in his embrace Stefan will never be scared; but he is not Stefan’s first love, not the one Stefan has to come to pact with. Chet is still in Stefan’s heart, and I’m happy to say that I changed my idea on him: I was ready to dislike him, and to think the worst, but in the end Chet is a positive character, maybe even truer and realistic than Evans or Stefan. It will be hard for Stefan to choose (no pun intended), but in any case, it will be a good choice.

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