Hard Water

by Chloe Stowe

Dominick Carlyle is a man kissed by fortune. He is a doctor on a small island in the Florida Keys. His clients are rich and generous. His house hugs the warm Gulf waters. He is handsome and available and can have any woman he wants... For the first time in his life, however, Dominick Carlyle wants a man.

Josh Banyan is a man of action. On a daily basis, he has to bribe fortune to keep him alive. Climbing in and out of active volcanoes is the way he makes his living. He is brilliant, a world wanderer, a hard worker and a loner. A tragedy has taken his best friend and nearly stolen his own life. Josh Banyan just wants to heal.

As one man ventures out into unknown waters, the other is struggling ashore from the abyss. When their paths cross, it is a spectacular collision. The question quickly becomes whether the men will sink or swim in these hard waters of love?

Genres: M M Romance, Erotica, Gay

132 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 11, 2011

About the author

Published Romance author... Cozy Mystery rookie... Daily blogger... Crazy woman.

Reviews

[FloJ · Rating 2 out of 5]

entertaining enough but no new ground covered unless you regard the island of Tristan da Cunha as new ground!

[Eva · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is okay, language is good, no mistakes or typos. The book is somewhat medium long, so plot evolves smoothly almost without laps. Characters believable for romance book. Not too sugary. If you prefer books with a lot of hot sex scenes, I can’t say that one is for you. Except the scene from kinky club which honestly looked out-of-context. Why it was in the book? Plot wasn’t really leaning heavy on that. However, the most maddening moment for me was one of main characters, Josh. He’s the drama queen with fragile masculinity who has communication skills worse than teenagers. So that hero makes first impression punching a neighbor. I would suggest restraint order or at least police call, but good doctor obviously has a heart of gold. Anyway, Josh offers sex, in a few conversations implies it’s sex only, avoids talking, cut conversations, changes topics. It’s a new territory for his lover, Dominick, who was thinking he’s a straight before he saw Josh. So why when Josh choose to go back to finish his deceased friend work even if he could move on, everything becomes Dominick’s fault? Josh goes all drama, Dominick is a bad guy. And Josh’s friends blame Dominick for exactly what? Yes, Dominick should’ve say something too. But honestly, for me Josh is a jerk pretending to be a tough guy. I don’t get it, when two adults get into any sort of relationships, responsibilities lay evenly on both. Josh makes his consent choices yet prefer to blame other person. Very mature. This I hated. The wrapping with awakening call for Dominick was rushed in my opinion. Overall, if you like drama, in classic Harlequin romance style, that might work for you. Also, the whole book is very focused on two main characters, not much on a background, few Josh friends in the final chapters. Easy read though.

[S · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this story.

The writing was solid and the characters engaging.