Love x 3
One lesson that skilled surfer Nate Lyons has learned is that you must wait on the wave and when it comes, ride it until it delivers you to its destination. So, when he and dad, Edwin Lyons, the generational owner of an exclusive BDSM club—Lyon’s Club—located in a mansion in the heart of New York City, clashed over dad’s vision of Nate assuming a role at the family business, Nate’s response was to seek a new wave to ride. And when his break with dad’s vision of his 30-year-old son’s role at Lyon’s Club seemed to follow Nate’s crumbling relationship with Laney Briggs, Nate headed west to California, to another ocean and another wave and another woman, Sonia Hill.
But now, months later, the wave of fate has returned Nate Lyons to New York, ironically following Sonia to Lyon’s Club where she has unknowingly taken a job with her former lover’s dad. And as the son of a man who makes his own rules, son Nate and dad Edwin have locked horns though out Nate’s 30 years, but never, over a woman. And so, while the waves of the East Coast can’t match the challenges of the West Coast, Nate realizes that he needs to escape once more from the awkwardness and emotional challenge of being back in Lyon’s Den where his dad is wooing Sonia, Nate’s ex. And he turns to his place of peace—the waves. But, while the waves off Rockaway Beach are not the waves off California, they were enough to crash a distracted surfer, damaging Nate’s spine and leaving him requiring surgery followed by of months of physical therapy directed by kinesiologist Laney Briggs, a skilled PT, but also known by Nate as the former girlfriend of his best friend, Mason Lotts.
As the three friends and former lovers reconnect, Nate struggles to regain his ability to walk—but perhaps never surf—and Mason reconnects with Nate and by proximity to Nate, Mason also reconnects with sweetly beautiful and loving, Laney Briggs. And the trio move awkwardly forward, supporting Nate, but also growing in love and trust of this new dynamic—a trio—a trople—open to sharing love and support as they move into new, unexplored emotions and relations.
After reading Until I Claim You, I was eager to continue exploring the world of the Lyons family and their friendships and relationships. While this romance explores uncharted relationships, it does so with taste and passion. Callie Stevens shares with her readers an engaging tale of past decisions not only following an individual into the present, but also possibly reshaping the individual’s new beginnings and possible future. I enjoyed the romance and look forward to future encounters with the Lyons family.
I received a review copy of the novel but enjoyed it so much that I bought a copy for my personal “read again” collection.