Wrecked

by T.A. McKay

Ralph can only think of one thing. Returning home to the man he loves after being stationed away for five months. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work out exactly the way he hopes. Abandoned at the airport and kicked to the kerb, Ralph is left with nowhere to go and no one to help him. Luck is on his side in the shape of Aiden. The kind driver who takes pity on him and gives him a bed to sleep in until he can get everything sorted.
What neither of them expected was to find an attraction growing between them, the connection allowing secrets to come out and fantasies to be lived.
But when fear makes Ralph run from the one person who truly gets him, will he ever be able to win Aiden back, or is the whole thing completely Wrecked?

This book is a short story previously released as a part of the Help Our Heroes anthology.

Genres: M M Romance, Military Fiction

118 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 17, 2018

About the author

After being married for ten years and raising three beautiful kids I decided it was time to do something for myself. My passion for reading bled over with a need to tell the story that was repeating in my head and that was the birth of my first book. The rest they say is history.

I love the creative release that writing gives you, being able to take someone away to a different world feels amazing. As a reader I know how important that escape is, and as a writer I love to be able to give people that.

My other loves include music and reading (in case I haven't mentioned that before) and then when I have time a little more reading. I think if I could read for a living I would, but since I can't I will continue on the writing side of things.

Reviews

[Sabrina In Bookland · Rating 3 out of 5]

Uhalll!!!!
This is one of the most underrated books I have ever read.
I really liked it. It was a short, sexy read that left me wanting more.

[Dara Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book reached out and grabbed me from page 1 and it never let go. It screamed ‘read me!’ and I listened. From the opening scene with Ralph and Aiden in the airport - to the laughingly hilarious epilogue - I never put it down. I couldn’t. It was that mesmerizing, that intriguing, that beautiful, that damn good. This is definitely going on my best of 2018 list.

[Shelba · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF @ 71%.

First off, this needs another round of editing. There are tons of typos. Tons. Even spelling the name of the actor Aiden's looks are compared to incorrectly. (As if likening him to a RL person wasn't bad enough.) And the speech was awkward. Which made me ask myself if it was just awkward because it's British, but I quickly tossed that idea out the window, because I've read plenty of books with British characters and/or written by British authors that didn't come off as stiff as this.

Then there is things that don't make sense.... like one scene: I knew something was wrong the minute the front door opened, the confusion on Ralph's face telling me it wasn't William he was looking at.Aiden is in the car. Ralph is standing at the front door, facing the person who opened the door. So how, pray tell, can Aiden see the confusion on Ralph's face?

Another issue I had was with Aiden. He can't pick up Ralph's duffel bag. He's 5'7 and lithe. He muses that even if he was 6'0, he's have to look up to see Ralph's face. So, at 5'7, there is at least a 5" height difference. But when it suddenly comes to the sex scene, which is where this book lost me, the lithe, 5'7 Aiden, who couldn't lift a duffel bag (which at the very most was probably 70lbs, unless he was willing to pay extra to check it), suddenly manhandles the bulky Ralph and kisses him.... doesn't even need to strain on tiptoe to do it. But then during sex, he is powerful and the height doesn't seem to factor in.

Not to mention, Ralph is drunk... so dubcon.

Also, three piece black suit with a black shirt and black tie just screams douche to me.

[Louise Rogers-Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read as part of a anthology and loved it.

[Paula´s Brief Review · Rating 3 out of 5]

Flojito y previsible pero corto y fácil de leer que era lo que buscaba. Sin más.

[Simone · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75 stars

[Ivka_s_knihou · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a cute short story.