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Josh & Ian #2
Lovingly Yours
“Lovingly Yours” is a stand-alone sequel to “Accidentally Yours”
When Ian met Josh, his whole world shifted. He was convinced that he’s finally found everything worth living for wrapped up in the suntanned landscaper. For a while, it seemed that he found a safe harbor from the trauma that threatened to hold him hostage for the rest of his life. Now a late-night phone call and a decade of bad blood threaten to rob him of everything he’s spent his whole life looking for.
They say there’s no place like home, and that’s the very last place Josh Green wants to be. When he left home, he promised himself that it would be for good. However, fate isn’t always so kind, and a crisis in the family sends him back to face a past love that he can’t deny and won’t repeat. Can he finally put to rest the ghosts that have been haunting him without ruining the possibility of the happily ever after he’s just found?
Please Note: This is the sequel to "Accidentally Yours." This is a standalone book that contains adult language and steamy adult activities. It is intended for 18+ Adults Only. Novel, approximately 36,000 words in length. HEA (happy ever after ending). Does not end with a "cliffhanger." Themes includes: Death and Dying, Homophobic Parent, Courage, Falling in Love, Hidden Past, Friends to Lovers
When Ian met Josh, his whole world shifted. He was convinced that he’s finally found everything worth living for wrapped up in the suntanned landscaper. For a while, it seemed that he found a safe harbor from the trauma that threatened to hold him hostage for the rest of his life. Now a late-night phone call and a decade of bad blood threaten to rob him of everything he’s spent his whole life looking for.
They say there’s no place like home, and that’s the very last place Josh Green wants to be. When he left home, he promised himself that it would be for good. However, fate isn’t always so kind, and a crisis in the family sends him back to face a past love that he can’t deny and won’t repeat. Can he finally put to rest the ghosts that have been haunting him without ruining the possibility of the happily ever after he’s just found?
Please Note: This is the sequel to "Accidentally Yours." This is a standalone book that contains adult language and steamy adult activities. It is intended for 18+ Adults Only. Novel, approximately 36,000 words in length. HEA (happy ever after ending). Does not end with a "cliffhanger." Themes includes: Death and Dying, Homophobic Parent, Courage, Falling in Love, Hidden Past, Friends to Lovers
- GenresM M Romance
153 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 27, 2020
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About the author
Jerry Cole
182 books292 followersJerry Cole is a gay author who lives in California & enjoys writing love stories. Jerry has been writing fiction since he was a child. As a young adult, he worked as a freelance writer in the evenings & on weekends. Jerry started writing gay romance stories several years ago, but initially just for his own entertainment & occasionally sharing stories with his friends. In the summer of 2015 he published his first gay romance short story on Amazon. Overwhelmed by the positive response he decided to quit his “day job” & took up writing gay romance full time. When he’s not writing steamy M/M romance he enjoys globetrotting, watching movies with family and friends, working out, & being dragged down the road by his two Great Danes.
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August 25, 2020
A deeper showing of Josh and Ian’s progress !
Book two of Josh, the landscaper and cartoonist Ian’s, loving relationship, a first for each of them. Their deep passion is real and they get along well, even as they work it out. We finally hear about the tragic event that causes Ian’s crippling anxiety. Josh just loves him all the more for being so strong.
Josh’s crappy sis calls, because Josh’s horrid father is sick and so, he hesitantly goes to visit, thinking maybe he’ll get the apology he’s waited so long for. But no, his father is still a hateful man. Bad memories arise.
Then Ian calls that he is on the way; he misses Josh, so he packs up, even the dogs, and flies to Josh.
Ian gets to see the sneers and hate, and tries to help.
It’s a tough struggle to change the father’s stubborn prejudice.
Our men’s love gets even deeper, despite the situation.
A wonderful look at the strengths of each man and how far they have come. Loved it.
ENJOY !
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Book two of Josh, the landscaper and cartoonist Ian’s, loving relationship, a first for each of them. Their deep passion is real and they get along well, even as they work it out. We finally hear about the tragic event that causes Ian’s crippling anxiety. Josh just loves him all the more for being so strong.
Josh’s crappy sis calls, because Josh’s horrid father is sick and so, he hesitantly goes to visit, thinking maybe he’ll get the apology he’s waited so long for. But no, his father is still a hateful man. Bad memories arise.
Then Ian calls that he is on the way; he misses Josh, so he packs up, even the dogs, and flies to Josh.
Ian gets to see the sneers and hate, and tries to help.
It’s a tough struggle to change the father’s stubborn prejudice.
Our men’s love gets even deeper, despite the situation.
A wonderful look at the strengths of each man and how far they have come. Loved it.
ENJOY !
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May 23, 2020
Well... I'm very disappointed with this book.
Don't take me wrong, the story was good, the characters were great, and I did love Josh and Ian.
But for starters, it was too short. And then just when things are getting to the climax, it ends... just like that. The. End.... what up with that? It felt like finding a good hard cover book you wanted, only to realize the last two chapters have been ripped off.
There's cliffhangers and then there's this book. It was just, unfinished. So many things were left up in the air, it definitely deserved at the very least two more chapters, or a very long epilogue.
So, in few words, a great story with lots of potential and a fucked up ending. 🤷🏻♂️
Don't take me wrong, the story was good, the characters were great, and I did love Josh and Ian.
But for starters, it was too short. And then just when things are getting to the climax, it ends... just like that. The. End.... what up with that? It felt like finding a good hard cover book you wanted, only to realize the last two chapters have been ripped off.
There's cliffhangers and then there's this book. It was just, unfinished. So many things were left up in the air, it definitely deserved at the very least two more chapters, or a very long epilogue.
So, in few words, a great story with lots of potential and a fucked up ending. 🤷🏻♂️
May 3, 2020
The story of Josh and Ian from “Accidentally Yours” continuous in “Lovingly Yours”. They are in a loving relationship now. Ian tries very hard to deal with his anxiety and his panic attacks and Josh helps him as much as he can. Then Josh gets a phone call from his sister to say, that their father has cancer and is in hospital. Ian promised himself that he would never go home again. He explained to Ian, that he has no family as they have rejected him. But Ian convinces Josh that he should go, which he eventually did. He found out that nothing has changed and his family still sees him as a monster. Ian overcame his anxieties and follows Josh. The two of them eventually started talking and Josh tells Ian the whole story as to why he never wanted to go home and why his father treated him like he does. Ian then takes matters into his own hands and tried to get everybody involved in the problem to talk it out. Will they?
I read a complimentary advanced reader copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving an honest and unbiased review.
I read a complimentary advanced reader copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving an honest and unbiased review.
May 3, 2020
I was so pleased Jerry Cole wrote a sequel to Accidentally Yours. Ian and Josh are wonderful characters which are a joy to rediscover and see them finally work out the wrongs in their past.
This book can be read alone and as such is a beautiful story on its own merits. Writing about overcoming mental illness and anxiety, Jerry Cole has used sympathetic prose to convey the feelings of both Ian and Josh.
I highly recommend this book, a delight to revisit great loveable characters.
I received a free advance reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest & unbiased review.
This book can be read alone and as such is a beautiful story on its own merits. Writing about overcoming mental illness and anxiety, Jerry Cole has used sympathetic prose to convey the feelings of both Ian and Josh.
I highly recommend this book, a delight to revisit great loveable characters.
I received a free advance reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest & unbiased review.
May 9, 2020
Even if the author in the blurb mentioned that this book is a standalone, I strongly recommend to read Accidentaly yours before, to fully enjoy this book. In this sequel, Josh and Ian showed how strong is their relationship while overcame obstacles and misunderstandings to find how to be happy together. A wonderful reading!
I read a complimentary Advanced Reader Copy of this book and I am voluntarily leaving an honest and unbiased review.
I read a complimentary Advanced Reader Copy of this book and I am voluntarily leaving an honest and unbiased review.
May 2, 2020
‘You don’t have to be perfect to be lovable. You know that right?’
California author Jerry Cole’s publications are over 90! And as Jerry’s repertoire grows his dramatic ability increases. LOVINGLY YOURS, his newest novel, while being a standalone story, is actually the sequel to ACCIDENTALLY YOURS and reading the two in tandem is a very satisfying experience. He adds a feather in his cap as a writer of authority.
Continuing the conflicted struggle between Josh and Ian, Jerry takes on the all too prevalent problem of anxiety and panic attacks (such as in PTSD and beyond) and how that impacts life, and romance. After an erotically charged opening encounter between his two characters, some memories that invade this pairing resurface. ‘I remembered the way the cops reacted to my story of being assaulted the night I met Ian. If I’d been a skinny teenager I’d like to think they might I have taken me a little more seriously. But being the victim of an assault was a little harder to understand when the victim was over six feet tall or muscular in any way. Knowing that even after the police caught the men who hurt Ian, the criminal justice system didn’t consider a gang rape a serious enough crime to force them to serve their whole sentences made me angry.’
Jerry’s new story is eloquent as well as interesting and satisfying – ‘When Ian met Josh, his whole world shifted. He was convinced that he’s finally found everything worth living for wrapped up in the suntanned landscaper. For a while, it seemed that he found a safe harbor from the trauma that threatened to hold him hostage for the rest of his life. Now a late-night phone call and a decade of bad blood threaten to rob him of everything he’s spent his whole life looking for. They say there’s no place like home, and that’s the very last place Josh Green wants to be. When he left home, he promised himself that it would be for good. However, fate isn’t always so kind, and a crisis in the family sends him back to face a past love that he can’t deny and won’t repeat. Can he finally put to rest the ghosts that have been haunting him without ruining the possibility of the happily ever after he’s just found?’
This is a fine, insightful novel exploring impact of returning home and finding love – and Jerry makes it works very well.
I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book
California author Jerry Cole’s publications are over 90! And as Jerry’s repertoire grows his dramatic ability increases. LOVINGLY YOURS, his newest novel, while being a standalone story, is actually the sequel to ACCIDENTALLY YOURS and reading the two in tandem is a very satisfying experience. He adds a feather in his cap as a writer of authority.
Continuing the conflicted struggle between Josh and Ian, Jerry takes on the all too prevalent problem of anxiety and panic attacks (such as in PTSD and beyond) and how that impacts life, and romance. After an erotically charged opening encounter between his two characters, some memories that invade this pairing resurface. ‘I remembered the way the cops reacted to my story of being assaulted the night I met Ian. If I’d been a skinny teenager I’d like to think they might I have taken me a little more seriously. But being the victim of an assault was a little harder to understand when the victim was over six feet tall or muscular in any way. Knowing that even after the police caught the men who hurt Ian, the criminal justice system didn’t consider a gang rape a serious enough crime to force them to serve their whole sentences made me angry.’
Jerry’s new story is eloquent as well as interesting and satisfying – ‘When Ian met Josh, his whole world shifted. He was convinced that he’s finally found everything worth living for wrapped up in the suntanned landscaper. For a while, it seemed that he found a safe harbor from the trauma that threatened to hold him hostage for the rest of his life. Now a late-night phone call and a decade of bad blood threaten to rob him of everything he’s spent his whole life looking for. They say there’s no place like home, and that’s the very last place Josh Green wants to be. When he left home, he promised himself that it would be for good. However, fate isn’t always so kind, and a crisis in the family sends him back to face a past love that he can’t deny and won’t repeat. Can he finally put to rest the ghosts that have been haunting him without ruining the possibility of the happily ever after he’s just found?’
This is a fine, insightful novel exploring impact of returning home and finding love – and Jerry makes it works very well.
I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book
January 28, 2021
One star only because they stayed together. I didn’t want them to end up together. Josh should have sent Ian packing and found somebody that trusted him all the way. In the end Ian was as bad as his father and his sister - didn’t believe in Josh’s word until Patrick told him differently. I find Ian the most irritating character ever. Pushing Josh towards a family that hated him. Forcing him to live with his father’s horrible horrible accusations and then forcing him to have to prove himself to everybody and what’s worse having to prove himself to Ian. In the end Patrick the bastard gets to be the hero, the father gets to have the son he hated pampering him as if he deserved it, Ian almost thanked and hugged Patrick for threatening him with stealing Josh and declaring his hate for him, and I was left with a bad taste in my mouth after reading this book. They even ended up looking at Patrick with admiration ,for fuck’s sake!!! Very disappointing..
September 3, 2020
Growing into Something Good
I think this is the first I've read of Jerry Cole's work. This series has had me reading the 3 books back-to-back. The story-line is right and engaging.
The 3 books are cleverly woven to the story of M on M sexual romance of 2 couples who couldn't be different yet have their paths cross. The diversity ignites across boundaries of seeking into care.
The premise is believable. The setting able to cross into what I choose to call "a Family of Choice" . Amidst the odds some folks are able to span openness into a life.
I think this is the first I've read of Jerry Cole's work. This series has had me reading the 3 books back-to-back. The story-line is right and engaging.
The 3 books are cleverly woven to the story of M on M sexual romance of 2 couples who couldn't be different yet have their paths cross. The diversity ignites across boundaries of seeking into care.
The premise is believable. The setting able to cross into what I choose to call "a Family of Choice" . Amidst the odds some folks are able to span openness into a life.
June 3, 2020
I read the first book in this short series of two books. This was an intense and often dark story that leads us on some heartrending paths that Ian and Josh must tread in order to start to be whole again. Service dogs, PTSD, anxiety attacks, a father who threw away his son over a misunderstanding, years of pain for both MCs, and an HFN/HEA that breathes life back into the reader as we try to get a breath of our own as we finish this story. Will there be another book in this short series?
August 19, 2020
Talking helps the misunderstandings!!
The second story with two relationships that needed help sorting out long held memories from when one was a teenager and his Father's misconception about young love.
The second story with two relationships that needed help sorting out long held memories from when one was a teenager and his Father's misconception about young love.
May 3, 2020
sweet with some angst thrown into it.. it is a well written and interesting story. i liked it a lot
December 3, 2020
Good read
A good story well told. Not too long, not too short. Good character development. And a feel good ending. Nice
A good story well told. Not too long, not too short. Good character development. And a feel good ending. Nice
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