I love age gap romances, so this book looked really interesting. Beyond the delicious forbidden love factor, I really enjoyed the continuing family drama that surrounds the Cavanaugh family.
First I want to start with Joe because he was a guy I wanted to love but I felt so disconnected with him. He's a close family friend of the Cavanaugh's but his interactions with Gracyn were of strangers meeting for the first time. These two are definitely hot together, don't get me wrong, but I wanted to know more about his past, his deeper connection with the Cavanaugh family, I mean anything personal. The only thing I really knew was that Joe was a cop and that he was older than Gracyn. That's it.
While Joe is a plain character, Gracyn Cavanaugh is a really complicated but interesting character. She's an independent, headstrong young woman trying to prove herself in the business side of her family's vineyard, but her personal life has left her insecure about her place in her family. Her friendship with Joe is not just a forbidden secret, but a way to escape reality. Even though I struggled to love Joe, I still liked the connection between these two.
Gray Sin is connected to the Kingbrier Quintuplets series but I think this story can be read as a standalone. This is the first book I have read by Jody Kaye, but now I need to go back and read the beginning of the Kingbrier series so I can know more about the Cavanaugh family.
3.5 stars