I read a lot of M/M romances and I know that they 99.9% end with a happy ever after...but there are some things that really make me want to shake some of the characters and it usually pops up its ugly head in EVERY single one unless it's a series like Morgan Brice's "Witchbane" or "Badlands" where the characters only went through the "he loves me, he loves me not" phase in the first book. The other thing that really bugs me is how the main characters almost always let their "best friend(s)" tell them what to do, how to do it, and who they should be doing it with, usually only making whatever situation 110% worse. I just want to yell "LEAVE THEM ALONE." "THEY ARE ADULTS!!!" Elle Keaton writes some short little series like this one that I read a lot of because there just isn't enough page count for this to happen as a rule, or at least if it does...not for very long. These two characters had very different childhoods that shaped their adulthoods. Jaccob has loving wonderfully caring grandparents that provide laughs and tender moments throughout this story...Duff was born and grew up in a commune with a hippy mother that had no clue how to be a mother and was pretty much on his own from a very early age. On his mother's death he lived with an aunt that loved him but had some very bad mental issues that Duff has to deal with. Jacob owned his own business and Duff was a male fashion model. A chance meeting brought them together and love and determination sealed them as one. It was a lovely little story with very little of the things that make me want to kill, or at least very badly damage some of the character's "best friends". ( )