I have bought and read this entire series. The characters are so real and lovable. A year had pasted since Dom Jonas and his best friend and sub, Cornell left the club on a cold night with icy roads They had been best friends for decades and looked after one another. Unfortunately, luck wasn’t on their side on that night. Now Cornell is lost. His best friend is dead and he’s severely injured. He is a successful estate lawyer, but he can’t go home to his home that isn't designed for someone with his injuries…he can barely walk let alone take care of himself. Work is also out of the question right now. When his godson Rhys, Jonas’ son and a newly graduated Physical Therapist, insists that he go home with him back to his dad’s ranch, he wants to say no but knows it’s for the best. What he doesn’t know is that Rhys has pined for Cornell for years and he is now a mature, twenty-three-year-old that just happens to be a Dom and he is ready to seize his opportunity to finally get what and who he wants. The younger man being the dominant to his older godfather really didn’t bother me. I felt that it was a nice twist to the predictable older dom/younger sub that most books have. I also liked the chemistry between both Rhys and Cornell. There were fewer intimate scenes that I would have expected with these two. Quite a bit of the book we were more in the two characters head’s than in their relationship. It was good that the story showed the developing relationship through Jonas's and Cornell's points of view. The only character I didn't like throwing in her two cents worth was Rhy's mother. This was not a fifteen-year-old kid...this was a twenty-three-year-old man who she deserted years ago. The writing is as superb as I have come to expect from Nora Phoenix. I have learned to expect the unexpected and unconventional with her writing. The dynamics of the younger Dom with his much older sub was a nice twist. ( )

dnf

this is not reflection on kink, but on relationship between man and his best friend's son that he's known all his life. there's even a line that he didn't changed this baby's diapers because it wasn't part of his duty as a godfather and yikes. not for me ( )

Read this book as part of the 2019 Members' Choice Awards Challenge.
Categories: Best Family Drama, Best Hurt/Comfort

DNF @ 12%
The writing feels really off. At 12% the book's already full of frustratingly illogical reactions. I don't want to read something that I will most likely hate.

Wow

What an emotional story. I mean, all the love and care that Rhys has for Cornell, and how happy he wants to make him is just amazing. I could feel the love from the first time Rhys and Cornell appear together. ( )