Both the characters of Fox and Summer are the products of their pasts and traumas, and their depictions felt so real and visceral. While this series is definitely not dark, it’s also not like the romcoms I’m used to reading. But this is a new romance series and I was so excited when I got the ARC.

And Cole McCade is definitely one author I look forward to even though I did abandon his Criminal Intentions aerial after reading nine or ten episodes because it was too dark for my taste. I know I don’t read enough ownvoices gay romance stories even though I like the genre a lot, but I’m always looking out for more. There are other content warnings which are mentioned in the beginning of the book. Cameron Hairpin Curves by Elia Winters Better Than People by Roan Parrish The Love Study by Kris Ripper The Secret Ingredient by KD Fisher Just Like This by Cole McCade Teddy Spenser Isn't Looking for Love by Kim Fielding … ( more)ĬW: anxiety and on page panic attacks, depression, talk of suicidal ideation, bullying, loss of spouse and parent in the past. A new Carina Adores title is available each month: The Hideaway Inn by Philip William Stover The Girl Next Door by Chelsea M. Carina Adores is home to highly romantic contemporary love stories where LGBTQ+ characters find their happily-ever-afters. Now both men must be brave enough to trust each other, to take that leap. Yet Iseya's walls of grief may be too high for someone like Summer to climb.until Summer's infectious warmth shows Fox everything he's been missing in life. What starts as a daily game to reward Summer with a kiss for every obstacle overcome turns passionate, and a professional relationship turns quickly personal. But that fascination turns into something more when the older man challenges Summer to be brave.

Forbidding, aloof, commanding: psychology instructor Iseya is a cipher who's always fascinated and intimidated shy, anxious Summer. But with his mother in need of help, Summer has no choice but to return to his hometown, take up a teaching residency at the elite Albin Academy-and work directly under the man who made his teenage years miserable. Summer Hemlock never meant to come back to Omen, Massachusetts.

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