Once again, I get sucked into another M/M romance by pseudonymous author Morgan Brice, this time dealing with adoptive cousins and hunters Dawson and Grady King. Dawson is around 3 years older than Grady, and as the book opens, is returning to Transylvania County, North Carolina, after 4 years deployed with the Army. He's expecting to be greeted by Uncle Denny and Grady (whom due to the age gap, and a fear of having him want someone else, Dawson has been holding at arm's length for quite some time), but is instead greeted by previous friend with benefits and now just friend Colt, due to Grady dealing with his father dying on another mountain after being bitten by a werewolf.
Grady, who is undergoing his own PTSD (something he shares in common with Dawson), has been holding a torch for Dawson since the onset of puberty, and as the narrative progresses, we get to see flashbacks of the two of them going out of the way to poke each other with figurative sticks.
As the book progresses, and they drive each other nuts by NOT consummating the relationship due to fears on both sides, we see that Dawson is prone to omen filled dreams and Grady now has the unique ability to get emotional readings of monsters they hunt.
While I enjoyed this one, as these characters danced around long smouldering desires for 200 or so pages, but I really wish the nature of the family business (both hunting and the auto shop) had been more explored, since it would help better root both men into the story, because at times, it feels like two phantasms floating through scenes trying to find their own resting place. Still, this is the outset, and who knows what future volumes will bring?
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