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Blurb
A London Lads Story
A secret affair can’t go on forever.
Dylan Philips admits it himself: he’s a relentlessly single man in a small suburban town, both proud of and resigned to being a good teacher and a devoted nephew to his mischievous great-aunts.
When the aunts take a hand in matchmaking him with Josie Whitman, the girl who lives along the street, Dylan doesn’t tell them what kind of soul mate he’s really looking for—and the fact that he’s already found the man in question. It’s not Josie who’s travelling from London every month to her town property, but her journalist brother Neal. And Dylan meets up with Neal whenever he can.
But decisions must be made for their future. Dylan is risk-averse to everything from overseas travel to coming out, whereas Neal embraces adventure—and now he wants to take Dylan with him.
Horrified that his chance at love will move even further out of his reach, Dylan realises it’s time for him to own up to what kind of man he really is. He needs to find courage and compromise. And who knows whether the great-aunts will be a help or a hindrance with that?
First Edition published as A Good Neighbor by Amber Quill Press/Amber Allure, 2009.
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Review
A
Good Neighbour was a good, sweet, hot, and often funny delight of a story, in
which the secondary characters, aka the great-aunts, shone as brightly as Dylan
and Neal did. Having said that, as much as the two ladies made me smile and
laugh out loud, I couldn’t help but be impressed by Dylan’s patience in the
face of them interfering in his life.
Dylan
himself triggered a variety of reactions in me too. I went from finding him
adoring, to commiserating with him, to wanting to slap him, and back to adoring
him again. I loved the care he took of his two aunts, and how he took their
eccentricities in his stride. I was however less charmed with his reluctance to
be true to who he was, and what’s more, to the man he obviously loves.
While
we don’t get to know Neal as well as we do Dylan, I did love what I saw and
wanted to give him a standing ovation when he made a surprise announcement
towards the end of the story (sorry, that’s all you’re going to get out of me
on that front).
These
two men are hot together. Given that their circumstances mean that they spend a
lot of time apart, the heat they generate when they do get together is off the
scale. Witnessing Neal and Dylan taking care of their pent-up desires was a
delight and a very special treat.
While
I thoroughly enjoyed this story, I can’t deny that I wouldn’t have minded if it
had either been longer or had given me a better insight into what exactly was
going on in the heads of Neal, and especially Mitzi and Bess.
Just
like Chase
the Ace and How the Other Half Lives, the first two London Lads novellas, A good neighbour was a well written,
thoroughly entertaining and captivating story that kept me flicking through the
pages while smiling and left me satisfied when I reached the end. Clare London
never fails to make her men come to life for me and I'm delighted we haven't reached the end of the series yet. I can't wait to read the next story.
“’Bloody hell’, he said. He looked over at the aunts. ‘You
see why I call him my home?’
‘And you,’ I said, refusing to look away, my voice starting
to waver. ‘And you are my adventure.’”
Clare took the pen name London from the city where she lives, loves, and writes. A lone, brave female in a frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home, she juggles her writing with the weekly wash, waiting for the far distant day when she can afford to give up her day job as an accountant. She’s written in many genres and across many settings, with novels and short stories published both online and in print. She says she likes variety in her writing while friends say she’s just fickle, but as long as both theories spawn good fiction, she’s happy. Most of her work features male/male romance and drama with a healthy serving of physical passion, as she enjoys both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic and sexy characters.
Clare currently has several novels sulking at that tricky chapter 3 stage and plenty of other projects in mind . . . she just has to find out where she left them in that frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home.
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