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Back in Scotland
after five years working in Australia, Kier Campbell finds himself stranded on
a road in the Scottish Highlands on Christmas Eve. He needs to get to the next
village urgently or freeze to death in his broken down hire car. Kier hikes down
the icy road and as he walks memories of the life he'd run from-and the love
he'd abandoned in Scotland return to haunt him.
With a blizzard fast approaching, a passing motorist finds Kier and offers him a lift. He is surprised to recognize the driver. As the weather worsens he realizes they is no way he will reach his parent's farm, and so is stranded with his savior for the holidays.
Kier's one Christmas wish is to make up for the mistakes he made all those years ago, but, curiously, he finds he has an unexpected rival for his lover's affections...
FYI: This 'second chance at love' story contains descriptions of Gay sex and Puppy Play (Woof!)
This book comes with an additional free short story "The Christmas Bonus"
With a blizzard fast approaching, a passing motorist finds Kier and offers him a lift. He is surprised to recognize the driver. As the weather worsens he realizes they is no way he will reach his parent's farm, and so is stranded with his savior for the holidays.
Kier's one Christmas wish is to make up for the mistakes he made all those years ago, but, curiously, he finds he has an unexpected rival for his lover's affections...
FYI: This 'second chance at love' story contains descriptions of Gay sex and Puppy Play (Woof!)
This book comes with an additional free short story "The Christmas Bonus"
Review
Back Where He Belongs distinguishes itself in that it is both one of
the sweetest and one of the kinkiest stories I have read in recent times. With
this being a second-chance at love story it could easily have been
angst-ridden, filled with soul searching and anguish. Much to my delight it
wasn’t. Sure, both men have one or two moments when the past comes back to
haunt their thoughts, but these are short and almost immediately dealt with.
For the most part this is the story of two men at last both being ready to
embrace what they are and have together, at the same time.
The confusion about Douglas’s housemate made me
smile. I had a feeling where it was going to go from the start but that didn’t
make the journey any less charming. In fact, despite the snowy and freezing
setting so vividly described in this novella, Back Where He Belongs
only brought me warm, fuzzy feelings from start to finish; exactly what I want
and expect from a Christmas story.
But, this wouldn’t be an Isobel Starling book
if the fuzzy didn’t come with its fair share of imaginative sexiness. Puppy
play is a relatively new area for me but if the combination of kink and
tenderness described in this book is an accurate portrayal, I will have to
revisit it in the not too distant future.
I was totally charmed by this sexy,
heartwarming and uplifting story. It is very well written. The descriptions of
the surroundings and the weather managed to put me in the Scottish Highland’s
in December. And, most importantly, Kier and Douglas (not to mention his
housemate) charmed the socks off me.
“Nobody else has ever made me feel like this,
like” — he paused to find the right words in the jumble of thoughts, “ — like a
million fireworks are exploding in my chest when you look at me. I feel like I’ve
been hit by a steamroller when you smile at me that way.” – Kier
****
This novella comes with a bonus story,
appropriately titled: The Christmas Bonus. I really don’t
want to say too much — read ‘anything’ — about this short story except that it
managed to surprise me from start to finish because nothing and no one was
quite what they at first appeared to be. And I like that sorta thing.
