Release Date: September 1st 2019
240 Pages
Available wide for September, then on Kindle Unlimited from October 1st.
Blurb
When Kel Taylor’s life changes irrevocably, he finds himself
alone in the world. He might have rebelled a little against his parents, but
that didn’t mean he was ready to lose them. Unable to cope with his grief and
feelings of guilt, he turns to booze, but before he hits rock bottom, someone
dives into the murky waters to save him.
Luc Bryant watched Kel grow from the little kid whose football broke a pane in his greenhouse, into the sexy young man who sent heat racing through him. That was when Luc stopped watching and distanced himself, because he didn’t want to be that kind of a man. And that’s how things continued, until he saw to what depths the boy had sunk. Luc will be damned if he’ll let Kel kill himself. What Kel needs is a friend, and Luc’s shoulders are plenty big enough to bear his burdens.
Kel doesn’t need a friend. He needs a pair of strong arms to hold him, a broad chest to curl up against, someone to listen to him, someone who cares for him… and a whole lot more.
What he needs is a Daddy.
He just doesn't know it yet.
Luc Bryant watched Kel grow from the little kid whose football broke a pane in his greenhouse, into the sexy young man who sent heat racing through him. That was when Luc stopped watching and distanced himself, because he didn’t want to be that kind of a man. And that’s how things continued, until he saw to what depths the boy had sunk. Luc will be damned if he’ll let Kel kill himself. What Kel needs is a friend, and Luc’s shoulders are plenty big enough to bear his burdens.
Kel doesn’t need a friend. He needs a pair of strong arms to hold him, a broad chest to curl up against, someone to listen to him, someone who cares for him… and a whole lot more.
What he needs is a Daddy.
He just doesn't know it yet.
A stand alone book that contains an age gap relationship
between a sexy daddy and a virgin.
Review
Kel…and his Keeper…sighs. Oh my.
But, before I go on with my, probably somewhat gushing,
review, I have to state that as far as I can remember this is the first book I
read featuring a Daddy-Boy dynamic. I have on the other hand read and loved
quite a few age-gap stories. So while I may not be able to ‘judge’ how well
this book works as ‘daddy-kink’, I can honestly say that it is a masterful
example of what a May to December (with added, extra-special flavor) romance
can be.
You see, Kel’s Keeper is, first and foremost, a wonderful
slow-burn and extremely sexy love story about a young man, Kel, overcoming
grief and learning to accept, love, and embrace who he really is with the aid
of an amazing, totally gush-worthy, older man.
Kel has been raised in a very strict religious household and
has no doubt that his parents won’t be able to accept that he’s gay. As a
result, Kel has hidden a large part of himself from the world at large, from
his parents, and, in so far as he could, from himself ever since the day he saw
their neighbor, Luc, through fresh, adolescent eyes and couldn’t deny the attraction.
Luc has kept his distance from Kel ever since he grew from
the child living next door into a very attractive young man. Luc is no fool. He
knows the community he lives in isn’t tolerant and that Kel’s parents are
pretty much at the forefront of that intolerance. Staying firmly in the
background was far safer than running the risk of anyone discovering the
attraction Luc can’t deny.
Everything changes when Kel’s parents die and Kel falls
apart. As much as Luc still doesn’t want to put Kel in an awkward situation, he
just isn’t the kinda man who can stand back and watch somebody he cares about
go to pieces.
And thus begins the beautiful, touching, heartwarming, and,
eventually, incredibly sexy tale of Kel’s awakening. This story describes Kel’s
journey from firmly closeted to happy and more than willing to fully embrace
everything he is. And, like every journey, Kel and Luc reach their ultimate
destination after a series of sub-stations along the way.
I absolutely adored Kel’s growth in this book. He slowly
blossoms on the pages as he, with Luc’s, at times reluctant, guidance,
discovers who he really is and what he likes, wants, and needs. You see, Luc in
this book is Kel’s ‘daddy’ (or, as the titles says ‘Keeper’) long before the
dynamic is mentioned, never mind introduced into their relationship. For the
largest part of the book Luc focusses on Kel’s needs only, burying his own,
determined to not influence Kel’s decision making in any way, shape, or form,
determined to support him no matter what he decides to do the next…even if that
decision ends up breaking Luc’s heart.
Kel’s voyage of discovery, his journey toward who he really
is, is beautifully portrayed. The process is unrushed, organic, deeply touching
and, on frequent occasions, deliciously sexy. After all, Kel is a young man and
once he discovers the pleasure of intimacy and the ectasy of sex, there’s no
stopping him. Just as well then, that Luc, while almost twice Kel’s age, has no
problem keeping up.
It is safe to say that Luc cares for, you could say ‘keeps’
Kel, from the very start. While the ‘daddy’ aspect is touched upon at various
times during the story, it isn’t until the very end that Kel has grown enough
to fully understand what it means and has gotten to know himself well enough to
embrace it as something he needs in his life…with Luc. Their path toward that
point is a thing of beauty that took my breath away more than once.
Once again I highly recommend a gorgeous, emotional, and
highly erotic story very well told by K.C. Wells.
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