Main Men #3
282 pages
Buy links: Amazon US | Amazon UK
Also available with Kindle Unlimited
Blurb
Steamy
summer nights with a hot older man aren’t the smooth sailing Seb expects.
A mysterious older guy
Seb Williams has one plan for the hot,
sultry nights of his summer vacation—to get laid. What isn’t on the agenda?
Running his uncle’s fishing business. Seb has no choice but to help his family.
So it’s goodbye, Ogunquit’s gay bars and hook-ups.
And it’s hello, Cape Porpoise, a quaint, quiet fishing harbor. A small town
that promises to be boring AF until he meets Marcus Gilbert. His summer
prospects start to look promising. Silver fox—hell yeah. Hot bod? Check. Slow
sultry gaze? Oh yes!
Only one problem. Marcus Gilbert plays
hard to get.
A hot distraction
Cape Porpoise is exactly how Marcus
remembers it from long-past childhood, and just what he needs. A sabbatical to
get his life back on track, and work on his book. Peaceful surroundings. The
calm of the ocean.
Perfect—until Marcus’s boat is well and
truly rocked by a hot, younger guy.
Marcus can’t ignore the lure of Seb’s
lean frame and gorgeous eyes. One night can’t hurt, right?
Except one night leads to another, and
another.
It’s just a summer fling—until it isn’t,
and the pair are suddenly in uncharted waters.
Because now, Marcus’s past threatens to
tear apart their future.
Review
The Main Men series has so far given me three delightful stories. While they’re all interconnected and have some similarities, each story comes with a new and fully fleshed-out dilemma. In Finn’s Fantasy, the issue was coming out at a later age, and in Ben’s Boss K.C. Wells dealt with bullying. Seb’s Summer has another, equally hefty, topic at its core. I won’t tell you what it is though. Spoilers should always be avoided and in this case even more so.
This third book in K.C. Well’s Maine Men series is as captivating and sexy as the two prequels. If I take my queue from the official blurb, my summary of the story looks something like this:
Hot men ✅
Age-Gap Romance ✅
Hot and Sexy ✅
Memorable characters ✅
Realistic ✅
But I won’t leave my review there. It won’t surprise anybody when I say I’m a huge fan of K.C. Well’s books. While there hasn’t been a single story I didn’t like, I do have my favourites, of course. Seb’s Summer has found its place among those favourites.
There’s a lot to love in this book. Seb is a wonderful MC. At first glance, he may seem a little selfish and somewhat obsessed with hook-ups, but it soon becomes very clear that he has a heart of gold and tends to put others ahead of himself. All of which doesn’t mean that he’s happy about having to spend the summer he had huge plans for in a small fishing village working on his uncle’s boat. There go all his dreams of gay clubs and steamy nights…or so he thinks.
Enter Marcus. While Seb resents having to spend his summer in Cape Porpoise, for Marcus the tiny town is a refuge, allowing him to put distance between himself and issues he has been dealing with. Seb may be looking for fun and sex, Marcus very much isn’t. He just wants to be left alone so he can sort himself out. Except that Marcus can’t deny that Seb is both attractive and next to impossible to resist, no matter how hard he tries to keep his distance.
What starts out as a summer fling for both men, soon turns into something more…something neither of them expected…something that may not have a future considering where they both normally live…and something that turns out to be all too fragile once Marcus’s secret is revealed.
I’m not going to tell you what that secret is, or how it gets resolved. What I will say is that it is a tricky and sensitive issue, and that K.C. Wells deals with it in a responsible and empathetic manner without allowing it to take over the story, turn it into a heavy read, or get in the way of the romance.
Yep. Seb’s Summer is yet another winner for anybody who loves a well-plotted romance with a powerful back story, imaginative and hot scenes, and a lot of heart. How long until we can get our hands on book four?
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