Stephen K. (havan) reviewed on 10/4/2014 + 138 more book reviews

Jared Thomas was born and raised in the small mountain town of Coda, Colorado. His family owns a hardware/auto parts store and, apart from his time away at college, Jared has always called Coda home. He's out to those that matter and he likes being near his family. If only there were another man in his life, things would be close to perfect.

Matt Richards has just moved to Coda to join the local police department. He's a military brat and has lived all over but has never had place that he really called home. He's also never had many really close friends and the few he has had, have married and moved on with their lives. He's never had much success dating and generally prefers to concentrate on other aspects of his life.

When the two men meet, they quickly become the best of friends. Both love football, though they disagree about who to root for. Both seem to be comfortable around each other in ways that they've both been missing. The only problem is... Jared is gay and Matt is straight. Can two men be friends when one is attracted to the other in that way?

This is a well crafted story with two characters that it's easy to care about and to like. Both points of view seem realistic and the denouement seemed as believable to me as any I've read of in this vein. Jared's family are great and I loved the scenes that they were in. Matt's family was a bit over the top but not entirely unbelievable and mercifully they weren't in the story that much.

In some ways this was a M/M romance fantasy but it wasn't outside the range of possibility. And it was thoroughly enjoyable. Give it a try.

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