Getting It Right
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Detective Nathan Wolf might just be a junior detective, but he tackles every case with the passion that he lacks in his personal life. A series of failed relationships with women has left him still single at thirty-four—because he's too scared to admit to his longtime crush on his best friend James.
Dr. James Taggert likes to keep his profession as a psychiatrist separate from his party-animal persona. Known around the gay clubs as "Tag", he's the guy who screws them, leaves them, and never looks back. But James's drinking is getting heavier, and when bad memories from the past resurface, he's close to becoming the worst version of himself.
After a drunken blackout ends in a hot and heavy make-out session with his very straight best friend, James has no memory of the steamy affair. But Nathan isn't sorry for the kisses that James can't remember. Nathan finally musters the courage to tell James how he really feels, but a life-altering event might force them apart before they can ever be together.
Book one of the Restoration series
87,000 words
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Arthur's fourth Belonging contemporary (after Stand by You) struggles to keep the reader interested in a minimally dramatic romance. Therapist James Taggert's work with molested children amplifies his feelings about his sisters' abuser getting out on parole. Meanwhile, police detective Nate Wolf's hidden homosexuality rises to the surface as he hunts a serial killer who's targeting the rent boys of Wilmington, Del. A half-remembered drunken kiss between Nate and James brings up deep mutual feelings that had been suppressed since their college days. A long hospital stay for Nate, and James's ongoing alcohol issues, form barriers to the relationship but fail to be interesting in their own right. Their friends and family never seem to worry about the potential problems of best friends suddenly falling in love, and police drama with a little jealousy doesn't provide much in the way of emotional intensity and intimacy.
