Making It Real
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- £3.49
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- £3.49
Publisher Description
Coming home was never part of the plan.
Twelve years ago, I left my hometown—and Deacon Langford—behind. I had my reasons, and I told myself they were good ones. But now? Let's just say life didn't exactly go the way I thought it would. My shiny New York career crashed and burned, and now I'm back at Kensington House, my family's crumbling estate, trying to figure out what comes next.
Spoiler alert: I have no idea.
What I do know is that Deacon, who lives next door, still has every reason to hate me. He's built a life here—his farm, his friends, everything I left behind. But then my mother, ever the schemer, starts dropping not-so-subtle hints about "reconnecting." And when my nosy uncle mistakes us for a couple, the next thing I know, I'm begging Deacon to fake it with me.
It's just a way to help Mom. A few shared smiles, and a little PDA and we both get what we want. That's the plan.
Except being near Deacon again feels like coming home in a way I wasn't ready for. And the more time we spend together, the more I realize this might be my last chance to fix what I broke.
I just have to convince Deacon to take a second chance on me—and hope I don't screw it up all over again.
Making It Real is part of the Making It series and can be read as a standalone story.
Customer Reviews
Second chances and meddling families!
Can twelve years of separation and two very different lives led in those years bring two childhood best friends, who were once also lovers, back to one another. Can those years erase the pain of the parting words one of them left with? Can those years have changed those boys into men, men who can see past what their younger selves struggled with? Might the help of a scheming mother and uncle be just the push they need?
What begins as almost heartbreaking becomes a breathtaking story of love, so much love. Humour too.
As teenagers Deacon and Benjamin were inseperable and as the story develops we are given hints as to some of their shenanigans and fun, they reminisce with a wonderful set of photo albums. But the story starts with such harsh words from Benjamin and with heartbreak for Deacon to the extent that we doubt they could ever want to find their way back to one another.
Benjamin is now a city boy, flying high in a financial career and convinced he is about to get his sought-after promotion when he is fired for wrong-doing. .For now going home is his only option. Deacon is still there, in their hometown, looking after his own land and helping Miss Maggie, Benjamin's mother. She is determined to bring her boys back together and genuinely wants to reinvigorate the ancestral home. Not only does it force them to work together but when Benjamin's Uncle Arthur arrives for a visit, offering money supposedly on the back of seeing his nephew so happy in his relationship, the two have no choice but to pretend.
Is this the catalyst they needed to help them see past the hurt of their younger years and realise that they have needed one another and no other all along?
A beautiful story, one that starts out filled with painful moments but blossoms into something incredible. The characters are especially well drawn and Uncle Arthur may be, in one person, the embodiment of every single stereotypical gay man, but he is fabulous, as is Maggie. And the boys, well the men? They are broody and moody but once they find their way back to the truth they are as strong and sexy as they come. A fantastic story of second chances and meddling families!