Rough Road
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
Eddie Russell is many things: A wealthy pillar of the community. An outrageous flirt. A doting best friend. A masochist with a kink for brawling with his bedmates. But he is definitely not a man who invites intimacy. His friends are close but few, his lovers rarer still.
When Eddie runs his Mercedes off the road on a hot July afternoon, Wish Carver comes to his aid—and leaves his number in Eddie's phone. Wish, a road crew worker half Eddie's age and sexy as sin, seems fascinated by Eddie's different sides. Mutual attraction and compatible kinks ignite the sheets, but it's their connection outside the bedroom that Eddie begins to crave.
When the two come down on opposite sides of a local issue, Eddie finds his growing feelings for Wish at odds with his business interests and his devotion to his best friend, local wakeboarding legend Ben Warren. Torn between old loyalties and his new love, Eddie is reluctant to make a choice. But he knows he can't make Wish wait too long to make up his mind.
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North's latest contemporary romance is smooth and sexy, though the titular road is indeed rough. Edward Russell is a self-described "sassy old queen" (age 44) who crashes his Mercedes S-Class and then falls for the handsome road worker who pulls him from the wreck. Aloysius "Wish" Carver is nearly half his age and earns maybe a 10th of Edward's income, working two jobs just to make ends meet, but he finds no roadblocks when it comes to getting Edward or S-Class, as Wish calls him into bed. The two are perfect bedfellows until Edward and his moneyed friends decide to oppose a road-building project that Wish is counting on to provide jobs for him and his buddies; the tension takes a toll on the budding romance between Edward and Wish. In spite of a slightly implausible happy ending, North's lighthearted yarn has just the right balance of plot and character development to frame the main attraction: sizzling sex scenes.
