SECOND WIND
AIMEE NICOLE WALKER
M/M ROMANCE
RELEASE DATE: 02.14.18
BLURB
Second wind: a new strength or energy to continue something
that is an effort. After an amicable divorce, Lincoln Huxley is ready to
embrace the sexuality he repressed for more than two decades. Rush Holden is no
longer willing to settle for closeted men or those who don’t share his dreams
of marriage and fatherhood. A chance encounter on a lakeside pier is the second
wind they both need. Or will it just be a painful reminder of all they had
lost?
Second chance: an opportunity to try something again that failed
one time. Rush and Lincoln have shared a lot of firsts—friendship, young love,
and heartbreak. Cruel reality forced the two men to choose paths that took
their lives in different directions. Twenty-six years later, they get a second
chance to fall in love with each all over again. Can it really be that simple,
or will the same issues ruin their happiness a second time?
Happily ever after: to live happily for the rest of one’s
life. Rush and Lincoln know that love and life can’t be defined by words alone.
Patience, commitment, and the determination to do whatever it takes will be the
only way the two men achieve their happily ever after.
Second Wind is a funny, sexy, and endearing standalone
romance novel about love, loss, and rediscovery. It contains sexually explicit
material and is intended for adults 18 and older.
Review
It's stories like this that I really love. The bone deep love that lasts forever. Linc and Rush loved each other since they were kids. But, when half of your whole can't accept themselves for who they are and lets fear dictate their fate it drives a wedge between what should be and what will be.
This story is told in present day with flashbacks from their childhood and high school years. It's in those flashbacks that you feel your heart ache so very much. While I was sad for Linc, it was Rush that broke me. I admired him both as a young guy and a grown man. Everything he was. It tore me apart to see what he went through but I was happy to see that he made a great life for himself.
Linc also made a great life that was so different from Rush's but great nonetheless. I was so intrigued reading this book and wondering where the author was going to take this. So often I said to myself, "How in the world is she going to make these two connect again?" Never underestimate this author. Aimee Nicole Walker gave Linc and Rush a gorgeous, happy, at times heartbreaking, very sexy story.
I recommend this very much. So well written.
EXCERPT
I suddenly felt an invisible pull to go to the pier and ride the
damn thing. No, Rush wouldn’t be with me in person, but the memory of him would
be. I walked the short distance and bought tickets for the Centennial Wheel.
The pier was packed with families and friends just looking to have a good time
and enjoy the beautiful June weather before the serious humidity hit later in
the month.
I felt a little silly as I approached the long line by myself, but
I passed the time by texting Phee and checking my email. The line had suddenly
stopped advancing, and I wondered if the ride broke down or something. Then I
heard the chatter about newlyweds posing for photos with the grand Ferris wheel
in the background.
“Look how handsome the grooms look,” someone said.
“It so good that people don’t have to hide any longer,” another
person added.
I stepped out of line to see for myself, and my heart thudded to a
stop in my chest before it raced with recognition. It wasn’t the grooms that
held me spellbound; it was the photographer. I’d know that stance anywhere
because I sure as hell had seen it enough times growing up. The camera he held
in his hand was a lot different and more expensive than the ones he used to
own, but the way he stood and cradled it like a rare treasure was all the same.
Rush! But how was this possible? My
mind had to be playing tricks on me. This moment was nothing but a fantasy
brought on by all the trips down memory lane I’d made the past twenty-four
hours. I would wake up to find that I fell asleep in the hotel room instead of
walking to the pier.
There was no way in hell that Rush, my Rush, was a few hundred feet away from me. It had to be someone
who resembled him. The photographer turned around and smiled at something his
assistant said to him. I started walking toward him without stopping to think
if I should. For the first time in more than twenty-six years, my world felt
right. My Rush.
It felt like I’d caught my second wind.
I am a wife and mother to three kids, three dogs, and a cat.
When I’m not dreaming up
stories, I like to
lose myself in a good book, cook or bake. I’m a girly tomboy who paints her
fingernails while watching sports and yelling at the referees. I will always choose
the book over the movie. I believe in happily-ever- after. Love inspires everything
that I do. Music keeps me sane.
Giveaway
I love when the characters learn from their past mistakes, learn to forgive each other and most importantly they learn to forgive themselves.
ReplyDeleteTime makes people grow, mature and learn from their past mistakes, therefore I love it when characters get a chance to apply all those things with someone "who got away".
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