Review: Homeward

HOMEWARD by Andrew Grey

Fiction, Contemporary Gay Romance

4****

Blurb: For the past several years, Matthew’s life has been one challenge after another. Keeping his sister’s four orphaned kids fed, clothed, housed, and entertained has him run ragged. Now he’s losing the kids’ mentor and maybe his job, if the plant where he works as an electrician shuts down like the rumors say. When his car won’t start outside the hospital, it’s the last thing he needs. Matthew could use a hero… so of course that’s when Lucas Reardon shows up again. A-list actor Lucas Reardon returned to his Michigan hometown to say goodbye to his father. The last person he expects to see is Matthew Wilson, the one who got away. Lucas helps Matthew out with the car, the kids, whatever he needs. But really, *he’s* the one who needs saving. Years of the fast-paced Hollywood life have worn him down to nothing, and a deranged stalker is making his life hell. Matthew becomes his refuge. But relationships need time to grow and bloom. With the paparazzi breathing down their necks and a deadline on Lucas’s return to LA, can they build a life worthy of the big screen?

Thoughts: Lucas is a big-time Hollywood movie actor. He has all kinds of people surrounding him every day, but he’s also very lonely. When he goes home to Michigan for his father’s funeral, he reconnects with Matthew—the one that got away. But Matthew has four young kids now—from his dead sister—and those kids come before everything, including a love who left him behind. Matthew and Lucas discover their feelings never left them, but Lucas lives in California and Matthew doesn’t want to disrupt the children’s lives more than they already have been. Throw in a stalker and you have challenges that are seemingly too big to handle.

The characters are realistic, including Matthew’s exhaustion trying to cope with four young kids and Lucas’s trying to cope with too many projects. And Lucas has a stalker that puts them all at risk and the feelings the author put in here are good. This is a quick read (only 157 pages) that has a HEA that will leave you satisfied.

Recommended

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