A Heart Without Borders by Andrew Grey

Title:  A Heart Without Borders

Author: Andrew Grey 

Genre:   Contemporary Romance

Length:  Novel (200 pages)

Publisher:  Dreamspinner Press (August 30^th 2013)

Heat Level:  Explicit

Heart Rating:  ♥♥♥♥♥5Hearts

Blurb:   Pediatrician Wes Gordon will do just about anything to escape his grief. When opportunity knocks, he signs on to work at a hospital in a tent camp in Haiti. One night while returning to his quarters, he comes across a gang of kids attempting to set fire to an underage rentboy and intervenes, taking the injured René under his wing. At the hospital, diplomat Anthony Crowley tells Wes that the kids involved in the attack are from prominent families and trying to hold them responsible will cause a firestorm.

In spite of the official position Anthony must take, Wes’s compassion captures his attention. Anthony pursues him, and they grow closer during the stolen moments between Anthony’s assignments. Escaping earthquake destruction for glimpses of Caribbean paradise. When Wes realizes the only way to save René is to adopt him, Anthony is supportive, but time is running out: Wes must leave the country, and Anthony is called out on a dangerous secret mission. Now Wes must face adopting a boy from Haiti who has no papers without the support of the one person he’s come to rely on most and may never see again.

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Reviewer:   Tams

Review:  It’s Andrew Grey, need I say more, that alone is reason enough to grab a copy of A Heart without Borders!

Wes Gordon is a doctor without borders in Haiti. One night after his shift he rescues a young local that a gang of boys was attempting to set on fire. He cleans the gasoline off the boy and tends his wounds. While Rene’ is healing in the hospital ward, Wes meets with Anthony Crowley, an American diplomat. He learns that Rene’ was attacked due to his homosexuality and this strikes a nerve with Wes. He’s kept his own sexual orientation a secret here in Haiti, and this recent attack only reinforces his decision.

Anthony is smitten with Wes from that first meeting and the two begin secretly dating, as much as one can in a third world country. All the while Wes and Anthony are going on picnics to some of the more beautiful landscapes of Haiti, Wes’s relationship with Rene’ grows as well. He’s very protective of the young man and soon decides he wants to adopt the orphan and take him home to America when he leaves. Adoption is hard enough for a straight, married couple in the states. Imagine being a single gay man trying to adopt an orphan that can’t prove he’s an orphan from a third world country.

Anthony helps as much as he can, but his job is very secretive and dangerous. When he leaves on another mission just days before Wes is set to return to the states, Wes is left not knowing if he will be heading home alone, having to leave behind the man, he’s fallen in love with, and the boy he wants to be a father to.

I loved how these three different people who never would have met under normal circumstances were thrust into each other’s lives, and forever changed each of them. Wes is probably one of the most loving, kind and selfless men I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. He jumps through hoops and then some trying to adopt young Rene’ and take him back to the states, just to keep him safe and offer him a chance at a life he wouldn’t otherwise have. And he loves Anthony seamlessly, even knowing there’s a strong chance that he will never see him again, when he goes back to America.

Hopeless romantics rejoice, Grey has delivered another masterpiece with the story of Wes, Anthony, and Rene’. You will seriously be on the edge of your seat throughout, and of course, he delivers some curl your toes sexiness throughout Anthony and Wes’s secret relationship. I am curious to see if we will get another installment to this book telling Rene’s story.