Hi guys! We have Tere Michaels popping in today with her upcoming release Forever & Ever, A Collection of Stories, we have a guest post from Tere and exclusive excerpt so check out the post and enjpoy! ❤ ~Pixie~
Forever & Ever
(A Collection of Stories)
(Faith, Love, & Devotion 07)
by
Tere Michaels
A Faith, Love & Devotion Anthology
What happens after the story ends?
Join Matt, Evan, Jim, Griffin, and their friends and families for a glimpse of what happens after happily ever after. Between growing up and growing pains, weddings and retirement, changing careers and changing diapers, life is never boring. Changes, decisions, tears, and joy await as the years march on.
Blurb: A year after deciding to share their lives, Matt and Evan are working on their happily ever after—which isn’t as easy as it looks. As life settles down into a routine, Matt finds happiness in his role as the ideal househusband of Queens, New York, but he worries about Evan’s continued workaholic—and emotionally avoidant—ways. Trying to juggle his evolving relationship with Evan and his children, Matt turns to his friend, former Seattle Homicide Detective Jim Shea.
The continued friendship between Matt and Jim is a thorn in Evan’s side. Jealous and uncomfortable with imagining their brief affair, Evan struggles to come to terms with what being in a committed relationship with a man means, and the implications about his love for his deceased wife, the impact on his children, and how other people will view him. His turmoil threatens his relationship with Matt, who worries that Evan will once again chose a life without him. But now, the stakes are much higher.
Review: This is part of the Faith, Love, and Devotion series. They need to be read in order, so that you learn about Evan and Matt. To see how they come together when it was needed the most, how they fell in love, went through some difficult times together and get what they deserved in the end.
It is a tender heart book that will draw you in and keep you captivated. There are some wonderful memories that these two men will carry with them for a long time. I am not very good with my words but there is something about this book that makes your heart beat faster and your breath quicken, your desires are met and the rest of the time you just want to smack someone upside the head.
Evan had spent twenty of his years married to a beautiful woman whom he loved with his entire heart. Then she died suddenly leaving him in a spiral downward. Then Matt made him love once more. Now here he is with the man he loves and still finding a way to screw it all up. He wants what Matt wants but is afraid of the out come. Matt wants to be out and live life to the fullest, yet here he is like a scared rabbit. Then his in-laws are threatening to take the kids away, the chief wants him to be promoted to head of his department and he is about to meet the one man that Matt had slept with in a one night stand. Talk about pressures of his life.
Matt had not been in any serious relationships till Evan and Evan was all he wanted. His one night stand was a good friend who just wanted to help, but it seems Evan just couldn’t get past it. That is until someone makes a move and places Jim in danger. Then Evan realizes that Jim is so deeply in love with his man, that he really needs to get over his crap. Matt just wants to be able to go out in the world holding his man’s hand. Was that too much to ask for. I mean Evan didn’t even like labels. There are a lot of fears between them, but their love proves to be stronger than all of them.
Matt needs Evan to realize that they are worth the chance, worth the troubles and worth the effort to be something more than just roommates with benefits. Even though most every one knew that they were together there seems to be a bit of tension still surrounding it all. I must admit that even though it actually comes off as a very real in the life story, there are parts that drive me crazy. It is a wonderful story that gave me almost everything I could want in a story. I loved it and would love to hear more about these two men in the future. It is an amazing story and I had a blast reading it.
I would definitely recommend reading this story. It will have you smiling at parts and crying with others. There is so much feeling that was put into this story and it gave me so much joy reading it. It gives you gorgeous men, quirky kids, pain in the ass in-laws, a bit of angst and pain, entertaining thoughts, some very hot sex and a love so strong that you would be powerless against it.
Title: Duty & Devotion