Title: When Love Flue In
Author: Lillian Francis
Genre: Contemporary, Christmas
Length: Novella (120pgs)
Publisher: Silver Publishing (1st December 2012)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥3 ½ – 4Hearts
Reviewer: Pixie
Blurb: Christmas, a time for friends, family and roaring fires. Unfortunately Dominic faces the festive season alone with a blocked chimney. A soot-haired sweep, an exploding flue and an uncooked turkey. It’s an unholy trinity. This year Christmas might be perfect.
It’s Dominic’s first Christmas since his divorce and, though he’s spending it on his own, he’s determined to have a traditional Christmas morning, including a roaring fire.
Which is why Reagan, a soot-haired chimney sweep, is head and shoulders up Dominic’s flue.
Unable to take his eyes off Reagan’s low-slung jeans and enticing arse while he sets about the hearth with rods and brushes, Dominic knows five years is a long time to have an obsession with the man who sweeps his chimney every Christmas.
This year there’s nothing to stop Dominic from acting on his desires.
But Dominic will need to stop hiding who he really is before a special sweep can light a fire in his heart.
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Review: Dominic is celebrating Christmas this year alone. The first since admitting that he is gay and he has a Christmas tradition that he has to keep, the cleaning of his chimney and clandestine leering of the chimney sweeps arse. Reagan has visited the Pearson’s every Christmas to clean their chimney and this year Mr. Pearson is all alone. Reagan is tempted by his fantasies, but Dominic is straight… right?
This is a very sweet novella that touches your heart with gentle understanding and hidden passions. Dominic married to please his father, but now he is divorcing to please himself. For the last five years he has fantasized about Reagan the chimney sweep and this year, if he can take his courage in two hands he will approach the man of all his fantasies. Reagan is thrown into confusion when Dominic, one of his customers, starts to act a little strange, when he receives a phone call in the middle of the night with a drunken confession, it looks like all his fantasies could come true.
Reagan and Dominic are two really nice characters, who add a great touch of sweet innocence to this story of a man who doesn’t just have his first real gay experience but also the beginning of his first real love. Dominic is ashamed that he caved in and married because his father wanted him to. He doesn’t believe that a man like Reagan would ever want him and that shines through in how he acts towards Reagan. He is unsure and kinda shy. Reagan is a great character. He might have the hots for Dominic, but that doesn’t mean that he will take advantage. He is an absolute sweetheart, he gives Dominic the time he needs and doesn’t push.
The sex between them is touching and gentle. Dominic has fumbled around a bit with men, but he is very skittish and Reagan eases him; taking it slowly and what we receive is a drawn out loving, gentle, slightly erotic foreplay which takes us to the beginning of some hot sex. These two men may walk different paths in life but they are a well suited couple, and the connection between them is quite electric.
I will recommend this to those who love gentle love stories, romantic beginnings and some sweet loving.