num_pages: 198
description: Engineer Sol Brooks is a happily married man so people keep telling him. He and Elise have been in Boston for eight years he loves her and she loves him. Theyve got a great apartment thats kept its value theyre both up for promotion and he can hook up with any guy he likesall the sex he wants so long as its of the no strings variety. And thats all fine and dandy until a chance meeting at the checkout. * * * This isnt a fluffy m/m filled with stupid misunderstandingsthis is a book about the cost of being truly grown up; not in a YA coming of age but in a turning over a whole new chapter way complete with love and loss. Excellent read. wonderful and refreshing and just laugh out loud funny at times. A powerfully written life changing book. A beautiful read. * * * WARNING: this story contains sex acts between consenting male adults. * * * Also in this series: Checking Him Out For the Holidays - a Hanukkah/Christmas novella. Hiding Out - a Hiding Behind The Couch / Checking Him Out crossover novella.* * * * * * First published as part of the Love's Landscapes Anthology (DRiTC 2014 MMRomanceGroup.com) based on the prompt: Dear Author When I met the love of my new life (his words not mineass) I was simply waiting in the checkout line. I might have been caught up in a conversation with my best friend/wife of X amount of years about something I cant remember at the moment. So anyway we were distracted and didnt notice that the line had moved. So after maybe 30 seconds or a minute at the most (Im pretty sure it wasnt that long) Mr. Impatient with an accent like that character on The Originals (not that I watch that show at my age) got our attention in the rudest way in my opinion or in my wifes heart-of-a-ho opinion the kindest way possible for our insensitive asses. Im pretty sure his accent mixed with his damn charm got him out of more trouble than it should. We had a rough start but we had quiet moments when we werent all over each other or fighting in and out of bed. Anyway I would love a story about our first year. P.S. I want a story with interesting secondary characters interacting with the main characters. I want it to be known that the marriage is a *lavender marriageno one is being fooled here. I want humor mixed in with hot-damn slightly overwhelming sex. Alpha males with a bad case of the giggles at inappropriate moments. No BDSM please. One other request is that I wish the main characters to be in the age range of late twenties to early thirties. *A lavender marriage is a beard marriage of convenience. Sincerely T
language: None
title: Checking Him Out
publisher: MMRomanceGroup.com / Beaten Track Publishing