Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: Like Stars
AUTHOR: Selina Kray
PUBLISHER: MLR Press
LENGTH: 326 Pages
BLURB:
Like Stars, a historical romance about mysterious identities, scandalous family secrets, and lovers in a dangerous time.
What if your true love walked back into your life five years after his death?
Nathaniel Thredgold has finally returned from the war. Or has he? His lover, Wesley Douglas, isn’t sure. Wesley must put aside his engagement, his disbelief, and his anger to give his professional opinion. The truth about their relationship isn’t an option. But is this stranger really the Ravensworth heir and Wesley’s long-lost love? When your heart’s at stake, there’s no room for doubt.
REVIEW:
Doctor Wesley Douglas has been seeing a ghost. The love of his life and his childhood best friend, Nathaniel Thredgold, ran off and joined the military after quarreling with Wesley seven years previously. Five years ago, notice came that Nathaniel was killed in combat in South Africa during the Boer War.
Now a cloaked figure has started haunting the village of Haversham. But is it a spirit, or a man? It soon comes to light, that it is indeed a man, and a man claiming to be the returned Nathaniel Thredgold. The man claims he came back for his family, and does not desire any of the family riches, or to be renamed as the heir to the family title, lands and monies. The man bears cruel burn damage over one side of his body and part of his face.
When Dr. Douglas is called upon to verify the man’s claims via a medical exam as part of the overall questioning of the claimant, he is hesitant. Could this man be his long lost love Nathaniel? While questioning him though, Nathaniel reveals nothing about their secret relationship, and Wesley knows the man is an imposter.
The youngest son of the Thredgold family, Frederick, also knows that the man is an imposter and not his returned brother…and he will prove it…even if it takes killing the man in question to do so.
The book then flashes back in time to the early relationship of Nathan and Wes and the trials and tribulations they went through to keep their forbidden love hidden from the world. At the time in England, homosexuality was punishable by hanging. They played with fire, risking it all with every touch of passion.
Will the mysterious man prove to be Nathaniel, or someone else…perhaps one of the servants that bore a remarkable likeness to Nathaniel as a child? I recommend you give this book a shot if you’re into historical m/m romance. I picked it up from another reviewer, and I’m so glad I did. I enjoyed it!
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Just getting back into m/m historical romance, so I’ll be giving this one a try, sounds good.