Reviewed by Dan

TITLE: The Gift

SERIES: Love in O’leary – Book 2

AUTHOR: May Archer

PUBLISHER: Self-Published

LENGTH: 358 Pages

RELEASE DATE:  January 4, 2019

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Daniel

I suck at relationships and don’t trust anyone, but there are reasons for that. For one thing, every person I’ve ever cared about has let me down. The only recent exception: O’Leary’s town veterinarian…my new best friend.

I came to O’Leary for a fresh start. To pare things down to essentials. To forget about the failures in my past. The last thing I need is complications, and most definitely

Not. A. Boyfriend.

Julian

I’ve lived in O’Leary my entire life and learned to fly under the radar a long time ago. I do what’s expected, say what’s expected, and keep to myself as much as possible. It’s a hell of a lot simpler spending my time working with animals than trying to interact with actual people. The one unlikely exception: the gorgeous guy who moved to a cabin just outside of town and somehow became my best friend.

But friendships are complicated, and one morning I find myself accidentally telling the whole town the biggest lie of my life. Which is how Daniel Michaelson, my very straight, very hot best friend becomes my fake boyfriend, even though he’s most definitely

Not. My. Lover.

REVIEW:

As I mentioned in my review last week of The Fall, I stumbled onto this series on Amazon and thought that first book sounded interesting. The rest is history. Book two was as good if not better.

In The Gift we meet Julian Ross. Julian is one of three sons in the Ross family, and the one who has always been responsible. When his father died at an early age, he took over being responsible for his younger brothers, although they have a very strong mother. She shows up in this story and the other books in the series and is probably not someone you would want to mess with!

Julian is gay but doesn’t have anyone in his life. He is the local veterinarian and well loved by the community. One day he meets a reclusive man living in a log cabin outside town and somehow, they become friends.

Daniel has come to O’Leary to escape his past, although we as readers don’t really know what that past is until near the end of the book. We get hints. He is from Manhattan, he wrote some books, some successful and two that were major flops and his in the woods licking his wounds and figuring out where his life is going from here.

This story takes place concurrently with the one in book one, so the mysterious disappearances are happening while the story is taking place. When the people in the local restaurant all start pointing the finger at Daniel one day, Julian jumps up and says that it couldn’t be Daniel because he was ‘with’ him at the time of the disappearance because he is his boyfriend. Now bear in mind that Daniel is straight and definitely not Julian’s boyfriend.

The two take the whole fake boyfriend thing and run with it. The only problem? What happens when feeling start to develop… on both sides.

Again, the darn book kept me up way past my bedtime when I had to get up at 3AM to travel to an out of town job assignment. I was cursing Ms. Archer the next morning!

I highly recommend this one. Stay tuned for the next one!

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