Reviewed by Anna Lynn

TITLE: Looking for Trouble

AUTHOR:  Riley Hart

PUBLISHER: Self-Published

RELEASE DATE:  March 8, 2019

LENGTH: 215 pages

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Dylan Sutton doesn’t go looking for trouble, but it always seems to find him. After the devastating loss of his father, he travels across the country to deliver a letter to his dad’s estranged best friend. But surely, he deserves a night of relaxation when he first gets to town, right? He sets his sights on the attractive older guy at the bar—except his almost-one-night-stand turns out to be the very man he’s in town to see. Oops.

Clayton Turner has a nasty habit of either losing or hurting the people he cares about. After his partner died, he’d decided keeping to himself was the smartest life choice. He doesn’t count on trouble stumbling into his life in the form of a sexy guy twenty years his junior… and for that guy to be linked to one of the most painful losses of Clay’s past.

Fate steps in and Dylan gets stranded in Bailey Springs. He gets a job, and Clay can’t stop himself from trying to help Dylan get on his feet. And Dylan? Well, Dylan can’t seem to stop flirting with Clay. He tries, he really does…just about as much as Clay attempts not to like it. They couldn’t be more different…or are they? Soon, Trouble and Sad Eyes realize they have a lot more in common than they thought, and once they land in bed together, there’s no going back. Moving forward isn’t any easier, though. Clay’s always walked the straight and narrow, always followed all the rules. But what does he do when the only right path involves looking for trouble?

REVIEW:

Losing the most important person in your life can totally wreck you! Feelings will run amok! Loss, bereavement, hopelessness, loneliness! It can throw you off, and you’d feel lost for a while. But eventually, it gets a little better, but it’ll take time. In the meantime, you have to contend with a heartache that can consume you whole at times.

Dylan is in a small town trying to follow through on a promise he made to his dad before he died. He always thought of himself as messed up. He always thought he could have done better to make his dad prouder. His dad bailed him out on his mistakes more times than Dylan could count. So he wanted to do this for his dad no matter how scared he was of leaving the only home he knew and go on this adventure.

Coming out when he was almost forty has always made Clay feel a little ashamed because he thought, how could someone reach this age without knowing who he truly is. But deep down, he thinks he has been in denial, living it easy. Going with the least complicated path of all. But it never really put him in the path of happiness. When he started to live his truth, he became happy, truly happy for the first time in his life. But then he lost his husband. It has been three years, but he still can’t move on.

When the son of his former best friend arrived in town to give Clay a letter from Mike, his best friend, he didn’t want to received, let alone, read it. The “almost hook-up” started the unlikely “friendship” between them. Stranded in town because his car broke down made Dylan realized that maybe he can use this time to convince Clay to accept his father’s letter. In the meantime, he needs to find work to pay for his car’s repairs.

Dylan never dreamt that he will be invited to live in Clay’s house for the duration of his stay. The fact that paved the way for their unlikely friendship. The attraction that is just under their skin is still there, although Clay is fighting hard against it. They got to know each other better and both realized that they are the same in that they are really both lonely, alone and afraid to trust in what they feel, afraid of losing it all! And also afraid that maybe, they will not be enough, in Dylan’s case.

But just like any other relationship, there are bumps along the way, and I think most especially with these two who both have baggage of their own personally, add to that the uncertainties that are part of their relationship and those people who are important to them both. But, if you are willing to take that leap, it might give you what you have been looking for all along, love and happiness! You just have to have faith! Sweet, poignant at times and an age gap story that will make you root for these characters because they are meant for each other.

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