Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Subtracting the Heart
SERIES: Luv by Numbers (book 2)
AUTHOR: Sam E. Kraemer
PUBLISHER: Laye Klub Publishing
LENGTH: 302 pages
RELEASE DATE: March 15, 2025
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If it’s so hard for Branford and Jackson to meet, fall in love, and stay in love, what are the chances it could happen for three? When Kincade walks away, how do the two get him back? Will 3 – 1 = heartache for everyone?
If it’s so hard for two men to meet and fall in love, what are the chances it could happen for three men, and when it does, how do they keep from losing it?
Kincade Hayes believes he’s doing the noble thing when he walks away from his two loves to leave them to their happily ever after. He couldn’t stick around after the news of Ford and Jax’s engagement sunk in, but he wants the best for them, even if it is without him.
Branford Thomas believes he has everything under control when he proposes to Jackson with plans to adopt Cade, but before he can clarify his proposal, Cade disappears. For a shining moment, Ford believes he has the perfect life awaiting him with the two loves he’s dreamed of having since he met Kincade Hayes. Why was Fate toying with their happiness?
Jackson Delacroix’s love life and career are on a downhill slope with a brick wall at the bottom waiting for him to smash into pieces. He’s starting to believe the crash would be a relief from the all-encompassing anguish he feels inside at the loss of Cade and the idea he might lose Ford too.
When a misunderstanding blows the three of them apart, how will they get back together when one of them subtracts himself from the trilationship and disappears? Can Ford and Jax find Cade and assure him they have no future without him?
Will 3 – 1 = Heartbreak?
Please Note: This book contains adult situations. If you’re sensitive to such things, proceed with caution. This is the second book in a three-book series and is approximately 81,000 words in length.
REVIEW:
Oh my this series just keeps getting better and better! Intrigue 
Three Hot men in a committed poly relationship Blood and Found Family Acceptance and love
Life just isn’t working for either Ford or Jax after their Cade slipped away and vanished after that misunderstanding. Now Ford is moody and Jax’s football game has tanked so badly the coach had no choice but to put him on the injured reserve list! They are pulling out all stops trying to find their missing 
but Cade seems to have simply vanished. When Jax gets a lead the two men jump into action to bring back their missing piece of their hearts. What they never guessed was that they would have their Cade back but their house would also be filled with 6 teenagers…including Cade’s 13 half-brother that is a runaway!
Wow! This book picked right up from where we left off. I know that Cade thought he was doing the right and selfless thing for the two gorgeous and loving men he fell in love with. But he’s young and couldn’t see how this was ever going to work. Lucky (Jax) was already dealing with the fall out from being outed by the press with Ford on that Mexican vacation. Then that picture of the three of them walking hand-in-hand hit the press and he knew he had to do damage control fast. But that marriage proposal that he heard Bix (Ford) give to Lucky, when they thought he was sleeping, was a sure sign that he helped get those men back on track and he was just a third wheel. I love that Ford and Jax not only were ecstatic over getting their brunet beauty back but embraced those young men that were now homeless due to someone sabotaging the shelter.
This second books has so many twists and turns that I wasn’t sure which way it would go. But there was one thing I knew was certain. Both Ford and Jax needed Cade in their lives and they were making sure that he never got away from them again!!! I loved Cade and Jax’s surprise for Ford and it was a perfect one.
I can’t wait to go along on their trip in the next book and find out what’s lurking around the next corner for these three wonderful men. They are the perfect throuple together and I know they love each other deeply and forever. What a fantastic new series and destine to be on my best of list for this year! Two huge thumbs up from me 
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