Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Lost Little Boy
SERIES: Pride Camp 2025
AUTHOR: Sam E. Kraemer
PUBLISHER: Kaye Klub Publishing
LENGTH: 237 pages
RELEASE DATE: June 16, 2025
BLURB:
When Perry Castle finds a man behind a dumpster in a pool of blood outside the building where he works as a janitor, he stumbles into action without thinking. After the man is taken away in an ambulance, the victim of a possible mugging, Perry chalks it up as an exciting story to tell when he gets older and carries on with his life.
Wexler Grassley III, while on the way to meet his overbearing father for drinks, is attacked and shoved behind a dumpster in the dirty alley behind the Liberty Building where the family company resides. The next morning, he awakes in the hospital with only foggy memories of a brown-eyed angel who covered him with something and told him everything would be okay.
When he returns to the Liberty Building to thank the employee who helped him and offer compensation for the young man’s trouble, he meets Perry, the most adorable guy he’s ever seen. After offering a cash gift to Perry, Wex is surprised when it’s turned down in lieu of a favor. “There’s this camping thing I want to go to, but I need a chaperone.”
What has Wex stumbled into when he agrees to attend Pride Camp with a beautiful boy who doesn’t know he’s a boy? A lost little boy?
Welcome to Pride Camp where diversity and inclusion is our motto. We’ve got daddies, mommies, littles, pets and families of all kinds. So, unroll your sleeping bag, make a couple of s’mores, and enjoy the show!
REVIEW:
I do love when characters discover something new about theirselves they never knew even existed. That seems to be a theme in this series of Daddies (or Mommies) and Littles. Someone who has not even known of this lifestyle that discovers whom they truly are. 🥰 How their needs can finally be fulfilled.
Perry Castle does what he has to do to stay alive and protect those who evil goes after. He cared for his younger siblings, after his Dad died when he was young, when their Mother didn’t have the capabilities to do so. It crushed him that the state took them all away and he didn’t know what happened to them. And, when he aged out of the system he was simply tossed out and had to learn to fend for himself to survive. He isn’t proud of how that went down and what he had to do but now he has a good paying job and proud of the work he does. Being a custodian isn’t his dream job but it helps keep a roof over his head and food in his tummy. But Perry had a hard childhood and playing with toys and unwinding wasn’t a part of it. When Perry goes to take out the trash after work he discovers a man that is bloody and badly beaten. He goes to alerts the night security guard and promises the man he’ll be right back. He isn’t the type to abandon someone in need. Wesler “Wes” Grassley III begrudgingly agrees to come down to DC to meet his father at their family’s very successful import/export corporation. When weather delays his travels, both by plane and then by taxi, he gets mugged right behind their corporate offices. A gentle young man with the most beautiful set of brown eyes he had ever seen comes to his rescue and promises he will get him help. So now Wes feels he must pay Perry back. But Perry doesn’t want money, no matter how much a six-figure check should help. He just needs a guardian to accompany him to camp.
Perry’s story was heartbreaking. He and his siblings literally never had toys to play with. Their family was dirt poor and even worse off after his father’s death. Wes and several others recognized that playing with the toys at the company day care was a stress breaker for the young man. But Wes knew what Perry was and that he had finally, after all these years, found his boy that he had been searching for. I loved that Perry was self sufficient and a proud man that earned his way. And that was the kind of boy that Wes had always wanted. These two meshed well together and Perry fell almost smoothly into the role Wes needed to ease his caregiver side. But Perry stood up when he felt that Wes was giving too much.
This story just resonated with me. I was so thankful that both Wes and Perry found what they needed in each other.
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