Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Waiting for a Prince
SERIES: Island Tales (Book 1)
AUTHOR: K.C. Wells
PUBLISHER: K.C. Wells
LENGTH: 250 pages
RELEASE DATE: August 12, 2025
BLURB:
What happens when the man of your dreams makes your heart race… but loving him might break you?
Mark knew from the first moment that Sam could be everything. Beautiful, mysterious, aching for connection—Sam is the kind of man who could ruin Mark for anyone else. But Sam doesn’t need romance. He needs a friend, someone steady enough to stand beside him.
Mark can do that. At least, that’s what he tells himself. Until one touch, one look too long, and he realizes he’s already fallen.
Hopelessly, helplessly, completely.
Sam’s life is a maze of secrets and tangled loyalties. Love? That’s a fantasy for other people, not for someone like him. But then Mark walks in. Warm, loyal, unshakably kind—and everything Sam never dared to want.
If this were a fairy tale, Mark would sweep Sam away and promise him forever. But fairy tales don’t come true… do they?
Sometimes love isn’t about saving someone. Sometimes it’s about showing them they’re worth saving.
Two men. One impossible connection. And a love so powerful, it might just rewrite both their stories.
Warning – these pages show the aftermath of domestic violence, but not the act.
This book was first published in 2013 but has been expanded and re-edited.
REVIEW:
Mark knows better than pine for the straight guy with the girlfriend (no matter how nasty and demanding that she is) and is failing miserably. Getting a new friend is great though Sam is Mark’s perfect prince. But things aren’t always as they seem. Sam doesn’t seem as into Rebecca as he should with their relationship not being that old. Things just aren’t adding up and Mark is confused. When Sam surprises Mark, in his bed after a drunken night, Mark needs answers now!
This is a really, really, really slow burn of a book. We are literally 50% into the book when Sam finally confesses that he’s gay and kisses Mark. That’s after he crawled into Mark’s bed while he was sleeping after showing up smashed. I felt for Mark. He obviously had been getting mixed signals from his new bestie and confused would be an understatement. I forgot how young he was (20). Both men came of as much older and more mature. It made sense that Sam (23) had to worry about what his father, a major homophobe, would do if he found out. Because dear old dad owns the gaming software company he works for.
One of the things I never saw coming was that this book brings forward the dangers that lurk with shame if a man being victimized and hurt by a woman. Intimate Partner Violence/Domestic Violence is hard for a man to acknowledge. The fact that the woman he is in a relationship with is violently, both physically and verbally, abusing him. The reality is that it does happens and men are usually too ashamed to admit it. And the horror of it is that if they raise a hand to try and defend themselves, something that has been ingrained for years that you do not hit a woman, the likelihood is that they will become the blamed and the abuser looks to be the poor victim. And someone as sarcastic and spoiled as Rebecca usually believes that they are in the right. She needed help majorly and Sam fell right in to her trap.
I don’t know if nude beaches are still as much a thing as they were years ago. I know they were around in the 70’s and 80’s in my home area when I was younger. But you don’t hear as much about the taboo hidden beaches any more. That’s where this seems to be more from the original book from 2013.
If you are looking for a slow burn book, with both MC’s having had abuse shape who they are, then this is the book for you.
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