Friday Reads | Offense and Satisfaction

It's not often you see me read historicals but I've been looking at Offense and Satisfaction by Vanessa Mulberry several times and thought it was time.

We're in England, the year is 1722 and Hugh Galpin is pointing a gun at his lifelong friend (and love of his life), Owen Mowbray. Hugh has to hide his feelings but shooting Owen is more than he can bear.

This is just a short tale, 3.8k to be exact, but there is a duel, a crazy relative, and love - what else can you wish for?

I really liked Hugh and Owen, there was a chuckle when I read the last line. I'm a big fan of short fiction but I wouldn't have minded if this was a little longer.





England, 1772. Hugh Galpin has loved Owen Mowbray too long to want to hurt him. Now he finds himself on his way to a duel that might see one or both of them dead, he is torn between the word of a family he barely knows and a man he has trusted all his life. But after years spent living alone, he is not ready to give up his newly found cousins no matter what they have done.

Offense and Satisfaction is a 3,800-word Historical Gay (MM) Romance with a HFN ending.