My Gay Best Friend

by Nicholas Grant

Kat hasn’t seen David, her best friend since ninth grade, in six years. She’s been busy in the New York magazine industry and he’s a wildly successful Hollywood talent agent, one of Los Angeles’ most eligible gay bachelors. But at thirty-six, Kat badly needs someone she can talk to about her going-nowhere love life, so she’s set up a “girl time” vacation with David at a luxury resort in Tahiti. When the hotel screws up their reservation and puts them together in the same bungalow—with only one gigantic bed—the vacation may be more exciting than anticipated.

As every gorgeous gay man knows all too well, every female friend he’s got has impure desires they’d love him to fulfill. This is that story.

An Exotika® contemporary erotica story from Ellora’s Cave

42 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 8, 2014

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.

On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.

As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.

He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.

Reviews

[MerliannsCam · Rating 3 out of 5]

3* Stars :)
I like it but i was expecting more.

[Gaele · Rating 1 out of 5]

Another short story that started with an interesting premise and went downhill with little details that just failed to fit. Kate is feeling stressed – her job as an editor of a professional woman’s magazine is what she always wanted, but she is feeling something missing. Her best friend David is a Hollywood agent, and his last relationship has just hit the skids. Deciding that they need to reconnect, she book a 4 day getaway for them to Tahiti.

First issue: Tahiti – for a long weekend? Travel time alone eats up at least 16 hours (20 if one is realistic) and more from her to get from NYC to LA. Do I always need some grounding in reality – no –I like fantasy as much as the next girl: but make it fantasy that is either completely out of reality, or achievable without thinking the 4 days of recovery from jet lag will nullify any benefit. Second issue: Kate’s obsession with getting David into bed: believing she can arouse his interest and his body.

I can see it from the teen she was when they met, but time, maturity and sense should keep those scenarios firmly in the ‘fantasy’ zone. And that leads to the second set of issues: which never quite found traction for me. The sexual encounters and banter between the two all read and felt like fantasy – hers – yet there was no clear conflict or conundrum about the change in their dynamic. And to start a seduction with the most trite and clichéd set up – a massage, just had me cold.

What could have been a promising story with the interaction and caring that these two obviously shared was lost to a need to ‘spice up’ a story with all too familiar and samey-sex sex scenes. Sadly, the quality of the story was lacking, and where I usually find this publisher offering clever shorts, the bar was missed dramatically here.

I received an eBook copy of the title from the publisher for purpose of honest review for The Jeep Diva. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.