Running on Empty

by M.K. Hunter

Ryan Wilson is a talented, bisexual chef with a troubled past. When Ryan was eleven years old, he made himself a promise: “I will never be like my father.” After his mother’s untimely death, Ryan had to learn to take care of himself - and his baby brother - while their father retreated into an absent, alcoholic stupor. But as Ryan grew up, struggling with the increasing burdens of an ambitious brother, an addict father, and his own burgeoning, closeted sexuality, he found that that promise grew increasingly hard to keep, falling prey to his own addictive, self-sabotaging habits.

In the shadow of his 30th birthday, at the bottom of a destructive tailspin, Ryan stumbles across an idyllic lakeside town in the mountains of Colorado. With no one to lean on and nowhere else to call home, Ryan decides to stay. He finds a job in the kitchen of the only restaurant in town, and there he meets Lee, a closed off, mysterious man with a haunted past of his own. And as Ryan settles into his new home, and begins to build real friendships and relationships for the first time in his life, he learns that sometimes the only thing that can help you overcome the demons of your past is love...of friends, of family, of lovers...and of ourselves.

567 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 30, 2018

Reviews

[Abi · Rating 5 out of 5]

So I finished Running on Empty in one day. I bought the Kindle edition after seeing a post on Tumblr about it by the author, and the synopsis caught my attention. So the next day I finished the book I was currently on, and then immediately started Running on Empty. Read the full review here