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Can't Let Go
Trevor and Joshua have been together for twenty years. They share a love and a life together. Then the unthinkable happened and Joshua is forced into early retirement. After that, they’ve become polite strangers who lived in the same house. Unable to readjust after twenty-five years of being a cop, Joshua Dimmick withdraws not only from everyone around him, but the person who matters most to him. Joshua is distant and quiet, and not sharing with Trevor about what’s going on in his head and his heart. Trevor Emerton easily moves from the academic life as a professor of art history, into the daily humdrum life in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He knows he wants to spend his life with Joshua, but living with him hasn’t been easy. Trevor finds it difficult to get through Joshua’s indifference about a life not revolving around work. Joshua doesn’t know how to make Trevor understand that being a cop isn’t something he can turn off overnight.Then there’s a fire next door. Joshua begins to think there’s more to the neighbor’s death than just an accident. He wants to convince Trevor in seeing that the neighbor was murdered. To do that, Trevor has to be willing to see the world the way Joshua does as a former homicide detective. When things start unraveling, Joshua doesn’t know if he’s imagining things or if there’s a connection between their neighbor’s death and an unsolved murder from years ago. Joshua will do whatever it takes to get through the mystery. Trevor must decide if he believes Joshua, if he’s willing to follow him though the mystery, or if there’s something else going on. Please Note: This book contains adult language and steamy adult activities, it is intended for 18+ Adults Only. Novel, approximately 35,000 words in length. HEA (happy ever after ending). Does not end with a "cliffhanger." Themes include: Keywords: Gay romance, murder mystery, retirement, long-term romance, family, suspense, law enforcement, second chance at love.
133 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 7, 2019
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April 13, 2019
One exceptionally fine mystery
In a field of excellent authors of gay romance author David Horne continues to impress. He has published over thirty novels to date. The consistently high quality of his novels has brought him success in writing Gay Romances and he has gathered a solid following of readers. How does his growth as an author show? By his lack of fear in taking on themes that include the various forms of isolation, resonances of the past arising in the present with the concomitant confusion of emotional responses – both positive and negative, finding a path for his romantic leads to explore not only each other’s expectations but also the peripheral surprises that life deals us – and how we overcome them.
In this new novel David shares his insights into the realm of long-term relationships and introduces a very fine mystery that affects both partners. Both partners of this twenty year relationship are older -Joshua Demmick is a sullen, guarded and distant former homicide detective whose retirement after 25 years of service was due to law enforcement politics, and Trevor Emerton who is now retired from his career as an art history professor – and their life in Fredericksburg, Virginia has become quiet and strained due to Joshua’s distancing himself from the world…and from Trevor. An abrupt change in the form of a neighbor’s death in the fire of his home alters their lives: Joshua enters the burning home, suspects the owner was murdered, and in his attempt to intervene he suffers physically and spends time in an ER accompanied by Trevor and Joshua’s law enforcement daughter Nora from his former marriage. As Joshua recovers, his detective mind searches to connect the recent death with a past unsolved murder, and the connection with Trevor is strained as the mystery deepens. Joshua needs Trevor to understand his premise – maybe this is a way to open up the stagnant relationship with communication and sharing each other’s inner self.
David Horne’s writing mastery is evident in this superbly paced mystery. He demonstrates a keen appreciation of the field of medicine in the manner in which he relates the conversation with the physician in the ER – excellent medical explanations. But it is the sensitivity to long-term gay relationships, their past and present issues, that makes this story soar.
The story is dramatic, erotic, and insightful – a mixture that makes his new romance unique. The novel is short – a one evening’s read – but the territory it covers is compelling. Love in all its aspects, this is one of David’s finest novels.
In a field of excellent authors of gay romance author David Horne continues to impress. He has published over thirty novels to date. The consistently high quality of his novels has brought him success in writing Gay Romances and he has gathered a solid following of readers. How does his growth as an author show? By his lack of fear in taking on themes that include the various forms of isolation, resonances of the past arising in the present with the concomitant confusion of emotional responses – both positive and negative, finding a path for his romantic leads to explore not only each other’s expectations but also the peripheral surprises that life deals us – and how we overcome them.
In this new novel David shares his insights into the realm of long-term relationships and introduces a very fine mystery that affects both partners. Both partners of this twenty year relationship are older -Joshua Demmick is a sullen, guarded and distant former homicide detective whose retirement after 25 years of service was due to law enforcement politics, and Trevor Emerton who is now retired from his career as an art history professor – and their life in Fredericksburg, Virginia has become quiet and strained due to Joshua’s distancing himself from the world…and from Trevor. An abrupt change in the form of a neighbor’s death in the fire of his home alters their lives: Joshua enters the burning home, suspects the owner was murdered, and in his attempt to intervene he suffers physically and spends time in an ER accompanied by Trevor and Joshua’s law enforcement daughter Nora from his former marriage. As Joshua recovers, his detective mind searches to connect the recent death with a past unsolved murder, and the connection with Trevor is strained as the mystery deepens. Joshua needs Trevor to understand his premise – maybe this is a way to open up the stagnant relationship with communication and sharing each other’s inner self.
David Horne’s writing mastery is evident in this superbly paced mystery. He demonstrates a keen appreciation of the field of medicine in the manner in which he relates the conversation with the physician in the ER – excellent medical explanations. But it is the sensitivity to long-term gay relationships, their past and present issues, that makes this story soar.
The story is dramatic, erotic, and insightful – a mixture that makes his new romance unique. The novel is short – a one evening’s read – but the territory it covers is compelling. Love in all its aspects, this is one of David’s finest novels.
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