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Kurt (can't find his last name, I don't it's in the book) runs a catering company with his best friend Ricky. Two years prior he suffered a horrendous attack at the hands of others. It’s put him off the hopes of ever being in a relationship or finding someone who can accept him with his issues.

James Jones owns a wine bar and enlists. He’s holding an event and when the caterers are late he’s pissed, wanting deduct a 10% fee from their pay. But when he catches sight of Kurt that all goes out the window. The magnetism he feels towards Kurt results in him tipping them 15% and giving Kurt a six month free membership to his exclusive wine bar.

James is drawn to Kurt and is determined to win himself a date with the man and using whatever is at his disposal to reach out to him. But when he does get Kurt to agree to a meet up, it doesn’t go so well. Ex-lovers are coming out of the wood works and getting between him and any relationship he hopes to have with Kurt. But James isn’t one to give up on the things he wants most and he’s hell bent on showing Kurt that he wants more than a lay.

I really enjoyed the story even though it was over sixty-eight/seventy chapters long (depending on format) and about 400 pages. Some chapters were longer than others but all filled with awesome goodness. There was not a dull moment in the book and it really pulls you in from the get go so don’t let the length scare you away.

The chemistry and passion between Kurt and James were combustible. The sex scenes were extremely steamy and a majority of the time there was not intercourse. I’m surprise my ereader, bed, chair, and floor didn’t catch on fire. Because the sex scenes were pretty damn hot. I really enjoyed getting to know James and Kurt. I do wish there was a tad more background on both there was just enough to stay the curious questions I had about the life they led.

James is an interesting character and quite the enigma. From the book we first draw that he's dangerous almost deadly but caring and considerate to those he love or in Kurt's case, a potential love interest. He's not exactly threatening to Ricky, Kurt's best friend and work partner. But he shows it in glimpses out of sight of Kurt.

There were parts of the story that I didn’t like where James was being too crass and using terms like slut and whore that left what could have been distaste and disappointment in my mouth. An example of this would be when he threatens Alex the first time after he tries to run Kurt off. James reference to sex, Alex and Kurt and his relationship with Kurt threw me off kilter. I felt a little degraded for Kurt.

Kurt finally sleeping with James like full on intercourse and them arguing about going another round was sweet and funny. I feel like James was really in for it and didn’t know what he was getting himself into when he prepared for the night. I like how the tables turned on him.
As a reader I was hoping Kurt would get to face down his attackers and see just how dangerous James could be. This definitely is going on my favorites for this year.

A free copy was provided to me in exchange for an honest review.