What a beautiful, wonderful, lovely book. ( )

To Michael, the real life Lamb, who must have been given special programming because he loves more generously than any other human being I know.

Michael Michael Michael. You stole my breath away.



This is one of those books that will forever stay in my heart and soul. One so full of love that I cannot help but want to do nothing more than read it over and over again.

Honestly, I am at a loss with what to say and how to put my feelings on this book into words. There is so much love that comes from this beautiful man to everyone around him. And never once does he look upon another person and not look into their soul, not look past their external appearance and not see the beautiful person they are underneath.

The relationship that builds between Michael and James is so passionate and loving...


And while Michael choses to keep a part of what he does from James, I totally understood his reasoning. Never had this beautiful man truly known love and received love from another man and for Michael I understood his fear…his hesitancy in not messing things up.

There was nothing worse than being rejected for who you really were. Michael was a surrogate. Yes, he liked to help people like Tommy. Yes, he used sex to do it. Was that really so wrong? Did he deserve to be punished by never having anything of his own?

And while I wanted him to be open and honest I also didn’t want this man to stop what he was because of his relationship with James. He’s a healer and a lover and that is part of who he is and what makes him such a beautitful soul.

Eli Easton, for me, handled this relationship and the resolution at the end of this book amazingly well. I got punched in the gut numerous times as this book came to closure but that punch was later filled with such joy and love for these characters and for those around them that I was left smiling through the tears on my face. I cannot recommend this book enough and these words could not possibly do the book justice. So…



Yeah I went there. Thank you Marco for gushing this one right to me. And for Teri who held my hand.


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I think I remember the author posting about the search about the sex surrogate they were doing for this book, or maybe it was about a documentary on the Italian television about a Swiss clinic offering this type of service, in any case, at the time I thought it had to be difficult for the one providing the service to not become emotionally attached to their patients, and indeed, the character of Michael starts his path from the principle he is a very caring person, someone who feels obliged to take care not only with expert and trained hands, but also with an emotional push that, in certain case, can be dangerous cause it borders towards love.

I liked the decision of the author to not have James being one of Michael's patients. James is disabled, on a wheelchair after a bad case of polio when he was still a child, but he has found his own path in the world, albeith a lonely one. James is single, and gay, but he has never had a serious relationship in his life, to the level he is a virgin to sex, if not to feelings. When Michael expresses his interest in James, James is not able to understand how a good looking boy like Michael can be interested in an average man like James. Probably Michael's work allows him to see beyond James's disability, not denying the fact that, in ordinary circumstances, another guy would have taken into consideration the trouble of being in a relationship with James, but to Michael makes no difference. Never once he weighted the odds with the goods, for Michael it was always plain good.

Despite the matter, this novel was always more romance than drama, it was sweet, sexy and very romantic, a joy to read.

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I did not like this nearly as much as everyone else, but the lovely ending made up for a lot of my dislikes.

More detailed review shortly. ( )