On the Edge (Mount Hope #3)
Annabeth Albert
DANGER! RIDING TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE! My life is one big caution sign. Ever since my best friend’s all-grown-up son joined our shared home, I’ve been navigating a growing attraction to the injured motocross rider. Declan unleashes every protective and caretaking impulse I have, and I genuinely love spending time with the guy. But Declan’s too young, too straight, and too temporary to risk a twenty-year friendship over. At least until he kisses me, and I tumble past forbidden attraction into a doomed secret fling. What starts as exploration for Declan quickly transforms into an undeniable bond. He’s exactly what I’ve been searching for: a ride-or-die partner in crime who is happy making blanket forts, talking late into the night, and shares my love of cozy books and movies. What could be more perfect? When Declan faces a crucial choice, both our hearts are on the line. Can we avoid falling over the edge into heartbreak? ON THE EDGE is book three of the Mount Hope first responder series and features an emergency room nurse practitioner who is hopelessly soft for his best friend’s son. This dad’s best friend, hurt/comfort (heavy on the comfort), age gap romance contains small town feels, big emotional growth, and sizzling romance. While certain subplot threads continue throughout the series, each guaranteed happily ever after stands alone!
Publication Year: 2024
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0I can always rely on Annabeth Albert for the best age-gap romance. To throw a wrench into these stories, there is often the element of dad’s best friends or something similar. It seems like it shouldn’t work, but it sure does!
Declan has a lot of internal homophobia. Or, more to the point, he is jealous of those out of the closet without it being a problem. To his mind, it’s so easy for everyone else to live as their true selves while it’s almost impossible for him to do so. Of course that’s not true, but that’s how things look from where he’s standing. Getting injured while he’s at the top of his sport and having to convalesce in his dad’s small queer friendly town brings those bitter feelings to the forefront. But it also gives him time to figure out who he is and what he wants.
Although Jonas has played a big part in the lives of everyone in this series, I didn’t feel I knew much about him other than the surface stuff. I knew he was a nurse and a natural caregiver. I knew he was gay and took care of his best friend’s spouse while he was dying. I knew he was great with kids. I didn’t know how he grew up, how he came to be in Mount Hope, what relationships he had in the past, or all of the other things that shaped him into the man he is now. Boy, he has a lot of past trauma. Yet he’s dealt with it and it has armed him to be able to help others in a way many don’t understand.
This couple is fantastic. Jonas’s friends adore him, but they have known him so long they no longer see him. Declan sees Jonas and loves what he sees. There is an instant attraction and I was so angry every time Declan would get too in his head and push Declan away. But even Declan cannot deny their pull for long. I love how vulnerable they are with each other. It starts with Declan seeming to be the vulnerable one, but soon it’s obvious Jonas is just as vulnerable.
There is so much this story has going for it; love, lust, fear, angst, humor, found family, acceptance from others and of self, chemistry. This book was everything I was looking for.
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