Checking Him Out (Checking Him Out #1)
Debbie McGowan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
3.67
· 12 ratings · 220 pages · Published: 14 Jun 2014
And that’s all fine and dandy…
until a chance meeting at the checkout.
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“This isn’t a fluffy m/m filled with stupid misunderstandings…this is a book about the cost of being truly grown up; not in a YA coming of age, but in a turning over a whole new chapter way, complete with love and loss. Excellent read.”
“…wonderful and refreshing and just laugh out loud funny at times.”
“A powerfully written, life changing book. A beautiful read.”
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WARNING: this story contains sex acts between consenting male adults.
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Also in this series:
Checking Him Out For the Holidays - a Hanukkah/Christmas novella.
Hiding Out - a Hiding Behind The Couch / Checking Him Out crossover novella.* * *
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First published as part of the Love's Landscapes Anthology
(DRiTC 2014, MMRomanceGroup.com), based on the prompt:
Dear Author,
When I met the love of my new life (his words not mine…ass), I was simply waiting in the checkout line. I might have been caught up in a conversation with my best friend/wife of X amount of years about something, I can’t remember at the moment. So anyway, we were distracted and didn’t notice that the line had moved. So after maybe 30 seconds, or a minute at the most (I’m pretty sure it wasn’t that long), Mr. Impatient, with an accent like that character on The Originals (not that I watch that show at my age), got our attention in the rudest way in my opinion, or in my wife’s heart-of-a-ho opinion, the kindest way possible for our insensitive asses. I’m pretty sure his accent, mixed with his damn charm, got him out of more trouble than it should. We had a rough start, but we had quiet moments when we weren’t all over each other or fighting, in and out of bed. Anyway, I would love a story about our first year.
P.S. I want a story with interesting secondary characters interacting with the main characters. I want it to be known that the marriage is a *lavender marriage—no one is being fooled here. I want humor mixed in with hot-damn, slightly overwhelming sex. Alpha males with a bad case of the giggles at inappropriate moments. No BDSM please. One other request is that I wish the main characters to be in the age range of late twenties to early thirties.
*A lavender marriage is a “beard” marriage of convenience.
Sincerely,
T
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