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Book Blurb

Knox likes to blow stuff up. In fact, it's his life. He's got a reputation as the best demolition man in the business, at least until the enigmatic Isaac shows up and literally blows one of his jobs to kingdom come. Then Isaac invites himself to stay with Knox, leaving the big redneck wondering if he's his mind, torn between telling Isaac off and taking him right to bed.

Isaac is a lot older than he looks, and tired of searching through time for the one he loves. When he finds Knox he's almost given up. He amuses himself with the youngster for awhile, but when he realizes things are getting serious, he runs, unable to bear the thought of losing Knox as he's lost so many before. This time he's not going to get away, though.

Knox is a lot more tenacious than Isaac expects. They dream of each other while they're apart, the past coming back to haunt them. Knox finds that he's facing changes that he never expected, his need for Isaac far more than just a fleeting love.

Will their hunger for each other eat them alive, or can they strike the perfect balance between the past and the future?

First edition published by Torquere Press, December 2006.

Book Review

It’s been quite a while since I first read this story, and I simply loved reading it again. From the inimitable dry humor this author is so good at to the straightforward language, I found following Knox and Isaac’s adventures highly amusing and very entertaining. Knox is a down-to-earth no-nonsense guy who has channeled his need to blow things up into a career in demolition, and he could not be more different from Isaac, who is laid-back to the extreme and has all the time in the world. Literally! The men meet in an eruption of emotions that leads to the (accidental) explosion of Isaac’s family home thanks to Knox’s expertly set charges. What follows is a delightful back-and-forth of temper, opposites attracting so strongly they’re usually close to killing each other, and a rough-and-tumble relationship that originates in the physical side of things before rapidly spreading into their feelings – not that either one of them would ever admit they even have those!

Underneath all the fun and banter there is a serious problem for Isaac, a vampire who has lived long enough to lose lover after lover, always sure he will be alone at the end of a comparatively short human life, no matter how close he gets to someone. Even though Isaac is a basically bloodthirsty being, he comes across as very gentlemanly and almost noble in the way he thinks and acts. Based on experience, he has given up ever finding “the One” and I felt sorry for him. Even when he runs for fear of being disappointed again, I could see where he came from and only got a little angry at him.

Knox, however, is a different matter. He gets VERY angry at Isaac and decides not to let things rest, even though he sort of gets that they might not be good for each other. But he isn’t sure, and he is curious, and he discovers that he literally cannot live without Isaac. I was biting my nails the last few chapters of the book, the author succeeding in keeping me in suspense, and turning pages as quickly as I could.

If you like men who fight as easily as they love and when they do, things are more than a little rough, if you think that love can overcome any obstacle, even life itself, and if you’re looking for a read that is as funny as it is suspenseful, then you might like this novel as much as I do. It’s fun to read, tells a great love story, and the characters might make you cringe occasionally, but they are strong, stubborn men who don’t stop until they get what they want. I respected that and really enjoyed following where their story took me.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novel, 183 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date	01-October-2019
Price	$3.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Hunger-BA-Tortuga-ebook/dp/B07YN846HJ