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One summer tied them together forever.
From the moment Jack Gardner first laid eyes on Theodore Beaumont, he hated everything about him. Emanating wealth and icy perfection, Theo was everything Jack was not. Their time together at the elite Gwynns Academy changed them both, but it wasn't until a chance encounter the summer after graduation that the tension between them became palpable—unbearable.
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Seventeen years later, Jack's and Theo's worlds collide as they drop their sons off at Gwynns. Theo wants the kind of authentic life that requires confronting past lies—specifically the steamy summer affair he and Jack kept buried like a secret beneath the floorboards of their marriages.
Jack is...less than convinced.
Existing in the present and simultaneously in their shared past, in the richness of their memories and the way they once clung together, Jack and Theo struggle to reconcile the worlds they have built apart with their longing to be together—and the fear of being hurt all over again.
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Release date
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780369732675
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780369732675
- File size: 2604 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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October 17, 2022
Coltrane debuts with a particularly slow-burning queer romance. Theo Beaumont and Jack Gardner go from Baltimore boarding school enemies—their lot as wealthy snob and charismatic scholarship student, respectively—to just-graduated lovers on a romp through Ireland. Decades after the disastrous end to their hectic summer fling, the men are reunited when each separately enrolls a son in that same Baltimore boarding school and the boys end up as roommates. The settings of both Baltimore and Cork, Ireland, feel vivid and fully realized, a high point as the simultaneously predictable and unnecessarily convoluted plot unfolds. The dual timeline, alternating between Theo and Jack’s youthful beginnings and their complex adult entanglements, fails to build suspense; readers will be able to guess at most events in both eras long before they occur. Still, the intensity of the soulmate-level bond between the leads is enough to keep readers invested as they wait for the inevitable. It’s a rocky start, but Coltrane clearly has potential. -
November 1, 2022
Jack Gardner and Theodore Beaumont first meet as freshmen entering Gwynns Academy. Jack is on scholarship while Theo has always had access to wealth and makes his disdain for Jack known from the start, although their lives and social circles continue to intersect. Then at the end of high school they experience a reversal of fortune and have a shared summer together that neither of them planned. After that summer, however, they spend almost 20 years apart until they meet while dropping their sons off at Gwynns. Theo is recently divorced, and Jack is starting the process. There's still something between them, but they have to decide if they're willing to try again after all the hurt between them. The story is told from the point of view of both main characters and alternates between their past and present, including grappling with the abuse and ensuing trauma they experienced as children. VERDICT Recommend this to readers interested in stories of coming out after marriage and long-term relationships with supportive found families.--Sydney Ashby
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