This is a really nice office romance, simple, light and easy, but really enjoyable. Darrell is a shy and a bit geeky guy working as accountant for a law firm; while he has a good relationship with all four lawyers working for the firm, with on of them in particular his shyness seems to stop him to further their acknowledge, Travis is simply too handsome and successful to being interested in someone like Darrell; then there is also the interracial nature of their relationship, even if Darrell has a degree in Finance, he is always the African American guy from downtown, while Travis is the classical wasp from the wealthy suburbs.

With the help of an unexpected fairy mother (very fairy and little mother), Darrell has the chance to see a different Travis, someone who is lonely as much as Darrell is, and maybe shy as well. Probably if Darrell had not taken matters in hand, I don’t know if Travis would have done it; even if older and richer, Travis has a well deep rooter failure syndrome, like a little voice that tells him that is useless to try, there is no way to have an happy end for him. Maybe the double tragedy of losing first his parents and then his partner in different accidents rooted that feeling in him, something like a curse that prevents him to be really happy. Or maybe, in both cases, being him the one who survived, gave him the double idea that he was not worthy and that he didn’t do enough to prevent those accidents, and so depriving himself of happiness is a right punishment.

In a case or the other, even if younger, poorer and shier, Darrell is the stronger of the two, he has probably fought more, and everything he gained, he knows to deserve it. And know he knows to deserve someone like Travis, and Darrell will find the strength to reach for him. And he will also prove to have a domineering core that will make all the sex scenes good.

This is only a novella, but it’s a concentrated of events. To give you an idea, from the first time they go out dinner, Travis and Darrell have the following three meals together, alone or with company, and then spend the night together in the same house, even if not in the same bed… from barely speaking to each other to an almost cohabitation in 2 days, it’s a long stretch. But probably packing all these events in so little time space was the right solution to give credibility and deepness to the novella.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1602727805/?tag=elimyrevandra-20