Knights & White Satin by Cash Cole
Reading the blurb of this book, I was expecting Mike to be a macho man type of character, and instead he is our typical flamboyant gay man, lithe and with a taste for expensive things...
Mike is a wasp gay man; he works in the dress department of a very big store chain, but actually he doesn't work for money, he is independently wealthy. He has a very big house, full of very expensive item but he is lonely, he has no real reason in his life like his home as no real reason to exist. Then one night he falls in love at first sight.
Lee is a big man with a tender heart; he is handsome and gentle, and Mike thinks to have finally found Mr Right... but the morning after he has a very big surprise: Lee is married and he has also a son! Fortunately Mike soon discovers that Lee's marriage was a consensual agreement between two friends: Cate, Lee's wife, wanted a child but not a real husband, and Lee was the very man she wished as her son's father. Now they are still friend, and not lovers, and Cate is always pushing Lee to find a mate. Above all now that she has discovered that she has a terminal ill and soon she will be no more there to help Lee and raise her son.
From a one night stand with possibility, Mike finds himself in a cohabitation with Lee, Cate and Sam, their son. Plus a bunch of Drag Queens who help Cate during her illness; and Cate's parents, who don't know of Cate and Lee's agreement and are wondering on Mike and Lee's relationship; and Mike's former lover, Shawn, an episcopal priest who wants to help all the people around, but who really can't suffer Cate's mother and maybe is also a little jealous of Mike and Lee's love.
The book reminds me a big Hollywood comedy, full of color and funny situations, with both happy and sad moments, but obviously with an happily ever after ending on the horizon. Mike maybe is the most surprising character, being him the "knight" of the title, but obviously not having the physique du role: he is a lightheart man, never in his life he has needed to worry for material things, he is used to have all he wants and soon. Now he wants Lee, but with Lee also are arriving a lot more of things, above all responsibility, something Mike is not sure to be ready to accept: at first Mike seems disoriented in his own house and life.
Lee is not a bad character, I think I like him, but he is "too" good: even if he is stronger in body, he let himself be lead by the others, first his wife and now Mike. He has not the predisposition to be the master of the house, he reminds me more an housewife than a working man. But he is tender and he is a good father, and obviously he doesn't want to take advantage of Mike's wealth.
All in all I like this one, the sex is good but not excessive and the story is very enjoyable. Also very good supporting characters, like Kelly the Drag Queen and Shawn the Priest.
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Paperback: 184 pages
Publisher: Ellora's Cave (October 7, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1419961071
ISBN-13: 978-1419961076
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