The Lovers by Sara Bell
This story is more Hollywood style than the Hollywood's world in which it's setting!
Scott is a 29 years old former child star now stuck in a soap opera role after his mother dissipated all his money in drugs and parties. Scott has the same reputation as his fiction role, a womanizer, but instead he is gay and in the closet, and his lover is even more in the closet than him. Zane is a macho man superstar with five children from a previous marriage and a very strictly catholic upbringing. Together since 15 months, they only meet in secluded places when they want to have sex and no one of their friends or families know of their relationship. Or so thought Scott: now his mother is again in front of him asking money to not outing his son with the media. Scott now has to face a very hard decision: finally claim his sexuality in public and lose Zane forever, or give up to his mother's blackmailing.
Obviously Zane's character is inspired by some famous Hollywood names (I would dare to say Mel Gibson...) and Scott by some of those actors who found their fortune in the tv fiction. The story deals also with the recent event in California, like the temporary legalization of gay marriage. All in all Zane and Scott are pretty lucky and all the bad things they really should suffer if they were a real gay couple with a very public image are not shown. The story is not very long, 70 pages, and it's most spent telling us family pictures of Scott and Zane; the media circus is not far from them and they are aware of it, but it always remains outside, like at the other end of a fence that protect Scott and Zane's world.
Even if Scott is younger and also less physically imposing than Zane, he is the top of the couple; he is the stronger, the man who has the courage to take in hands the matter and deals with all the problems face to face. On the other hand Zane is not a bad character, he had a very bad experience in his past, and he obviously fears to lose his family; but he is not a coward and probably if Scott has expressed before his uneasiness with their relationship, he would have done something before. But since Scott seemed content with what they had, he saw no reason to unsettling their existences.
This is right the romance I like sometime to read, beautiful life, beautiful men, good feelings and a bit of hot sex to spice the thing up.
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