Length: 355 pages
Cover Design: Book Cover By Design
Blurb
The diagnosis of a chronic stomach condition leaves thirty-two-year-old Sergeant Jed Cooper with little choice but to call time on his Army career. Then on the dusty streets of Kirkuk, an ambush gone tragically wrong decimates his team, and he returns to the US with a shattered leg and the memory of his best friend dying in his arms.
Life in his sleepy hometown proves intolerable until he finds solace in a lakeside cabin with vivacious young carpenter, Max O’Dair. In the shadow of the epilepsy that periodically plagues Max, he and Jed form an unspoken bond. After a late night episode, Jed realizes how much Max means to him, and life has taught him not to waste time.
But the lines between contentment and complacency are blurred. Things left hidden resurface to tear through their world, and before they can repair the damage, death comes to call again. Faces, past and present, rally around them to weather the storm, but before long, they are left with only love.
Review
My Rating - 4 Stars!
Garrett Leigh's Only Love is a complex and emotional story.
Jed and Max are both extremely complex men. Both are broken, and wounded, physically and emotionally. Jed is wounded from his time on active duty, as well as having a stomach ailment while Max suffers from severe epilepsy. Luckily they both have Max's service dog, who becomes vital to keeping them healthy.
Both men have complicated relationships in their lives. They both have problems with Jed's brother, as well as Jed having an ex who he's still not over losing.
Jed and Max both have serious secrets, but they are both so wonderful together. They both are able to ignore the other's flaws and help one another through their problems.
Through the use of flashbacks, we learn about Max's time in the military. This leads to an interesting storyline.
I highly recommend Garrett Leigh's Only Love.
Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.
When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.
Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with photographer Dan Burgess.
Website: http://www.garrettleigh.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Leigh
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