Unforgotten
Unforgotten (Forgiven #2)
Billy Daley hasn’t been home in years, and he likes it that way. He’s just fine on his own—he has a cash-in-hand job at a scrapyard, a half-feral cat to keep him company, and many miles between him, his hometown and all the baggage that comes with it.
Until the job goes sideways. Suddenly he’s back in Rushmere, working for none other than his brother’s best friend—a man whose kiss Billy can’t seem to forget.
Gus Amour’s memories of Billy Daley are all spiky edges, lips crushed against lips and a reckless streak that always ended in trouble. But when Billy needs a place to stay, Gus steps in. He’d do anything for the Daley family, including living, and working, side by side with a man who makes his heart beat too fast and his blood run too hot—two things he’s been running from for years.
It doesn’t take long before their easy banter, lingering touches and heated glances become a temptation too hard to resist. But falling into bed and falling in love are two different things, and love has never come easy to either Billy or Gus. Only when fate threatens to steal away their opportunity for a second chance will they realize they don’t need easy.
They just need each other.
NERDY THOUGHTS
Billy Daley returns home broke and with emotional baggage. Once back, Gus Amour, his brother's friend, and a guy who he had one memorable kiss with years earlier, steps in and offers Billy a place to stay. With the old memory still not faded for either men, the couple starts a new tentative friendship, one that blooms into something neither could have anticipated.
"Unforgotten" is full of personal angst and intense character dynamics. But the book offers so much more than that. There's an endearing, and at times heartbreaking, sweetness and tenderness to the characters, especially when taking tentative first steps into a relationship.
Garrett Leigh captures hurt so beautifully in the pages of "Unforgotten," and weaves a story that is an emotional and thoroughly entertaining read. The author's style is refreshing and effortless.