I found my absolute favorite for 2025 in this book and actually one of my all time favourites, the shining star on the darkest sky when I thought a book could never touch me so profoundly deep.
From the blurb:
A second-chance romance that rekindles with the wrong door and the right reckoning.
Adrian
I'm supposed to be shaking it for drunk bridesmaids in tiaras, rocking my stripper cop uniform at a bachelorette party. Instead, when the door swings open, I'm face-to-face with pure testosterone and confusion, with four men staring at me like I just dropped in from another dimension.
Then I see him. Vince. My high school flame turned NFL golden boy. The guy who ghosted the second scandal hit and life got complicated. Now he's right here, bigger and broader, watching me like I'm still his favorite mistake.
Vince
I've spent ten years building the perfect image: the good guy, the clean-cut athlete, the man who never makes waves. Then Adrian walks into my best friend's bachelor party as the entertainment, all attitude and temptation, and my carefully constructed control shatters. He's still a wildfire. Untamed and unapologetic, he is the kind of man who doesn't care what he burns. I told myself I buried those feelings a decade ago. But one look at him proves that was a lie.
Brushed and Buried, Book 1 of Us Undone series, features consensual sharing/group content. It is a bold, steamy MM second-chance romance where an emotionally monogamous couple explores sharing kink with trusted friends.
GaleM's review:
Just like its name, the reading starts with the gentlest of brushes on the door leading to your heart and then, when you delve deeper in the reading experience, it buries inside the brightest kernel of light.
There are these special kinds of books that hit emotionally like a tidal wave, that break carefully built mental barriers, that sneak behind even what's considered impenetrable.
There are these kinds of stories that come in quietly to stay long after the last page is already closed, bringing in colors, emotions, longing, dreams so vivid, so tangible - their taste lingers like a bittersweet cocktail. They carve behind a trail of What if-s. What if it wasn't just a story? These stories hug the soul like a pair of loving hands, giving the warmth of your favourite blanket a comfort before they snatch all you thought was a safety net and hurtle you straight into an abyss of unknown...
Brushed and Buried by Ariella Thorne is NOT just a book, it's the call of quiet heartbreak, carried through the years that has irrevocably changed souls and hearts. It's the signal of a Lighthouse just before the ship sinks. It's the invisible pull of the fire that burns the moth. And all of this is special because the book is so masterfully written, it stops being a fictional story about fictional characters, the magic of the words breathing real life for the readers.
Adrian and Vince are one of these unconventional couples that couldn't be forgotten.
Brushed and Buried is currently available as an e-book and paperback and can be read as part of your Kindle Unlimited Subscription
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