Just Bromantically Invested

Accidental Love, Book 4

By: Saxon James

Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

Madden

My best friend is uptight, gorgeous, the greatest person I know … and I might be a smidge in love with him. Just a small amount. Barely worth the mention.

Which is a stupid choice on my part when the guy is straight.

Starting a landscaping company with him was the perfect mix of doing what I love and an excuse to spend time with him, only it hasn’t completely taken off yet and now he’s telling me he’s lonely.

Lonely.

Apparently having one friend in your life isn’t enough.

So I’m determined to help him find love. With someone other than me. Maybe if I can pull that off, it’ll mean my heart will finally get the message and move on.

Or finish breaking into a hundred pieces.

Same thing, right?

Penn

Being besties with an overenthusiastic, gold-hearted, nudist of a man is a challenge sometimes. Madden makes everything sunshine when he’s around.

The problem is that he hasn’t been around as much lately. We work together, sure, but he’s got his roommates and I have … no one. Just him. So I feel the distance acutely.

My one reassurance is that we have work tying us together, but when an old client calls with a proposition for us, it feels like our once solid friendship is unraveling fast.

He wants Madden to help him open a nudist resort, and if Madden’s doing that, he won’t be working with me.

I’m trying not to panic over the thought of losing him, which is a typical, common best friend reaction. Nothing out of the ordinary.

And neither is the way my body has been reacting to him lately.

Everything is totally, completely normal between us.

While there’s still an us at all.

©2024 Saxon James (P)2024 Saxon James

Madden & Penn

Another highly anticipated visit with the Bertha Boys that was everything I expected and more! This time the story featured Madden & Penn- a friends to lovers, bi- awakening, unrequited love, and of course our favorite found family of misfits. Both Penn and Madden go on a journey here, for themselves and to each other and I was here for every second of it.

Penn is me.

If someone told me Penn’s character was based on me, I’d have believed them. Late 20’s. Half black/half white. Always feeling like I didn’t quite fit. Having limited friends, feeling lonely, and wondering at what point an acquaintance becomes a friend. Feeling jealous and territorial over people who I do consider to be mine. All of the ugly parts of myself that I hated and thought of as wrong or bad are in Penn and I’m shocked that I actually really liked Penn because those are all things I hate about myself. I wish they dipped further into his background.

I like Madden most of all the guys in the house but he came off quite selfish in this book. He supposedly loved Penn so much but decided everything had to be his way and Penn had to either fall in line with his wants or needs or they wouldn’t work out. Penn is already going through such a big adjustment recognizing his sexuality that I don’t find it fair for Madden to not be willing to consider Penn in any of the choices he makes and rather he just tells him “this is how it’s going to be,” with no compromises.

cute story

I've loved this series, the Bertha Boys are great. Pen and Madden are super cute. As usual Teddy Hamilton did great narrating.