I don't know what I was expecting to come from this book, but I was quite surprised by what I got. It's a May/December, found family romance thats full of emotion, fear, friendship antics, and fun family moments.

James & his friends visit an Atlantic City like beach town often, with casinos, hotels, and restaurants to blow off steam after weeks of work. Lucky, trying to survive on the streets gets slammed into an aggressive and overly protective meet/cute. 

When James returns home and can't get Lucky out of his head, he goes and finds him. It's a story about found family and what you have to lose to live a happy life even through judgment and ridicule.

It's not a fluffy romance. It carries depth and power with imagery of family differences that is similar to today's government status of indifference and empathy of all individuals no matter who they are. Daryl Banner describes it perfectly as a rubics cube. Some people just want everything to be organized in one color when the world would be prettier with the colors all mixed up. 

The spice wasn't what I was expecting either. 3/5🌶. Edge Control Kink added sexual tension to the max. Especially one instance that had me baring down on my own teeth with excitement and nervousness. 

And there was a little Spruce Texas series easter egg in there that made me very happy to see.