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Fast track. Slick business boys, cutting costs for huge corporations, walking over dead bodies.

All things I positively hate.

And here goes Con Riley and makes me love this boy, Jonathan. How he finds peace in a garden in Seattle. How he connects with an elderly lady (how unusual to find real characters in an m/m story), and how he connects with the young man across the yard, despite at first judging him harshly.

Not everything is as it seems, and a garden in which to grow spinach is just one of the many layers of story within this story.

When your career makes you have to choose between being a good man and continuing in your job, you need to sit down and have yourself a good long think. And somehow this is not about Jon, no, it’s about the corporation he’s currently evaluating.

As usual with Con Riley, this is not a steamy story. It is slow burn. I love this. This is introspective, delving deep into what makes a man a man, and why we sometimes lose sight of who we are.

Isn’t it just great that sometimes a good story can set us straight again?

This is one of those stories.

I absolutely loved it, and hope you will all read it, too. Slow and easy.

5 stars

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I was given a review copy of this book, and a positive review wasn’t promised in return.