Least Resistance Jocks and Geeks #3
Gay Romance
Dreamspinner Press
2/15/2022
Kindle
104
Amazon
Marti is a confident, energetic, and talented florist who has been attracted to standoffish Ivan for the past couple of years. He’d pretty much given up on him until their paths cross again when has a meeting with the penny-pinching landlord of the flower shop where he works.
Competitive bodybuilder Ivan Detrikov has a landlord father who doesn't approve of his career choices, or much else in his life. Ivan is well aware of Marti’s interest and he finds the other man captivating, but feels he needs to focus his energy toward his career, and any chance at love is just a distraction.
Everything changes when Ivan encounters Marti at his father’s office. Marti’s “guns blazing” attitude and forceful arguments in favor of the shop where he works captivate Ivan and awaken the attraction that has simmered since their first meeting. But his father’s heartless pursuit of his goals puts Marti’s flower shop dreams in peril and endangers the relationship they are just starting to build.
Reviewed by: Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Review Team
Marti is a talented florist who doesn’t hide who and what he is. He loves what he does only thanks to Demitri Detrikov the landlord of the flower shop Marti risks losing everything.
Susan the owner knows that a rent increase is coming and it would be hard to continue keeping the shop open. Unwilling to just give up, Marti decides a visit to the landlord who is holding all the cards is all he can do. His attempt to change things.
Ivan Detrikov is a competitive body builder. Marti has been attracted to him for a long time ; without any sign that Ivan is in any way interested in him. This will all change when Marti comes face to face with Ivan’s father and is ready, willing and able to fight for what he believes Susan and he are owed.
Ivan has concentrated on his career but seeing Marti face his father without backing down puts his estimatin of him in an entirely different light. Ivan’s dad wants Ivan to join him in his business and forget about body building, something Ivan is unwilling to do. He is aware that his dad had become consumed by money and is pushed by his new wife , who Ivan wants as little to do with as possible.
Ivan is now Marti’s new ally against his dad but when it appears that Marti has come out a winner Ivan’s dad is not yet finished. Growing closer to each other Marti and Ivan have a lot to deal with, Ivan’s desire to be a winning body builder and Marti’s desire to become a partner with Susan and build the business he loves.
This story of two men, totally opposite from each other, find that the only thing that matters is what is on the inside and being alone is not the way to a happy life