Novella - Color Blind Gay Romance, Multicultural Romance, Interracial Romance
Independent
Oct 18, 2022
Kindle
127
Amazon
Setting out on your own is tough, but for Mason Fullerton, who was born blind, it’s even more of a challenge. Mase decides that the key to independence and a life of his own is getting a job. His mother, who has always been there for support, isn’t so sure, but Mase is determined. He manages to secure an interview, and one of the men conducting it has a voice that wraps around him like a blanket.
Tyrone Phillips feels he’s a disappointment to his accomplished academic parents. They don’t understand that Ty would rather spend time with his computers and programs than people. Until he meets Mason at an interview and finds a kindred spirit. Too bad his parents aren’t going to see past the fact that Mason’s white.
When Mason is hired, Ty is assigned to help him get oriented. The two of them dance around each other, but mutual attraction tugs at both of them. A work friendship builds to more, with Ty and Mase trying to find their way… and if they have courage and allow their hearts to guide them, they could be going the same direction.
Review by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
Mason Fullerton was born blind and his entire world is his mother and the home they live in together. He has graduated college and now wants to get a job in spite of his mother’s insistence that it is not a good idea. With help from a childhood friend, he has applied for a job with an electronics firm as a developer a position he is more than qualified for. After an interview and some testing the job was his and he finally feels like he is becoming a part of the world outside.
When he meets Tyrone Phillips who is only too happy to show Mase the ropes he has no idea what he looks like only that there is something about him he is attracted to. Ty is a man who has always felt his parents were disappointed in him for not continuing his education the way they did. Mom and dad are both professors and education mean everything to them, unfortunately Ty doesn’t feel the same way. Like Mase he keeps to himself but with Mase he feels a comfort he doesn’t feel with many people. The two have lunch together every day and enjoy each other’s company only Ty doesn’t know how well his parents will accept a blind, white man.
When Ty explains to Mase that he is black he gets an answer that surprises him when Mase says that everyone and everything is black to him. When Ty has to attend a fundraiser with his parents who insist he brings a date it is Mase that he asks. He refused to attend with the man his parents picked out for him. Ty and Mase want to be together but they both live at home so they will have to come up with some ideas and when they do Mase’s mom does not handle it well. A woman who spent her entire adult life looking after her blind son can’t imagine him handling life on his own or without her being there to pick him up when he falls.
It amazes me how Mr. Grey can express with words what a blind person endures in their daily lives. People who stare, people who are embarrassed when he eats with them because he is sometimes messy or people who don’t want to be tied down to someone they have to always care for and that was something he heard on more than one occasion with the men he thought he had a relationship with. It is hard to imagine living in a home where nothing can be moved so that when a blind person walks, they know exactly where they are going. So many simple things we take for granted and Mr. Grey made it so real to me. I could feel every emotion that Mase felt.