His Last Chase Road to Rocktoberfest 2024, Embrace the Fear 4
m/m contemporary
Sapphire Publishing
10/25/24
Kindle
312
Amazon
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Lonely.
Loneliness is an uncomfortably familiar emotion For Chase Prescott. As the lead singer for the band Embrace the Fear he’s constantly surrounded by his bandmates and best friends, but regardless he feels solitary—separate. Alone.
Casey Robinson hasn’t had a boy in too long. Over the years he’s had boys of many types, but none stuck around. What he craves is a little of his own but searching for his boy has left Casey feeling empty.
Chase is all tangled up inside, silently screaming, envious of what his friends have but not knowing how to get it. Then a friend suggests he check out the club he and his boyfriend frequent as a way of getting out of his own head. At this point Chase figures, why not?
Resigned to giving up his club membership, Casey walks the halls one last time to say his goodbyes.
A brief pause in front of the littles room changes Casey and Chase’s lives in the best of ways.
Review By Ulysses Dietz
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
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TL Travis favors rockstars in her romances, and this gives them the allure of offering an insider’s view of the lives of celebrity musicians and their lives on the road. In this instance, the rising star is 23-year-old Chase Prescott, lead singer for Embrace the Fear. Chase suffers from being alone because his other bandmates are paired off and he has become the proverbial fifth wheel.
There is, however, more to it. Traumatized by the death of his mother when he was little, and then the ongoing emotional withdrawal of his devastated stepfather, Chase is an emotional mess. Specifically, his best friend David, whose parents were almost surrogate parents for Chase, realizes that his lonely friend might just be a little.
And therein is the curious kink of this story. This is not the first book about littles I’ve come across; it’s a subgenre of the BDSM world, but without the bondage and pain. It’s an emotional relationship in which one partner plays daddy, and the other one regresses to early childhood—playing with toys and coloring books to find peace and relief from the emotional pressures of real life.
In this story, David turns to his godfather, Casey Robinson, an equally lonely English professor at Las Vegas University. Despite the titles “professor” and “godfather,” Casey is in his mid-forties and (obviously) handsome. After a brief meeting at a local club catering to those interested in various kinks, Casey and Chase realize that each of them might be the answer to the other’s problem.
This is a rather sweet, tender tale of love growing in unlikely ground, and of a confused young man finally discovering the source of his emotional pain as well as its cure. Travis manages the somewhat tricky issue of the daddy/little dynamic with both finesse and compassion. There is also a vivid presentation of the contrast between the “public” persona of the wildly famous metal rocker and his innocent, Spider-Man-loving little self. Chase himself is, as an adult, an innocent in every way, which helps carry out the emotional plausibility the author intends. It was emotionally engaging and a pleasure to read.