Boston firefighters Matt Lopez and Eugene “Johnny” Johnson have been best friends for longer than either can remember. The kind of friends who can finish each other’s sentences, who always have each other’s backs, who fit together like hand-and-glove, who don’t keep secrets from each other… friend is homophobic? Besides, it’s easy for Johnny to keep that particular secret from Matt when girls are just as much of a turn-on as his best friend is.
Especially one girl in particular.
Eden Evans. She really doesn’t expect to live past her twenty-fifth birthday—not that she can admit that to anyone, since she knows darn well the reason sounds crazy—but still, burning her house down isn’t the way she expected to go.
Good thing Boston’s finest were there to buy her a little more time… her and her book.
The List.
One hundred things Eden’s determined to do before she dies.
With three months left and just three things still to check off, she just might make it, too. Especially when the hot firefighters who saved her bucket list from burning offer to help.
They also offer her a place to stay while she figures out what to do next… and living with two men who heat her up in all sorts of unexpected ways when she’s got nothing left to lose? It brings out a side of Eden that she didn’t know she had.
Suddenly, accepting the hand fate seems determined to deal her is the last thing she wants to do…
THREE is a 112,000 word steamy, standalone MMF bisexual ménage romance with no cliffhangers, some heated discussions about camels, even more heat in the kitchen, and three people who find a way to make love work, even when the odds are stacked against them. It’s intended for readers who enjoy explicit scenes of MF, MM, and MMF on the way to the kind of HEA that combines sweet with heat… and doesn’t let up until everybody is fully satisfied.
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Three might be my favorite MMF love story of all time. Two best friends and the woman who brings them together? Yes, please! The smoking (hah) hot scene in the firehouse is just icing on the cake.
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book. This writing team you just have to love. The topic is indeed a little inconvenient but absolutely written in a wonderful style. The characters literally pull you into the story. Ups and Downs throw the reader not only for one loop but many. Amazing.
“This above all, to thine own self be true…” W. Shakespeare, Hamlet
Chloe Lynn Ellis is such a perceptive author. Her previous menage romances have made triads seem like a viable ‘normal’ for certain people under certain circumstances. Usually something in the characters’ backgrounds makes the menage seem perfectly stable and sensible for them. Three is a little different. The three young people involved are’nt particularly ‘damaged’, but they are laboring under more than a few misconceptions about how to live satisfying adult lives. Roommates and fellow firefighters Matt and Johhny have grown up together and are BFFs. Matt has some real issues around homophobia. His antipathy to gays stems from a traumatic family experience, and in hurt and anger he’s withdrawn from all relationships but friendship with Johnny. Johnny knows he’s bi-sexual, and in love with Matt, but he stays in the closet for fear of alienating Matt. On a fire call, they meet Eden, who at 24 lives with the neurotically mistaken belief that she will die before she turns 25. Her Bucket List is the mechanism that brings them together. These three young people find in each other the mirrors that reflect who they truly are, showing them how others perceive them. They give each other the support to make changes, the courage to live their own truth, and the desire to be better people – in short, they come to understand themselves and truly love each other. Watching this alternative relationship develop is almost magical – it’s like watching as a flower bud unfolds, or seeing a baby being born. It a little messy, it’s miraculous, and so incredibly uplifting that by the time I finished reading, I felt as though I’d been blessed. My sincere thanks to Hidden Gems for the ARC of Three, and my voluntary, independent, and uncompensated opinion is that Three is a standout in its genre, and a classic-to-be. I’ve put it on my “Re-read List.” Read it once, and you will understand why.
100% Hands down the best ménage book I have ever read. This is a story of love, self awareness and acceptance told around three very dynamic characters with some hot, hot, hot sexy scenes for your reading pleasure. Matt, Eden and Johnny were so well written the emotions they were experiencing flew off the pages and into my heart. The storyline was unique and compelling. I enjoyed ever moment of this book. It was a pleasure and privilege to be an ARC reader for this one.