Matty isn’t truly over his first love, even ten years later. Caleb, the boy who stole his heart when he was a teenager, and then disappeared in the middle of the night. Over the years, Matty has imagined seeing Caleb again, but his fantasy reunion doesn’t quite go to plan when he turns up at Caleb’s bakery and meets Caleb’s husband, Elliott.
Elliott is thrilled Caleb is finally getting the … getting the opportunity to reunite with the family he walked away from a decade ago. He has always known deep down Caleb’s ex, Matty, and his lost-lost family would find him one day, but nothing could have prepared him for developing feelings for his husband’s ex-boyfriend.
Caleb has never dreamed that he’ll get a second chance with the family that once adopted him, so now that he has, he doesn’t want to risk losing them a second time. Although, when a relationship begins to form between Elliott, Matty, and him, it seems like it can only go one of two ways—he could lose everyone all over again, or finally get everything he’s ever wanted.
Waiting for Them is a 56K word MMM romance that includes second chances, a lost-long family, a small town, and cute animals.
This is the first book in the Little Hollow series, but can be read as a standalone.
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This was my first book by Alie Nolan and it will not be my last.
An MMM, first love, second chance, polyamory. What’s not to love.
Caleb runs away at 17 years old, meets and falls in love with his now husband Elliot. His younger brother has been searching for him for 10 years. His childhood love Matty is now his younger brothers best friend.
Elliot has always known that Matty was Caleb’s first love and once they meet up again he understands what he husband saw in Matty.
I loved this story and how it develops throughout the book, everyone’s scared of ruining their existing relationships let alone any future ones that may develop.
I will definitely be waiting for the next book in the series.
This was a low-angst, sweet, and very sexy romance. Caleb, Elliott, and Matty were wonderful together. Their romance went much smoother than was truly realistic, but that was fine. I needed a story with lots of love and very little stress, and that’s what I got with this one. Matty fit smoothly into the dynamic that Caleb and Elliott already had from their years together, and he just soaked up the love they offered.
The Logan family members bickered and supported each other in equal measure, and I look forward to learning more about them in the future. This is going to be a fun series!
I have always found polyamory fascinating. This book bring the best parts of it I think. Matty falling for a married couple. He is super sweet and loyal to the bone. Caleb’s reasoning for leaving his brother and first love behind I will never understand but everybody has his faults. And Elliot is the force behind all of them finding the courage to try something new. I enjoyed their journey, no awful drama and no cheating. Sweet!
Really enjoyed this fast reading well written romance, so good. Caleb loved Matty when he was a teenager but he ran away, because he was scared was going mess things up for his brother Jake and his new home. Jakehas been looking for ten years and has finially found his brother who is now married and owns and works at a bakery with his husband Elliott. When my brother and Matty show up at the bakery and I can’t believe Jake had been looking for me and now that we have found each other again it’s time to be a family again. But Matty has missed me also and as we get to know each other again I find there is still something about him that draws me in and the feelings we had as teenagers are still there. I can’t believe how lucky I am that Elliott feels the same way, so together we begin a journey of discovery of what a relationship between us three together could become.
Love the Logan family dynamic. Significantly easier to be a throuple in this clan!
Steamy M/M/M with poignant and romantic moments. When Caleb and his younger transgender brother Jake are adopted by the Logan lesbian couple, Caleb feels life is finally going his way. It only took 17 years. What he didn’t expect was to fall in love with his cousin Matty in this new family. Caleb decides to sacrifice himself to allow Jake to keep this loving and accepting home. He runs away from Jake, the Logans and Matty. Fast forward 10 years and Jake and Matty have found Caleb, but what they don’t expect is that Caleb has a new last name b/c he married the bakery owner, Elliott.
I love the Logan clan. There are all kinds of matches and as this is book 1, I’m hoping to find out more as the series continues. Matty, Caleb and Elliott are attracted to one another immediately. When things get going, we get into the really steamy stuff! I love how the author has allowed Caleb and Elliott to add in Matty in their relationship. Likewise, Caleb and Matty having had a relationship 10 years prior welcome Elliott into their connection. Also, the author has allowed Jake to be very mature at only 19yo in the end to accept what he discovers. Another author could have used that to lengthen the story unnecessarily. Great epilogue and at the end of my ARC there was a link for the prequel telling of the time after Caleb left the Logans and up to finding Elliott. My only regret is that I never found out how old Elliott was. We know Caleb could only have been 17 or 18 when he found Elliott’s bakery. Was he running the bakery then? Anyway, loved the story.
I volunteered to review an ARC of this book through Gay Romance Reviews and I give it 4.5 Steamy Stars.
Additional note: I read the prequel, “Home Sweet Home” and in it we find out the background details that were missing in WAITING FOR THEM.
If you love romance…especially mm romance…this book is going to ‘knock your socks off!’ The characters are wonderful, the story so sweet and the relationships ‘to die for!’ You’ll have an HEA that will put so many others to shame, you’ll want to find a family that is just as precious as this one is.
There is pain, sadness, grief, tragedy and anger. But there is also compassion, forgiveness and open conversations that put everyone on the same footing.
My only complaint was that it ended too soon.
I didn’t know how this story was going to play out exactly because you started with Caleb and Matty as teenagers in love but then you jump to present and Caleb is married to Elliott. When Matty comes back into Caleb’s life, I was pleasantly surprised how the fabulous Alie Nolan entwined Matty into Caleb and Elliott’s existing marriage. This was a super sweet story with little drama which was lovely. I cannot wait to see what comes next out of this world!