Love is Blind

David Reize doesn't need saving. Hunter Jeffries doesn't know any other way to love. At twenty-five, David lost his parents and his sight in a single catastrophic night. He came back to Knoxville and rebuilt everything from the ground up — law school, his own apartment, a fierce self-reliance he wears like armor. The last thing he wants is pity. The last thing he expects, on a blind date his well-meaning friend won't let him cancel, is to actually like the man across the table. Hunter is compact, stubborn, and built to take care of people — a criminology grad and ex-rugby player who learned how to love by raising the mother who should have raised him. Now he's chasing a badge with the Knoxville PD, and a bias at work that could cost him the career he's bled for. He isn't looking for anyone. Then David walks in, and for once, being needed isn't the point. As David trains for a place on the Paralympic climbing team and Hunter fights for his future in uniform, the two keep colliding over the same impossible question: where's the line between helping someone and holding them back? Between surrender and strength? Between being seen — and being truly understood? When intimacy starts to threaten the independence David prizes above all else, he pulls away — and both men have to decide whether the obstacle was ever between them, or inside them all along. Falling was the easy part. Learning how to love each other might cost them everything they fought to become. Love is Blind is a dual-POV M/M contemporary romance set against Knoxville's revival and the rolling Smoky Mountains. Expect slow-burn hurt/comfort, opposites-attract, a tender dominance-and-surrender dynamic, grief and rebuilding, disability representation written with dignity, and a hard-won happily ever after. Book 1 of the Love Is… series. Heat: 1 out of 5 · For readers of Annabeth Albert and Roan Parrish.

Pages: 426, Paperback, J.F. Evans