Where the Pines Kiss the Sky

Love’s Journeys, Book 1

Sometimes life leads you back to where it all began because home is where the heart can truly mend.

Elias Lake is facing a personal and professional crisis. The world-famous star of countless action movies has been outed on social media. By an ex-lover with a poisonous ax to grind. His life and reputation as "The World's Only Remaining Manly Man"—the studio's PR words, not his—is hiding in his mansion in the L.A. hills, trying to sort out where to go now. The media is camped outside his gates, the studio heads are up in arms, and his legion of fans is ready to fire up the torches and grab their pitchforks.

With his world burning down around him, he tucks his tail and heads home to a small island that hugs the rocky coast of Maine. There Elias Lake can return to being plain old Elias Kesside, the son of an innkeeper, who spent his youth pretending to be a famed local pirate or swimming in the choppy waters of Kesside Bay. There he meets Gibson Vale, the upbeat and attractive older ceramist who owns the shop. What starts out as a duck-and-cover moment turns into a friendship that quickly grows into something strong, vibrant, and healing for both men.

Contains mature themes.

©2023 V.L. Locey (P)2023 Tantor Media

a quiet story of becoming whole

sometimes the only way to be free to be your true self is when your carefully constructed world is shattered. this is a lovely story of a man returning to his roots after his life is upended, only to find himself nurtured and reborn in the soil he escaped from 20 years earlier

Tristan James is back!!!

I absolutely loved the story but this time I'm celebrating Tristan. he's an excellent narrator but his character voices as of late have been lacking. my favorite narration of all times is the Marshall series Tristan did quite a while back, this quite possibly rivals that. please keep it up. narrators can make or break a book and I've always looked for his name when purchasing. as for this series I loved both the books and look forward to reading more of VL Locey