The fifth book in this series, all the characters from the past books are represented here. This time, a client of Tristan’s named Beau has been alone for 15 years since his lover died of AIDS. Beau is HIV+ and too afraid of infecting someone else or of getting sick and dying himself, leaving a lover alone as happened to him. But William keeps crossing paths with Beau and he finds himself attracted to this younger man, who also wants him. But his fears are keeping him from giving into love. Tristan must convince him to give love a chance.
A really good offering in this series, TM Smith keeps the "family" together, even those who have left the company over the course of the previous 4 books. This one added a new dimension that many in the gay community must face: the possibility of falling in love with someone who is HIV+, how people react to that news, dealing with the issues of safe sex and PREP, and from the positive person’s perspective, dealing with falling in love with someone, being safe, the possibility of infection, illness and dying. These are major issues and how the positive person and the negative person handle things was explored through these two men.
And of course, Joel Leslie was there with all those characters. Every single one had a different accent, speech pattern, etc. And a new one for Joel, at least that I have listened to, was Cajun for Beau, a native of Louisiana. Joel is just amazing!
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review