Here's Merry Farmer's "Blown." It's the fifth novel in her new series, The Art of Love.
["The Art of Love is risking your career for a fake engagement that could unravel your web of lies…
Rafe Hawthorne is a master glassblower with a commitment problem. He loves his life of artistic and romantic freedom, but the older he gets, the more he realizes he needs help to reach the heights of the glass world. As much as he hates to admit it, his old rival, Jake Mathers, might be the only person who can help him level up his career.
And Rafe has something Jake desperately needs, too.
Jake has always been the charming sweet-talker with more talent than anyone else in the room. He has the connections, the know-how, and the ambition to take the glass world by storm. At least, everyone thinks he does. In reality, Jake has built his career on a mountain of lies. The only true things about him are his desire to move to the UK and his feelings for Rafe.
When all those lies suddenly unfurl, will the fallout take Rafe down, too, or will the two men come together to save each other and make the lies true?"]
This series is really good at the dual-first-person-POV, where both characters are hyper-anxious about something, where both characters under the allusion that the other person can/will fix it, and where both characters are sucky at communicating their feelings and their troubles. It's a great way to push the plot along and adding suspense, but its angsty and rude.
However! It does make the reward of falling in love and a HEA all the more worth it.
These two didn’t have it easy. It was constant work and doubts and reassurances and second/third/fourth chances. But they had each other..and the entire Hawthorne clan.
Trigger Warnings: homophobic parents, anxiety, and more.
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