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Rock musician, Daniel Sanborn, has given his lover, Ramón Alvarez, too many opportunities to practice forgiveness. Their relationships is barely healing from the crisis that was Daniel’s wake-up call when a ghost from the past walks in to audition for the band.
Melanie is the widow of Josh Taylor, Daniel’s first and greatest love and the woman who, a dozen years ago, unknowingly stole his life along with his lover. When her talent proves to be exactly what the band needs to take them in the direction they hope to go, how can he be the lone dissenting vote? He makes the decision to hire her unanimous and fields Ramón’s jealous streak by hiding the depth of his resurrecting emotions.
Since Daniel last saw her at Josh’s funeral, Melanie has come unhinged. She never smiles, and she talks to her dead husband when she thinks no one is listening. Daniel shrugs it off to eccentricity and grief until her ghost makes its appearance.
Apparently, Daniel and Josh have unfinished business, and not the kind Daniel feels comfortable sharing with Ramón. As far as Daniel is concerned, that past is as dead as the man it belonged to. Josh’s ghost, however, has other ideas.
Daniel’s twelve-year-old secrets could be the last straw for Ramón, but keeping them buried might prove impossible.
The berth was colder than usual. Shutting himself in the tiny room, Daniel kicked off his shoes and removed his belt, then reached for a blanket.
Icy fingers ran the length of his spine.
His reaction was instantaneous. He jerked from the touch, dived for the door. A hand grabbed him by the collar, hauled him off his feet. His face met the bulkhead.
“No!” The shout lodged in his throat.
A hard body leaned into him with easy intimacy. A very solid erection burrowed into the crack of his ass through the denim.
“Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck.” The curses squeezed past the steel grip of fear binding his throat. His panicked gaze bounced, wildly within its limited range, searching for anything to make the solid body pressing against him real. Finally, he had to close his eyes against the unseen, shrinking from whatever came next.
Wintry lips slid over his jaw—gentle lips, just the breath of a kiss. An arm slid between Daniel and the wall, across his abdomen to clutch his hip.
The move was all too familiar. He threw his arms out, shoving against the bulkhead, trying to escape before the ghost completed the embrace, but it easily restrained his flailing limbs, holding him fast with an unyielding hug across the chest.
Daniel felt himself lifted away from the bulkhead. He hung suspended, feet barely touching the floor, subdued by an invisible master while gentle, cold kisses caressed his face, neck and shoulder. As though answering a hypnotist’s command, his body remembered and submitted.
Melanie is an extremely gifted musician. Yet the death of her husband, Josh, two years earlier has left her extremely sad.
Daniel was Josh's best friend at Julliard, and now a member of the band Wanton Boy. He has found someone that means so much to him, Ramon. Yet it seems he has not let go of his past.
How does he tell his band mates that the best musician they found is connected to his past? Better yet how does he explain it all to Melanie and Ramon? Can he forgive and forget? Can they overcome the past to have a future?
Ali Katz has done a wonderful job with Only One Regret. Just when you think you have moved on with your life, the past that you have not let go comes back to haunt you. Ali had my heart pumping and aching as I read Only One Regret. Everyone has had their past come back to haunt them at one point or another. We all have to deal with it at some point. Most of us just do not have to deal with it in so direct a matter, but deal with it we do.
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