As a people-pleasing gay man, thirty-year-old music lawyer Domenic Marino is an expert at code-switching between the hypermasculine and ultrafeminine worlds of his two soon-to-be-wed best friends: handsome sports attorney Patrick Cooper and glamorous beauty editor Kate Wallace. But this summer—reeling from his own failed engagement and tasked with attending both their bachelor and bachelorette parties at the Cooper family’s idyllic shoreline estate in Mystic, Connecticut—Dom is anxious about having to play both sides.
Kate has been pressuring him to keep the bachelor party clean and report back to her when it’s over, so Best Man Dom accordingly develops a G-rated itinerary. But once Patrick’s rowdy groomsmen show up—including a surprise visit from Patrick’s old frat brother, handsome and definitely-not-out PGA star Bucky Graham—chaos quickly ensues. By the time Dom returns to the Mystic house for the bachelorette party, he has accumulated a laundry list of secrets that threaten to destroy everything—from the Cooper-Wallace wedding to Bucky’s golf career to the one thing he hasn’t been paying nearly enough attention to lately: his own life.
Hilarious rom-com in which the gay best friend of both groom and bride finds himself torn between a rock and a hard place, and learns that being everything to everybody can't work for him.
Dom is heartbroken after his fiancé decides they won't be married after all. The worst is that both his best friends are getting married - to each other! - and he's in the middle of the usual drama. Wanting to be there for both, he gets involved in too many lies and intrigue. Things are about to get even more problematic when he ends up hooking up with his dream man, who doesn't want to have anything out in the open.
Dom is a typical people pleaser, and learning to let it go and be open about his real feelings is a difficult ride for him. He'll have to deal with all those lies he tends to tell not to offend anyone, ending up offending everybody. And to relearn his value as a person.
Hilarious in its tone, this is quite a serious book about people pleasing, the lies we tell, and learning to value our lives and achievements without demeaning ourselves. And that you don't necessarily need a HEA but an HFN is even better.
If you like a funny rom-com with a gay main character, this book might be for you.
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