5 Smooches
Synopsis
Elijah Penn
Handsome. Successful. Single.
And looking for a polyamorous relationship.
It has been four years since his wife died, but Elijah knows that there will never be another woman who will claim his heart and he isn’t willing to replace her. He isn’t interested in marriage, but he is interested in something with a future.
Logan and Samantha McCoy
Attractive. Ambitious. Married.
And looking for a polyamorous relationship.
Logan and Samantha spent the last year and a half avoiding a very specific desire that neither of them can quite let go of. They aren’t interested in a casual fling with a stranger, so they’ve been holding back.
Is it possible that the three of them have stumbled upon something that just might be the answer to all of their desires?
Review
We have all loved Sam and Logan since the first book in the Club Destiny series, Conviction. Watching them grow as a couple has been a great experience and this book was no different. If anything, I really found that Sam and Logan came into their own and came to some big realizations about who they are as a couple in Entrusted. Elijah is the third member in this poly-amorous relationship and he is relatively new to the Club Destiny series having briefly met him in Perception but not really knowing much about him.
I feel like there was a very important fourth member of this developing relationship and that is Beth, Elijah’s late wife. Elijah has never gotten over Beth’s death and will love her completely forever (much the way Sam and Logan love each other.) I love how Sam and Logan incorporated Beth into their relationship by constantly talking about her and even visiting her grave with Elijah. Together they all learn that there is plenty of love to go around.
Sam and Elijah quickly develop feelings for each other that go deeper than just sex and even Logan and Elijah developed into more than just threesome partners by quickly becoming close friends with a mutual respect and protectiveness of each other. For me this book was filled with emotion and hard decisions. I really enjoyed how not one of the three involved went into this relationship lightly all thinking hard about how this would change their individual relationships .
Elijah had the utmost respect for Logan and Sam’s marriage and along every step of the way, he put their marriage first and was very careful not to cross any lines they were not 100% comfortable with. For me personally, this was a very endearing quality and I found I was fast falling in love with this sexy British man! Not one time in this story did he make a rash decision without checking with everyone and talking through the decisions they were making.
Nicole Edwards has a way of pulling you into the craziness that is her mind and never letting you leave. There has never been a book by her that I have regretted reading and I often find myself recommending them to those around me. Anyone who has been following Sam and Logan’s story since the beginning will not want to miss this!
~miranda
