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Ella Frank
Try – verb: to make an attempt or effort to do something or in this case…someone.
Sex. Logan Mitchell loves it, and ever since he realized his raw sexual appeal at a young age, he has had no problem using it to his advantage. Men and women alike fall into his bed—after all, Logan is not one to discriminate. He lives by one motto—if something interests you, why not just take a chance and try?
And he wants to try Tate Morrison.
Just coming out of a four-year marriage with an ex-wife from hell, a relationship is the last thing on Tate’s mind. He’s starting fresh and trying to get back on his feet with a new job at an upscale bar in downtown Chicago.
The only problem is, Tate has caught the unwavering and unwelcome attention of Mr. Logan Mitchell – a regular at the bar and a man who always gets what he wants.
Night after night Tate fends off the persistent advances of the undeniably charismatic man, but after an explosive moment in the bar, all bets are off as he finds his body stirring with a different desire than his mind.
As arrogance, stubbornness and sexual tension sizzles between the two, it threatens to change the very course of their lives.
Logan doesn’t do relationships. Tate doesn’t do men. But what would happen if they both just gave in and…tried?
TOP 10 OF 2013
Never mind that Try is a phenomenal male/male erotica book; Try is a flat-out phenomenal erotica book. It’s not about the romance, and it’s surely not about the will they/won’t they. This is all about the down and deliciously dirty coupling of two hot men—Logan, a bisexual manwhore lawyer and Tate, a straight divorced bartender. Spoiler alert: Tate finds out he’s not as straight as he thought he once was. I’ve not read another erotica book that had so much more sex than story that also didn’t make me miss the story. And that’s because Ella Frank is such a great storywriter that she fits in the developing romance into all of the sex without missing out on anything. The second book in their story will be out in Summer 2014, but Try can be read now as a standalone, though there is a teensy bit of a cliffhanger. Plus, I love ending a book wishing it wasn’t over, and that’s exactly what I got. Try easily sits atop my list of 5-star books as a Certified Favorite, and I HIGHLY recommend it to everyone who loves erotica. [November 2013]