Covet

I've had this forever and though I obviously bought it for the cover I clearly didn't look at it too closely. I didn't realize it's an M/M/M of a sort. Overall I liked it.

Jack & Peter Mason are twins who physically are pretty identical but temperamentally very different. Outwardly Peter is a pretty strait-laced and staid attorney complete with long term girlfriend while Jack is a graphic artist with a laissez faire attitude towards romantic relationships or as he sees it people he has sex with. He doesn't do boyfriends or exclusivity.

Jack starts a friends with benefits arrangement with Colin who's just gotten out of a five year relationship and is only too happy to not have anything heavy or emotionally taxing.

As we all know well laid plans rarely turn out as expected. Peter and Colin meet, become friends, and other feelings crop up too. Meanwhile Jack has inexplicably & unexpectedly developed a romantic & possessive attachment to Colin.

The development of the relationships from two different one-on-one to a triad is sensitively and smartly done. There isn't familial bad-wrong and the expectations the three men have for their lives beyond the bedroom is realistic. To me this meant that the ending (including the epilogue) read more like a HFN, that the relationship might even have an expiry date. Nothing wrong with that, just an observation.

Speaking of carnality the smex scenes are smoldering and really do a lot to externalize the emotional development of the characters as relates to themselves and the other MC. Win. Win.

Recommend.