It wasn’t bad, but not nearly as good as some of Josh Lanyon’s other efforts. Would I reread Stranger on the Shore by Josh Lanyon? Probably not. I also think every single scene did something to push the story forward. I have to say, there were no boring scenes. For all that I thought the forgiveness came too quick and the main character should have just driven on, it was pretty good. If I had to pick a favorite scene with the love interest, it would be the last one, the one where he declares his love and is practically forgiven. But if I had to pick one, I would pick the conversation one between the main character and the love interest’s sister. Like, weeks more instead of just forgiving him. I think the main character should have made him grovel more. In 2016 Fatal Shadows placed 5 in Japans annual Boy Love. Plus, the love interest did a few things that I personally would have a hard time forgiving. Stranger on the Shore (HarperCollins Italia) was the first M/M title to be published in print. Uses him one minute and the next minute he is all hearts and roses.

I have to admit, I didn’t actually get the romance. I figured out the part I saw coming half way through the book. Some of this I saw coming, some of it I didn’t. Griff shrugs off the coldly handsome Pierce’s objections, but it might not be so easy to shrug off the objections of someone willing to do anything to keep the past buried. He’s none too happy, and more than a little suspicious, when investigative journalist Griffin Hadley shows up to write about the decades-old mystery. Pierce Mather, the family lawyer, now administers and controls the Arlington billions. Though the ransom was paid, the boy was never seen again and is presumed dead. Twenty years ago young Brian Arlington, heir to Arlington fortune, was kidnapped. The main character comes to research and write a book about a twenty year old kidnapping. The mystery, but I do not know that the romance worked for me. There are two parts to this book: the mystery and romance. I have to add that I got this book from NetGalley.