Mark’s sexuality (or lack thereof) actually made this book even better for me. And even with attraction Mark’s still more on the asexual end of the spectrum. Now if you’re like me you had to look that up and basically, he’s only able to be sexual with someone he has formed a strong emotional relationship with and trust me this relationship does it for him, whether he wants it to or not. It sounds like you’re ace, but maybe you’re more gray ace or demisexual, where you only get turned on after an emotional bond with people. I’d say it’s probably closer to a friends-to-lovers story, but Albert put a bit of a spin on in that Mark is actually “ gray ace” (Wikipedia) Their story is different than the others in the series, because it’s not a straightforward gay-for-you or friends-to-lovers. Growing up with Coronado just a half hour away, Isaiah was used to military guys, but it was only in the past year or so that he’d added being the filling in a SEAL sandwich to his life goals.
Mark of course shoots him down and spends the next six years avoiding him until tragedy brings them back together closer than they ever planned to be having tiptoed around each other for the past six years. The story begins with a flashback where Isaiah, fresh out of high school propositions Mark, at Isaiah’s cousin’s and Mark’s sister’s wedding.
This is the fifth installment in Albert’s Out of Uniform series and features Isaiah (Ike) who made his first cameos in At Attention (as a potential distracting love interest) and On Point (as a contentious one-night stand) and Mark/”Wizard”, yet another super-hot navy seal with all sorts of hang ups. (I’ve got jokes.) I actually got this from the library (digitally of course) before I started the last two books, but since those were both ARCs with early July publish dates I wanted to make sure I got to them first and this was my reward for finishing them. You didn’t really think I was going to go more than five books without reading an Annabeth Albert book, did you? Okay noob.
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