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BOOK BLURB:
On a deserted island in the Pacific, surrounded by the enemy, two very different men learn to rely on each other for survival. Mike is an uneducated rascal, one step ahead of prison and a court-martial. He's given one chance to redeem himself: if he wants to stay out of jail, he has to keep Professor James Hamilton alive. No matter what.

James is everything Mike isn't ~ suave, educated, intellectual, and rich. He's also a conscientious objector and he's made a deal with the army ~ three months on the island breaking codes as long as he doesn't have to kill anyone.

Mike is Catholic, the son of immigrants, and has never acted on his desires. James is Jewish, the son of Boston society, and experienced in love between men. During their hazardous stay on the island, they teach each other about life, friendship, and survival. With only them to say what's right and wrong, the men make a deal: Mike must give himself to James for one day, submit to him completely, and James will allow Mike to take him whenever Mike wants to slake his sexual needs.

But once the war is over, can they keep the promises made on those hot Pacific nights and find one place both of them can call home?

BOOK REVIEW:
This is a truly entertaining and seductive story. Two vastly different men, Professor James Hamilton and Sergeant Mike Dabrowski, are jettisoned together onto a tropical island during World War II to fulfill a secret mission. There's no love lost between the two and the prospect of three months alone with the effete Professor fills rough, tough Mike with dread. James is a conscientious objector and Mike only took on the mission to escape a term in military prison.

After a hair raising parachute jump that nearly gets them both killed, the men slowly form a grudging respect for one another ~ and the start of an attraction that has Mike both perturbed and ultimately interested.

This could have been just another 'horny straight guy getting blown by the gay guy and loving it' story that I always have a hard time finding credible, but Ms. Lorenz has a knack for getting into the characters psyches and making their thoughts and actions believable.

The tenderness that James shows Mike makes the tough guy realize just what has always been missing in his life and he responds ~ at first without truly understanding why on any more than a carnal level. But as time goes by, things change.

I really enjoyed Pacific Nights and was totally involved with the two characters, hoping that a happy ending lay in store for them.

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