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BOOK BLURB:
Maverick Holms and Duke Warren share almost everything ~ a college soccer team, an apartment and the same extremely competitive nature. Thanks to that never-back-down spirit, they’re about to share more than they bargained for.

The game is “gay chicken.” The rule: get as close as possible without kissing, and the one that pulls away first is the loser. The problem: neither of them likes to lose. It isn’t long before the game becomes an excuse to touch and kiss in every possible forbidden way. And after they pose for a gay website to earn extra money, things really heat up.

Suddenly Duke is talking lifetime commitment, and Mav is backpedaling as hard as he can, not sure if he’s ready to accept all his best friend is offering him. Or the truth about what he is.

BOOK REVIEW:
"Str8te Boys" is unabashed, sexy romantic self-indulgence ~ and it's wonderful.

Normally I would struggle to suspend my disbelief for highly-colored 'I'm only gay for you' dorm-porn, but Anderson drew me completely into the story within a few paragraphs, and kept me there throughout the story's emotional highs and lows.

There is also something quite stereoscopic about this story: as well as being clearly aimed at a female audience who want to see two guys getting together, within the story the 'Str8te Boys' website that plays a pivotal point in the plot is serving the same audience. The result could be really clunky, but with Anderson's charm, it's more of a flirtatious nod to the audience.

So maybe it's not terribly realistic that two totally-straight-no-really soccer playing American college guys have spent several years snuggling up together completely platonically, or that their team-mates would be almost universally accepting when they turn around and say 'actually we're fucking like bunnies' at the end of semester bash, but within the story, it all makes total sense.

The internal reality of the story is rock solid, and by sticking to Mav's point of view, the author neatly covers the bait-and-switch between Duke's apparent behavior and real feelings in the early chapters. Essentially, the two main guys are so endearing, you want them to buck the odds and fulfill their secret wishes ~ and your own.

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