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BOOK BLURB:
Steve is a jeweler who specializes in rare gems. He's a rare gem himself for the 1950s, a bachelor with a certain reputation. Nate, his best friend and business partner, has never had that sort of reputation, so when Steve gets the call that Nate was caught in establishment that caters more to his type, he goes home to see what's up.

Nate's got problems of his own, as well as the most supportive and nosy family a man could ask for. He has things he wants to tell Steve, but will society allow it to happen? Parhelion's Peridot is the tale of an unconventional romance in a very conventional time, full of laughs, tears, and ultimately, friendship.

BOOK REVIEW:
Peridot is a beautifully written, laugh-out-loud funny and unabashedly sentimental offering from Lucius Parhelion.

Set in the 1950s, gay at a time when being gay was really not understood, much less accepted, our hero is Steve Corvey, a jeweler specializing in rare gems. He spends most of his time traveling in search of inventory, leaving his shop in the hands of his best friend and business partner Nate, who also happens to be married. He's in Burma when he gets a call that Nate's been arrested at a 'sissie bar,' and he drops everything to fly back and see what on earth is going on. As it turns out, Nate's wife Brenda has left him, that's why he went to the bar, and, on top of everything else, Nate has disappeared. Yet the minute Steve gets off the plane, Nate is waiting for him in a place where he knows Steve will go.

At this point, this seems like the plot is going in the usual direction. Nate and Steve get together, the usual, happy m/m ending, right? Wrong. Lucius Parhelion has much too complex an imagination for such an easy resolution.

Nate and Steve take off to find Brenda, and the plot thickens. Nothing is quite as it seems.

Peridot is not a long book, but its plot is complex and engaging ~ and best of all, surprising. Love does not always take us in the directions we plan, no matter how much we might want it to do so. If you are up for a book that's a little off the beaten path, where the obvious happy-ever-after ending isn't going to happen ~ you'll want to get Peridot.

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