The Other Brother

Ryan has had seventeen years of being compared to Cody, part of his toxic fractured family, so you’ll forgive him for some epic eye-rolling when it comes to Mr Perfect. Although not related to him by blood, Cody has always been annoying background noise in Ryan’s life. It doesn’t help that Cody’s a high achieving musician, while Ryan’s life ambition doesn’t extend past catching the next wave.

One summer changes everything. It’s the summer when circumstances collide, and Cody and Ryan end up spending time together at Cody’s family’s beach house. It’s the summer Ryan teaches Cody to surf and Cody teaches Ryan to play guitar. It’s the summer when they become friends. And then more than friends.

But can their feelings, which began in the summer sun, survive the winter ahead?

June 2023

Catherine Roberts: Radio NZ Review

"… pay very close attention to the blurb and to the early chapters in which you sometimes have to do a double take to realize how Cody and Ryan are not related by blood and are therefore not stepbrothers but are related by circumstance and are therefore competitors for family acceptance and affection.

Most of all, snuggle up with a good cup or glass or tumbler and let these two young men capture your imagination, and more than that your heart, in an exceptional love story that we should all be so lucky to experience. – Reader review AMAZON: … pay very close attention to the blurb and to the early chapters in which you sometimes have to do a double take to realize how Cody and Ryan are not related by blood and are therefore not stepbrothers but are related by circumstance and are therefore competitors for family acceptance and affection.

Most of all, snuggle up with a good cup or glass or tumbler and let these two young men capture your imagination, and more than that your heart, in an exceptional love story that we should all be so lucky to experience." – Reader review AMAZON

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