Unholy Desire: A Father's Best Friend Gay Romance Novel

Lynn Burke

Mar 2022 · Sinful Natures Book 3 · Lynn Burke

About this eBook

A Forbidden Age Gap MM Contemporary Romance Novel by USA Today Bestselling Author Lynn Burke

As an overseas missionary who leads lost souls toward salvation, it’s imperative I live a godly existence, even in the midst of life-shattering grief.

 

Returning to the States brings about a trial worse than the loss of love, and I’m faced with desire for someone forbidden to me by my church and the word of God.

 

Aaron Weston.

 

My best friend’s son who is no longer a gangly teen. He makes me want things no newly widowed man should.

 

His presence fills the emptiness in my life, but my sinful nature longs for more. Every inch of him—in my heart, in my body, making me feel whole again.

 

Giving into the hunger of the flesh will take us down a path of immorality, one that goes against my strive for holiness.

 

I lost my wife from focusing on promised riches in glory.

 

And if I make the same mistake, I fear the responsibility for the ruination of another soul.

Ratings and reviews

Mind-Blown with Desire Have you ever read a book that you get sucked into that the whole world around you fades away. A place that when you get to a scene you either hold your breath or yell at your kindle. Well Unholy Desire is that to a T. There is so much passion, intense connection and heart-warming love between these two men.The strength they build together is just a beautiful site. Lynn Burke has once again sucked me into her world for one of the most beautiful love stories I have read to date. Don't hesitate, trust me and one-click!

In book 3 of Sinful Natures, we have Ezra and Aaron. Ezra and Aaron's father, Phillip, are best friends and the object of Aaron's desire. No one except a selected few know about how Aaron feels. While taking care of his invalid father, they learn that Ezra is coming home. His wife has died overseas and no one knows why. The pain and anguish that goes on between these two will have you reaching for tissues a few times. You can feel what the characters are feeling.I wanted to reach through and smack Ezra a few times, along with Phillip. But the "twist" towards the end left me with my mouth hanging open. Wasn't expecting that at all. And it totally cleared up a few things in my mind! Loved, loved, loved this so much!!

The third book in Lynn Burke's Sinful Natures series, Unholy Desires is an age gap romance... with a couple of interesting twists. All the novels in this series have a very different flavor, and each can be read as a standalone. As with the other titles in this series, the characters are members of the Simply Grace Church. The congregation (as well as the clergy) is filled with bigots and small minded folks. We first meet Aaron sitting in the pews alongside Zeke in Unholy Yearning, and I'm glad to see him breaking away from the Simply Grace crew early on. Unholy Desires isn't centered as much around Faith (with a capital F) the way the previous two books are, rather, this story focuses on relationships. Aaron and his dad, Ezra and his best friend, Ezra and his deceased wife, and Aaron and Ezra. While the characters’ faith does come into play as they’re processing their emotions and actions, it is more personal and less the religious indoctrination they’ve been fed their whole lives. I’m loving what Lynn Burke is doing with these stories. Combining the influences of the teachings of the Simply Grace brand of religion, forcing the characters to confront their beliefs, and come clean both to themselves and the folks in their community, makes for a fascinating story. Because the men have been close since Aaron was a young boy, Lynn Burke cleverly weaves this aspect into the storyline. It’s more than exploring the romance between Aaron and Ezra, it’s also about the way their emotional bond from their past impacts their physical and emotional bond of the present. Ten stars to Ezra, who is literally the hottest forty-nine year old guy on the planet. The way he gradually comes to accept his attraction to a man, especially with the fact it is the young man he knew as a child, is beautifully done. And his journey of coming to terms with life beyond his church, accepting the death of his wife, and building a reconciliation with Phillip simply left me breathless. Bravo!