Until one day he accidentally crosses paths with a beautiful blind masseur who challenges everything he thought he knew about love between men. Love affairs between men are completely accepted in Edo, even among men married to women, but low-ranking samurai Uchida Tomonosuke has never pledged himself to another man. Major book hangover! Five-plus stars.Flowers by Night is a vivid, meticulously researched novel that depicts unconventional lives during the first half of the 19th century in Edo-the city that would become Tokyo-a city wracked by frequent natural disasters, but where one can find bawdy, thrilling entertainment of every kind.

If I could give an award for best cast of supporting characters, it would be to everyone in Licking Thicket in this book! Seriously, Fools was an absolute joy to read, with many standout moments throughout.

That doesn't mean Tuck was a slouch in the romance and bestie department though! He was very protective of Dunn and understood him better than most. I swear, there were times wherein I wish I could have jumped into my tablet and have a heart-to-heart conversation with Dunn, so that he would realize a wee bit more quickly that he and Tuck belonged together as more than friends!!! Gah!!! But how could I not adore the guy?! He said AND did the sweetest things to and for Tuck, and his heart was always in the right place. He's happy enough to have Dunn Johnson in his life as his best friend, even if the twenty-eight-year-old dairy farmer is remarkably clueless about certain things. Tucker Wright has long accepted the fact that the guy he's been in love with for years is straight.

Who says life is boring in a small town, especially one as caring and quirky and very much involved in one another's lives, as Licking Thicket, Tennessee? Well, of course he was! They were also each other's person, and this book relays how that recognition come to evolve from platonic to romantic and everything in between. Or as Dunn likes to remind everyone, he was Tucker's best best friend. Dunn, whose name makes me hum the opening theme to Miami Vice, and Tucker have been each other's lives for years, and even with the eight-year age difference between them, there was no doubting they were the best of friends. However, this is Lennox and Archer we're talking about here, so I had a feeling this wasn't going to be your typical story with this all-too-familiar trope. It pretty much goes without saying-at least to fans and readers of the Licking Thicket series-that this was going to be a friends-to-lovers romance. Ever since Dunn Johnson kissed Tucker Wright in Liars, I was counting the days till Lucy Lennox and May Archer released Fools.

Love In Touch by Lucy May Lennox