The Wolfe Proxy

Title: The Wolfe Proxy
Author: T. D. McKinney & Terry Wylis
Publisher: Amber Allure
Publisher URL: http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/
ISBN: 978-1-60272-464-8
Genre: Gay Contemporary Romance
Nymph Rating: 4 Nymphs
Literary Nymph Reviewer: Mystical Nymph

CEO Quinton Wolfe is known for not letting anything or anyone stand in the way of what he wants and that includes his new majority stockholder, young and inexperienced Jennifer Bowman. Quint needs Jennifer’s proxy vote at the next board meeting and he’s willing to wine, dine and take her to bed to get what he needs to keep the family owned multi-national company stable. Things don’t go as planned when Jennifer’s sculptor brother, Max, intercedes and makes a deal to become Quint’s sex toy in return for leaving his sister alone.

It soon becomes apparent that both men get more than they expected from their one night together. Neither can get the other out of their minds and they wind up heartbroken, lonely, and miserable. There are just a few little problems with being together and they all boil down to trust. Max is having trouble separating Quint’s personal versus public persona, and Quint is having just as much difficultly trusting Max and opening his walled-up heart to love and partnership. It’s all a matter of trust and if these two men can put aside personal hurts and misconceptions to allow their love to come shining through.

The Wolfe Proxy is a fun and sexy look at what happens after two men find love when they least expect it, and under very strange and unusual circumstances, which were a unique and creative twist. Max is out of the closet and has been for years. Quinton, on the other hand, isn’t and until he met Max, never planned to step out. These two men are as different as night and day…different jobs, attitudes, outlooks, opinions, and goals, yet their common ground is strong enough to let love grow. The authors did a nice job expressing these very things. This is especially true of Quint and his trust issues. The background information on his life was perfectly placed to allow the reader a better understand of his feelings and rationale, without it ever feeling like an information dump. The well-written scenes when Max emotionally falls apart after a misunderstanding with Quint are expressively painful and heart wrenching.

I liked these guys, and the overall plot was well done, with just enough complexity to keep the story flowing smoothly. Add in Max’s sister Jennifer and his best friend Sully, a burned out manufacturing facility, and some serious misunderstandings between Max and Quint, and you have all the components needed for an entertaining story that’s made for a rainy afternoon read.