The One That Got Away
Nicky James
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
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· Steam/Spice level: 3 of 5
Open door [?]
· 40 ratings · 332 pages · Published: 21 Mar 2021
Charlie Falkingham is convinced someone is after him. There are signs. There are clues, but no one believes him. After living through a childhood horror, Charlie suffers from a severe paranoia disorder, among many things, and the Hamilton Police have labeled him The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
When the only person on the force who ever listened to Charlie’s concerns retires, who can Charlie reach out to for help?
Arrogant and young, Officer Takoda Dyani has a chip on his shoulder a mile wide. He’s rude and brash and doesn’t play well with others. He has more enemies than friends, and he doesn’t care. When his senior officer assigns him to be Charlie’s consultant, Takoda knows it will end badly. He doesn’t have time to coddle a prissy rich boy.
However, if he can’t calm Charlie’s paranoid delusions and act civil for once, he’ll lose his job.
But are they delusions?
The longer he knows Charlie, the more Takoda realizes, something isn’t right.
Is someone stalking Charlie, or is Takoda getting too wrapped up in Charlie’s fragile world?
**The One That Got Away is an MM psychological romantic suspense. Triggers for severe anxiety and panic disorder, OCD, dissociative episodes, PTSD. The plot line includes a reference to a past child kidnapping and sex trafficking incident. The details of the sex trafficking are NOT discussed in any detail.**
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- gay romance 10
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- disabilities & scars 4
- sweet/gentle hero 4
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- mental illness 10
- mental trauma 6
- past abuse 5
- abuse 4
- child sexual abuse 4
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- human trafficking 4
- torture of mcs 3
- past sexual abuse 2
- third party abuse 2
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