Recent Release Review: Footsteps of the Past by Felice Stevens

Footsteps of the Past By Felice Stevens

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Second chances

Released: July 21, 2021

Publisher: Self Published

Series: Second Chances, Book 2

Length: 205 pages

Cover Design: Reese Dante

Synopsis

It was like in the movies: their eyes met from across the room and they fell in love.
Nine years later, Chess and André are the envy of all their friends.
But this is real life….and things are never what they seem.

Still waters run deep—the better to hide Chess’s ugly past. He’s worked hard to bury the troubled teen he once was and is living a life he never imagined possible. André’s love is a gift that makes him believe in second chances, and Chess is grateful for it every day. The only thing he wants is what André finds impossible to give: his time. Six months apart might be the breaking point, even for Chess.

One horrible night changed André’s life forever. Formerly a party boy of the Hamptons social scene, André buries himself in work for years until he meets Chess and learns to enjoy the simple things. He’s tired of being away from home all the time and ready to step down from his role as CEO of the family business, no matter how they try and pull him back in. But old habits die hard…and so do memories.

Photos from the past and present surface, shocking Chess and André out of their carefully constructed dream life. They are forced to face the unthinkable: the love they thought would last a lifetime may be on the brink of falling apart. Secrets are exposed, opening a Pandora’s box both men hoped would stay locked forever. Now Chess and André face the hardest question: do you ever really know the person you’re living with?

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Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

I could feel the love between the MCs.

I am absolutely loving this series by Felice Stevens. I was really intrigued by Chess and Andre’s relationship when they were mentioned in the first book of the series, The List. The book is about an established couple – they’ve been together around 9 years – and I usually get nervous when reading this kind of story. I’m always afraid that there might be more angst than I can handle, and yet I do love books that break me and put me back together again.

Footsteps of the Past didn’t quite break me but it did bend me quite a bit. 😊 Chess and Andre seem like the perfect couple. Andre is wealthy and loves Chess very much. Chess is a professor and loves Andre so much it sometimes hurts. It hurts because Andre’s business has him traveling and away from Chess more than either of them like.

Oh boy are both of these guys keeping secrets from each other. I’m sure they think their reasons for doing so are valid but, as this story proves, honesty is usually the best policy. I won’t reveal what the blurb hints at but I didn’t think the secrets were that horrible. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t emotionally affected by the story because I was and I loved it. I just mean that if this were a real-life situation instead of a fictional one, I’d want to knock some heads together and say something like: “Wake up! Don’t ruin the wonderful thing you have now by hiding the past.”

Felice Stevens did a great job of revealing things little by little while at the same time not dragging things out, if that makes sense. I really loved the interactions between Chess and his group of friends. They have formed a wonderful found-family. We also get a bit more teasing about Wolf and Spencer as things heat up between them. I can’t wait to read their story, Beautiful Mistakes, available now in Kindle Unlimited.

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About Author

Felice Stevens has always been a romantic at heart. She believes that while life is tough, there is always a happy ending just around the corner. Her characters have to work for it, however. Like life in NYC, nothing comes easy, and that includes love.

She lives in New York City and has way too much black in her wardrobe yet can’t stop buying “just one more pair” of black pants. Felice is a happily addicted Bravo and Say Yes to the Dress addict and proud of it. And let’s not get started on House Hunters. Her dream day starts out with iced coffee and ends with Prosecco, because…why shouldn’t it? You can find her procrastinating on FB in her reader group, Felice’s Breakfast Club.

You can find all my books, grouped by series in proper reading order on my website.

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