She’s sympathetic and supportive – and furious with her brother – and it’s she who encourages Ethan to continue with his plan to go to Australia. Numb with shock – and from the cold out on the street – Ethan unexpectedly bumps into Clara, Michael’s sister, and although he hadn’t planned it, tells her what’s happened. Despite protestations of love from both of them – and Michael’s poorly timed suggestion that they should become a throuple because he’s realised monogamy is not for him – Ethan can’t get out of the apartment fast enough. Ethan is, quite naturally, utterly devastated – not only has he lost the man he loved and the life he’d looked forward to building with him, but he’s lost his best friend, too. So… Ethan comes home early on the afternoon before his wedding to Michael, his partner of several years, to find his fiancé in bed with his best friend, Todd. It’s a slow-burn, hurt/comfort, age-gap romance between Ethan Robinson, who ends up, as the title indicates, going on his honeymoon alone and Clay Kelly, the driver/guide of the tour Ethan had booked for the holiday of a lifetime in Australia. This month’s prompt – getaway – gave me the chance to read a book that’s been recommended to me a few times by an author whose work I generally enjoy, so I cracked open Keira Andrews’ Honeymoon for One in the expectation of a solidly entertaining, well-told story – and that was exactly what I got. Clay is the sexy, rugged man of Ethan’s dreams, and as the clock counts down on their time together, neither wants this honeymoon to end.

Yet as the days pass and their connection grows, long-repressed desires surface in Clay, and they are shocked to discover romance sparking. If he’s a bit lonely, it’s not the end of the world.Ĭlay befriends Ethan, hoping he can cheer up the sad-eyed young man, and a crush on an unattainable straight guy is exactly the safe distraction Ethan needs. He enjoys his cricket, a few beers, and a quiet life. In a new career driving a tour bus on Australia’s East Coast, Clay reckons he’s happy enough. He got hitched young, but now his wife has divorced him and remarried, his kids are grown, and he’s left his rural Outback town. Hard of hearing and still struggling with the repercussions of being late-deafened, traveling by himself leaves him feeling painfully isolated with his raw, broken heart.Ĭlay Kelly never expected to be starting life over in his forties.

The wedding is off, but the love story is just beginning.īetrayed the night before his wedding by the supposed boy of his dreams, Ethan Robinson escapes the devastating fallout by going on his honeymoon alone to the other side of the world.

A Way Home by Keira Andrews