Into the Blue

by Pene Henson

Overview

Tai Talagi and Ollie Birkstrom have been inseparable since they met as kids surfing the North Shore of Oahu. Now they live with their best friends and Ollies kid brother in a pulled-together family, all of them piled into a run-down beach house. They share cooking, bills, and the saltwater running in their veins.Tais spent years shutting down any feelings for Ollie. Theyre friends. Their family depends on them. But with Ollie off on his first world tour and his dreams of a pro surfing career finally within reach, their steady world shifts. is the relationship worth risking their friendship, their family, their dreams, for a chance at something terrifying and beautiful and altogether new?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941530856
Publisher:	Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/07/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Pene Henson has gone from British boarding schools to New York City law firms. She now lives in Sydney, Australia, where she is an intellectual property lawyer and published poet who is deeply immersed in the citys LGBTQiA community. She spends her spare time enjoying the outdoors and gazing at the ocean with her gorgeous wife and two unexpectedly exceptional sons.

Editorial Reviews

★ 05/23/2016
In this warmhearted Hawaii-based contemporary romance, pro surfer Ollie makes his grand return two years after an injury, and his best friend, Tai, is right where he’s always been: at Ollie’s side, pushing him to do his best. When a wildcard tournament held on their home turf leads to a spot in the Surfing World Championship Tour, Ollie knows exactly whom he wants for his support crew. As the two travel together, their feelings for each other become deeper and more complicated, but both worry what their burgeoning physical intimacy might mean for the family of housemates that they have cobbled together. When they return home from the tour, their individual lives blossom in unexpected and rewarding ways, but fear and uncertainty keep them from asking for what they want the most. The plausibility of the miscommunications and the realism of the young men’s relationship and personalities are exceptional. Readers eager for more diversity in romance will appreciate the nuanced portrayals of the leads (one gay, one demisexual) and the women they live with (one bisexual, one asexual) but may wish that Tai’s Samoan heritage and its meaning for him had been explored, rather than just repeatedly referred to in passing. (July)

Publishers Weekly