Garrett Leigh has a way of bringing out the best and worst in her characters, has you feeling like you are part of their lives and she can tell a story that steals your heart and leaves you wanting more. ~ Kitty, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
Ex-surfer-turned-businessman Liam Mallaney moved back to Holkham, Norfolk, to mourn the loss of his husband. Grief and loneliness keep him a solitary figure, and he likes it that way. There’s no room in his broken heart for anything else.
Rentboy Zac Payne left London and most of his demons behind, but he still only knows one way to make a living. When he spots Liam in a club one night, it seems he’s found his mark. But Liam proves nicer—and their connection far deeper—than he’d bargained for.
Their arrangement quickly becomes too complicated for Zac, who has other things on his mind: namely his BFF and wayward flatmate, Jamie. Zac owes Jamie the world, and even as Jamie’s drug addiction destroys all they have, Zac won’t leave him behind.
Besides, Liam knows nothing of Zac’s home life, too caught up in his own head to think much beyond the crazy heat he and Zac share. But when trouble comes to Zac’s door, putting his life in danger, Liam must set his grief and anger aside to pick up the pieces of Zac’s shattered heart and his own.
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I am seriously enjoying the writings of Garrett Leigh. She has a way of bringing out the best and 
worst in her characters, has you feeling like you are part of their lives and she can tell a story that steals your heart and leaves you wanting more.
The story of Liam and Zac was unbelievable. Zac was filled with pain and self-loathing but, he was loyal to a fault. Liam was heart-broken and convinced that world would just keep revolving with or without his participation. After one night, they couldn’t stop thinking about the other. It’s up to Liam to make the next move and Zac could only hope that he does. When Liam finally reaches out to Zac, he finally admits that there is more to life than just surviving. Zac just starts to feel guilty about taking his money since he knows that there is more to them than just sex. But, how does he survive without it. How does he keep Jamie safe? An argument, a misunderstanding, a tragedy … that’s all it takes for Liam to come to his senses, to start asking the questions he should have asked before jumping to conclusions, for Jamie to get clean and for Zac to maybe start believing that he is worthy of Liam.
Rented Heart just pulled me in. The characters were extremely well written and the story was unbelievably told. The supporting characters were relevant and added to the story instead of just being fillers like so many are. I also have to give her credit for writing this story in England, for using a lot of English phrases but making it so that this American mind can actually understand it, believe it and enjoy it. I can’t say enough good or praise the way Garret Leigh writes her stories. She, honestly, has me spell-bound from beginning to end.
Thanks Kitty for the review