I’ve always appreciated that L.A. Witt writes characters that feel real and she absolutely succeeded with the two men in Afraid to Fly then she added in an intricate plot and intelligent dialog and turned out one amazing romance. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
Once a fearless fighter pilot, Commander Travis Wilson is now confined to a desk. It’s been eight years since the near-fatal crash that grounded him, and it still rules his life thanks to relentless back pain.
Lieutenant Commander Clint Fraser almost drowned in a bottle after a highly classified catastrophe while piloting a drone. His downward spiral cost him his marriage and kids, but he’s sober now and getting his life back on track. He’s traded drones for a desk, and he’s determined to reconcile with his kids and navigate the choppy waters of PTSD.
Clint has been on Travis’s radar ever since he transferred to Anchor Point. When Clint comes out to his colleagues, it’s a disaster, but there’s a silver lining: now that Travis knows Clint is into men, the chemistry between them explodes.
It’s all fun and games until emotions get involved. Clint’s never been in love with a man before. Travis has, and a decade later, that tragic ending still haunts him. Clint needs to coax him past his fear of crashing and burning again, or their love will be grounded before takeoff.
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Afraid to Fly is the second book in L.A. Witt’s Anchor Point series and I loved this intelligent, 
emotional and sexy story of two older Navy officers finding each other and love despite the baggage and pitfalls between them. This wasn’t an easy romance, both men had ex-wives, children, PTSD, and seemingly impossible issues to deal with on their own and when you put them together it is multiplies, but they also give to each other something no one has been able to and that is a feeling of safety and security neither one has experienced in quite some time.
That look across the room when you realize that the man you’ve noticed for the last several months is gay or at the very least bi-sexual, and the excitement that builds even though he’s with someone else, that sets the tone of this book and it was very clear in that moment that Commander Travis Wilson was extremely excited to find out that Lt. Commander Clint Fraser likes men. The same could be said when through conversation during the evening Clint realizes that Travis is not the heterosexual man he thought him to be. I love that these two men had been secretly checking one another out since Clint transferred to the Anchor Point base, but watching them fall for one another was even more entertaining.
Let’s just be honest, these two went from zero to sixty and it was fueled by attraction and lust at first, but as they began to open up about their issues, what they saw as their failures, about their insecurities they forged a pretty strong bond. It was not easy between them for the majority of this book, they both had too much baggage for either one of them to believe they could be happy or let someone in to their lives again, but to those around them and to the reader it was easy to see that in each other they found someone they could absolutely be themselves with which of course scared the crap out of both of them.
What I loved is that their emotions and fears were real, that events from their past had made them wary, and that they were very flawed in their thinking because of it. I will say that on Travis’ side there was a bit more angst than I normally like and while it may have been warranted, it also made me a bit crazy that neither he nor his good friends or his daughter had seen that he really needed some counseling to move past it, but that is my one complaint about this book.
I’ve always appreciated that L.A. Witt writes characters that feel real and she absolutely succeeded with the two men in Afraid to Fly then she added in an intricate plot and intelligent dialog and turned out one amazing romance.
Sounds good. Thanks for the review Slick