Congrats all round, and thank you Kaje for your interpretation of the prompt. It's on a par with The Tin Box for me.highs and lows in emotion, loads of tears, an incredible story and superb storytelling from the narrator. as he doesn't seem to have done a lot of M/M, I was completely gobsmacked by how fantastic he was!! As Daniel and Jacob got older, Kaleo's voice became more gruff and got deeper.his characterisation was wonderful, and I can't recommend this audio book highly enough. Thank God he had a sister Lily who loved him to bits and dragged both of them into her family, where they became uncles to her children. How CAN it be right that a couple can be in a relationship for 26 years (at that time 1940's to 1960's), and one half of that relationship, Jacob, has to keep everything under wraps from his family and his workmates and go through life as though his other half Daniel, his HEART.his FAMILY doesn't exist? Stonewall was mentioned at length.and THAT was the catalyst for Jacob to finally find the courage to stick his middle finger up at his father and live his life as he chose. I know I would've have been thrilled to bits with this story if I was a gay guy.Kaje absolutely wrote it from the heart. The story was brilliant, the characters, the pacing, the LOVE.just EVERYTHING was amazing, and at one point I had tears rolling down my face AND was chuckling at the same time. It won the 2012 LGBT Rainbow Award for Best Gay Historical Romance in 2012 and has been rated by more than 1,300 users on Goodreads with an average rating of 4.41 stars.Īn amazing narrator for a brilliant story. This novel was written as part of the Goodreads M/M Romance Group's 2012 Don't Read in the Closet writing event: Love is Always Write. And, if they survive the war, they will need even more luck to keep their love alive through the years to come.

Their relationship is measured in stolen moments and rare days of precious leave, with no guarantee there will be a tomorrow. Being together requires figuring out what it means to be gay in an era when they could be discharged, imprisoned, or worse for admitting the desires of their hearts. But from the moment Daniel meets Jacob's eyes across a battle-scarred deck, he knows he has to try. Only a special kind of love is worth taking that chance. Not only the risks of injury and death from Japanese planes and submarines, but the risk of discovery.

For Jacob and Daniel, two young gay men aboard a US Navy ship in WWII, the risks are high.

Into Deep Waters by Kaje Harper