This is book #3 in the Anchor Point series.  This book can be read as a standalone novel.  For reader enjoyment and understanding of the series, I recommend reading in order.

 

Anthony does not want to be here.  He promised his sister, and here he is.  On a break from the family drama, he meets Noah.  Very hot and very quickly they click.

 

Noah is more than happy to go home with a hot and willing guy.  How would he know this guy would change the direction of his future?  As long as they meet in the middle, the future looks bright.

 

This book was hot and intense right from the start.  I found the characters endearing, and I rooted for them right away.  Such a sexy series.  I give this story a 3/5 Kitty's Paws UP!

 

 

***This early copy was given in exchange for an honest review by Netgalley and its publishers.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Whipple created an accounting of the White House Chiefs of Staff from Nixon through Obama. The successful and the not so successful. The successful ones were given the authority to actually control the fire hose of information coming into the President. And to prevent the people who attempted to go around them to reach the President with what they thought were unique and special needs. Similar to the military, a lieutenant does not jump the chain of command and go directly to the general, he goes through channels. Otherwise, the General (President) would be overwhelmed with opinions and subject to following the most influential talker, regardless of facts.
As I finished reading this book, I was left with a feeling of awe in how well some of the Chief of Staffs could "herd cats" successfully. It takes a real talent.
I read a lot of political history books, and this one ranks up there with the best. It fills in a lot of holes and explains a lot of actions that I wondered about in my reading of presidential memoirs.
Highly recommended!

I received this ebook for free from the author: thanks a lot!

I was going to give this book 4 stars, but then I read the end and I decided that it absolutely deserves 5 stars. A-MA-ZING.

The FakeAPStyle twitter feed is one of the true jewels found on Twitter. A spoof of the AP Stylebook feed, it’s hilarious, in part because the authors are working journalists.They know where journalism’s skeletons are buried, and the resulting humor doesn’t just entertain, it also cuts like a scalpel.So when the same group (The Bureau Chiefs) produced a satirical grammar guide (ala The AP Style Manual), I had to read it.I’m just glad I wasn’t drinking coffee when I did.[bc:Write More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide|10084789|Write More Good An Absolutely Phony Guide|The Bureau Chiefs|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tKdUXrwdL._SL75_.jpg|14981646]It’s a brain-exploding mix of Dave Barry meets Borowitz meets the original AP Stylebook, and while the results aren’t always pretty, they are pretty funny: Celebrity ObituariesWhen writing the initial summary of the deceased’s accomplishments, try to accent the positive: (“. . . whose single ‘Pretty Hula Girl’ made it to #97 on the BillboardTop 100 in 1957”) over the infamous (“. . . was found walking naked down Hollywood Boulevard in 1974 carrying the severed head of a prostitute”), as the latter points are better discussed in detail within the body of the article.And this gem on headline writing:A good headline condenses the story in a short, easily grasped phrase without resorting to cheap gimmickry or undue cleverness. A great headline, however, is all about cheap gimmickry and undue cleverness. Write More Good is fourteen chapters of laugh-inducing weirdness, and while it’s unlikely you’ll read it from start to finish like a novel, if you’re like most readers, you’ll definitely find time to read the sections on Sex, Grammar and Celebrities (and I was kidding about one of those).Perhaps the only thing standing in the way of this book’s success is the nature of its primary audience; most contemporary journalists are either on unemployment or writing HuffPo posts for free, so they’re unable to afford cat food, much less a book.Still, writers of all stripes will probably want to give Write More Good a test drive (if you’re unwilling to unconditionally accept my recommendation, you can read an excerpt here).

This tells the story of three police chiefs of the small fictional town of Delaney, Georgia and their involvement in trying to solve a series of murders. The novel is divided into three parts, each named after a chief. The first, Will Henry Lee, was police chief in the 1920s; the second, Sonny Butts, was briefly chief right after World War II, and the third and final part of the novel deals with the first black police chief, Tucker Watts, in 1963. I enjoyed the television miniseries of this novel and it proved faithful to the book. This isn't just a mystery. In fact, I wouldn't call it much of a mystery since the identity of the murderer is strongly implied early on--but it is an engaging portrait of a small Southern town over 40 eventful years and a fascinating look at law enforcement and the racial relations of the period as well. This was over 500 pages and it went all too quickly--often suspenseful and never dull.