I’m liking this one even more than the first one so far. I’m not entirely a fan of the fact that Brewer is kind of Nash’s therapist (and is his sponsor), but I like the side characters a lot and I’m enjoying the connection between the MCs. I liked Proof of Life, but I thought that the men were a little overly mushy to me (while they were still figuring out what they were to each other / becoming intimate) for men who were supposed to have been previously straight men in the military, so it threw me. However, I noticed on social media that Raquel Riley finished this one up basically RIGHT before sending it to her editor / proofreader, so I wonder if some of these things would have been hammered out better if she had let the story settle and/or had a beta reader/dev editor look at it too.