The Key - Jo Morgan Sloan

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I was lucky enough to get to be an advanced reader for The Key by Jo Morgan Sloan and I am SO GLAD I have the chance to tell you all about it. 

In a beautiful twist on the second chance romance trope, a cis-gender bisexual man falls in love with a transgender man ... who he doesn't realize he's been in love with before... when they were in high school and they were first loves.

Complex, layered, full of twists and turns that gave me pits and butterflies in my stomach The Key was a beautiful story about the journey Tabby and Jax go on to find each other AGAIN after Tabby moves from Colorado to California and is able to finally live as his authentic self. 

When Jax finds his fiancee cheating on him with his best friend he takes a chance on a brand new job and moves to California. He is sad and looking to connect not just with people in Cali but also with who he was before his ex so he finds a D&D group from an ad and goes off to maybe find some new geeky friends in his new town. 

And they are all delightful. He feels like he may have found a good place to be. They're waiting for the last arrivals and then...

Enter Tabby and Rob. Rob is a world class ass face. Seriously. And Tabby is speechless. His high school sweetheart is here. But Tabby isn't the same person he was, literally, when they parted but they promised if they ever found each other again they wound try again. They would let fate guide them.... 
And then Rob makes things all weird as he calls out the fact that Jax may not fit in since everyone else at the table is part of the LGBTQIA+ community and he's sure Jax is not - except he is. And how dare Rob make assumptions. Rude, gatekeeping, and judgey AF. It only gets worse from there. 

After Tabby and Jax wind up hanging out due to a car breaking down after another game night, Jax reaches out to Rob and basically tells him to up his game - Tabby deserves a boyfriend who isn't such a tool - Jax winds up being the personal love guru for Rob ... and that goes about how you would expect. So the sparks re sparking, Jax is trying to be a nice guy, Rob is being a tool... and Tabby is utterly flummoxed about what to do about his truth - he didn't tell Jax who he was. He hid his identity... he literally hides his most distinguishing mark behind colored contacts. 

So what happens when the truth comes out? What happens when fate intervenes? And what about the coolest cast of secondary characters EVER? 

Seriously read this book. I love everything about this story, these characters, this journey. It felt like hanging out with my D&D buddies. My friends. My family. 

Pre-order this book - it releases in December and it's worth the wait! 

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