Product Description

Location scout Gabriel Nash finds himself looking for a beach house in Nova Scotia, hoping to find something perfect for the new movie he's working on. When he sees Marc's house, he knows it's just right, but painter and loner Marc doesn't want to deal with all the people a movie shoot would bring into his home. Marc wouldn't mind having Gabriel around, though. In fact, he finds Gabriel inspiring, making him the subject of his paintings while Gabriel works to find another house. The two of them get to know each other well, much to Marc's agent's dismay. She thinks Gabriel is just using Mark, but changes her tune when Gabriel offers to take Marc to L.A. with him. The problem is that Marc hates L.A. and everything it stands for. He hates the crowds of people and the spotlight of gallery showings. He can't be a part of Gabriel's world, and he needs to go back to his house, where he can see the sea and find peace. Can Gabriel give up on his dream to move Marc to California and find a way for them to be together in Marc's perfect house on the beach?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #874666 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

Customer Reviews

The Painted House by Drew Zachary
Gabriel is a location scout from Los Angeles who is travelling all around Nova Scotia to find a location for an upcoming movie. He thinks to have find the perfect place when he sees Marc's house, a 150 years old house perched on a cliff with a private beach. But Marc is like an hermit, growing alone with an old grandmother and now totally alone with only the company of Bogart, a golden retriever. And he has no intention to allow to a crew to invade his home. He is also a very good artist, whose paintings are in museums and sold very well, but all the practical things are managed by his agent, and he lives only to paint and walk in the sand. He has a disorganized life, sleep and eat when he wants. And he doesn't have a lover.

When Gabriel and Marc meet it's all of sudden passion. Marc seems to have not enough of Gabriel, but still he can't think to leave his reclusive life. If Gabriel wants to tag alone, fine, but he will not change his lifestyle for him. It's not a conscious choice, it's more a question of life or death. Really Marc is a very interesting character, but I think he has also some issues when he arrives to relationship. He is maybe like the classical artist, with the mind lost in his thoughts and reality that only here and there breaks the cloud.

Gabriel quarrels with Marc's agent, pretending she treats Marc as an adult, but in the end also him allows Marc to be as he likes. It's good for Marc that Gabriel is a good man, cause he is too naivee to face bad realities. Marc is not mad, but he is not "normal": if someone tried to open his eyes he could kill the man who is.

The book is very erotic, even if Gabriel doesn't try to change Marc, he opens him to the almost unknown sex world. And there are plenty of thing to discover...

Not much of a story
Although this book is enjoyable enough, there isn't much of a story to it. I kept waiting for more development in between the sex scenes, but nothing much ever happened. It's an ok read, but not one I would read again.

The Painted House
Gabriel Nash loved his job scouting around for filming locations that fit with the vision of movie producers and directors. On his new assignment, he finds the perfect house but the owner is not interested in having strangers invade his property. Gabriel has rarely come across a site where he couldn't negotiate the right price to get what he wanted but then he has never met anyone like Marc where money doesn't mean a thing to him.

Marc is a loner and from a different world than Gabriel. Marc pays no attention to time and or anything else that takes him from his peaceful solitude where he can paint, create and just be - the last thing he wants is strangers invading his peaceful existence, although he wouldn't mind Gabriel sticking around for a while.

These two men with almost nothing in common find comfort within each other, but can Marc learn to live in Gabriel's fast-paced world and leave his peaceful home in Nova Scotia or will the love and inspiration he's found within Gabriel be lost to him, leaving him alone again.

The Painted House is a sweet slow paced story I really enjoyed reading. Marc and Gabriel take time to get to know and understand each other leading to a relationship of trust and caring. Marc is someone who needs to be handled with kid gloves and Gabriel is willing to be what he needed. I loved these guys and this story. I even liked Jennifer, Marc's agent, she comes off rather rude but she cares for Marc so that makes it easy to forgive her snarky attitude. The Painted House is a feel good story that had me snuggled up on the couch with a sappy smile on my face.

Ley
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