He would return every few months and they would hook up. He first met Sebastian ten years prior when Sebastian came into his bar. He doesn’t trust easily and has hook ups only. They were each other’s family.ĭeclan has always been known as ‘The Loner.’ He had a terrible childhood and has since kept others at a distance except for his three best friends. The friendship between these four men who refer to themselves as The Beach Bums, was the BEST! They argued and loved to give each other a hard time. He owns his own bar and does a once a week podcast with his three best friends since childhood, Parker, Marcus and Corbin.

I got everything I hoped for and so much more! This book was amazing.ĭeclan Burns is thirty three years old. Four best friends doing a Queer podcast together. First, obviously, the sexy cover model! I pictured him all the way through this! Also, the whole premise sounded like so much fun. I wanted to grab this for a couple of reasons. The Loner is book one in the new series, The Vers Podcast, by Riley Hart. Expect Southern California sun, swoon, found family and once-in-a-lifetime friendships. The Loner is an opposites attract romance about a movie star rethinking his career and a bar owner/podcast host who isn’t fond of most people. But to call him mine, I’ll need to leave the past behind and finally allow myself to move forward with him. I don’t know how to be someone’s boyfriend, let alone be in the public eye. The more we hang out, the more I realize I’ll never get enough of him.Ī loner dating a celebrity doesn’t make much sense. When he starts taking me places, it feels suspiciously like dates…and surprisingly, I like it.ĭespite our differences, Sebastian’s lonely, like me. We’ve known each other intimately for years, and yet we’ve never spent much time together with our clothes on. He needs a friend, and for whatever reason, he decides that should be me. Now Sebastian is back in California, taking a break from acting. A boyfriend he later found in bed with another man. Who knew my favorite one would become such a popular movie star? But Sebastian Cole and I made it work, meeting up whenever he was in Santa Monica and in the mood-until he called it off when he got a serious boyfriend. Infrequent, no-strings-attached hookups have always worked for me. Most of them just let you down anyway, or maybe it’s just that something about me chases people away. As a founding member of The Vers, a queer podcast I host with my three best friends, I’m The Loner-quieter than the others, and except for them, I don’t let myself get too close to people.

The Loner by Riley Hart