His professionalism demanded one choice, and his heart and soul another. 🔊 He was at a crossroads, stuck trying to figure out where to go. But lessons learnt in the past tell him this is impossible. He wants someone to come home to, to share his life with. After spending 25 years alone, he's starting to realise he wants more, deserves more. Tom is a newly appointed judge, actually nicknamed the baby judge.

We get to know them, their wants and their fears, and play with Etta Mae. We are there when a tentative friendship starts to form, when they realise they want something more. We get to know both Tom and Mike, who they are. The first half or so of the book reads like a contemporary romance. This book can be divided into two parts, the before and the after.

Stakes are still high and the world is watching, but overall, the main focus of the first part of the book remains on the budding relationship between Tom and Mike. It's gentler in a way and not as fast paced or explosive. This book is something entirely different. To kick things off, let me start with saying that, Hush does not have the same feel to it as The Executive Office had. With the world's attention fixed on Tom and this case, secrets from his past explode during the course of the trial, which place him at the very center of the case and make him the only man who can try to stop the world's slide into war.ģ,5 stars rounded up. As Russia beats the drums of war and the United States struggles to contain the trial before it races out of control, secrets and lies, past and present, collide in his courtroom, before his bench. The Russian president is gravely injured and fixated on revenge, while a gay Russian dissident is arrested and put on trial in Judge Tom Brewer's courtroom. He wants to be out and proud, but he can't erase his own past, and the lessons he learned long ago.Ī devastating terrorist attack in the heart of Washington, DC, and the capture and arrest of the terrorist lead to a trial that threatens to expose the dark underbelly of America's national security. In the closet for 25 long years, he's climbing out slowly, and, with the hope of finding a special relationship with the stunning Mike Lucciano, US Marshal assigned to his DC courthouse. Federal Judge Tom Brewer is finally putting the pieces of his life back together.

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