All Kinds of Tied Down by Mary Calmes

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Blurb

Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. These traits serve him well with his hotshot partner, Ian Doyle, the kind of guy who can start a fight in an empty room. In the past three years of their life-and-death job, they’ve gone from strangers to professional coworkers to devoted teammates and best friends. Miro’s cultivated blind faith in the man who has his back… faith and something more. 

As a marshal and a soldier, Ian’s expected to lead. But the power and control that brings Ian success and fulfillment in the field isn’t working anywhere else. Ian’s always resisted all kinds of tied down, but having no home—and no one to come home to—is slowly eating him up inside. Over time, Ian has grudgingly accepted that going anywhere without his partner simply doesn’t work. Now Miro just has to convince him that getting tangled up in heartstrings isn’t being tied down at all.

Review

I loved this book. There’s no other way to describe it.

There were a few moments when I wondered when these guys would just get on with it, but that’s how unrequited partnerships go. Sometimes that trope annoys the hell out of me, but when it’s done well it’s one of my favorite tropes in romance.

You have here a guy – Miro – who is just driven to take care of his work partner, Ian. He helps him with his cat, when Ian is out on assignment for his other job. He works to smooth over Ian’s faux pas with his girlfriends. He feeds Ian. He helps rebuild Ian’s relationships with his family. All the while, Miro is very much aware of who and what he wants, and he keeps his mouth shut because he knows Ian is straight.

Yeah, you already know what’s going to happen. And that’s okay. The beauty here is watching everything unfold.

Outside of the romance – which is everything I wanted on that side of the coin – All Kinds of Tied Down has plenty of mayhem and a healthy dose of humor. It’s a fun book to read. The humor shows up at exactly the right time. Miro and Ian display an empathy I’d love to see shown more often in law enforcement – not that these scenarios could be allowed to make the news in real life, if they happened at all. And they handle the vagaries of their job with a humor that will keep you smiling through the entire book.

The world is a harsh place, and it gets more challenging by the day. Every one of us could use a book that makes us smile the way All Kinds of Tied Down does.