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Strange Bedfellows Kindle Edition

by Cardeno C. (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 549 ratings
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Can the billionaire son of a Democratic president build a family with the congressman son of a Republican senator? Forget politics, love makes strange bedfellows.

As the sole offspring of the Democratic United States president and his political operative wife, Trevor Moga was raised in an environment driven by the election cycle. During childhood, he fantasized about living in a made-for-television family, and as an adult, he rejected all things politics and built a highly successful career as far from his parents as possible.

Newly elected congressman Ford Hollingsworth is Republican royalty. The grandson of a revered governor and son of a respected senator, he was bred to value faith, family, and the goal of seeing a Hollingsworth in the White House.

When Trevor and Ford meet, sparks fly and a strong friendship is formed. But can the billionaire son of a Democratic president build a family with the congressman son of a Republican senator? Forget politics, love makes strange bedfellows.

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    271 pages
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  3. Publication date
    June 26 2015
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About the Author

Cardeno C.—CC to friends—is a hopeless romantic who wants to add a lot of happiness and a few awwws into a reader’s day. Writing is a nice break from real life as a corporate type and volunteer work with gay rights organizations. Cardeno’s stories range from sweet to intense, contemporary to paranormal, long to short, but they always include strong relationships and walks into the happily-ever-after sunset.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ZMPE1ZS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Romance Authors (June 26 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 401 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 271 pages
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Cardeno C. - CC to friends - is a hopeless romantic who wants to add a lot of happiness and a few "awwws" into a reader's day. Writing is a nice break from real life as a corporate type and volunteer work with gay rights organizations. Cardeno's stories range from sweet to intense, contemporary to paranormal, long to short, but they always include strong relationships and walks into the happily-ever-after sunset.

Heartwarming Stories. Strong Relationships. Forever Love.

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  • Bee
    5.0 out of 5 stars Cardeno never disappoints
    Reviewed in Canada on March 16, 2018
    Love, unexpected and unlooked for, sneaks up on two men from opposite political backgrounds. I truly enjoyed their relationship developing from a secret affair to a life long commitment.
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  • Minami
    5.0 out of 5 stars awwwwww
    Reviewed in Germany on December 2, 2021
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    They are this cute ❤️ these two charakters made me laugh and made me cry and it mades me „awwwwwwww“ so many times 💕 🥰 💕 i loved to read it and i took it in a couple hours 😆🤭😁🥰
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  • Donna
    4.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected and engaging
    Reviewed in Australia on January 16, 2021
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    I don't normally read or enjoy political settings in my books, especially American politics, but I adore Cardeno C's books, so I gave it a go. I am so glad I did.
    This was a light read with alot of humour. The interaction and bond between Trevor and Ford was established early on, and it was more of a coming of age than a political commentary. I loved how secure in himself Trevor is, and how quietly strong Ford is. Together, they were just meant to be. Two strong men who could have clashed, but who became stronger together.
    For a book I was ambiguous about reading, I was pleasantly surprised, and I really enjoyed it.
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  • Bo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Unlikely Plot and Soul Mates Made Most Likely, And an Absolute Hoot
    Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2015
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    I love Cardeno C's works but when I read the synopsis for this one, I stopped and said, "Oh, puleeeze!"

    I didn't think that even maybe five-years from now anyone could imagine:

    1) the openly gay, incredibly wealthy and one-night-stand oriented 42-year-old son of the Democrat President of the United States hooking up, so-to-speak, with

    2) the deeply closeted, very religious, incredibly cute and newly elected Congressman from Missouri who happens to be the 38-year-old son of the rabidly right-wing Republican senior Senator from Missouri.

    Got that?

    Oh, it gets worse. The smooth talking, smoothly sexual Democrat Trevor Moga (where did that name come from?) cruises and picks up the deeply nervous and terrified Republican Ford Hollingsworth in a New York bar, with Trevor knowing whom he snags but Ford totally oblivious to who has snagged him. Trevor takes Ford to his stunning apartment where the sex is incredible and Ford's world collapses upon him when he realizes the man who has just done the deed to him is...well, you get it, right?

    Now, it gets even stranger, but instead of throwing up my hands and saying "This simply cannot happen," even though it's 2015 and the book comes out virtually on the day the Supreme Court hands down it momentous same-sex marriage decision (not contained in the book), the writing is so cool, the conversations are so unique, and the characters take on such rich and deep dimensions that I was totally hooked.

    Not that there are no other fantasies paraded before us that you would have a hard time imagining, including the reactions of both families when eventually things come out. So what? This is fiction, folks, and sometimes you need to have a good time while putting your beliefs on hold.

    And I hooted along the way. Not that it's hilarious or even a comedy of errors. It's just almost an LOL a chapter, a smile and a chuckle here and there, and a love story that will make you throw your fist in the air and shout "Yessss!" at the end. And you know, it may eventually turn out that a year or so from now we can all say, "whatever."

    Way to go, Cardeno!
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  • Shaztwirl
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Pleasure To Read!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 7, 2015
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    My newest favourite book couple! I absolutely adored Trevor from the very first page and his energy and voracious personality was the perfect match to Ford's shy reserved nature. Together they make the perfect power couple. This book was a real delight to read.
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  • Alan Arthur Katz
    4.0 out of 5 stars Light, Lovely, Romance
    Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2015
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    Cardeno C. has an amazing body of work covering almost every genre of gay fiction. A truly accomplished author with a host of five-star books and VIP partnerships, Strange Bedfellows, is a bit of a departure from much of her other work - a little lighter, a little more clever, a little more fun to read. It is, in fact, exactly what I was looking for to brighten up my week.

    The story is very simple, but also fairly unique. It features two characters involved in politics, a 37-year-old U. S. Representative from Missouri and Trevor Mago, the son of the Democratic President of The United States. Adding even more levels of recognition, accomplishment (and, in some cases, shackles), Trevor is also a brilliant self-made billionaire, five years older than Ford, and Ford, in turn, is the son of one of the two U. S. Senators from Missouri. Both of the men are gay, which adds some major wrinkles to their non-existent love lives. Trevor finds it incredibly difficult to deal with what his hook-ups want from him, more often than not, money, a job, a contact within the White House. Ford is bedeviled by his family's relentless right-wing family values and their conservative disapproval of gays and same-sex marriage.

    These men were raised in more-than-unusual families that went a long way to influencing their beliefs, attitudes and the obstacles they are still battling to live a successful, fulfilling life. Trevor hates the idea of relationships, seeing that both his parents had long entertained a bevy of bed-mates in their open marriage, and lies about relationships because of the political necessity of keeping mum about their multiple infidelities. Trevor was raised believing there were only three people any of them could ever trust - each other, father, mother and son. Ford was raised in his evangelical church, raised to believe he was an evil sinner who couldn't control his same-sex urges, no matter how hard he tried, destined to be celibate or unhappy his entire life, until he finally reconciled his beliefs, as an adult - that he was exactly as God made him, and denying that is to deny the intentions of God Himself.

    Trevor has stayed as far away as he possibly could from politics, knowing, first-hand and up-close, that there was no integrity in the profession, no truth, no innocence and no honesty. So what's the likelihood that a religiously-up-tight closeted Republican House Member and the billionaire son of the Liberal First Family, who trusts no one and hates politics with a passion, would ever be able to get together? Slim-to-none. But it happens, nonetheless.

    The men hooked up in dark gay bar in Washington DC and went back to Trevor's place to get it on. Which they did, to great satisfaction. It's not until the lights come on in Trevor's penthouse condo, that Ford realizes who he just slept with - a man who could now blackmail him with the destruction of his political career, a man who is the son of the opposition. As Trevor politely points out, he's already got enough first-hand ammunition to blackmail him forever, so what has he got to lose by jumping back into bed with him again? Which he does.

    Surprisingly, this produces almost no angst. These men sincerely like each other, their banter is funny, clever and endearing, they make each other laugh, they make each other horny and they love being together. Nice to get all that stuff out of the way right off the bat. What's left is whether Ford will have to guts to come out (of course, he will), and both men facing both sets of parents and the insane pressures they put on their only sons, all in the name of family-loyalty, political party and, in Ford's case, the church he's betraying by being openly gay.

    That's it, I don't want to give away much more, not because I don't want to reveal incredibly clever twists in the ensuing plot, but because there aren't incredibly clever twists in the plot. The plot itself is not exactly an edge-of-your-seat page-turner - but the characters are. The interplay between the men is beautifully written (to be expected from Cardeno C.), there are moments of laugh-out-loud humor, one fight that breaks the couple up (for less than 24 hours), and the endless, stereotypical but heartwarming bickering when the Democratic President and the right-wing Republican Senator work to merge their families and their political campaigns - a feat that staggers the imagination.

    Strange Bedfellows offers a lovely happily-ever-after for these two empathetic characters. Are they authentic and believable? - not really, because they're both bigger than life, but their inner light is so lovely, and they make such a wonderful couple that you'll be rooting for them page after page, without exception.

    This is another lovely story by Cardeno C., one that I recommend for a few hours' light reading on the beach, or indoors on a rainy day. The author provides almost no heartache, but lots of tender, funny, intimate and sexy dialogue that exquisitely expresses the story of these two men falling in love. Don't miss it.
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