The Impetuous Afflictions of Jonathan Wolfe — Charlie Cochet

Sequel to The Auspicious Troubles of ChanceThe Auspicious Troubles of Love: Book Two Eight years after leaving the deserts of Africa and the French Foreign Legion behind, Jonathan Wolfe has settled into life at Hawthorne Manor in the English countryside. Johnnie helps his adopted family run the manor and provide a safe, loving home for a new generation of “brats”: boys mistreated and discarded for their homosexuality -- something all too familiar to Johnnie. Although no longer an unruly youngster, Johnnie is as stubborn, foul-mouthed, and troublesome as ever. His recent rash behavior becomes a concern for those closest to him, especially Dr. Henry Young, the only man ever to capture Johnnie's heart. Instead of soothing him, their closeness brings Johnnie's insecurities from an unsettling past to the surface, and leads to an explosive situation that threatens to tear them apart. Then Henry's past catches up to them….