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July 16, 2025
Canyon saves the day
These Pride Summer Camp 2025 books have been delightful, each one unique and a fun read. This offering by D. K. Sutton takes place at a summer camp for a work team building retreat to celebrate diversity in the company that River, Canyon’s brother, works for. River had organized everything and has now disappeared, leaving Wade, his “boss hole”, in the lurch. Wade recruits Canyon to help in his brother’s place. Canyon’s brattiness and Wade’s take charge attitude bring the two together as they flirt with the attraction between them, Wade’s Daddy vibe strongly appealing to Canyon’s desire for someone to take care of him for a change, to praise him as a good boy. As the activities unfold, tensions as well as fun times move the retreat along, until the last day when trouble arrives to stir everything up and bring company division at the top into play, and to solve the secrets that have been hidden for awhile.
There is an interesting cast of side characters that could make good main characters for further books if the author wanted to go that route, but there is no hint of further books. I would like a book with River, or maybe Ander, too.
The world building of the camp itself and the activities reminded me of summer camps I attended in my younger years, just the activities were aimed more for adults, but some, like trust falls, would be usual ones. I enjoyed the interactions between Ward and Canyon as they got closer together, and smiled at some of the petty squabbles, the…