you've never lived in pseudo temperate rainforest climate :P)

And never will, eek. Rain just makes me gloomy.

I do recommend some of Lanyon's other books, if you like this one. They're not all to my particular taste, but they're all pretty good -- certainly several cuts above the general state of the lgbt genre, which is terrible. I liked his Adrien English books, and the Dark Horse/White Knight novellas hit some personal emotional kinks, but The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks didn't do much for me.