REVIEW: Nash by Nora Phoenix & EM Lindsey (Honorably Discharged #4)

NASH

Honorably Discharged - Book Four

by Nora Phoenix & EM Lindsey

Release Date: January 8, 2026

Review

Oh, how I cried when they all moved out, leaving Nash alone. He was so happy for them, but he relied on them more than any of them realized.

Nash, from military to EMT, he’s a natural at taking control and caring. He’s also carrying a whole load of emotional baggage. With all of his brother’s/best friends out of the house, he’s faced with what’s next. But then there’s Forest. Creek’s younger brother has moved in, and Nash is only too eager to help Forest when he is faced with medical issues.

Forest is a lovely guy, who should be living young and loud and enjoying the start of his career. But his health is consuming his life. He might be alone if it weren’t for Nash.

Together, they navigate what comes next for both of them. In their own lives, and as a couple. They may have married before they started dating, but that doesn’t mean they’re love isn’t steady and strong!

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Synopsis

After my brothers-in-arms have all moved out, I’m suffering from a kind of empty nest syndrome. The only one left is Forest, Creek’s little brother.

Except he’s not that little. He’s seriously hot and sassy, and the way I dream about him is anything but brotherly.

But he’s too young for me, too innocent. Too…perfect. He doesn’t need a man with my kind of baggage.

When he gets sick, I’m there for him, even when he allows no one else in.

I will do anything to take care of him…and that includes marrying him so he’ll have health insurance.

But when fake becomes real, I don’t know what to do. Forest may need me, but how do I explain to him that I need him just as much?

Nash is the fourth book in the Honorably Discharged Series, which can be read as standalones but are much more fun if read in order.

About Nora Phoenix

Would you like the long or the short version of my bio?

The short? You got it.

I write steamy gay romance books, and I love it. I also love reading books. Books are everything.

How was that?

A little more detail? Gotcha.

I started writing my first stories when I was a teen…on a freaking typewriter. I still have these, and they’re adorably romantic. And bad, haha. Fear of failing kept me from following my dream to become a romance author, so you can imagine how proud and ecstatic I am that I finally overcame my fears and self doubt and did it. I adore my genre because I love writing and reading about flawed, strong men who are just a tad broken..but find their happy ever after anyway.

My favorite books to read are pretty much all MM/gay romances as long as it has a happy end. Kink is a plus… Aside from that, I also read a lot of nonfiction and not just books on writing. Popular psychology is a favorite topic of mine and so are self help and sociology.

Hobbies? Ain’t nobody got time for that. Just kidding. I love traveling, spending time near the ocean, and hiking. But I love books more.

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About EM Lindsey

E.M. Lindsey is a non-binary, MM Romance author, an ancient historian, and avid lover of nerdy things. They live on the East Coast of the United States.

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