From #1 New York Times Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely, comes an all-new sexy and IRRESISTIBLE M/M stand-alone romance.
Get ready to fall in love with a sexy, witty British bartender and the cocky, charming American hockey star who walks into his bar!
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Blurb
A sexy, passionate, utterly addictive standalone MM romance from #1 NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely!
Every bartender should follow one simple rule—don’t go home with the customers.
That’s been easy for me to stick to, until the night a cocky, confident, and sinfully charming hockey star walks into my bar. This sexy athlete is too hard to resist, especially when he makes it clear how much he wants the “sarcastic, witty, hot AF” guy behind the bar—also known as me.
Still, I’m not keen on breaking my own rules since I know where that can lead—no place good.
But when that man makes his case with one bone-searing kiss on the streets of London, I throw resistance out the window.
What could go wrong with a hot, dirty, no-strings-attached fling before he leaves town in five days?
Trouble is, soon our nights together lead to days, to long conversations, to getting to know each other, and to something I never expected—falling ridiculously hard for a man who’s getting on a plane to America when I live a world away.
My life is here. His is there. And no amount of falling or feeling will change that one big problem.
Warning: contains hot hotel sex, loads of dirty talk, PDA all over London, and two sexy, witty, charming alpha heroes…
Review
“I fucking love you. That is all.”
4.5 dreamy, loved-up stars!
Lauren Blakely’s first m/m romance, and she’s delivered a blisteringly hot and passionate read with great characters, epic chemistry and soooooo much swoon!
This book has loose ties to Blakely’s The Guys That Got Away series, with some minor character crossover, but this one is a standalone and can be read independently of the others.
Dean Collins is living his dream – running his own bar with his best friend in his home town of London. He’s worked hard to get where he is, and he’s absolutely devoted to making his business a success, and he won’t let anything distract him from his goals… until a big distraction walks right into his bar.
James ‘Fitz’ Fitzgerald is an NHL player from America. He’s in London for a few days before he returns to New York and the start of a new hockey season. He’s not looking for love, but he’s totally open for a hook up while he’s in town, and with one glance he sets his sights on the sexy bartender.
The sparks that fly between Dean and Fitz are insane. They flirt, tease and banter, and though Dean is trying his best to keep his focus away from men and on his bar, he can’t resist the draw of the sexy American, and they agree to a short-lived fling while Fitz is in town, where they will explore their wicked chemistry before going their separate ways.
If you’re into books where you get to see every little moment of a romance unfold – all of the hot glances, flirty banter, fun dialogue, the sweetness, the longing, the steam and everything in between – then this is the book for you. We get to see every moment of Dean and Fitz’s romance unfold, drawing us into the story with them, and it’s a great combination of fun, flirty, and seriously steamy.
It’s the things he says and the way we are with each other.
He’s the best time I’ve ever had.
Oh holy God, this book is hot! There’s plenty of sexy time, and we get it in great detail. So much so that I actually ended up skimming a bit through all of the descriptiveness, but it shows the blistering connection between the two men, which very quickly strengthens as their attraction becomes so much more than either of them ever expected.
“There’s much more here than chemistry. More than the hashtag Best-Sex-Ever effect.”
Fitz lets out a breath like I’ve freed him, like I’ve given him everything he needs. “So much more,” he echoes, his shoulders relaxing, his arms looping around my neck, and his lips zeroing in on mine as he repeats “You are so much more” against my mouth, kissing me.
It’s such a gorgeous romance. Dean and Fitz just fit together. It’s fun, flirty, open and honest, and so, so easy. They are full of PDA, and they just go with the flow, following their hearts (and their libidos) into a relationship that neither of them were looking for. So much so that when the time comes for Fitz to return home and their fling to come to an end, how will they ever let go?
He is too much of what I want. He is all I want.
He is it.
The shattering truth of that clobbers me. There is no more falling. The falling is done, and I’m here.
I’m in love
I really enjoyed this book. The characters are great, and the romance is fun, flirty, super functional and incredibly sexy, with a lot of emotion and it’s so freaking swoony! There are scenes in this book that had my heart almost pounding out of my chest in swoony, excited, romantic bliss, which I loved!
I don’t think the book as a whole needed to be as long as it is, and that ending seems to go on and on and on (and then an epilogue!), and, to me, felt a bit repetitive with the declarations and the HEA. But it provides us with a great finish for Dean and Fitz – and a couple of other characters – and gives us some hints for more of Lauren’s books to come.
It’s a great story, and I loved Dean and Fitz’s romance.
4.5 stars!
An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
About the Author
A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s sweet, sexy and witty. She also writes red-hot love stories for her Lauren Blakely After Dark line.
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