Release Date: September 8, 2022
Cover Design: Christine Coffey
About the Book:
A gorgeous new sexual awakening romance with sizzling first times, snarky British banter, and off-the-charts chemistry.
Life doesn’t always pan out as you expect. When it explodes in my face, literally, an old friend offers me a place to heal and a job renovating the kitchen of Burlington’s coolest wine bar.
V&V is a chill fest. Living above it should be a blast. But I’m not built to be a social butterfly. Not anymore. I’m a damaged man.
And I’m not its target clientele.
At least, I think I’m not until I come face to face with the most beautiful human I’ve ever seen. Joss is the new chef and my roommate. He has hair like spun gold and it’s as pretty as the rest of him. Crystal blue eyes. Megawatt smile.
I can’t stop staring. Or thinking about him. He chases my nightmares away. And when he spots my crush a mile off, his solution to our chemical attraction blows my mind.
An experiment of sorts. Science. Is this sexual exploration or sex education?
Either way, Joss is only here for the summer. He’s leaving.
I can’t fall in love with him.
I can’t.
Shame my foolish heart never got the memo.
WILDFIRE is a heartfelt MM friends-to-lovers, hurt/comfort romance in the True North world, with a brooding lumbersexual, a wild-hearted chef, sweet angst and all the Vermont food. Content warning: contains mentions of depression, ADHD, suicidal ideation, and PTSD recovery.
What I thought about Wildfire
I was so excited to see that Garrett Leigh wrote another book for this wonderful series set in a Vermont bookstore/bar. In Wildfire, Kai Fletcher is living above the bar, having been taken under his wing by the manager, Tanner, after a devastating accident that leaves Kai with PTSD. It's so lovely how everyone rallies around Kai to help take care of him.
When Tanner is given the directive to expand the menu, he hires Kai to renovate the kitchen for the new chef who happens to be a friend of Tanner's boyfriend, Jax. Joss is an excellent chef, but he also doesn't stick around for long. To give him a place to stay, Tanner asks that Kai let him share his apartment.
Joss and Kai immediately grabbed my attention in this story and it's really all about their love story. As their friendship grows, Kai has the opportunity to experiment with Joss and when he can't forget their kiss, they take things a step further, then another step, and another. They learn to understand each other's neurodiversity. It's just beautiful.
There's just one problem they must face with their burgeoning relationship --Joss doesn't stay in one place long and he might have a job offer back across the pond. Will he leave Kai? He'll have to decide what's important to him, with a little help from the rest of the Vino & Veritas group and an incident that reveals what is really important to him.
I just loved this. Started it and didn't put it down until the final pages. It's emotional and grabbed my heart in all the right places. Definitely recommended. (and really, how can you resist that cover!)
About Garrett Leigh
Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer and book
designer.
Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the
2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in
the 2016 LAMBDA awards.
When not writing, Garrett can generally be found
procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing
as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and
animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.
Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with photographer Dan Burgess.
Connect with Garrett Leigh
Website: http://www.garrettleigh.com/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5893561.Garrett_Leigh
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/garrettleighauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Leigh
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