This week I'm teasing from my next MM romance release with
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Snowflake Wine
🎄Hunky Nathan Bloom works late for the company putting up the town Christmas lights and decorations. Gorgeous, enigmatic, Jamie Snow works late forecasting the weather from his desk in the meteorology office.
Nathan sighs over the prospect of a holiday season with no one to love.
Jamie wonders if he’ll ever find a man to love who will accept his mysterious origins and talents.
☃️One cold night, as Nathan finishes hoisting the wreath lights up the building where Jamie works, they meet.
The brilliant festive lights aren’t the only things to sparkle as the two men connect on a deep level.
🎄Be delighted by a delicious, contemporary gay romance with an edge of fantasy this season. Sometimes being different is awesome.
Read the #midweektease
Nathan
secured the waterfall of lights at the bottom bracket on the building. He
surveyed the balance of bulbs that would pour silvery-white light down the
walls on the second weekend in December.
“Looks good
to me.” The man from the balcony had approached. He stood so close that the
light fresh scent of his cologne filled Nathan’s head as a cool breeze drifted
his way.
He smells delicious. Nathan turned carefully. Face to
face, he gazed into the eyes of the man he'd seen on the balcony. Holy smoke, he is gorgeous. “Yeah,
they’re good.” Nathan didn’t know what else to say. Instead, he soaked up the
sight before him as the man smiled, and, to Nathan’s delight, shot beams of
attraction at him.
A colder
wind suddenly whirled along the street. It brought a fast food wrapper that
flattened against Nathan’s calf. He gazed into the sky as icy rain pattered
down. Shivers ran along his body. He rubbed his arms as he returned to gaze
into the man’s eyes.
“Looks as
if the weather’s turned—sudden, though, huh?” Nathan couldn’t tear his gaze
away from the man’s perfect mouth. Hell,
what would it be like to kiss him? “I heard it might be a white Christmas.”
He wondered how to keep the man talking just a few more moments even though the
rain splattered on his shirt.
“Oh, it will be a white Christmas.”
A smile
spread on Nathan’s lips. “How do you know?”
The man’s
expression filled with kindness. “I’m a meteorologist and people like white
Christmases, don’t they?”
The
explanation had a ring of strangeness and Nathan wondered for a second if this
man thought he could conjure a white Christmas. “I guess so, providing they’re
not inconvenienced—providing they can drive to the comfort of a warm home and
someone who loves them.” The words tumbled from lonely Nathan under the
interested gaze of the handsome man.
“Do you
have that—a warm home and someone who loves you?”
Nathan
stared at him. He wanted to answer
despite growing colder as the freezing rain trickled down his shirt collar.
“Home, yes, lover no.”
Huge
raindrops sparkled in the man’s dark hair under the streetlight like rainbow
jewels. He held Nathan’s gaze with his own.
Nathan read
hope there. Is he interested in me?
“I should
leave. I’ve probably missed a train and will have to wait half an hour on a
cold windy platform. You’re getting
wet. Your jacket’s in the cab.”
The
meteorologist flashed his lovely eyes at Nathan in a look that sent desire
streaming along his body adding more goosebumps to those brought on by the icy
rain.
He’s gay. Wow. It had been so long since a man
flirted with Nathan, he couldn’t believe it was happening. “I could drop you
somewhere.”
Copyright Elodie Parkes 2018
Encompass Ink
Look for Snowflake Wine on Amazon December 10
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