Tea company owner Tate Blackwood isn’t just in search of the perfect persimmon-flavored tea; he’s also looking for a good time. Many one-night stands are his thing. There’s no way he’ll have a boyfriend, or fall in love with another man.<br><br>Enter Paul Persimmon, the green-eyed owner of a little bookshop in downtown Channing, Pennsylvania. Tate thinks the man is honest, warm-hearted, and uninhibited. When Tate enters the bookshop, his life takes a quick turn. Although Persimmon insists on a date with Tate, Tate thinks another one-night stand will happen.<br><br>Is Tate too set in his ways to settle down with one man, though? Can he reach for love after finding Persimmon? Or is his relationship more about being best buds with Persimmon? Only time and persimmon tea will provide the answers to his steeping questions.

Finding Persimmon

When he did have time to himself, he would sit and enjoy a cup of coffee (not tea) and a good mystery by Christie. Other times, he used the app Kinder Finder, picked up guys, and got his rocks off with them.


Unfortunately, life as a head honcho of a tea company didn’t offer much time for one’s self. Tate worked long hours and long days, loving his work and the life he had created for himself. Never did he think about selling the business and retiring, thriving on his labor and the adrenaline it created.


“…and the cinnamon dark chocolate tea is ordered. We can only hope it will be here for our autumn collection of teas,” Jack said, continuing to recite a list of notes on his cellphone.


Tate listened, working. His head was in the game; it never failed him. Failure wasn’t in his cards of life, only success.


“What about the persimmon tea from South Korea? Any news of its whereabouts?”


Chapter 3