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

They shared their goodbyes, ending the call. Following their conversation, Tate looked down at his phone and shook his head. Feeling doubt, convinced he was setting himself up for a bad time with Paul Persimmon, and possible rejection, he said, “I’m probably doing the wrong thing. Something tells me I just made a hugemistake.”


Tate realized it was a little too late to go back and change history. What’s done is done, as the old saying went. He wouldn’t manipulate the situation to change it up. Nor would he cancel the date with the bookseller.


Who knows, he thought, I might just have a good time.


Chapter 11