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

Could he fall for Persimmon? Had he already? Why did he push Persimmon away tonight? And why didn’t he follow through with a round of heavy-duty and mind-blowing sex with the good-looking man? What had gone wrong tonight unlike the other nights in his life when he had drinks with a man and brought him home?


Truth be told, Tate felt unsure of his feelings, lacking confidence to answer his own questions. His mind became a blur after Persimmon left, and it wasn’t due to the whiskey shots following the bookseller’s departure. Those stinging joys went down smoothly, just as he had planned them to. One after the next. Simply.


Chapter 13