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

Jack nodded, slinked back into his vampire romance, and kept quiet for the remaining flight.


Tate was also quiet, his mind straying to Persimmon’s smile, broad shoulders, and tight stomach, unable to stop thinking the guy sexy and hot and…


Approximately two hours after landing, Albert called Tate’s cellphone, checking on his son. “You make it home?”


“Good to know. You never know when, and if, a plane is going down.”


Tate guffawed. “Jesus, Dad, keep those comments to yourself.”


“Being serious, son. Planes are dropping out of the sky every day. It does cross a father’s mind once in a while.”


Lift in voice. Bright smile. “With whom? Ben Lansing?”


“Not him. He’s not my type, Dad. A different guy.”


“Well, when you want to talk about the special someone with me, you let me know. I’ll be here to listen.”


Chapter 15