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

“My point is simple, Tate. You don’t always have to find love because sometimes it will find you, particularly when you least expect it.”


Tate couldn’t get his father’s words out of his head, overwhelmed. An hour slipped by, two hours, and he turned into an unproductive lump of gel. When he wasn’t thinking of his father’s advice, he couldn’t help himself from thinking of Persimmon, knowing that he had fallen for the guy, unknowing how exactly the action had happened.


Chapter 19