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

The uneventful act forced him out of the gym instead of being asked by the beefhead at the front of the place to leave. Feeling lost, somewhat spent, and having a string of continuous weary pangs within his heart, Tate decided to follow his intuition, which led him to Green Park.


He ran there, which was almost fifteen blocks from the popular gym, and he raced to the park’s center, forcing himself to believe that Persimmon was seated on the gazebo steps, under the beginning stages of a summertime twilight, mixed within the purples and dark blues of life.


Chapter 20