Monday 15 March 2021

πŸ₯ FEATHERBED 🏳️‍🌈 Annabeth Albert πŸ’œ VINO & VERITAS #1 🏳️‍🌈 Small-Town M/M Standalone πŸ’œ #Excerpt πŸ₯

 ©  Bianca ✰ Janeane 



The New Vino & Veritas Series is a complete standalone series, but it is part of the new World of True North Series and slightly connected aka a spin-off to Sarina Bowen's True North Series!
So if you're weird like us - read Sarina's #Bittersweet first ☺




• Book #1 in the Vino & Veritas Series
 • 15 March 2021
• Standalone Sexy M/M Small-Town-Farm-Bookstore Romance

★★★★★
4.5 Stars

When a bookworm on borrowed time meets a younger, free-spirited chicken farmer, sparks and feathers fly

Harrison Phillip Fletcher, III isn’t supposed to be here. Not in Burlington, Vermont, not running Vino & Veritas, a quaint inclusive bookstore and wine bar, and definitely not still alive, at forty-two. Also not supposed to be here? An unexpected delivery of chickens.


Finn Barnes knows chickens. The burly organic farmer knows all about rare breed poultry, but dealing with a hot, older bookseller is an entirely different matter. City slicker types like Harrison never end up staying in Vermont for the long-term.


They should steer clear of each other. But the flare of attraction is mutual. And somehow amid book discussions and farm tours, they discover plenty in common. Now they’re stealing kisses in Finn’s barn, sneaking out like teens, and burning up the sheets.


What starts as a fling brings very real feelings for two lonely souls, but a future together seems as unlikely as chickens in a bookstore. Feathers may be flying, but learning to trust takes time neither may have. Can they take a leap of faith together before it’s too late?


Featherbed is a stand-alone novel in Sarina Bowen’s World of True North. This opposites-attract, age-gap romance features a low-angst, fluffyand featheryromp as a fish out of water discovers the home he never thought hed find.




ARC received for an honest review
 
Yaaaasss more World of True North books! I could keep on reading this world forever!

Remember the book store and wine bar from the other books? Well, this is the setting of Featherbed, and it is the beginning of the store and bar too, so you won't miss anything.

I did laugh at how our lovelies met, and it could have lead to a bit of c@ck blocking - or would it be chicken blocking in this case?  But our lovelies Harrison and Finn ran with it and give us an adorable and sweet and sexy story that had me laughing and smiling and swooning.

Yep, I love the buttoned up bookstore owner and the sexy farmer (but for seriously, I live in the country, in a farm town, where's my sexy farmer?)

Wonderful start to the Vino and Veritas series, I can't wait to dive into more.




We're back in Vermont!
Harrison and his mom just moved back to her hometown.
They're about to open a bookstore/coffeeshop/Wine Bar.
A delivery of live chickens was not expected today ... but here they are.
Fortunately the real owner was quickly found. Chicken farmer Finn.
Insta attraction between the stuffy 42 year old ex lawyer and the hot younger chickens farmer.
But the age difference is too big and they are so not each other's type... plus there are some more things in their way ... right?

LET THE FUN TIMES BEGIN!!! 

 
Adorable!!
I was really excited to get started with this new book store series.
Vermont. Plus books. Plus Wine. Plus hot gay guys? What more can a reader want!?
And it was so cute and funny and chicken-y and book-y.
I just loved reading this. Harrison is so adorable nerdy and stuffy - at least at first. And Finn is your typical super hot muscly farmer guy with a brain. I loved this.
It felt a bit fast and insta - a bit like a novella, but I really liked the story and the mom and the family and the animals and the locations and the teasers about upcoming stories!

Great start into this third series of Sarina Bowen's True North World.

And as I mentioned in every one of my World of True North reviews - I could read these kinds of books every day for the rest of eternity!

I also wouldn't mind seeing this whole world on Netflix one day!

Can't wait to get more Vermont soon!

FEATHERBED was an adorable + funny + farmy + bookish + very sexy age gap M/M love story!!! I loved reading it! Run to your nearest amazon for your own Harrison + Finn - they'll be sold out in no time!



♥ EXCERPT ♥

“What’s next?” Harrison was so serious that I wasn’t sure whether he meant us or the shelf project, but I couldn’t resist messing with him a little.

“Screwing,” I deadpanned.

Predictably, Harrison made a sputtering noise. “Pardon?”

“With a drill, Harry.” I held up the trusty cordless I’d retrieved. “With a drill.”

“No one calls me Harry.” His mouth pursed. I wanted to kiss it. Perversely, the more uptight he got, the more I wanted to unravel him.

“Not even your mom?” I found the correct drill bit for the project and slotted it in.

“Ha.” Harrison had locked his gaze on my hands in a way that made me both self-conscious and more than a little turned-on. “I call her Mom only because she dislikes the formality of Mother.”

“Whereas you love the formality. I get it. Harry.” I put deliberate emphasis on the nickname, so that I could categorize all the different shades of pink and purple he was turning. Besides, it was a good distraction from how his shrewd eyes made me feel.

“I said—”

“You’re fun to harass.” I grinned at him, which earned me an eye roll in return.

“I try. Now give me something to do.”

“Okay, okay. Back to work. You can help by measuring to mark each of the screw holes.”

“Why do construction terms always sound so suggestive?”

“Because you have a dirty mind, Harry.” I gave him an exaggerated leer.

“You better stop that.” He didn’t sound particularly convincing.

“Stop teasing or stop looking at you?” Laughing, I waggled the drill in his direction. “I’ll remind you that I’m the one holding power tools.”

“So you are.” Harrison kept holding my gaze, eyes soft and expectant behind his glasses, tongue darting out to lick at his lips. In that moment, he was infinitely appealing and nothing at all like Astin.

Maybe I’d been mistaken in thinking he was a branch of the same tree of rich dudes who had no issues taking what they wanted. Like him, Astin had favored designer clothing, pricey-looking watches, and the same luxury brand car, and had also dropped clues about inheritances. But unlike Astin, there was a certain humility to Harrison, and he didn’t try to tell me how to do my job.

Oh, Harrison was still a city slicker, and probably not sticking around, but he wasn’t an entitled asshole either. He wanted to kiss me. That want was all over his face, but so was his restraint. As with the woodworking, he’d let me lead. He’d wait for me to make my move and didn’t have a ready arsenal of slick lines. His uncertainty was perhaps the most charming thing about him.

And so, still meeting his eyes, I set the drill back down on the workbench. “No power tools now. You still want to shut me up?”

I stepped closer, in case he had any doubt as to my intent. He smelled good. Expensive, like someone had married delicate herbs and leather scents in an aftershave that probably cost more than a year’s supply of my soap.

“Yeah. I think I do.” His cultured voice had gone husky, but still contained that vulnerability I found so damn intoxicating.

“Show me.” Touching the sleeve of his waffle-knit sweater, I turned him toward me. There. I’d made my move. The next was his.
 
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• Book #2 in the Vino & Veritas Series
 • 22 March 2021
• Standalone Sexy M/M Small-Town Romance

★★★★★
4.9 Stars

From award-winning author Garrett Leigh comes a gorgeous new romance in the True North world! Think: great food, burly men and good times. Beards are optional but encouraged.

 

I’m not the obvious choice to run Burlington’s coolest wine barquiet, brooding, clueless about tannin content, and always one wrong turn away from another downward spiral.

 

But no one seems to mind that I'm a wreck. Besides me. I just focus on getting through each shift until the night a beautiful stranger appears, looking as lost and damaged as I feel.

 

When a mutual friend calls in a favor, the sexy newcomer winds up crashing on my couch. I don't know if it's his melodic Cornish accent, or his ocean blue eyes, or the rock-hard body with the mysterious scars, but I get the feeling whatever happened to him runs far deeper than those wounds.

 

Having Jax in my home makes my chest warm. Makes me shiver. Makes me want more. But I've got a pile of baggage and I don't want to be a burden on anyone let alone a man who seems to have enough demons of his own.

 

Our chemistry is off the charts. His arms feel like home. The last thing I want is to screw this up. Is it wrong to hope we can heal each other? Or will one of us die trying?

 

HEARTSCAPE is a heartfelt MM friends-to-lovers romance in the True North world, with a brooding bartender, a rugged outdoorsman, sweet angst and lots of Shipley cider. Triggers: contains mentions of depression, suicidal ideation and PTSD recovery.
 
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