REVIEW: Just This Kiss by Garrett Leigh (Men of Porth Luck #3)

JUST THIS KISS

Men of Porth Luck - Book Three

by Garrett Leigh

Release Date: October 20, 2026

Review

Gah, I am a puddle of mush. These two are soft and beautiful, and their relationship and love just bloomed. Like, honest to all things romance, an absolutely gorgeous story.

Oscar and Poet are just such great people, a little insular, which in part is what makes them work, but they have huge hearts and are good to the people in their world.

There is a lot happening around them, and their medical conditions are important to their stories, but their relationship feels easy. Because it feels natural to them, feels right, that they don’t really question it, at least not in any real conflict kind of way.

It’s still has that ‘they’ve lived lives that aren’t perfect or easy’ style of Garrett’s, but it’s definitely one of the softer stories - and I’m completely smitten.

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Synopsis

Love hurts. Love heals. Love stays.

Just This Kiss – Men of Porth Luck, #3

A single dad. A deaf farmer. A bond they weren’t looking for—and yet…

“I know your voice.”

Oscar is happy alone. He has his son, his boat, and no interest in men. He’d know by now, right?

So why can’t he stop thinking about the man he kissed two summers ago?

Those wheat-gold curls.

Those ocean-blue eyes and soft lips like firebrands.

Poet is starting over in Porth Luck. He doesn’t need anyone, doesn’t do relationships, and certainly doesn’t have time for the beautiful fisherman who keeps crossing his path.

But Oscar’s voice is the first Poet has heard—and felt—in more than a decade. They fit together like sunshine and sand, like the earth and roots of the oldest trees on his land. And if Poet was raised to believe anything, it’s that sometimes the love that heals you is the love that makes a home.

Their home, if Oscar wants it to be, and all they’ve built survives the wildfire they never saw coming.

Expect: Steamy MM romance. Hurt/comfort & healing love. Single dad & deaf hero. Bi awakening & first times. Small town, found family, emotional angst

About Garrett Leigh

Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer, cover artist, and book designer. Her debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards, and was again a finalist in 2017 with Rented Heart.

In 2017, she won the EPIC award in contemporary romance with her military novel, Between Ghosts, and the contemporary romance category in the Bisexual Book Awards with her novel What Remains.

When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.

Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with photographer Dan Burgess.

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