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  BLUE PLATE SPECIAL A Table for Two - Book Two by Layla Reyne Release Date: January 24, 2023 Review I enjoy Layla’s storytelling. I’m still relatively new to her work, but I’m enjoying the journey of her men. This is a touching novella involving a best friend's dad after years of having lost touch. Noah’s love language is food. It’s also where he found solace over the years. Solace from an abusive father. The Rosin family was his escape. But it’s been thirteen years since he last saw any of them. He’s found a home at a diner where he’s made a name for himself serving up farm-to-table comfort food.  Food that ends up reconnecting him with Ezra. There are concerns about the potential repercussions of their relationship, but there is also a chance at finding a home with their one. This novella has so many things.  Small-town charm, a sexy age gap, found family and second chances. It has appearances by various characters from other stories, and though I sometimes felt a litt...

  Blue Plate Special by Layla Reyne is now live!   Giving orders in the kitchen is chef Noah Becker's specialty. He's made a name for himself dishing up seasonal, farm-to-table comfort food at the local diner. A name that isn't really his. The last person Ezra Rosin expects to find while he's on sabbatical in a small town is his son's best friend. The one he helped disappear thirteen years ago. The one who's grown into a hauntingly beautiful man. Noah and Ezra grow closer, reconnecting over their shared love of food and wine until their friendship smolders into more. They agree to explore the unexpected dynamic, to enjoy each other while Ezra finishes the semester, but when past and present collide, Noah and Ezra must decide if their chemistry across the table and between the sheets is enough to cook up a delicious future together. Blue Plate Special is a stand-alone M/M foodie romance novella in the Table for Two universe. It features an age-...

    Layla Reyne has revealed the cover for Blue Plate Special! Releasing: January 24, 2023 Cover Design: Cate Ashwood Designs Giving orders in the kitchen is chef Noah Becker's specialty. He's made a name for himself dishing up seasonal, farm-to-table comfort food at the local diner. A name that isn't really his. The last person Ezra Rosin expects to find while he's on sabbatical in a small town is his son's best friend. The one he helped disappear thirteen years ago. The one who's grown into a hauntingly beautiful man. Noah and Ezra grow closer, reconnecting over their shared love of food and wine until their friendship smolders into more. They agree to explore the unexpected dynamic, to enjoy each other while Ezra finishes the semester, but when past and present collide, Noah and Ezra must decide if their chemistry across the table and between the sheets is enough to cook up a delicious future together. Blue Plate Special is a s...

  ONCE UPON A SEXY SCROOGE by Ella Frank & Brooke Blaine Release Date: November 29, 2022 Review I love a small-town christmassy romance. Where everyone knows and cares about each other. Where big families love (and torture, I mean tease!) each other. And that’s exactly the world in which Micah Noble lives. Running the family Christmas Tree Farm In classic Christmas romance fashion, Maxwell, an acquisitions guy, shows up in a snowstorm with fancy shoes and no snow tires, read to convince Micah to sell his home and family legacy. Rude, obsessed with money and prestige, and with a strong dislike for Christmas, Max finds himself stranded with the sexiest Lumberjack to ever chop a tree. What ensues is a funny and sweet story of Max getting schooled in the magical ways of Christmas, small towns, and family who love you no matter what.  Add to your TBR List GOODREADS LINK Synopsis Ah, Christmas. The most magical time of the year. A time when the snow is falling, cider is flowing,...

  Once Upon a Sexy Scrooge by Ella Frank & Brooke Blaine is now live! Ah, Christmas. The most magical time of the year. A time when the snow is falling, cider is flowing, and couples are kissing under the mistletoe. Too bad all that makes me want to gag. Look, it isn't that I'm a hater, it's just that I have a job to do, and this particular holiday is getting in the way of that. And I know what you'll say, that Micah Noble's Christmas Tree Farm is a beloved tradition for many of the families of Merrihill, but you have to see the bigger picture here: a five-star luxury resort where overworked Manhattanites can escape to, a serene place of spas and shopping and watching sexy lumberjacks chopping wood... Oh, wait, scratch that last one. Lumberjacks aren't my thing. Anymore. Micah Noble cured me of that, which tends to happen when you're trying to buy someone's family land to bulldoze to the ground. He can call me a Scrooge all he...