Wildfire (In Vino Veritas 1) by Garrett Leigh

Sometimes in life, another soul calls to yours and you don’t walk away.

When Kai’s life exploded, he spent all his time since then trying to put it back together again. Luckily, an old friend offered him a place to stay and a job renovating the kitchen at the town’s popular hipster wine bar. His friend’s generosity helped him immeasurably but Kai still couldn’t help feeling a little bit broken. When Joss, the newly hired chef, became his new roommate, Kai felt inexplicably drawn to him.

Joss’s chaos shouldn’t have calmed Kai’s demons, but it did. It also unlocked something in Kai that had him questioning his sexuality for the first time in his life. Their connection outside the bedroom translated into scorching chemistry in the bedroom when Kai took Joss up on his offer to experiment a little. But was there any point in falling for him since Joss was set to leave VT at the end of the summer?

My world has been a quagmire of wrong for a while now, but this?

Yeah. This feels right.

I thought this was a sweet story. Both men had demons they were battling – Kai with his PTSD and Joss with his ADHD and Tourette’s. Kai was still in the thick of trying to figure out how to deal with everything while Joss had gotten quite good at managing his symptoms over the years. But I loved the way they just understood each other right off the bat. They were so good at recognizing what the other needed and it was lovely seeing how they supported each other.

They made really great friends before they started hooking up and you could tell that no matter what happened in the romance department, maintaining their friendship was very important to them both. Of course, they do cross the line from friends into lovers but I really think that the deep understanding between them only enhanced their connection in the bedroom. There was a little bit of angst but for the most part, this was just a really sweet and heartwarming story, I really enjoyed it!

For everything he forgets, I remember.

For everything I remember, he helps me forget.


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