CATCH ME
KITCHEN GODS, BOOK 2
BETH BOLDEN
M/M ROMANCE
RELEASE DATE: 06.10.18
COVER
DESIGN: AngstyG
BLURB
Chef Wyatt Blake is
finally ready to move on from his thankless job. He gets no wiggle room, zero
praise, plenty of abuse, and on a good day, he might only spend twelve hours in
the Terroir kitchens. A friend of his recommends a private chef position, but despite
the boost in pay, Wyatt doesn’t want to babysit some spoiled, rich LA family.
Imagine his shock when the
family isn't a Kardashian clone, but Ryan Flores, the only professional
baseball player to ever come out of the closet.
Ryan is also at a career
crossroads. His team’s management wants to see his more responsible side, which
means no more late night hookups and no more adrenaline-charged stunts. When
his agent suggests he find a fake boyfriend to give him an air of domesticity,
he’s only reluctantly interested.
Until Ryan goes to a local
bar and spies the cute private chef he’s supposed to be interviewing the next
day. Maybe a quieter life wouldn’t be so bad, as long as Wyatt is part of it?
Wyatt believes Ryan could
be more than just a crappy boss, but he isn't sure about leaving the kitchen
for the life of a professional boyfriend. Especially when he wants the reality
so much more than the fantasy.
EXCERPT
And
he was the epitome of the California boy, Ryan thought as he watched Wyatt
carrying his board towards the sand. Blond hair bright under the sun, the tall
lanky build, all that tanned skin rippling with muscle.
Ryan
hadn’t thought there was a place he could look better than naked in his bed,
but he was surprised to discover that he’d been wrong.
There
was something in the quicksilver of Wyatt’s smile as he turned to make sure
Ryan was still following him. It made Ryan want more from him than just the
admittedly mind-blowing sex they had had, which was something he’d thought he’d
left behind years ago.
He
thought about texting Tabitha and telling her she might be right, but she was
already insufferable enough. Besides, if he didn’t tell her, he didn’t put it
into words and the truth, while eye-opening, was also fucking terrifying.
“You
coming?” Wyatt turned back fully this time, gracing Ryan not only with a quick
glimpse of his bright smile, but his entire self. He looked worried, and Ryan
wondered how long he’d been spacing out. Not something he usually did—and he’d already spent the morning doing
it.
“Sorry,”
Ryan apologized. “I was distracted by such a fantastic view.”
“I’ve
always loved Huntington Beach,” Wyatt replied.
Ryan
snorted. “Not the view I was talking about.”
Wyatt didn’t say anything but the look on his
face was enough for Ryan to know that comment wouldn’t always go un-remarked
upon. Eventually they would have to address the sexual tension simmering away
between them. Eventually they would have to do
something about it. And that day was one Ryan eagerly awaited and dreaded
in equal parts.
“We
gonna surf?” Wyatt asked as they set up their little camp over by one of the
piers.
Ryan
had tossed the wax over to Wyatt a few minutes before, and had been fidgeting with
his tow strap since. He’d wanted to come out here and let the sun and the sand
and the waves exorcise his bad mood, but now he wasn’t sure he even wanted to
go in the water.
He
wanted to sit on the sand and look at the sunlight on Wyatt’s hair, and ask him
to tell him more about culinary school and Chicago and Terroir. Even about that
nutjob Aquino.
Ryan
was not used to wanting to pick social interaction over the adrenaline rush. It
was weird, and he wasn’t sure he liked it.
“We’re
here, aren’t we?” Ryan asked, shooting Wyatt a disbelieving look, even though
all the hesitation had been on his end. He wasn’t ready to admit to
anyone—never mind Wyatt—that he’d been contemplating something so out of
character. “Last in the water buys burgers on the way home.”
Beth Bolden lives in Portland, Oregon with her
supportive husband. She wholly believes in Keeping Portland Weird, but wishes
she didn’t have to make the yearly pilgrimage up to Seattle to watch her Boston
Red Sox play baseball. She’s a fan of fandoms, and spends too much of her free
time on tumblr.
Beth has been
writing practically since she learned the alphabet. Unfortunately, her first
foray into novel writing, titled Big
Bear with Sparkly Earrings,
wasn’t a bestseller, but hope springs eternal. She’s published eight novels and
two novellas, with Catch
Me, the next novel
in the Kitchen Gods series, releasing in May 2018.
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