Touchstone (Speakeasy Taproom #1)
Karen Stivali
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
3.89
· Steam/Spice level: 5 of 5
Explicit and plentiful [?]
· 9 ratings · 242 pages · Published: 29 Jun 2021

When Phoebe Stevens' life implodes in a spectacularly public fashion, she's desperate to escape Manhattan. So the offer of a job setting up a new Vermont gastropub couldn’t come at a better time. Driving a U-Haul on winding mountain roads is Phoebe's personal version of hell. But when the caretaker of her guesthouse answers the door tousled, shirtless, and baking cinnamon rolls, her first impression of Vermont dramatically improves.
Sam Trembley believes everyone gets one true love, but he’s already blown his chance. He's spent five years avoiding relationships. Now he’s back in Colebury where sunrise tarot draws and moonlit hikes soothe his soul. But why do the tarot cards keep showing him this nonsense about soulmates? Could it have anything to do with the jaded city girl on his doorstep?
Playing tour guide is fun, but taste-testing her culinary creations as she shimmies her luscious hips around his kitchen is downright irresistible. Soon their chemistry burns hotter than the pub's wood-fired oven.
Has fate brought them together for a summer of love...or a lifetime of happiness?
Touchstone contains craving-inducing menu planning, a sassy white witch grandma, seismic sexy times, and tarot cards on a mission to prove soulmates are real.
"A romance with sweet, spicy, and sumptuous on the menu in the kitchen and the bedroom." Kirkus Reviews
Tagged as:
- contemporary 3
- m-f romance 2
- small town 1
- independent heroine 1
- take-charge heroine 1
- sassy heroine 1
- working class heroine 1
- sweet/gentle hero 1
- dual pov 1
- first person pov 1
- insta-love 1
- sunny/happy hero 1
- Add topics
- geography
- vermont 3
- usa 2
- north america 2
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The 'Speakeasy Taproom' series
55 ratings 3.90 ·
dual-pov · m-f · contemporary · vermont · small town · first-person-pov · length-short · independent heroine · sweet-hero · explicit-open-door · strong heroine · hurt-comfort · sunny hero · caretaking · competent heroine
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