Cherry Wine Kisses for Christmas LGBTQ Holiday Romance
Independently Published
November 28, 2020
130
In this fun gay holiday romance, Ian and Patrick welcome their son, Sam, back to their vineyard home in the Blue Ridge Mountains for a fresh start. Sam’s career as an author of racy gay romance novels may be over, but stories still flash through his mind, especially when the handsome Grant appears on horseback one snowy evening. Grant, who lives in a cabin up the hill, is out of practice wooing men, until he turns to one of Sam’s novels for inspiration. With heart, humor, and a few bottles of cherry wine, each man gets just what he wanted for Christmas.
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
Ian and Patrick anxiously await the arrival of their son Sam. Sam has lost his boyfriend after eight years together, dissolving their relationship and partnership. Samuel Clayton the authors of gay romance and erotica now has no home, so he is returning to his childhood home; but not quite as anxiously as his two dads. Sam’s ex Clayton left him for a rich man and now it is as if Sam’s life will be starting all over again. That night a knock on the door would change things for Sam because a gorgeous cowboy on a horseback has just come to deliver flour to his dad in time for his Christmas treats.
Grant is a potter and his products are beautiful and ready for Christmas. He sees Sam and immediately wonders if this is someone he could have a relationship with, after all there is little or no chance of one where he lives. “Older” men are men already in committed relationships. Sam on the other hand is still trying to get over Clayton who is now living on a yacht and experiencing everything they wrote about in their erotic books.
Jealous of the adventures Clayton is experiencing, Sam decides it is time for him to have fun and Grant is the man to fulfill his fantasies. Grant discovers that the sex Sam and he have was for no other reason than to have fun where Grant hoped it would lead to something more. Grant dreams of having the kind of family Sam has and would love to be part of it but Clayton is still a major part of Sam’s life even if he is no longer physically there.
I didn’t particularly like Sam and didn’t really feel chemistry between the two main characters but Patrick and Ian were wonderful. There was a lot of sex but most of it was emotionless, just sex for the sake of sex.