Snow Storm

And the Christmas ARCs have started!!! Here's EM Lindsey's "Snow Storm."

["Claude doesn’t believe in love. Harley doesn’t believe in fate. But this holiday season, the universe has plans for the two men who have no idea just how much they need each other.

Harley James has spent most of his adult life trying to maintain his public persona as a calm, collected, slightly anxious best-selling author. But then his father dies, and his fiancé leaves him for their couple’s therapist, and something in him snaps.

Publicly.
In front of hundreds of strangers.

In order to avoid a scandal, Harley’s sent to a small mountain town in the middle of nowhere until it all blows over. Which is fine. Really. He can deal with a little silence and solitude for a few weeks. Although he’s a city boy, there are worse things in life than a forced vacation.

But when a strong masseur with magic hands begins to crack him like the over-boiled egg he is, Harley finds the idea of going home less and less appealing. It helps that the gorgeous, older massage therapist seems to be the first person who’s understood him in decades.

Still, there’s more to the silver-fox than meets the eye, and Harley quickly discovers that this Christmas, there might be miracles, but there are also complications. And two men running from the expectations of those around them might just find their only escape is in each other’s arms."]

A few things: This public meltdown? Sooooooo not Harley's fault. Assault, sure, okay, whatever (technicalities); however he was not in a good place mentally and kept telling his agent as such, but he agent cared more about money. And the crowd that helped push Harley over the edge? More assholes that shouldn't have been at a mm event (also no one in the mm community would act like that (I hope)). As the trigger warnings preview, it was verbal abuse and sexual harassment, and the agent only wanted to put Harley back out there for him to continue experiencing it.

It's such a cliche, but I still love it when two people (or even one) swear off love and marriage fall hard and fast and can't even regret it. It's poetic, the way the universe looks out for you sometimes.

TO BE UPDATED SHORTLY 

Trigger Warnings: public verbal abuse and sexual harassment by a stranger, mild violence (by one of the MCs but not between MCs), past parental neglect, past mentions of a hiking injury resulting in a permanent injury, past emotional manipulation and cheating (not between MCs), and more.

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