



So what if I’m forty-four and haven’t been with a man? Don’t I deserve happiness just like anyone else? But now? Now I’ve seen the light at the end of the tunnel, and there’s no way I’m going to close my eyes and stay in the dark any longer. “Well, I hope to fuck that wasn’t the last kiss I’ll have in my life.” There was a time right after the divorce that I thought that was exactly the case, that I would be single for the rest of my life rather than put another woman through what I did to Val or push myself outside my comfort zone. “Pretty confident there’s going to be a next time?” he teases. I catch a smile starting to tug on the corner of his lips. “Yeah, you know, anything I’ve gotten a bit rusty on? Or something I could do better next time.” “Notes?” he repeats with amusement, lifting one eyebrow but keeping his eyes straight ahead. “Since you’re the first person I’ve kissed in ages, any notes?” I ask as casually as possible. There are NO shifters in this series, only the OTHER kind of bears. It’s really not my fault, have you even seen those cute bowties he wears? After everything it’s taken to get here, am I going to work up the nerve to come out to my ex-wife and my best friends? Am I ready to shake up my comfortable, simple life and take a chance on Watson? Or am I going to throw a wrench in my own chance for happily ever after? ***Hardwood is a steamy, seriously so much delicious tension, single-dad, gay awakening, low angst story, which happens to be the third in the Four Bears Construction Series.

Is it too late to admit to myself and everyone else that deep down I’m really all about the Hardwood? It took me over thirty-five years to admit to myself that I’m gay, another seven to find the courage to say it out loud to anyone else, and exactly thirty seconds to develop a massive crush on my daughter’s music teacher. Hardwood Four Bears Construction Series, Book Three KM Neuhold Release Date: 07.01.20 M/M Contemporary Romance Blurb I’ve spent forty-four years of my life telling the world I’m a carpet man.
