

Nico Jaye is a great writer and I love how sweet her stories also are.ĭavid’s sexy new neighbor helps rescue his cat from a tree. Where There’s Smoke is an adorable little story. This review is also posted at Gay Book Reviews Thank you for the rec Trisha! I love that you know me so well. And, yes, these boys do eventually get to the good stuff and when they do it is hot hot hot! I mean, Zach brought David flowers! And once they both realized that the other was gay, they hugged good night instead of falling into bed! How frickin’ cute is that? Yes, I love the wam-bam-thank-you-man, but sometimes a slow coupling is just what the doctor ordered.

This is an utterly delightful story of two men dancing around each other, blanketed in a sweetness that was refreshing to read. It takes a bit for these two to figure out each other is gay, but when they do the sweet, smoldering fireworks start. Big, buff and beautiful firefighter Zach Ford to the rescue! He helps Astrid out of the tree and the two men start a friendship. One day, not long after his move, David’s cat Astrid is chased up a tree by his neighbor’s yippee dog Mitzy. With his life going basically nowhere, and his ex, Alvin, constantly under foot, he decides a move to a new town where no one knows him and make a start fresh. You can find Nico chit chatting about cats, popcorn for dinner, impulse trips to Iceland, and crocheting four scarves in one night at any of the following:ĭavid Waterman, a collage professor, is gun shy about relationships after going through a bad breakup 5 years ago. smuff) into a gooey ball of HEA and fuzzies. Her favorite stories are those that marry smut and fluff (a.k.a. An overall feline enthusiast, Nico secretly (or not so secretly?) adores Hello Kitty, cat GIFs, spontaneous traveling, pretending to be crafty, emoticons, hot menfolk, and parenthetical statements (not necessarily in that order). She thinks reading is awesome and loves that she can hang out night after night with crinoline-wearing debutantes, brawny firemen in suspenders, and werewolf shifters with Scottish brogues. Nico Jaye is a fan of all things HEA and has dragged her romance collection along for her moves from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Chicago to New York and back.
