The best dish you never expected…
Dine With Me, an age-gap, roadtrip, M/M romance from bestselling author Layla Reyne is now available with a brand new look and in paperback for the first time ever!
Dine With Me, an age-gap, roadtrip, M/M romance from bestselling author Layla Reyne is now available with a brand new look and in paperback for the first time ever!
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Ingredients:
One surly, tattooed chef on the brink of losing it all, including his sense of taste.
One sexy, bespectacled doctor who jumps at the chance to dine with his foodie idol.
A cross-country culinary adventure, from picnics to dive bars to fine dining and home-cooked meals.
Directions:
Combine ingredients in one plane, in one hotel room, in each other’s company for ten days over Christmas and New Year’s.
Add shared struggles, simmering attraction, inconvenient feelings, and a splash of angst.
Do not remove from oven until fully baked or else there will be no saving it.
Let stand for a lifetime of love and dining together.
Enjoy this emotional age-gap M/M romance novel with plenty of snacks and a box of tissues.
Keep reading for a look inside Dine With Me!
“Chef, it’s an honor.”
“You know Miller?” Sloan asked.
Miller checked his grip, afraid he’d crush Clancy’s long, slim fingers in his bear claw, but the other man’s handshake was confident and firm. His eyes lingered on Miller’s tattooed forearm, bared beneath his rolled-up dress sleeves, before he withdrew his hand and cleared his throat. His gaze darted back up and he adjusted his glasses.
“Miller Sykes,” he said. “Self-taught wonder-kid of the cooking world. James Beard Rising Star Chef. Staged at the top restaurants in New York, then relocated to the Bay Area. You earned two Michelin stars for the restaurant where you were chef de cuisine before leaving to open your own place three years ago.” He interrupted his Wiki-page recitation—with all the correct pronunciations, Miller noted—to take a deep breath and return his attention to Sloan. “When my parents showed me the ad, then said I was meeting the chef in Napa, I did the calculations. Chefs, stars, and the timing. I’d wheedled it down to a handful. Miller was on the list.
“Possibly also a stalker. Or an apron-chaser. Neither good.
And yet Sloan seemed more intrigued than ever. “Your mom said you’re a huge foodie.”
“Isn’t anyone who wants to go on a trip like this?” An eager, guileless smile stretched across his pale, lightly freckled face.
Miller discounted his stalker theory—this kid was pure fanboy—but there was something in his innocence, in his youth, that called to more than Miller’s ego.
One surly, tattooed chef on the brink of losing it all, including his sense of taste.
One sexy, bespectacled doctor who jumps at the chance to dine with his foodie idol.
A cross-country culinary adventure, from picnics to dive bars to fine dining and home-cooked meals.
Directions:
Combine ingredients in one plane, in one hotel room, in each other’s company for ten days over Christmas and New Year’s.
Add shared struggles, simmering attraction, inconvenient feelings, and a splash of angst.
Do not remove from oven until fully baked or else there will be no saving it.
Let stand for a lifetime of love and dining together.
Enjoy this emotional age-gap M/M romance novel with plenty of snacks and a box of tissues.
Keep reading for a look inside Dine With Me!
“Chef, it’s an honor.”
“You know Miller?” Sloan asked.
Miller checked his grip, afraid he’d crush Clancy’s long, slim fingers in his bear claw, but the other man’s handshake was confident and firm. His eyes lingered on Miller’s tattooed forearm, bared beneath his rolled-up dress sleeves, before he withdrew his hand and cleared his throat. His gaze darted back up and he adjusted his glasses.
“Miller Sykes,” he said. “Self-taught wonder-kid of the cooking world. James Beard Rising Star Chef. Staged at the top restaurants in New York, then relocated to the Bay Area. You earned two Michelin stars for the restaurant where you were chef de cuisine before leaving to open your own place three years ago.” He interrupted his Wiki-page recitation—with all the correct pronunciations, Miller noted—to take a deep breath and return his attention to Sloan. “When my parents showed me the ad, then said I was meeting the chef in Napa, I did the calculations. Chefs, stars, and the timing. I’d wheedled it down to a handful. Miller was on the list.
“Possibly also a stalker. Or an apron-chaser. Neither good.
And yet Sloan seemed more intrigued than ever. “Your mom said you’re a huge foodie.”
“Isn’t anyone who wants to go on a trip like this?” An eager, guileless smile stretched across his pale, lightly freckled face.
Miller discounted his stalker theory—this kid was pure fanboy—but there was something in his innocence, in his youth, that called to more than Miller’s ego.
For more information about Layla Reyne and her books, visit her website:
https://www.laylareyne.com
https://www.laylareyne.com
MY REVIEW
Miller's done. His restaurant is serving its last dinner, and he's about to embark on a culinary journey, his last one, probably. His diagnosis means he'll probably lose his sense of taste, and as a premier chef, that's the worst possible thing that could happen to him. Or so he thought, until he met Clancy, the beautiful man who's going on the culinary adventure with him. But he has to keep Clancy at a distance because why let someone into his heart if he won't be around for very long?
Clancy has one break before he goes to work with his dad at his plastic surgery practice. He's set for a culinary tour with a chef that he never expected to fall for. But the reason Miller's been keeping him at a distance is probably the biggest obstacle there could be, and Clancy will have to decide how he'll react to Miller's news, will he let Miller push him away, or stand by him in every way?
I'm a self-proclaimed foodie, it's good for me that I live in a foodie area, so the premise of Dine With Me was seriously intriguing. Clancy and Miller's descriptions of all the food were fun, made me hungry in some areas, and perhaps queasy in others, but formed a great basis for a budding relationship between the chef and the doctor. I loved Clancy, his eagerness and delight in all the food, and his obvious attraction to the more broody Miller. Miller, oh Miller...sometimes his reasoning and behavior was frustrating and annoying, but I guess understandable. Thank God his ex brought Clancy to him, because without him, Miller would have just continued on his path and we know where that would have led. The ending is sweet, the tension is angsty, and the food is a wonderful connector between the two men.
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