There was a sweetness to this story, but it was lacking AT ALL in the sexy factor. I enjoyed this book, the town in which it is set, and the all the characters. ~ Slick – Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews
Synopsis:
When Phoebe Stevens’ life implodes in a spectacularly public fashion, she’s desperate to escape Manhattan. So the offer of a job setting up a new Vermont gastropub couldn’t come at a better time. Driving a U-Haul on winding mountain roads is Phoebe’s personal version of hell. But when the caretaker of her guesthouse answers the door tousled, shirtless, and baking cinnamon rolls, her first impression of Vermont dramatically improves.
Sam Trembley believes everyone gets one true love, but he’s already blown his chance. He’s spent five years avoiding relationships. Now he’s back in Colebury where sunrise tarot draws and moonlit hikes soothe his soul. But why do the tarot cards keep showing him this nonsense about soulmates? Could it have anything to do with the jaded city girl on his doorstep?
Playing tour guide is fun, but taste-testing her culinary creations as she shimmies her luscious hips around his kitchen is downright irresistible. Soon their chemistry burns hotter than the pub’s wood-fired oven.
Has fate brought them together for a summer of love…or a lifetime of happiness?
Touchstone contains craving-inducing menu planning, a sassy white witch grandma, seismic sexy times, and tarot cards on a mission to prove soulmates are real.
Touchstone is the first book in the Speakeasy Taproom series written by various authors and starts this series off on a high note. There was a sweetness to this story, but it was lacking AT ALL in the sexy factor. I enjoyed this book, the town in which it is set, and the all the characters.
Sam is a beta type hero; a sweetheart of a guy, raised by his grandmother and aunt and now home in small town Vermont running the family’s store, Crystal Persuasion, after spending several years building homes with Habitat for Humanity among other various jobs, he reads Tarot cards, he believes in the powers of crystals, meditation, and chakras. Phoebe is a tough New York City chef whose life just blew up in said town and memes about her sent her viral overnight. She trusted the wrong man and with her life in an uproar when she’s offered to develop a menu for her friend’s family’s pub, Speakeasy Taproom in Vermont she leaps at the chance to get out of town and do something she loves.
From the minute these two meet the energy between them was electric and I could feel their connection. While there were some things about each character that drove me a bit crazy and even at times took me out of the story, I let them go because I was enjoying it too much.
Despite the fact both Sam and Phoebe had some baggage making them gun shy about relationships, they fell into an immediate friendship followed quickly by more and yet it didn’t seem rushed. They were so in sync that as a reader I never questioned them being together because it was effortless.
Touchstone was low on angst and high on feelings; a true feel good romance that was easy to read and hard to put down.
4 stars
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