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Hardwood

Four Bears Construction, Book 3

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Hardwood

By: K.M. Neuhold
Narrated by: Tim Paige, Liam DiCosimo
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About this listen

I’ve spent 44 years of my life telling the world I’m a carpet man. 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 35 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 30 seconds to develop a massive crush on my daughter’s music teacher. 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 with so much delicious tension, single-dad, gay awakening, low angst story, which happens to be the third in the Four Bears Construction Series. It can be listened to as a stand-alone. There are no shifters in this series, only the other kind of bears.

©2020 K M Neuhold Publishing LLC (P)2020 K M Neuhold Publishing LLC Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance
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This is a friends to more romance, featuring Everett and Watson, and is book three in the Four Bears Construction series.

Everett is a late bloomer, he denied his feelings for a long time but eventually understood he is gay, and still in the closet at forty-four years old. He meets Watson, a happy and openly gay man, at a local gay bar and there is an instant attraction but a call from his ex wife cuts their meet cute short.

Both can’t stop thinking about each other and fate plays a part in these two reconnecting when Everett attends the parent-teacher night at his daughter’s school and he meets her music teacher - Watson.

They start out as friends but their attraction soon escalates into something more.

This is a very sweet low angst read. It has some very funny scenes and a little internal angst with Ev being worried about coming out. Watson is such a breath of fresh air, he makes everything feel manageable and together they are such an adorable couple. I loved how his ex wife was fully supportive and encouraging. Super sweet HEA.

I loved the narration on this book, great performances for the characters.

I know this might be a silly observation but the covers really do represent the main Bear guy. Love the covers.

Next up is Ollie and I am completely psyched for it, I need to see Ollie find his forever love.

Things to expect in this MM romance are:
3rd book in series
Friends to more
Contractor x Teacher
Late bloomer MC
MMCs in their forties
Slow burn
Pet hedgehog
Pierced nipples
Hilarious toy mishap
Bit of spice
Coming out
All in
Sweet HEA

Story of Everett and Watson

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Really excellent narration, hearing a man trying to come to grip with his life and how he denied his true self for many years until he meets the one.

The teacher!

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One of my favourite Four Bears Construction stories - I’m always a sucker for an older, closeted guy embracing his authentic self! Everett loses his ‘only straight in the village’ status when he finally admits that he’s gay to his daughter’s bow-tie-wearing music teacher, Watson. Watson is happy to guide Ev through his first gay experiences while trying not to fall for him. I know other reviewers were frustrated by Ev’s lack of communication and his ambivalence about coming out to friends and family, but I felt his fear and confusion captured the older, closeted experience well - the longer you’ve spent digging the hole, the harder it is to climb out. Both men were nice guys, with Watson being particularly patient and decent. The vibrator scene was hilarious and I enjoyed the dynamic between Ev and his daughter. Audio narrators, Liam DiCosimo (Watson) and Tim Paige (Ev) performed well.

It gets harder the longer you stay in the closet!

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