Hot Axe
Axford Brothers #2
May Archer
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May Archer
Goodreads
Falling in love with my straight best friend? Tragically inevitable.
Telling him? Completely out of the question.
Everyone in Winsome knows Robbie and I are a matched set. A package deal. Ames and Robbie, Robbie and Ames.
He’s the calm to my chaos. The sun shining through my rain cloud. The guy who convinced me to be a firefighter. The man who’s known every single thing about me since we were thirteen…
Except for the teeny, tiny, inconsequential fact that I’ve been in love with him for years.
I planned to take this secret to the grave. Robbie’s straight. He’s engaged. And I’m finally–finally–ready to move on.
But one uncontrollable blaze, one daring rescue, one inconvenient injury, and one heavily-medicated, wildly inappropriate love confession later, my plan’s up in flames.
Suddenly helpful, perfect, shirtless Robbie is bathing me, dressing me, and nursing me back to health. And if being around my gorgeous bestie 24/7 wasn’t torture enough, it seems I’m not the only one having un-platonic thoughts.
But there’s no way I’m letting myself fall into the fantasy again. Because if I let myself believe this is real and it isn’t, it won’t just break my heart… it’ll break us.
And I refuse to risk our friendship, no matter how tempting the man’s hot axe might be.
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Ames Axford and Robbie Wojckik have been best friends and firefighters for years. Ames is snark and chaos, and Robbie is calm with golden retriever energy. They have a deep bond and shared history. And Ames has been not-so-secretly in love with Robbie for years. But now Robbie is engaged and the wedding keeps getting closer, and Ames is determined that he is going to do his best to get over it.
But Robbie starts having some different and enlightening thoughts about his friend, especially as he sees Ames trying to date. And then something happens that makes them realize even more how important they are to each other and what their priorities are, and is a catalyst for change. As they are in close confines, they start to explore different things together.
Robbie is the sweetest cinnamon roll hero and is loyal, honest, and devoted to Ames. And for a guy who is just figuring some things out and who used to have trouble standing up to people, once he decides what he wants, he is willing to go for it. But Ames is skittish and fearful that a chance of getting everything impossible that he ever dreamed of cannot possibly happen for him, and he is concerned about risking their friendship. So he is self-protecting and not going to just leap into anything serious that could cause issue between them.
Both are protective, stubborn, jealous, possessive, and afraid of losing their friendship. But it will come down to patience, trust, showing up, and holding onto all the good things they have meant to each other while being brave enough to fight for what could be. There are also some suspenseful and dramatic events and complex family dynamics woven into the story adding depth.
This is a best friends in love story who are just a bit oblivious at different times and even though everybody else in town seems to know it. I adored them together. I thought they were well matched, so closely bonded, and had a bit of codependence. But they were soulmates from the time they were teens to adults even though it just seemed impossible because Robbie hadn’t fully figured his own self out and Ames thought he was living an impossible dream that would never happen. So it’s a bi-awakening, best-friends-to-lovers, small town, firefighter romance with all the fears and all the big feelings. I liked all of the side characters in the tight knit community . I love the Axfords and I cannot wait for more with this family. There are brothers and cousins in need of love!
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Kiss My Axe
Kim's 5 star review
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Grumpy/Sarcastic Sunshine
Opposites Attract, Fish Out of Water, Small Town
Living in a treehouse? Unavoidable.
Falling for the grumpy lumberjack hottie next door? Unthinkable.
After a viral PR disaster torpedoes my marketing career, I flee Manhattan. The only place left to land? A fairy-tale treehouse in a pickle-obsessed Vermont town, left to me by an uncle I barely knew.
Yes, I said pickles.
No, I’m not okay.
But I’m only here temporarily. Just long enough to regroup, let the notoriety die down, and figure out my next steps in peace.
Unfortunately, my new neighbor has other ideas.
Beckett “the Axe” Axford–cranky local heartthrob and unapologetic tree-murderer–claims Uncle Jim made him promises about the forest around the treehouse, and he’s none too pleased when I won’t take his word for it.
Unfortunately for him, I’m done playing by other people’s rules. I’m not backing down just because some sexy–I mean grumpy–lumberjack says so, and I can handle whatever he dishes out.
Tree climbing? No problem.
Pickle festival popularity contest? Sign me up.
Kissing my unexpectedly-tender, flannel-clad nemesis in the woods after dark? I can take it, bro. And take it. And t– Ahem. You get the picture.
I’m tired of losing, so I’m not giving up my inheritance or my heart without a fight.
And if Beckett thinks differently, he can kiss my axe.
May Archer
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May is an M/M author who lives in Boston. She spends her days raising three incredibly sarcastic children, finding inventive ways to drive her husband crazy, planning beach vacations, avoiding the gym, reading M/M romance, and occasionally writing it. She also writes MF romance as Maisy Archer.
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