A ferret, a beagle, and a boy walked into a bar...Adrian Voss has three great loves: dancing, baking bread before sunrise, and orange Fanta.
He is not looking for a fourth.
He's especially not looking for it in the form of a broody veterinarian who says maybe four words per visit and somehow makes all of them count.
Brendan Davis reorganizes his sock drawer by color, and he talks to his ferret. He came to Barbacks exactly once and made the tactical error of watching Adrian dance. Now, he's driving across the county for bread he could buy anywhere and calling it "practical."
Their story starts with a beagle, a bar tab, and a number scrawled where a number should never go. Where it leads from there is between Adrian, Brendan, and an entire found family that absolutely refuses to mind its own business.
Some things you have to read to believe.
The ferret, for the record, approves.
Spiced! is a low-angst MM romantic comedy with a guaranteed HEA, a scene-stealing beagle, and more Tampa Bay charm than any reasonable bar should contain.
Best read with a snack.
Readers who love opposites-attract chemistry will find a lot to enjoy here, because Adrian and Brendan could not be more different and somehow could not fit together better. This is a grumpy-meets-sunshine romance built on a slow burn that always lands somewhere soft, and it leans hard into the kind of found family that has absolutely no intention of minding its own business. If you enjoy stories about small-business dreams, big Florida hearts, and a gentle age-gap warmth between two people who each fall in their own quiet way, you will feel right at home at Barbacks. Both leads are written with genuine care, and the supporting cast, from the meddling bartender to the literary bouncer to a hockey team that cannot be trusted at private parties, gives the whole book its heartbeat.
If you love the comfort-read magic that Casey Morales is known for, the warm chaos of a well-run gay bar, and MM romantic comedies where nobody dies, nobody cheats, and the biggest crisis of the week is a heated debate about a cocktail garnish, then the Barbacks series is about to become your new safe place to land. These are books you can sink into after a long day, knowing you are in good hands and headed somewhere happy.
Spiced! will especially appeal to readers who enjoy low-angst MM romance, contemporary gay romance, and romantic comedy with real heat behind the humor. It is a natural fit for anyone who loves animal-loving heroes, foodie romance full of fresh bread and good drinks, and slow-burn love stories set in vibrant, real-feeling communities that stay with you after the last page.
Genre: Romance
He is not looking for a fourth.
He's especially not looking for it in the form of a broody veterinarian who says maybe four words per visit and somehow makes all of them count.
Brendan Davis reorganizes his sock drawer by color, and he talks to his ferret. He came to Barbacks exactly once and made the tactical error of watching Adrian dance. Now, he's driving across the county for bread he could buy anywhere and calling it "practical."
Their story starts with a beagle, a bar tab, and a number scrawled where a number should never go. Where it leads from there is between Adrian, Brendan, and an entire found family that absolutely refuses to mind its own business.
Some things you have to read to believe.
The ferret, for the record, approves.
Spiced! is a low-angst MM romantic comedy with a guaranteed HEA, a scene-stealing beagle, and more Tampa Bay charm than any reasonable bar should contain.
Best read with a snack.
Readers who love opposites-attract chemistry will find a lot to enjoy here, because Adrian and Brendan could not be more different and somehow could not fit together better. This is a grumpy-meets-sunshine romance built on a slow burn that always lands somewhere soft, and it leans hard into the kind of found family that has absolutely no intention of minding its own business. If you enjoy stories about small-business dreams, big Florida hearts, and a gentle age-gap warmth between two people who each fall in their own quiet way, you will feel right at home at Barbacks. Both leads are written with genuine care, and the supporting cast, from the meddling bartender to the literary bouncer to a hockey team that cannot be trusted at private parties, gives the whole book its heartbeat.
If you love the comfort-read magic that Casey Morales is known for, the warm chaos of a well-run gay bar, and MM romantic comedies where nobody dies, nobody cheats, and the biggest crisis of the week is a heated debate about a cocktail garnish, then the Barbacks series is about to become your new safe place to land. These are books you can sink into after a long day, knowing you are in good hands and headed somewhere happy.
Spiced! will especially appeal to readers who enjoy low-angst MM romance, contemporary gay romance, and romantic comedy with real heat behind the humor. It is a natural fit for anyone who loves animal-loving heroes, foodie romance full of fresh bread and good drinks, and slow-burn love stories set in vibrant, real-feeling communities that stay with you after the last page.
Genre: Romance
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