Title: Teddy
Spenser Isn’t Looking for Love
Author: Kim Fielding
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Imprint: Carina Press (Carina Adores)
On Sale: December 29, 2020
Format:
Trade Paperback
Price:
$14.99 U.S.
ISBN: 9781335971999
Book Description: Some
people search their whole lives to find love. He just wants to avoid it.
Teddy Spenser
spends his days selling design ideas to higher-ups, living or dying on each new
pitch. Stodgy engineer types like Romeo Blue, his nemesis—if you can call
someone who barely talks to you a nemesis—are
a necessary evil. A cute necessary evil.
Working
together is bad enough, but when their boss puts them both on a new high-stakes
project, “working together” suddenly means:
●
sitting
uncomfortably close on the same plane,
●
staying
in the same hotel room—with only one bed—and
●
spending
every waking minute together.
Turns out Mr.
Starched Shirt has some hidden depths, and it’s getting harder to ignore the
spark Teddy feels with every brush of their hands, with every knowing look. He
might not have been looking for this connection with Romeo, but will he ever be
ready to let him go?
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contemporary love stories featuring beloved romance tropes, where LGBTQ+
characters find their happily-ever-afters.
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About Kim Fielding
Kim Fielding
is the bestselling author of numerous m/m romance novels, novellas, and short
stories. Like Kim herself, her work is eclectic, spanning genres such as
contemporary, fantasy, paranormal, and historical. Her stories are set in
alternate worlds, in 15th century Bosnia, in modern-day Oregon. Her heroes are
hipster architect werewolves, housekeepers, maimed giants, and conflicted
graduate students. They’re usually flawed, they often encounter terrible
obstacles, but they always find love.
Kim’s novel
Brute was the 2013 Rainbow Award Winner for Best Gay Fantasy and tied for
fourth place for Best Gay Novel.
After having
migrated back and forth across the western two-thirds of the United States, Kim
calls the boring part of California home. She lives there with her husband, her
two daughters, and her day job as a university professor, but escapes as often
as possible via car, train, plane, or boat. This may explain why her characters
often seem to be in transit as well. She dreams of traveling and writing
full-time.
Find Kim Fielding Online
Website: https://www.kfieldingwrites.com/
Twitter: @KFieldingWrites
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KFieldingWrites/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4105707.Kim_Fielding
Excerpt
“Hey.”
Teddy hadn’t noticed anyone come up behind him, and he startled
so violently that he almost knocked over his coffee. He spun the chair around
and discovered Romeo Blue looking down at him, stone-faced.
“What?” Teddy knew he was scowling and
didn’t care.
“Can we speak in my office, please?” As
usual, Romeo’s voice was low, his words clipped. As if he refused to spare
much energy to speak to Teddy.
“I’m busy right now.”
“As soon as you can then.” Romeo spun
and marched back to his office, leaving its door slightly ajar.
Teddy could have followed him; Imani’s
numbers weren’t so urgent that they couldn’t wait awhile. But he remained
stubbornly at his desk even though he could no longer focus on the computer
screen. Romeo Blue. Teddy had googled him once, just for the hell of it—not at
all to dispel lingering notions that his coworker was a spy working under a
really stupid alias. It turned out that Lenny Kravitz used Romeo Blue as a
stage name back in the eighties, and that was more than a little weird since this Romeo
resembled a young Lenny Kravitz, albeit with a darker complexion and a
different clothing aesthetic. Kravitz probably didn’t wear suits from Zara. And
to be honest, although Kravitz was gorgeous, Romeo was even more so, with
perfect eyebrows, velvety eyes, and a mouth that—
“Nope!”
Teddy stood abruptly and grabbed his coffee mug. He needed a refill.
He finished off that cup, visited the depressing bathroom he’d
been fruitlessly begging Lauren to redecorate, and chatted briefly with the
cute copy-machine repairman before finally knocking on Romeo’s open door and stepping
inside. And then, as always when he entered this room, Teddy glowered.
It was a fraction of the size of
Lauren’s office, with barely enough room for a desk, two chairs, and a computer
stand. Despite that, it was a real office instead of a cubicle. But what truly
annoyed Teddy was that Romeo hadn’t even bothered to decorate the space. There
wasn’t a single knickknack or picture, and the mismatched office supplies—a
black stapler and taupe tape dispenser—appeared to be from the discount bin at
Staples. The only touches of personality were the three computer monitors—three of
them, for God’s sake—and, of course, Romeo himself.
Maybe
Romeo thought himself so decorative that his mere presence sufficed. Or he
didn’t want any other objects to detract from his glory.
Also, he smelled like sandalwood, bergamot, and vanilla. Dammit.
