Popped! — Barbacks, Book One
Finn opened a gay sports bar. Then a distracted, grumpy lawyer knocked him flat on a Tampa sidewalk—and straight into his life.
Imagine if Cheers was a gay bar and Sam Malone was a red-headed Irishman…
An MM romantic comedy. Book one of the Barbacks series.
A lawyer in a rumpled suit knocked Finn O’Brien flat, exploded a briefcase full of court filings across Ybor like the world’s most boring confetti, said “shit” four times, and sprint-walked out of his life.
Three weeks later, he walked into Finn’s brand-new bar, ordered a whiskey, and managed four words:
“You’re… the guy from the sidewalk.”
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What readers say
★★★★★“Funny scenarios that will have you smiling from ear to ear.”
M. W. Bakeler, United States
★★★★★“It took me five minutes to read one scene. I was laughing so hard.”
Bulawayo, United Kingdom
★★★★★“The most romantic story set in a bar ever. Low angst.”
Kindle Customer Diane, United States
★★★★★“The most wonderful found family.”
Kindle Customer, Australia
★★★★★“Lots of laugh out loud moments.”
steve j, United States
★★★★★“The humor was perfect. I laughed so hard.”
Lorene, United States
★★★★★“Crush on first hit. A touch of love, lust at a distance, bad flirting, chosen family.”
Jozey, Canada
You’ll feel good the whole way through.
This book will give you toe-curling, tear-jerking laughter, the kind where you read a line out loud to whoever is nearest and then have to explain the six pages before it.
You will smile until your cheeks ache. You will fall a little bit for Finn, then a lot for Chase, and then for the whole crew behind that bar. You will close the book warmer than you opened it, and that holds for every book in the series.
Nobody gets hurt along the way. There is no cheating, no third-act break-up, and no ending that leaves you worse off than when you started. One reader spent the whole book braced for a break-up because she hates them, and she wrote afterward that it gave her such stress relief.
That is the promise, and I am not interested in writing anything else.
- Cheeks that ache from grinning at a paperback
- Your partner looking over to ask what’s so funny
- Laughing loudly in a waiting room and alarming a receptionist. This has actually happened.
- A tissue moment somewhere around chapter thirty. The good kind.
- Saying “one more chapter” at one in the morning, and being wrong about that
- An unreasonable emotional attachment to a fictional bar in Tampa
Don’t read this one in public. One reader tried, and it didn’t go well for her.
Chase is a family lawyer drowning in other people’s divorces. He takes the corner booth and spreads his files across it like a temporary office.
Finn co-owns the bar with his best friend Mark, talks too much, and has started finding reasons to hover near that booth. Mark notices before Finn does.
Chase doesn’t talk much. Finn never stops. It works out.
Three out now.
Two more this fall.
Every book is a new couple, and everybody you meet in one turns up in the next. Finn and Chase are still running the bar when Jacks starts stammering at a hockey player, and when Benji moves in with a man who owns a laminated binder for kitten care.
Spiced! and Bounced! arrive over the next two months, and then the whole thing is finished.
Come join us at Barbacks!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to read them in order?
Each book is a complete love story with its own couple, so you can start anywhere. Reading in order is more fun, because the crew builds and everybody keeps turning up.
Does it end happily?
It always does. Every book in this series ends happily, with no cheating and no third act break-up.
How spicy is it?
It’s three peppers. The intimate scenes are on the page and they matter, but this is a love story first and a comedy throughout.
How many books are there?
There are five, plus a prequel novella. Three are out now, and the last two arrive over the next two months.
When will my paperback arrive?
I sign it here, then it ships USPS. Most orders arrive within three to five days.
Do you ship internationally?
I don’t at the moment, I’m afraid. Signed paperbacks ship within the US only. Outside the US, the ebook is available everywhere.
These are the only signed copies in the world. I make them one at a time, at my desk, and there is nowhere else to get one.
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