Popped! — Barbacks, Book One
Popped!
Signed paperback
Barbacks, Book One
Imagine if Cheers was a gay bar and Sam Malone was a red-headed Irishman…
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He came for the burger but stayed for the bartender.
Finn O’Brien had two skills: making a killer cocktail and spectacularly bad decisions. So naturally, he quit his soul-crushing job to co-own a gay sports bar in Tampa with his best friend. What could go wrong?
Well, forgetting to actually promote their grand opening, for one.
On the bright side, while Finn stood behind a bar with no customers and a growing pile of bills, a rumpled blonde in a crooked tie shuffled in and parked himself in a corner booth.
- Chase didn’t talk much.
- Finn talked too much.
- Chase was buttoned-up, guarded, and allergic to fun.
- Finn was a mess of freckles and bad jokes who didn’t know when to quit.
They had absolutely nothing in common—except the way Chase kept showing up, night after night, claiming he was just there for the burger.
Between a meddling best friend, a kitchen staff placing bets on when Finn would finally make a move, and the world’s slowest-burning attraction, Finn had a bar to save, a found family to build, and a grumpy lawyer to crack—one colorfully named drink at a time.
Popped! is the first book in the Barbacks series—a slow-burn rom-com for anyone who’s ever stress-organized a spreadsheet, crushed on someone completely unavailable, or wondered if it’s weird to learn a regular’s order by heart.
(It was weird. Finn knew it was weird.)
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’ll smile until your cheeks ache. You’ll fall a little bit for Finn, then a lot for Chase, and then for the whole crew behind that bar. You’ll close the book warmer than you opened it, and that holds for every book in the series.
Nobody gets hurt along the way. There’s 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’s the promise, and I’m not interested in writing anything else.
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- 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.
Five books.
One bar. One hilarious family.
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.
The series runs to five novels, plus a prequel novella, and every one of them ends happily.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to read them in order?
Each book’s 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.
What if I laugh so hard I piddle?
Casey is too far away to help. Cleanup is on your own. Just know it’ll be worth it.
How many books are there?
Five novels, plus a prequel novella.
How much is shipping?
It’s a flat $4.99 anywhere in the US, and it’s free on orders over $25.
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’s available everywhere.
These are the only signed copies in the world. I make them one at a time, at my desk, and there’s nowhere else to get one.
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