The Christmas Tenor By V.L. Locey
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM, Holiday, Christmas
Tropes: Age-gap, widower, second chance at romance
Released: November 17, 2021
Publisher: Self-Published
Series: Laurel Holidays, Book 3 </p
Length: 171 pages
Cover Design: Meredith Russell
A trip that he thought would bring him only pain is about to present him with the greatest gift of all.
For three years now, Cabriolet Vermat has put off, wiggled out of, and outright lied to get out of making this dreaded trip east. The owner of Cabriolet Chauffeur Services in Los Angeles has avoided the yearly invitation to the small town of White Bridge, New York, to speak at their alumni winter gathering but this year they’ve outfoxed him. They’re throwing a dinner to honor his late partner’s dedication to his alma mater and have asked Cab to speak. This time he has to go no matter how much pain it will stir up. Arriving in the picturesque small town beside one of the Finger Lakes, Cab is treated to a special performance of holiday songs and there he sees Julian Gabriel Baez for the first time.
The young singer captivates him immediately, and he finds himself seeking out the much younger man after the performance. The pull he feels toward Jules is unlike anything he’s felt since he met his partner years ago. Confusion and desire war within him, but the outgoing young tenor wins him over with his engaging smile and kind heart. A two-day trip soon turns into an extended holiday vacation. Cab worries that the magic of Christmas will quickly fizzle out and he’ll be alone once more. Or will this festive season bestow a blessing of the heart upon a man who thought he would never love again?
The Christmas Tenor is a standalone small-town gay Christmas romance with a beautiful May-December relationship, a lonely widower, a rising opera star, loving families, and plenty of holiday joy.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
A good story anytime of the year.
I really enjoyed reading this book. It has V.L. Locey’s trademark wit and snark while at the same time being a story that touched my heart.
Cabriolet’s husband died three years ago and he has been unable to move on. He’s the owner of a very successful business, with locations all over the world, but he’s lonely. He’s immediately attracted to the young singer, Jules, who he meets when he goes back to his husband’s alma mater to attend a dinner honoring his deceased husband.
Jules has a promising career ahead of him as an opera singer. For someone so young he knows what he wants, and that is to sing at the Met and to have a relationship with Cab. He has to decide, though, if he’s willing to give up pursuing his Master’s degree and if he and Cab can maintain a long-distance relationship.
V.L. Locey’s descriptive writing and witty prose kept me engrossed in this story from beginning to end. While I loved both Cab and Jules I think my favorite character was Cab’s twin, Pierre. He added just the right amount of levity when it was needed and I would love to see him get his own story and HEA.
♥♥♥♥♥
O Factor: Scorcher
USA Today Bestselling AuthorV.L. Locey – Penning LGBT hockey romance that skates into sinful pleasures.
V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, Torchwood and Dr. Who, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.)
She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a pair of geese, far too many chickens, and two steers.
When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in one hand and a steamy romance novel in the other.
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