Release Blitz, Review and Giveaway: Christmas Mountain by Garrett Leigh

Christmas Mountain By Garrett Leigh

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Second chances, friends-to-lovers, hurt/comfort

Released: November 9, 2021

Publisher: Fox Love Press

Series: , Book

Cover Design: Garrett Leigh @ Black Jazz Design

Synopsis

The probation officer caring for his dead brother’s baby. The wounded gentle giant with the biggest softest heart.

Rami: Sweet Fen Hawthorne is my favourite thing about working in the prison. His broad shoulders and sunny grin. His twinkly flirtation. And he likes me as much as I like him. More seems inevitable until life happens.

One day I’m there, then I’m not, and second chances don’t really happen when your car breaks down halfway up a snowy mountain, do they?

Besides, I don’t remember flirting with a bearded lumbersexual, only dreaming about one.

Fen: Do dreams come true?

Christmas Mountain is my home. But it’s the one place on earth I never imagined seeing Rami Stone again, and now I’m snowed in with him. Trapped, with only a roaring fire for company, and it’s a fantasy come true. The air is thick with more than snow and the eighteen months we’ve been apart fades away.

As the snow clears, though, so does the haze. Rami says he comes with baggage.

But so do I, and I’m here for the heavy lifting.

I’m here for forever.

A Christmas MM romance from Garrett Leigh. Expect: Long lost friends-to-lovers, heart-warming found family, and the swooniest second chance at love with a healthy dose of sweet hurt/comfort. Gorging on mince pies and cinnamon-spiced doughnuts is optional, but deeply encouraged.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

A wonderful story!

I love Garrett Leigh’s gritty writing style but I also love it when she does something just a bit softer like Christmas Mountain. The story still has a certain amount of angst but it’s not as hard hitting as other books of hers that I’ve read.

This is a fantastic story about two friends who get a second chance to become more to each other. Life threw both of them a curve ball and interrupted their plans to try dating but then fate brought them back together again in an unexpected way.

When Fen finds a broken-down car blocking the gate to his house, he has no idea who is inside. When he and Rami finally recognize each other, they are both stunned. This rescue starts a chain of events that will eventually lead to a wonderful HEA for Fen and Rami

The spark between Fen and Rami quickly reignites once they reconnect but things have happened to both of them that will impact any relationship they might have. While Fen is still strongly attracted to Rami, he doesn’t do one-night stands and Rami isn’t in a place where he feels like he can commit to more. Their romance proceeds at a slow-burn level but once it takes off then look out – things really heat up!

As much as this story is about Fen and Rami’s romance, it is also about family being there for each other. Rami’s life has been shaped by his now deceased brother and his sister’s family helps him out when he’s nearly at his wit’s end.

I loved everything about this story. I couldn’t read it fast enough while at the same time not wanting it to end.

Note: Fans of Garrett Leigh’s Darkest Skies series might remember that Fen and Rami appeared in Salvation and might also recognize the cameo appearance of another character from that book. Having said that, Christmas Mountain is a complete standalone story; you don’t need to have read Salvation first.

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About Author

Garrett Leigh

Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer and book designer.

Garrett’s debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.

When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.

Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.

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