You Can Count On Me: MM Holiday Romance (Christmas Daddies Book 2)
£3.80
They say you should love thy neighbor, but I don’t think they meant it the way I want to love mine.
Miles “Rooster” Johnson: As a young single-dad with a teaching job, I haven’t had much opportunity to date. My son is my entire world, and though I would love to have a partner and someone to count on, the passing years have shown that it’s just not in the cards for me. So when the gorgeous lumberjack of a man—the same man that I’ve had a massive crush on since the moment we became neighbors—suddenly asks me out on a date, I’m completely blindsided. Trent could have anyone he wants. He’s charming, flirtatious, and outgoing—the exact opposite of my awkward, anxious self. I don’t know what he sees in me. All I know for sure is that I absolutely need to make this date go well.
Trent Montgomery: I know I have a playboy reputation in our small town, but there’s nothing wrong with playing the field. It’s worked for me so far, even if I have felt some discontent lately. My mama thinks I need to settle down and find someone nice. But she doesn’t understand that I’m just not ready. No matter how beautiful and tempting my neighbor Rooster is or how eager I am to get the silent mountain of a man to open up—no matter how adorable his little boy is, even when he’s threatening me at bat-point to take his daddy out on a date—I know I can’t be everything that they need. I agreed to ask Rooster out, but I think maybe I made a big mistake. All I know for sure is that I absolutely need to sabotage this date.
You Can Count On Me is a standalone slow burn Holiday MM romance with high heat, a HEA, and no cliffhangers. With a blossoming friends-to-lovers romance between a single father and his adorably flirty neighbor, together these two are warm, young, and tooth-achingly sweet. If you like funny stories with too many dad jokes, holiday magic, positive mental health rep, primal play, graphic steam, and the slowest, sweetest of all burns then read on!
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Additional information
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| File size | 4640 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 405 pages |
by Lindsey Middlemiss
Lovely holiday romance with a single Dad art teacher with anxiety and situational mutism and a Christmas Tree Farm owner who flirts with everyone but doesn’t think he deserves love.
In this you’ll find:
???? MM romance with spice
???? Anxious Gay single Dad art teacher
???? Flirty Pansexual Christmas Tree Farm owner
???? Neighbors
???? A matchmaking tween
???? Anxiety+ Situational mutism
???? Feral sex play + role playing
???? Found family
???? A HEA
by TheBookFairieUK
I will read anything this author writes – they’re all surefire hits – and this book did not disappoint. If you’ve already read Let Your Hearts Be Light the setting – and some of the characters – may be familiar, but I promise you absolutely do not have to have read that to sink your teeth into this one, it stands completely alone in its own wonderful way. Trent and Miles (aka Rooster) are just adorable, and their small town idiots-to-lovers slow burn romance will warm you from top to toe (with the odd lustful shiver along the way). Highly recommended.
by Charlotte
You can count on me is the second book in the Christmas daddies series, while it can be read alone I would advise the first book Let your hearts be light first due to those characters also playing a part in this story.
Miles and Trent have lived across the street from each other for years and after a first date doesn’t go as planned, eventually fate falls into their hands and they much more than a second date. So much more.
I honestly don’t know how Fae does it ever time, her books always feel like one big warm hug.
Miles and Trent also own a piece of my heart and they deserve a piece of everyone else’s too. Both of these characters are written so beautifully. Their stories are written realistically, thoughtfully and respectfully with endless amounts of love and care put into them. These stories are written in such a fun, beautiful way and remind you it’s okay not to be okay, things don’t always work out the way planned, always take advice from the small boy with the bat (he probably knows more fun facts than you do ????) and if you want your neighbour across the street, you go get that neighbour. Within reason obviously.
Miles and Trent’s story showcases two adult men, facing realistic issues and learning how to overcome them alone and together as a couple and honestly it is such a breathe of fresh air and these books have quickly became a comfort to me as well as the characters within these stories.
And bubba, darling little bubba. The way Trent effortlessly includes this little boy, cares for him and even loves him is absolutely beautiful. Everyone deserves a Trent.
I can’t recommend these two books enough they are filled with so much hope and joy and they are amazing. They are definitely my favourite books written by Fae.
by Rebecca
I loved this
I love Fae Quin’s writing style, there is a lot of detail and it feels conversational and I just love it so much! I always feel all her books become a new comfort read for me.
YCCOM wasn’t as Christmassy as I was expecting it to be but it’s set through the autumn-months so definitely has that Christmas cozy vibe that I LOOOVE (and also feel from like June so ????????)
Trent and Miles are across-the-road-neighbours and don’t really have any interactions with eachother. Miles is a pretty reserved, shy single dad and has a lot of anxieties. Trent is a flirty, overly friendly, kinda playboy who never wants to settle down.
They are set up on a date by Bubba, Miles’s eleven year old son. Honestly I usually don’t like kids in books, but I loved Bubba. He was so funny and added so much to this book. The love between him and his Pop’s was just perfect ???? he was so caring and considerate and I just loved him.
The date went terribly, as Trent was not trying and Miles was beyond nervous. They both admired eachother from afar but they didn’t talk.
The relationship build up between Trent and Miles was pretty perfect too, this is kinda a slow burn but there is PINING. SO MUCH PINING. At times it did feel so slow to me because I am the most impatient person in the world but it was worth the wait for me.
Overall I enjoyed this a lot and I cannot WAIT for the next book. Those two are OPPOSITES and it’s gonna be so goooood ????????
~I received an ARC from Gay Romance Reviews and this is my honest opinion~
by Ms. Theresa M. Derwin
You Can Count on Me
Fae Quin
Trent doesn’t date.
Especially not single parents.
But when a snot-nosed blond kid turns up at his front door with a “baseball bat in one hand and an inhaler in the other”, threatening him unless he asks the boy’s dad out, he agreed to one date with Miles.
And things get seriously awkward.
If you’ve read ‘Let Their Hearts be Light’ by Quin, you may remember Trent as Paxton’s annoying and teasing brother who runs the tree farm.
Rooster (Miles) is the single dad who owns baseball-bat-boy – Aka Bubba.
He’s the newish art teacher having moved to town five years before, and has a massive crush on Trent.
The problem is, he struggles to open up or admit his feelings to anyone and ends up stuttering and getting nervous.
He’s also strangely addicted to wearing cow print clothing and listening to hot werewolf romance audio books.
Young Bubba, Miles’ son, loves to hang around with Trent and talk or cuddle Barb, the dog.
There’s also Gram, a kind of adopted aunt of Miles who Bubba loved spending time with.
The person we don’t meet, is Miles’ brother Robin – who it seems might have some unresolved issues much like these two have.
Despite all of these personal hang ups, when the two men spend time together, friendship starts to blossom.
There’s a lot more I could say about the plot, but I want to avoid spoilers.
What I can say, is the book shows ‘primal play’, self confidence barriers, hidden hurts, grief, love, laughter and family.
It’s funny, sweet, Bubba is adorable and super smart, and we get our HEA.
There’s also a hook at the end for book three that has me really excited.
A bright, seasonal sizzler.