Bottoms Up
A High-Heat MM Romance
by Jace Wilder
Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Scorching
Tropes: Grumpy/Sunshine, Size Difference, Sexual Awakening
I walked into The Night Owl to drown my sorrows. I didn’t expect the bartender to offer me a place to stay—or a lesson in how to finally be pleased.
Graham Mitchell has spent his life trying to be “normal.” He has the degree, the corporate job, and the fiancée. Until she leaves him for being “boring” and “broken” in bed, sending his carefully constructed life crashing down.
Soaked, humiliated, and hitting rock bottom, he stumbles into a dive bar in Asheville and meets Cole Hendrix—everything Graham isn’t: massive, tattooed, confident, and dangerously observant. Cole doesn’t believe Graham is broken. He thinks Graham just hasn’t been touched right.
When Cole discovers Graham is a brilliant accountant and Graham discovers Cole’s business accounts are a disaster, they strike a deal: Graham will fix the bar’s finances. In exchange, Cole will give him lessons.
You’ll love this if you enjoy:
✓ Size difference (big protective bartender × soft accountant)
✓ Sexual awakening and self-discovery
✓ “You’re not broken, you’ve just never been touched right”
✓ Body-positive representation
✓ Lessons that become something more
The Syllabus
Lesson One: Trust.
Lesson Two: Surrender.
Lesson Three: Pleasure.
Bottoms Up is a high-heat MM romance featuring a shy accountant finding his confidence, a protective bartender who loves to take control, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
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The Last Call
The rain had followed Graham Mitchell for three hundred miles.
It started somewhere around Greensboro, a light mist that fogged his windshield and made the highway lines blur into suggestions. By the time he hit the mountains, it had turned vicious—sheets of water that hammered his rental car.
By the time he stumbled into The Night Owl at two in the morning, he was soaked through to his bones, his expensive suit plastered to his body like a second skin he desperately wanted to shed.
God. He looked like hell.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Bottoms Up spicy?
Yes! Heat level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ (Scorching). This book has explicit content with detailed intimate scenes. The “lessons” Cole gives Graham are depicted on-page, and the chemistry is intense.
Is there body-positive representation?
Yes! Graham is described as a bigger guy who’s struggled with body image and being made to feel “not enough.” The book explicitly celebrates his body and shows Cole finding him attractive exactly as he is. If you’re tired of romances where heroes have to be six-pack models, this delivers.
What’s the “lessons” premise?
Graham was told by his ex that he’s “broken” sexually. Cole offers to teach him that he’s not—through hands-on lessons in trust, surrender, and pleasure. What starts as an arrangement becomes something much deeper.
Is there a happily ever after?
Always. Every Fractal Enigma book ends with a guaranteed HEA. Graham finds his confidence, Cole opens his heart, and they get their happy ending together.
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