The Last Train Home — Ebook

Description

Six weeks. Four rules. One spare room over the diner he walked out on.

Luca Bennett had three restaurants, a cookbook with his face on it, and a million people who wanted to eat his food. Then forty-seven seconds of video showed the world how he ran his kitchens. Nineteen days later his name is off the door, his partners have voted him out, and the only text he can bring himself to send goes to a number he has never saved and never deleted: Is the spare room still a spare room?

Theo Kincaid answers four hours later. Door’s open till midnight. He has run his father’s diner across from the Briarwood train station for eleven years. He is up at 4:15, opens at five, never yells, and has not let himself look up at the 11:40 in nine years. Not since the last week of August, a green Ford truck, a six-pack on the bench seat, and a twenty-two-year-old who kissed him first and got on the 6:10 the next morning promising soon.

Now that boy is thirty-four, disgraced, and sleeping eighteen inches from Theo’s head through a wall you could push a fork through. Theo writes the rules on a guest check: six weeks, a hundred and fifty a week in cash, stay out of my kitchen, and we don’t talk about the truck. Luca breaks rule four by Friday.

Theo does not want a celebrity chef. He wants a man who can sit still, take what he’s given, and stop trying to earn it. Luca has never in his life been wanted for anything he didn’t perform. And when the six weeks run out, one of them will have to ask for something out loud, with a question mark on it, in a town where the whole counter is listening.

The Last Train Home is a scorching, emotional MM second-chance romance with childhood best friends, a fallen star washing dishes in his hometown diner, a big quiet man who says good like he means it, and a hard-won HEA.

Ebook edition (EPUB). For readers 18+.

Why you’ll love this book

• A second chance fourteen years in the making
• A disgraced celebrity chef demoted to the dish pit
• A big, quiet diner owner who never raises his voice
• Forced proximity: one spare room, one paper-thin wall
• Four house rules on a guest check, broken one at a time
• A pay-what-you-can Sunday Supper and a town worth feeding
• A real reckoning with the hero’s past, no easy redemption

Ebook edition

Format: Digital EPUB ebook (not a printed or audio edition). Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno. Audience: 18+.

Content notes

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes including oral, anal, rimming, mutual masturbation and sex without condoms after testing), strong language, a hero whose past verbal abuse of a cook goes viral (shown in recollection and addressed on the page), wage theft in the hero’s former restaurants (repaid), a parent living with the effects of a stroke and heart disease, a betrayal of privacy involving a documentary pitch, a temporary breakup, and the off-page death of a minor elderly character. Intended for readers 18+.

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