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Book Blurb

Do something new today.

 

Why he looks at his horoscope every day, Elias Hood doesn't know. It's all garbage, and no nickel fortune ever helped him climb all the way up the corporate ladder. He's about to make Vice President. Rocking the boat with something new� is the last thing on his mind.

 

But there's this guy.

 

Ty Green can make friends with a tree and Elias can't help falling for his easy-going vibe and his perfect smile. He's a fellow Capricorn, like Elias, but that's as far as their similarities go. Ty works to live, he doesn't live to work. When Elias takes his horoscope's advice and asks Ty out, both men are in for a shock. But as Elias's walls start to come down, they might just realize that they have more in common than they think. In fact, they might even want the exact same thing.

 

Who knows? Maybe horoscopes aren't just trash after all.

 

 

First edition published under the title Picture Winter by MLR Press, October 2017.

Book Review

Elias Hood is ambitious, driven to achieve, and working toward his promotion to VP of his management company every moment of the day. On a bitter cold winter day, he gets off on the wrong foot with Ty Green, the adorable sanitation worker who explains recycling to him as if he were a child. Does he care if his coworker later berates him and cites his Capricorn horoscope telling him to “do good”? Well, for some reason, he does. So, he decides to apologize—by bringing coffee to the cute sanitation worker. It doesn’t put a smile on the man’s face, though. And it’s not until the next day, when he brings hot chocolate, that his efforts are rewarded, and this meet-cute gets off the ground.  And it’s a good example for introducing the fact that Amy Aislin puts real people in her books—real people with diverse personalities. I’ve only read a few, but each time, I’m captured at the beginning of the story and find myself cheering both main characters along their road—sometimes bumpy—to happiness. 

 

Their initial spark of annoyance grows to a spark of attraction, and the two decide to date, to get to know each other. Their chemistry grows, and beyond that, so does their pleasure in each other’s company, their discovery of similar likes and dislikes, including the fact both are Capricorns, and their desire to see each other achieve their life goals. Ty has a big family—loving, supportive, and loud. But Elias is alone in the world, his adoptive parents deceased. Elias and Ty’s backgrounds have influenced their life choices, including career goals, and at times it seems the men may be too different, but the author cleverly weaves the traits of a Capricorn into each man’s personality, and the result is that honesty, above all else, will win the day.

 

This is a sweet romance that served as a mood elevator for me. I found it difficult to put this down, and I highly recommend it to those looking for something sweet, sexy, and solid.  

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 175 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date	12-May-2020
Price	$2.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.amazon.com/Elias-Amy-Aislin-ebook/dp/B0876GPB2B