French Kisses by Jerry Cole

Camden Archer runs his high school’s chapter of Alliance Française, a French club meant to support and immerse his students in French culture. This year’s event is a trip to the French embassy to participate in a July 14th celebration of French independence. Cam has had to work closely not only with the local school board, but also with Jean-Paul Terrien, assigned to the office of the French cultural attaché.

Jean-Paul is a raven-haired, blue-eyed temptation… intelligent, sophisticated, and aloof as ever. Cam doesn’t need the aggravation of trying to figure him out and is determined to avoid the man as much as possible, even though he can’t stop thinking about him. However, life has a way of happening while making other plans.

Jean-Paul has never met a more interesting French teacher than Camden. His impeccable French and the ideas that Cam has shared with him, have left Jean-Paul with an impression of the charismatic teacher that pushes him to take a closer look when they meet again. Cam is built like a soldier, moves like a panther, and sounds like a lover, his voice like velvet that rubs Jean-Paul in all the best ways.

They are compatible in many ways that Jean-Paul enjoys and cannot avoid acknowledging. But, Jean-Paul is not in the States to take a lover nor to find his soulmate He has never needed anyone, and he doesn’t plan to start now. He has a painful secret, and anyway, his life is not in the United States. It is in France, and he will not form attachments that he cannot maintain when he leaves.