Food Truck Warriors Book 2: Hit the Brakes by Beth Bolden

 

Food Truck Warriors Book 2

Can they fake it til Tate makes it?

Tate Ward is in a bind. His food truck hasn’t been the runaway success he’d always dreamt it would be. When he tries to join a new food truck collective to gain a larger following, his sales aren’t even high enough to win a spot. What he needs is a high profile endorsement—and he knows just the guy.

Tate hasn’t seen Chase Riley since high school. It’s been ten long years of watching from a distance as Chase conquers football fields and fan’s hearts.

Tate never wanted Chase to know that he had the world’s stupidest crush on him, because he always believed Chase was straight.

But desperate times call for desperate measures . . .

When Chase offers a tempting plan that could fulfill all his dreams, Tate knows he can’t say no. All he has to do is pretend that his very real feelings are actually fake.

But faking it with Chase, while leading to wild success and even wilder nights, is everything that Tate feared it would be. All it’s done is leave him wanting the impossible: Chase’s heart.

A Fake Boyfriend Food Truck Romance

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56241486-hit-the-brakes

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My Review: 5/5 Stars

In my read of the Riptide series, I jumped to this book from the Food Truck Warriors because it features Chase and takes place right before the final book in the Riptide series. So this story is about Chase and Tate. And man are these two adorable. They first liked one another all the way back in high school. It was senior year and they were in Home Ec together and Tate discovered his love of cooking. They were always flirting and there was one day they almost kissed but the teacher interrupted them. Sadly, nothing happen between them and they graduated and went separate ways. However, Tate’s long crush on Chase never went away. He followed Chase’s career from afar and even took Chase’s advise in following his passion for cooking rather than business. Now ten years later, they will finally be reunited. When Chase’s food truck needs a little more help reaching some sales, his sister convinces him to name drop Chase’s name in their promotions. Tate reluctantly agrees and hope it doesn’t come back to haunt them. But he never expects Chase to track him down. Track him down and not even sue him at least! Instead, he finds a Chase who is thrilled to see Tate again and wants to help. Especially that he knows just how good Tate is when it comes to cooking. And what Tate doesn’t know is that Chase never forgot Tate either and his crush was just as real. Tate was always the one guy Chase wanted to be with. And one thing leads to another and Chase ends up revealing to the world that he is queer and in a relationship with Tate. Not his brightest idea without at least talking to Tate but another part of Chase hopes that this fake relationship they find themselves in can turn very real. But nothing is that simple. They each have their own thing they are going through and need to figure out themselves and hopefully once they can, they can truly be together. I adored these two. Their journey wasn’t easy but they finally get a chance to be together after so many years. And it is clear just how much they love one another. Great story! And I’ll probably be checking out the rest of the series as well.