Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson - #TuesdayTeaser

 I can never resist a book about knitting and am pleased to be including this one as my Tuesday Teaser today. So here is some information about the book and it's beginning. What do you think? Are you tempted to read it with me?

When his adoptive mother, Joy, unexpectedly passes away, Jesse Strong is determined that her Harlem knitting shop, Strong Knits, should stay open. But his brothers - unsure if the flaky playboy Jesse can handle this responsibility - want to tie off loose ends and close shop.

Enter Kerry Fuller. Kerry has worked at Strong Knits for years and she's harboured a secret crush on Jesse for even longer. Soon, she's teaching Jesse and his brothers the knitty-gritty parts of the business they need to know - while trying to keep her heart from getting broken.

The more time they spend together, the stronger the chemistry builds between them. Kerry, knowing Jesse's history, doesn't believe their relationship can last longer than she can knit one, purl one. Can Jesse prove to Kerry that he is the right man for her - and that only real men knit?

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"There was nothing cute about the first time Kerry Fuller met Jesse Strong.

He broke her glasses; she bloodied his nose and they both ended up in a tangle of yarn on the floor in the loft space of Strong Knits being scolded by Mama Joy.

What she wouldn't do to be scolded one more time, Kerry thought as she adjusted her dark framed glasses as she pushed aside the almost long-forgotten childhood memory. She glanced over at the front window of Strong Knits, the Harlem yarn shop that had been such a part of her life growing up.

Any other day Kerry loved walking through the doors of Strong Knits. It had been that way since she first stepped foot in the little knitting shop where she'd worked part time for the better part of the last ten years and pretty much just hung out for most of her childhood years before that, making it her unlikely sanctuary. A place of calm in the midst of the chaos that was the concrete jungle of upper Manhattan. But this day was anything but normal......"

ISBN: 978 0008435233

Publisher: Harper Collins