Wintergreen, the sequel to Wild Raspberries, is now available from Torquere Press as an e-book and a paperback.

There is some action in the book that had me on the edge of my seat. The character of Tyler was very frustrating for me as I couldn't get over his attitude towards Dan. I think Ms. Davitt made the character Tyler a hard, tough as nails guy with a soft spot especially for Dan.

To find out about Tyler and Dan you will need to read this wonderful book for yourself. I recommend it highly.

Review by Elisa Rolle

This is a claustrophobic novel (and BTW I'm not saying it in a derogatory way, I think it was a quite hard psychological work for the author to write it), and how it can't be seeing that it's almost all set in a isolated cabin in the woods in winter? At the end of the previous book, Tyler told Dan that they would have been gone on a travel, to see the ocean: quite the feeling of freedom, isn't it? And so, when the reader starts this sequel, he is all for the moment when Tyler and Dan will leave the cabin to explore the world, and maybe test their relationship. And instead, chapter after chapter they are always there, in the cabin, making loving and quarelling, yelling to each other or kissing. From the most unimportant reason to life change decision, there is always a reason for one of them to be mad and for the other to try to make peace.

Due to the difference in age between Tyler and Dan, more or less fifteen year, you could expect that the one mad would be Dan and Tyler the one always trying to be the balanced one, and instead, in this second novel, we understand that Tyler "needs" Dan, probably as much as Dan needs him. Dan is the anchor to reality, and the reason why Tyler can constantly and firmly refuse to come back in service. And now it arrives another element that adds to the claustrophobic feeling of the story: actually Tyler comes back in service, but all his work is brought on by home, using the internet and his inquisitive mind. Again a claustrophobic feeling, seeing that all the action happens inside Tyler's mind. It's like the outside world doesn't exist, like if they leave their safe haven in the woods, only bad things can happens. The cabin is, at the same time, shelter and prison, and Dan is the first to realize that, if they don't have each other, there is no way he could survive alone there.

Dan is growing in this sequel, he is not yet at his full development as a man, but he is near. You notice that not only from some behavior, like not running away when he is mad, but trying to talk it off, but also in their sexual encounters; more than once Dan takes the lead during sex, and Tyler lets him do so. More, I think that Tyler needs it. When he has too much things swirling in his mind, letting it go, not being the one in control, it's probably the only thing that saves Tyler from going totally nuts.

In a way Dan and Tyler are equal, the difference in age is shortened by their own faults: Dan not yet a man, with still a baggage of insecurities and Tyler with all his nightmares, regrets and fears.

In House Review by Alexa Snow

In Wintergreen, the much anticipated sequel to Jane Davitt's Wild Raspberries, partners Dan and Tyler have settled into a tentative relationship together. It isn't until Tyler's complicated past rears its ugly head that the two find themselves thrown off-balance. Can Dan learn to deal with Tyler's history... and even if he can, can they build a future together?

This book does an excellent job of combining character-driven scenes and an overall plot arc. Dan and Tyler, two characters who are very real in the first novel in which they appear, are fleshed out even more in this story. They're believable, complex men, complete with flaws that somehow manage to make them even more likeable. The storyline involving Tyler returning (at least partially) to a job he'd previously abandoned is both interesting and a significant cause of tension which builds to a spectacular conclusion. The author's use of language is skillful, her secondary characters well-drawn, and the erotic scenes hot and inspired. Definitely a novel you don't want to miss!