Pastor’s Prize
MM Small-Town Church Romance
by Chase Power
Free with Kindle Unlimited
Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Forbidden Romance, Praise Kink, Age Gap, Authority Figure, Small-Town Secrets, Secret Relationship, Closeted, Slow Burn, Hurt/Comfort
He came home to find God. He found his pastor on his knees instead.
Noah Pierce crawled home to Millfield broke, broken, and sleeping in his childhood attic on Star Wars sheets. Ten years ago, the church told him being gay was a sin. He believed them. He left. Pittsburgh almost killed him. Now he’s back — and the new pastor is nothing like the man who drove him out.
Pastor Daniel Kane has spent four years rebuilding a crumbling church with his bare hands and burying his sexuality under the collar. He’s celibate. He’s careful. He’s safe. Then Noah Pierce walks into the back pew with his arms crossed and his jaw clenched, and four years of discipline collapse in a single handshake.
What starts with renovation work and shared lunches on the church steps turns into locked offices, midnight sanctuaries, and a confessional repurposed for worship that has nothing to do with prayer. When Daniel’s voice drops low and the praise starts — good boy, you’re perfect, you were made for this — Noah discovers that the approval he’s been starving for his entire life sounds exactly like the man who shouldn’t be giving it.
But Millfield is a small town with a long memory. The retired pastor is watching. The deacons are talking. Noah’s father sits on the church board. And when the secret breaks, Daniel must choose: the collar or the man. The church he built or the love he found inside it.
You’ll love this if you enjoy:
✓ Forbidden pastor × prodigal son romance with real stakes
✓ Praise kink that escalates from “good work” to “good boy” to devastation
✓ Age gap (38/27) with a dominant, protective pastor
✓ Small-town secrets, church politics, and a board vote that decides everything
✓ A mother who stands up in a board meeting and changes the game
✓ Slow burn that detonates in a confessional
✓ Religious taboo handled with reverence AND heat
✓ Hurt/comfort that goes both directions
✓ Scorching heat that escalates chapter after chapter
✓ A guaranteed HEA earned through sacrifice, not convenience
Pastor’s Prize is a 105,000-word high-heat MM romance featuring a closeted pastor, a prodigal ex-churchgoer, praise kink that rewires nervous systems, a rosary that’s not used for prayer, a sermon that changes a town, and a love story built one confession at a time. Standalone. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.
⚠️ Content Warning: This book contains explicit MM sexual content, significant age gap (11 years), pastor/congregant power dynamics, praise kink, D/s elements, religious setting intimacy, rosary play, references to past conversion therapy, homophobia, family conflict, and graphic intimate scenes of escalating intensity throughout. Heat level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️. Intended for readers 18+ only.
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“First Sunday” — A scene TOO HOT for Amazon
The morning after the proposal. Daniel wakes Noah with the rosary and the gold ring on a chain around his neck. Morning light, no time pressure, the filthiest praise Daniel’s ever delivered — knowing this man said yes. What happens in the parsonage bed that Sunday morning is worship in every sense of the word.
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