Hold Me Where the Light Is

An MM Contemporary Romance
by Jace Wilder

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Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Grumpy/Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Touch Starved, Slow Burn, Praise Kink, Opposites Attract, Hurt/Comfort, He Falls First, Found Family

He said “breathe” once. It rewired everything.

Nate Reyes is a burned-out high school history teacher running on caffeine, obligation, and cereal for dinner. He hasn’t been touched with intention in over a year. He hasn’t felt anything in even longer. When a friend shoves a business card for a yoga studio into his hand, he goes out of stubbornness, not hope.

Silas Quinn is the loud, tattooed, too-much-for-everyone owner of The Soft Room — a yoga studio built from nothing, held together by duct tape and heart. He teaches with his whole body, plays R&B during class, and treats every student like they deserve a soft place to land. What he doesn’t do is let anyone close enough to see that he’s falling apart.

What starts as a yoga adjustment — hands on shoulders, a murmured breathe — becomes private sessions that blur every line. Nate’s body wakes up under Silas’s hands. Silas’s walls come down under Nate’s steady attention. And the six inches of air between them during every session becomes the most charged space either of them has ever occupied.

But Silas has been told he’s too much by every person he’s ever loved. And Nate has spent two years being not enough for himself. When the studio faces closure and old wounds collide with new ones, they’ll have to decide whether the thing they’ve built together is strong enough to survive the thing they’re most afraid of: being fully, completely seen.

You’ll love this if you enjoy:

✓ Grumpy/sunshine with a burned-out teacher and a chaotic yoga instructor
✓ Touch-starved hero who flinches at contact and melts under the right hands
✓ Forced proximity in a warm studio after hours
✓ Slow burn that detonates against a wall next to a supply closet
✓ A man who says “breathe” and means it with his whole body
✓ Praise and body worship that escalates from therapeutic to devastating
✓ Found family in a yoga community that shows up with hammers when it matters
✓ A studio that gets rebuilt by the people it saved
✓ Scorching heat that escalates chapter after chapter
✓ A guaranteed HEA earned one morning at a time

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Hold Me Where the Light Is is a 96,000-word high-heat MM contemporary romance featuring a touch-starved teacher, a yoga instructor who’s been told he’s too much his whole life, a studio built twice, a cat named Gremlin, and a love story earned one breath at a time. Standalone. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.

⚠️ Content Warning: This book contains explicit MM sexual content, themes of burnout and depression, references to the foster care system and childhood emotional neglect, praise kink, body worship, D/s elements, on-page emotional processing, a man who cries during sex, and graphic intimate scenes of escalating intensity throughout. Heat level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️. Intended for readers 18+ only.

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“The Wall Still Warm” — A scene TOO HOT for retailers

The night after their first kiss. Silas alone in the studio. The wall still warm from Nate’s body. A text conversation that starts careful and ends with Silas on the studio floor, phone in one hand, thinking about what Nate’s mouth tasted like and losing every shred of composure. This scene didn’t make it into the book. It’s hotter than anything that did.

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