Co-Op Mode
An MM Gaming Rivals Romance
by Jace Wilder
🎮 Available at your favorite retailer
Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Rivals to Lovers, Grumpy/Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Opposites Attract, Online to IRL, He Falls First, Touch Starved, Secret Relationship, Size Difference, Found Family, Competence Kink, Control/Surrender, Praise Kink
They spent three years destroying each other online. One weekend destroys everything they thought they knew.
Nate “Nexus” Calloway is the most controlled man on the internet. With 2.1 million followers, a streaming setup that could launch spacecraft, and social anxiety he hides behind a flawless digital persona, he’s built his life the way he builds his game bases: meticulously, strategically, and designed for a single occupant. His apartment is sixty-eight degrees. His socks are color-coded. His conversations are scheduled. He hasn’t let anyone past his walls in years.
Then he meets his nemesis in person.
Leo “Havoc” Moreno is everything Nate isn’t: loud, physical, chaotic, and built like someone who could carry Nate out of a burning building and probably would. With 1.8 million followers and a play style that runs on adrenaline and instinct, Leo has spent three years as Nate’s greatest rival — raiding his bases, destroying his plans, and occupying an unreasonable amount of his mental bandwidth. When they finally meet at MegaCon, their digital warfare translates to something far more dangerous: undeniable, explosive, real-world chemistry.
What starts as a convention hookup becomes something neither of them planned for. Late-night Discord calls that last until dawn. Impulsive cross-country flights. A co-op stream that breaks viewership records. A relationship that’s the best content either of them has ever produced — and the biggest risk either of them has ever taken.
Because Nate has a six-figure sponsorship deal with an image clause that could end his career if the wrong people find out. And Leo has an ex who told him he was “too much” and a fear that the real him is someone people love in short bursts but leave in the long run. When a leaked clip forces them into the spotlight, they’ll have to decide what matters more: the brands they’ve built or the life they’re building together.
Co-Op Mode is a 93,000-word high-heat MM romance featuring two rival streamers who discover that the person who knows you best might be the person you’ve been fighting the longest. Dual POV, a four-chapter emotional gut punch, a six-hundred-thousand-dollar contract clause, a flower pot that means everything, and a guaranteed HEA.
You’ll Love This If You Enjoy
✓ Rivals to lovers with three years of digital warfare as foreplay
✓ A hyper-controlled introvert who makes spreadsheets for social events and color-codes his socks
✓ A chaotic extrovert who cries at animated movies and can’t fold a shirt
✓ Convention hookup that turns into “I flew across the country with a carry-on and no plan”
✓ Green room blowjobs, hotel room first times, webcam sessions across three thousand miles
✓ A cable management scene that’s somehow the most romantic thing in the book
✓ An edging scene where the strategist uses his analytical brain for devastating purposes
✓ A four-chapter emotional drought that will make you scream at your Kindle
✓ A first-draft email love confession that hits like a freight train
✓ Nate topping for the first time and both of them crying about it
✓ A flower pot in the center of a game base that means more than any diamond ring
✓ Dual POV, earned HEA, a thermostat compromise, and a co-op beacon that never turns off
⚠️ Content Warning
This book contains explicit MM sexual content including oral sex, anal sex (both directions), edging/orgasm denial, phone/webcam sex, public-adjacent encounters, size difference dynamics, praise kink, and 15+ detailed on-page sex scenes with escalating emotional intensity. Features a protagonist with social anxiety, themes of parental emotional control (living father), fear of vulnerability, a leaked relationship clip, career pressure related to sexual orientation, and a four-chapter separation arc. Both characters are adults (27 and 28). All encounters feature enthusiastic consent.
Reader discretion advised. This book is intended for mature audiences only.
🔥 Want an EXCLUSIVE Bonus Chapter?
After Hours — A 4,000+ word scene TOO HOT for Amazon
Set after the epilogue. Nate wins a bet on stream and decides to collect — off camera. What follows is Nate in full command mode: clinical voice, devastating patience, and Leo discovering that being directed by the most strategic mind on the internet applies to more than just gameplay. Features edging, vocal domination, and the complete dismantling of a man who’s usually the loudest person in any room.
More MM Romance
Browse all Jace Wilder books.
[fe_books_by_author author=jace-wilder limit=8]
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this book part of a series?
Co-Op Mode is a complete standalone with a guaranteed HEA. Nate and Leo end the book living together in Miami, co-streaming, and still raiding each other’s bases. No cliffhangers. Series potential exists with side characters (Jade, Marco, Derek) but this book tells a complete love story.
How spicy is this book?
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — 5/5 heat with 15+ explicit scenes escalating from a convention corridor to a green room blowjob to webcam sex across three thousand miles to a reunion scene designed to wreck you after four chapters of zero contact. Features edging, praise kink, size difference, switching (Nate tops in Chapter 19), and a thermostat set to seventy-two degrees.
What’s the word count?
Approximately 93,000 words. Full-length, dual first-person POV (Nate odd chapters, Leo even chapters), twenty chapters including epilogue.
Is there a breakup?
A four-chapter separation (Chapters 11-14) driven by an outing via leaked clip, a sponsorship image clause, and Nate’s fear of vulnerability. Both men are at fault. They come back together through a first-draft email, a rebuilt game base, and a red-eye flight. The reunion is earned and devastating.
Never Miss a Release
Get new release alerts, exclusive bonus content, and reader-only giveaways.