The Year We Stopped Pretending — Paperback
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📖 Paperback Edition — They’ve been best friends for twenty-five years. It took one bed to ruin everything. 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno Heat • MM Friends to Lovers • Divorced Dads • Bi Awakening • Only One Bed • Road Trip. 6 × 9 paperback, 248 pages. For readers 18+.
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📖 Paperback Edition — They’ve been best friends for twenty-five years. It took one bed to ruin everything.
Colin Ward and Mateo Silva have done it all side by side. High school football. Each other’s weddings. Raising sons across the street from each other. Getting divorced in the same miserable year.
So when their teenage boys guilt them into one last road trip to the Outer Banks, Colin figures he can survive nine days in a car with the man he’s spent his whole life not looking at.
Then a booking error puts them in one room.
A storm puts them in one bed.
And one kiss in the dark puts an end to twenty-five years of pretending.
Mateo’s been in love with his best friend for as long as he can remember, and he’s done settling for whatever’s left over. If Colin wants him, he can say it sober, in daylight, out loud.
Colin wants him. God, does he want him. But wanting Mateo at a beach house is one thing. Wanting him at home — in front of an ex-wife, a son, and a whole small town — is another.
The road back is nine hours long. And only one of them is done hiding.
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno Heat • MM Friends to Lovers Romance by Jace Wilder
Tropes: Best Friends to Lovers • Divorced Dads • Bi Awakening • Only One Bed • Road Trip • Forced Proximity • Mutual Pining • Praise Kink • Late Bloomer • Small Town • Found Family
A high-heat MM romance with lifelong best friends to lovers, divorced dads, bisexual awakening, only one bed, a road trip that goes very wrong and very right, and a hard-won, out-loud HEA.
Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • 248 pages • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter, “The Dock, Take Two.”
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes including oral, anal, rimming, mutual masturbation and a solo scene), strong language, alcohol use, divorce and co-parenting, bisexual awakening and coming out later in life, a teenager seeing his father kiss a man before he has been told, a parent lying to his son about a relationship (and repairing it on the page), references to a disapproving late father, and a temporary breakup. There is no cheating between the leads. Intended for readers 18+.
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