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What might have been...

Cute librarian Tim finds himself long overdue for a boyfriend. He hasn't even had a date in almost a year. Which explains why he can't keep his eyes off the handsome construction worker renovating the library!

Sporting bulging biceps and tight jeans, macho Karl seems as straight as the steel beams he carries by the circulation desk. Still, the blue collar stud's killer smile melts the librarian's heart.

A déjà vu moment leads the two young men to discover the past has a way of catching up with you. Will fate, and their own choices, deny them the chance to find out what might have been?

A Gay Romance Novella

18K Words

Paperback Length Equivalent - 76 Pages

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What might have been...

Sporting bulging biceps and tight jeans, macho Karl seems as straight as the steel beams he carries by the circulation desk. Still, the blue collar stud's killer smile melts the librarian's heart.

A déjà vu moment leads the two young men to discover the past has a way of catching up with you. Will fate, and their own choices, deny them the chance to find out what might have been?

A Gay Romance Novella\t

18K Words

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Diane Blake writes romantic suspense stories and romance stories that keep you on the edge of your seat right up until the HEA endings.

Devyn Morgan writes hot gay romance stories that combine the sweet and the sexy.

Mark Pace writes gay romance novels and gay romantic suspense novels.

Matthew W. Grant is the author of several screenplays and novels in various genres. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and is available as paperbacks, ebooks and audiobooks.

Publishers Weekly declared Matthew's novel, SECRETS OF SLATERS FALLS, \"Tragicomic deliciousness!\" noting that the \"Bawdy, snappy humor catches spark right away.\" PW also noted the novel's balance between \"Class-conscious dirty realism and the prurience of nighttime soap operas.\"

SECRETS OF SLATERS FALLS achieved semifinalist status in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. Matthew's screenplay adaptation of his novel, ZACH'S SECRET, was a finalist in a contest sponsored by Script Magazine.

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