I ran away at eighteen—the night my younger brother pulled a gun and cost us everything. While he was caught trying to outrun the Oakland police, I escaped by boarding a northbound bus, carrying nothing but fear and the need to disappear.

After years of drifting, I found myself in Crescent City. A local bar owner took a chance on me, allowing me to rebuild my life. For the first time, I felt like I might deserve something better than I’d left behind.

Then a massive storm hit our quiet coastal town.

A photographer from a San Francisco TV station came to cover it, and from the moment I met Bryce—the ginger-haired, hazel-eyed man who stole my breath—my carefully rebuilt world shifted. What started as an unexpected attraction deepened into something neither of us saw coming, rooted in traumatic scars we shared and didn’t speak of easily.

When a culinary scholarship pulled me back to San Francisco—the last place I ever expected to return to—the past I thought I’d left behind surfaced.

I have to decide whether to keep running or stand my ground for the life—and the man—I love.

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Recipe by Chance is an MM romance about one man trying to outrun his past and the man determined to help him face it. Both men, haunted by childhood abuse, buried trauma, and loss, know how to survive but not heal completely. Through love, patience, and the courage to accept change, they fight for the future they deserve—and claim their hard-won HEA.

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