Some scars run deep...

Nineteen-year-old Galen prefers to live in the slow, safe lane. His life is completely upended when he’s kidnapped by his father’s shady business rival for ransom. Even more chaos comes in the form of Chast, the dangerous, yet strangely alluring, mercenary hired to rescue him.

When the two are forced to stay together for his protection, Galen finds himself inexplicably drawn to Chast’s raw and unapologetic personality. And while Chast views Galen as nothing more than an amusing distraction and a great payday, an extraordinary discovery linking Galen to his past piques his interest.

Despite their twenty-year age gap and wildly different worlds, the key to overcoming Chast’s dark past and Galen’s troubling home life might lie within each other. Their bizarre encounter might not be a mere coincidence, but a stroke of fate after all.

Encounter is a standalone contemporary gay romance featuring large age gap relationship, realistic depictions of self harm, suicidal ideations and suicide, as well as human and animal death. A complete list of CWs can be found in the front matter of the book.

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