A two part addition to 'The Dutch Boy' and 'Battle Scars'.

When Lalo moves to Spain to escape the blurry faced ghosts of his past life in America, he finds solitude in an empty mansion, abandoned for the past twenty five years. With a six month contract as a gardener, he adapts to a life of lavender lemonade, vibrant flowers, and homemade raspberry jam. It's not long before he's joined by the buyers' son, Rory, desperately running away from a future in London. Together, they forge a bond amongst the seclusion of the countryside. But their new paradise is threatened, not only by the supposed spirits that walk the halls of the haunted manor, but by a face from Lalo's past, determined to track him down.

Treat them like prisoners and they'll behave like prisoners. Oakleaf Academy was a prison. No matter how you described it, no one would believe it was a boarding school. The kids were running wild, fighting, dealing and screwing their lives up beyond repair. It was for the roughest and toughest boys in the country, cooped up like animals. It wasn't a boarding school, it was a nightmare. And the boys weren't students, they were devils in disguise. Once you're in there, there's no turning back.

Mickey was a skater. River was too smart for his own good. But being polar opposites didn't stop them from being best friends. Ever since they were little, they would sit in the treehouse in Mickey's garden, and feel like they were on top of the whole world. But as they got older, they realised that the world was much bigger, and they needed to find a way to explore it.

[Sequel to The Dutch Boy] With Luca at university, Theo is left to fend for himself, desperately trying to maintain his long distance relationship while fighting the demons that live within, ready to swallow him whole.

Luca Bakker, a football jock with haunted eyes and a pretty Dutch accent. And Theodore Hart, a shy kid from school who works at the local pet shop. The idea that the two could ever cross paths - let alone build any sort of relationship - was almost laughable. And yet, here we are. Laughing away.

❝ ɪ ʜᴀᴛᴇ ʏᴏᴜ, ʏᴏᴜ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴛʜᴀᴛ? ❞ ❝ ʙʟᴏɴᴅɪᴇ, ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅɴ'ᴛ ʜᴀᴛᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ɪғ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛʀɪᴇᴅ.❞ boys will be boys is how the saying goes. but when boys like boys that is when problems arise. started 9/8/19 ended 20/2/21 edited, partially rewritten 5/9/23

Corey is searching for the meaning of beauty. Dorian finds it in everything. [Posted: May 2019]