NOTE: This is the ORIGINAL version. The revised version, which includes multiple added scenes and extended storylines, will be published on amazon as two separate books (A Thin Line Between Love & Hate / A Short Distance Between Heaven & Hell). The revised versions may or may not be uploaded onto wattpad, I haven't yet decided if I will be doing that. **The extremist group in this story is based on the Westboro Baptist Church located in Topeka, Kansas. ________________________________ Josh Waylon is a prisoner in his own home, his own mind. Part of an extreme religious group who has targeted homosexuals, Josh is forced to live the hate that the leader--his father--has poisoned them with. But Josh has a secret of his own, one which would bring him extreme pain and punishment within the group and alienate him from everyone he knows. When the group moves to a new town, a community which is predominantly LGBTQ, and Josh starts at the new school, he feels like a sheep amidst wolves as the many gay kids within the school know exactly who he is and what his family does. Josh feels no security with his two older brothers, who expect him to suck it up and accept the persecution as a servant of God. Brandon Nichols immediately detects the difference between Josh and his brothers, seeing deeper within the young man and the truth he is hiding, desperate not to be found out. Brandon believes his calling is to help bridge the gap between the gays and Christians in his school, but he has his work cut out for him with Josh Waylon and the extremist group that has him locked down--emotionally, spiritually...and sexually.

Luke has been in love with his best friend, Taylor, for too long now and it's getting difficult to be around him. He knows it's time to move on and find someone who can make him happy, but he feels like that will never happen, not with the way Taylor has his heart... ***** Being in love with your best friend is hard. Luke Peterson knows this better than anyone else, as he's agonized over his feelings for Taylor Schofield for the past five years. So when he meets the handsome and confident Will Carson who wants to help him get over Taylor, it seems like the perfect chance for him to move on. But can Luke truly give Will a chance? Or will his heart always belong to his best friend? Content and trigger warning: This story contains descriptions of suicide and homophobia. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]] Cover designed by Holly Thurston

**Sequel to New** Will Evans is making some changes. He never wants to feel the way he did after the worst night of his life. Breaking the heart of the guy he loves and sleeping with the guy who came between them isn't something he ever wants happen again. Lost and confused isn't fun. So he's making some changes. Will just hopes he's making the right ones.

"New Year, New Slate, New Hair, New You." Will Evans' new mantra to get him through his last year of high school. Four months after a devastating heartbreak by an ex-boyfriend who disappears with no explanation, Will decides that he need to turn a new leaf, wipe the slate clean and start anew. Little does Will know that this starting anew includes Oliver Hughes, the new guy, and Ryan Romero, the class nuisance, both of whom will cause him more trouble than he ever wanted. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Selected as a Series-osly Good Read by @WattpadSeries

**Threequel to New** Will Evans decided to turn a new leaf, wipe the slate clean and start anew. Will Evans decided to make some changes. Now, Will Evans has decided to make things right. Because he messed things up, oh boy did he mess things up. From friends he's burned one too many times, to two boys he's been torn between for far too long and has caused chaos and heartbreak as a result. Will needs to make things right. Make things right with everyone. With his friends. With Oliver. With Ryan. With himself. He wants peace, he wants calm, he wants to find himself and be truly happy. So Will's making things right. No matter how long that takes.

Every Tuesday during football practice, sixteen year old Sem Bolton finds himself stealing glances at the gorgeous college boy jogging down the path next to the fields. He was his dirty little secret. His guilty pleasure. His unobtainable fantasy: safe and distant on the other side of the chainlink fence. Then, through a series of unpleasant events including being forced on a camping trip, it turns out his unobtainable fantasy is not so unobtainable after all. Not only is gorgeous college boy gay as well, he also wants to date Sem. Now, Sem was never one to play it safe. But outing himself was in a whole different league than testing his mother's patience or taking hits in the boxing ring. Was he really ready to date a guy, all consequences included? As if internal struggles weren't enough, count on girls, friends, and an estranged brother, to complicate stuff even further. Photo on the cover by: https://unsplash.com/@nickkarvounis

In the six years since their night of Truth or Dare, Jacob and Spizzo have been better than ever. But for best friends who tell each other everything, there are some things that have been left unsaid. Will a cross-country road trip help them open up to the person they love the most? What starts as a simple game of I Spy to pass the time along the long stretches of Australian highway slowly morphs into an exploration of who Jacob and Spizzo are. Together and alone. One party game may have brought them together but will another one tear them apart? This car ride is going to be one hell of a trip.