[boyxboy] [#42 in general fiction] Eliott is alive. He's navigated through foster families, group homes, and no home. Through it all, Nigel has been by his side. Now that high school is over and they've found a place - a real home - to live with their best friend from school, everything is looking up. Not for long. Sexuality, love, loss, and growing into your own shoes is a lot harder than it seems. - cover thanks to @roadtrips

Making your way to the top is never easy, and for Trey the problems begin when he meets his competition and lead swimmer of the team: Bennett Scott. The pair immediately becomes entangled in a web of heated arguments, lies, and loathing. Yet somewhere along the journey, Trey discovers more about himself than he could've ever imagined... And that's when the tides begin to change. (**MxM novel. I own no rights to the cover photo.**)

Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind. Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk. "The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one". Authors notes: -This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon. -2013 Began writing Flawed -2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered -2016 Completed The Numbered -2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.

Résumé: Le jour où Malvi débarque dans la vie d'Ethan sans prévenir, le jeune étudiant en histoire va s'apercevoir qu'il ne se connaissait pas si bien que ça... Chaque geste, chaque regard, chaque parole de Malvi provoque chez lui une avalanche de sentiments. Mais Malvi est le copain de Cora, sa meilleure amie et sa colocataire, alors Ethan l'évite autant que possible. Quand, une nuit où Cora n'est pas là, Malvi embrasse Ethan, tout bascule. Sa vision de l'amour, sa perception de l'amitié, son estime de lui, sa personnalité... Il largue sa copine, Juliette, maltraite son meilleur ami, Théo, et fuit Cora et ses questions. Comment la regarder dans les yeux quand il sait que Malvi la trompe... avec lui. Par propriété exclusive de l'auteur, la copie et les utilisations partielles ou totales de son travail sont interdites: conforment aux articles L.111.1 et L.123-1 du code de la propriété intellectuelle.