Tristan is having an affair with his brother's married best friend. He decides to end the affair after David makes an unexpected announcement; Tristan blames himself for the recent upheaval in David's life, and instead finds a boyfriend his own age, Dale. But something about David keeps pulling Tristan closer to the older man. With his new relationship with Dale called into question by David's undoubted allure, Tristan finds himself learning more about life - and love - than he thought he ever would. But the most important question Tristan must ask himself... Is sleeping with your brother's best friend ever a good idea?

Life really does suck for Nathaniel. With a minimum wage job as a helper for a librarian and two dead parents, his life is just piles and piles of bad events. He's practically a nobody, having no signs of luck with love, money, appearance, generally nothing. Nathaniel pushes his way through survival. But life doesn't cut him some slack even after all that. Oh, no. The unlucky boy finds himself being targeted by the world's most feared mafia after he breaks into his workplace during a night shift, a mafia who can make anybody submit with the snap of his fingers, the glare of his piercing eyes that can make the strongest people tremble like a puppy. Worst of all, Nathaniel is starting to grow a little too attached to this Mafia. (Unedited)

(CHAPTER ONE) Hoping to get away from their livelihood troubles, a young teenage couple travel to the big city of Melbourne, Australia. Staying in a small hotel in the centre of the city, their love for each other blossoms. Their hopes of a quiet holiday are foiled by a rapidly spreading global infection, trapping them four stories high in their cheap apartment. Stress, fear and trauma bring out old wounds from their relationship, tearing them apart. Released | 30th of May, 2023 Completed | 22nd of October, 2023 Word Count: 45,328 Set in The Arising Universe