William used to live in his grandma's home near the ocean when he was still a kid and he loved it there but his grandma past away and his father got a regular job a year after and decided to live in the city and grew up there, forgetting about the beautiful place he once lived. But someone appeared. A complete stranger but he reminded him of that place he used to call home. || #85 ocean || #134 mermaid || #3 myth || #38 home || #80 mythology || #8 merman

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

Nicca Aisling has a complicated life. He's never lived anywhere for longer than a few months. He has his mother and her philandering ways to thank for that. Nova Aisling has made it her lifelong goal to find true love even if it's at the expense of another person's marriage. When one relationship ends, a new one starts the next week. Nicca, use to this by now expects that this new move will be no different from any of the others. From the moment, he meets his mother's new boyfriend everything changes. Nicca can tell that he may be stuck in San Diego for the long haul. Just as Nicca starts to make friends enter Gianluca, head of the Antonucci family. His affection for Nicca is becoming obsessive and deadly. Nicca doesn't quite know how to say no to Gianluca. What's Nicca to do when his decisions have deadly consequences?