Raiv Aldrick San Jose, a straight-A student meets the school's all time playboy, Evander Mattias Arguello. Will these differences be a hindrance to them? Or will it be the piece of a puzzle they are both ought to solve?

Fate brings Gael and Rivenn together once more and become FUBU, their hearts drifting slowly, like the sun greeting the ocean at day's end. To escape an arranged marriage, they agree to a fake relationship under the quiet hush of the night. As they spend time together, unspoken feelings begin to stir, hinting at something neither expected, yet neither can ignore.

Keiran was the shore beneath the rain, calm and steady, smiling even as the storm poured over him. The world saw his laughter, never the weight that quietly soaked into his heart. He carried his pain like the shore endures the rain, silently, without letting it wash him away. However, when Ferro came, he became a gentle break in the storm. His warmth taught the shore that even endless rain could bring growth, not just sorrow.

Kaius had long buried his dreams beneath the shadow of his father's blind praise for someone else. Despair turned into anger, growing every time he saw him. He was the reason he was never noticed again and his dream didn't came tue, Yet fate, harsh and odd, would make his Rival, Aethon the only one who could truly see him.

Zhillan is the calmest one, yet inside him is a ranging storm. It stemmed from his past traumas, guilt, and the memories of everything he had lost. Rence had always been the steady one. He was the anchor everyone depended on. But could even he calm the ranging tides of a man who no longer remembered what peace felt like?

Aleksander Volkov (29) is a self-made billionaire with a mysterious past, running a powerful media-tech empire. Though the world sees him as cold, distant, and perfect, behind closed doors, he's isolated, touch-starved, and bored of the luxury life. Daniel Cruz (17), a final-year high school student, is bright, witty, emotionally mature, and breathtakingly beautiful in a soft, ethereal way. He's openly gay, supported by his easygoing parents who adore him, even if they don't fully understand him. Their lives collide when Daniel is accepted into an elite youth art mentorship run by Aleksander's foundation. A spark ignites instantly-but both know the age difference, power imbalance, and looming judgment make things complicated.

When cold-hearted CEO Leonardo Blackwell's only light is his five-year-old son, he never expects a chance encounter at the mall to change everything. Max, still heartbroken over his mother's sudden departure, finds comfort in a soft-spoken stranger-Emery Vale, a beautiful young man who looks eerily like the woman who left them. Desperate to soothe his son, Leo tracks Emery down and offers him a job as Max's live-in nanny. Emery, battling his own struggles and a life-threatening illness, reluctantly accepts-unaware that this decision will entangle him in a world of secrets, luxury, and dangerously growing feelings. But as Leo's cold walls begin to melt under Emery's gentle touch, old flames reignite-Vanessa, the ex-wife who once used him, returns to claim what was never hers. With public scandal, emotional wounds, and a viral photo that threatens to unravel it all, Leo must decide: will he fight for the man who taught him how to feel again, or lose him to the chaos?

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Former Title: Fault Beneath the Stars Stray Boys Series #1 | 🍉 They told me I wasn't in the Book. That in the grand design of the Divine, there was no ink wasted on people like me. It is hard to live as a gay man in a society that is blind, or worse, a society that chooses blindness in the name of faith. They preach love while teaching us to hate ourselves. Because of them, your skin burns even while you are still far from hell. To be gay is to be mocked, bruised, prayed over like a disease, and treated as something less than human. They hurt us for one simple reason: we are not written in their "Holy Book" the way they are. We were never named. Never claimed. Not even spared a footnote. And perhaps that is why it is so easy for them to erase us. I grew up in a house heavy with rosaries and sacred texts, a home that echoed with novenas every Thursday morning. I learned early how to kneel, how to bow my head, and -- most of all -- how to hide. I buried my truth so deep that even I forgot what it sounded like to speak it aloud. It is hard to be gay. Harder when you fall in love with someone just like you. "That's wrong." "That's a sin." "You're going to hell." They say it like a prayer. But can they really blame me? Because in that so-called "sin," I finally found myself. In that love they condemn, I learned how to breathe without fear. With him, my wings grew where shame once lived. With him, my skin finally stopped burning. Book Cover By: Souriah Arts

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