"Very good, Wesley," he breathed, the warm air fanning across the merchant captain's face. "Now I suggest you listen closely because I don't do this very often." Wesley curiosity grew, though he kept a healthy degree of skepticism as he listened to the pirate. "I'm prepared to offer you a deal." "What kind of deal?" he asked, his heart racing. "I seem to have found something that I want even more than your ship's cargo," he said with an unsettling smirk. "And I am prepared to let what remains of your crew sail free if I get it." "Name your price," Wesley said, at this point ready to agree to anything if his crew would live. Valentine reached out and tilted Wesley's head up so he could get a better view of it. His smirk seemed to grow as he let one little word slip through his lips. "You." *This is an LGBTQ+ story*

A professional hockey player and a misanthropic college student. Quite the unlikely duo, right? A psychology and sociology major at Yale University by day and a street fighter by night, Atlas Cherry thought that his miserable life would never get better. With bruises plaguing his skin and misanthropy coursing through his veins, he needed a change. When Atlas met Daxton Holloway, a charismatic NHL player, whose career was hanging on a thread, in that awful hole-in-the-wall bar somewhere in New Haven, he got just what he bargained for. All About Cherry is a slow burn, gay romance novel focused on the drastically different lives of Atlas Cherry and Daxton Holloway, crashing together into a beautiful, unlikely symphony.

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