Headmates
At six-and-a-half feet tall, Luke should be impossible to miss. Instead, he's spent his life being overlooked, dismissed, forgotten. So when brilliant, magnetic Jaime starts pursuing him with unusual intensity, Luke doesn't question it. He's just grateful someone finally sees him.
An intense, emotional queer romance about the dangerous space between want and need.
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Boyfriend on Parole
Samuel has spent years building walls.
Not the prison’s concrete ones, but the kind that keep lives from bleeding into each other. As the prison’s self-appointed librarian, he’s carved out a fragile peace where silence is his shield. The inmates call him The Ice Queen—a title he wears like armor. After a lifetime of being preyed upon, he knows better than to let anyone close.
Then Eli arrives like sunlight through bulletproof glass.
The Care of Broken Things
The emotional epilogue to The Care of Broken Things – Samuel’s long-awaited homecoming.
After six years behind bars, Samuel Fuller is finally free—but freedom feels fragile. His parole has rules, but his heart has only one: Eli and Nathaniel, the two men who wrote him letters, fought for his release, and never let him forget he belonged to them.
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The Needs of Human Pets
Sawyer was ready to die. Then Velvet arrived.
After losing his only friend—his dog Lawson—Sawyer stands on a bridge, ready to jump. But a stranger with piercing eyes and impossible demands interrupts him. He needs a name. Without thinking, Sawyer answers: “Velvet.”
What readers are saying:
”This book was wild. I spent a good portion super confused and when it all made sense I was shocked. This was different than anything I have read. I really enjoyed it. It is a shirt read and it still somehow was able to surprise me. I really liked Vel and his entire team.” - Ashley(Goodreads)
"When Sawyer was about to end it all a man talked him into taking him home Instead. A man he named velvet. This book is intense, an emotional rollercoaster of two men who are emotionally hurting. It’s sad. Happy and a little crazy but good. It really shows the lengths people will go through for love. And the pains that come with it. I highly recommend this." -Logan(Goodreads)
October Arden
Writes emotionally raw queer stories that live somewhere between literary fiction and romance.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, they specialize in creating intense, messy relationships where chronically ill, neurodivergent characters find their chosen families. With a signature blend of sharp dialogue and slow-burning trust, October's stories speak directly to readers who've felt unwanted, unworthy, or alone
