Hold it all together

Cillian Ryan is stagnating. He’s staring down the wrong end of his 30s aggressively single, his unexciting job is underpaid, and he’s facing the prospect that his codependent best friend might genuinely have found herself a viable girlfriend this time. Which will leave him with no company for his evenings in front of the TV whatsoever.

Things only become more complicated when he encounters his dream man, who is equally lonely, charming, funny, hot, and married. Not only married, but married to someone too anxious to let him out of the house for long enough to make friends.

He has absolutely no intention of getting involved with a married man; no intentions of seeing his best friend’s new romance collapse like a dry sandcastle; and definitely no intention of kidnapping a cat in from not-quite-certain doom, but intentions and outcomes don’t always line up in his life…

CLEMENTINE (114,000 words) is a contemporary LGBTQ romance set in Oxford and Margate, and foregrounding queer friendships. It will appeal to fans of [??????]