THE EDGE OF THIRST
Genre:
Contemporary Romance / LGBTQ+ / Adult (18+)
Synopsis:
Julian Ashford has spent thirty-four years doing everything right. The right career. The right marriage. The right silence about the part of himself he buried so deep he almost forgot it existed. Then his wife hands him divorce papers, and the carefully constructed life he built collapses overnight.
Micah Cruz has spent six years bartending at The Hideaway, watching lonely men drink away their sorrows. He doesn’t bring anyone home. He doesn’t do mornings. He definitely doesn’t fall for the broken ones who stumble through the door with wedding rings still on their fingers.
But one rainy Tuesday night, Julian walks into Micah’s bar. He orders a drink he doesn’t want. He stays until closing. And when he looks at Micah with those desperate, questioning eyes, something in the bartender’s carefully guarded chest cracks open.
It was supposed to be one night. A stranger. A release. No names, no numbers, no feelings.
It becomes none of those things.
This is a story about desire and denial, about learning to touch and be touched, about the terrifying freedom of finally saying the words you’ve choked on for decades. It’s about two men who weren’t looking for love — only to discover that love was the only thing they were missing.
And it all starts with a drink.
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