Forever After

Forever After is a 2024 IPPY Gold Medalist for Best Romance Ebook, and a 2023 Lambda Literary Finalist.Alex Toler specializes in saving old houses, but he couldn’t salvage his marriage after a disastrous game of “Never Have I Ever” outed him as not as straight as his wife wanted. Fortunately, a friend’s spare beach house in San Francisco gives him a quiet place to pull his life together.As a counselor at a queer youth center, Diego Alcaraz is adept at handling the crisis du jour. But after a devastating fire destroys almost everything he owns, he’s not dealing with the fallout as well as he’d hoped. And the only place he could find to live has him sharing it with the one man who completely fooled his gaydar, and seems to hate him on principle.Every clash between them makes Diego suspect his instincts weren’t so far off, after all, but Alex is having none of the guy whose attempted hook-up at a mutual friend’s wedding had him reacting with an unequivocal “Never Will I Ever.” Between the divorce’s bitter aftermath and one of his kids coming out as trans, Alex has enough on his plate without the added complication of figuring out his own sexuality or falling in love with his housemate.When it comes to love, both men are in uncharted waters. And it’s about to get a lot stormier…Note: Forever After can be read as a standalone, but characters from previous books in the series appear. Weaving threads of queer history into the fabric of Alex and Diego’s present-day love story, this book contains a messy vs. neat-freak relationship, a mystery from the past, and decadent mac-and-cheese peace offerings.Please use the Look Inside feature to read the book’s content warning.