The Confession Series
Blending a workplace romance (where the quiet audio tech falls for the new drag queen) with an adult Coming-of-Age story, Loving Lee is the first book in the Confession series, a sweet and spicy slice-of-life journey of a queer found family. Expect heartfelt and steamy romances, friendships that run deeper than family, and chosen families learning to thrive instead of surviving.
Bellamy—a fictional city straddling the Mississippi River across Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin—is transforming from a dying industrial town into a fintech magnet. Segregation, an opioid crisis, and displaced people are at odds with the luxury condos, booming nightlife, and investors moving into the city. Four queer folks from Eastside—the rapidly gentrifying “bad” part of Bellamy—have found a home in each other. They’ve made it through the darkest times together, only to find themselves stuck as their lives finally stabilized.
Lee Jones: an agreeable but anxious sweetheart whose life fell apart when his parents kicked him out at fifteen.
Tara Sanderson: a scrappy former street kid torn between her desires and needs.
Sunny Boonmee: a socially awkward trans woman struggling against her mother’s expectations.
Blanche Van Horne: a jaded dominatrix with a tragic past and a big heart struggling to live beyond survival mode.
Building on Lee's story, Love on the Sunny Side takes the reins as Lee figures out how to bring his moody and fragile chosen family into his new life with Antonio. But, "moody and fragile" is just as fitting for Antonio and his chosen family. Lee and Antonio must find a way to force their friends into a cohesive queer Brady Bunch.
Antonio Flores: a charismatic drag queen who captured Lee's heart, still learning to trust his new and improved (and sober) self.
Richard Carter: an observant and loyal high-achiever working to escape from under his father's thumb and become his own man.
Phineas Watkins: a "work-hard, play-harder" hotshot lawyer torn between his family legacy and a heart no one seems to want.
Gabriel Cooper: the glue holding them together, a lost soul searching for himself after a decade of hurt.