THE NEIGHBOR'S SON is a slow-burn MM contemporary romance about control, restraint, and what happens when carefully maintained distance finally stops working.
Ryan Harken returns home for the summer expecting familiarity and quiet—old streets, old routines, and a break before college begins again. Instead, he finds Derek Johnson.
Older. Composed. The kind of man who never leaves room for mistakes—and never should have become impossible for Ryan to ignore.
He's also the man Ryan has been quietly watching for years from across the street.
When Ryan ends up working for Derek on the restoration of a historic lake house, proximity turns into tension, and tension starts to blur every line Ryan thought he understood.
In a small town where nothing stays private for long, every glance begins to mean something. Derek lives by boundaries and control, convinced distance is the only way to keep life from unraveling. Ryan refuses to pretend nothing is happening between them.
As summer deepens and pressure builds, both men are forced toward a truth neither can avoid:
Some connections don't fade. They demand to be faced.
A tense, emotional slow-burn MM romance about longing, restraint, and what happens when two people stop walking away.
