ORIENTATION: A Steamy, Angsty Second Chance MM Romance

TWO WEEKENDS. TWELVE YEARS APART. An angsty, high-heat second chance MM romance about closeted love, a stolen weekend, a broken promise, and the one person you can never get over. SUMMER 2014. Everybody gets one summer they never get over. Benny Weaver only gets one weekend. He’s eighteen, closeted, and a thousand miles from Wisconsin on a college visit in Philadelphia, trapped in a hotel suite with his religious parents. Then Blake Austin sits down next to him at the hotel fire pit. Nineteen, gorgeous, and straight—with a girlfriend and a pre-packaged future waiting for him back home in Florida. For one secret weekend, none of that matters. And behind closed doors, they cross every line they aren’t supposed to. It ends too soon, the way those weekends do. Blake is going back to Florida with his girlfriend and taking Benny’s virginity with him. But he promises he’ll see Benny again in the fall, at orientation. He seems to mean it at the time. TWELVE YEARS LATER. In 2026, a freelance gig brings Benny back to Philadelphia—and the exact same hotel. Then Blake walks back into his life for the first time since that weekend. Thirty now, trapped running his father’s business, and as far as Benny can tell, still bound to the same childhood girlfriend he was destined to marry. And yet Blake is looking at Benny with the same naked lust in his eyes he had back in 2014. Some people you don't get over. You just get older. TROPE CHECKLIST: • Standalone Guaranteed HEA • Everyday Masc Leads & Non-Scene Vibes • Opposites Attract (Tall, Tan & Buff x Slender & Pale) • Wealth Gap & Regional Contrast (Golden Boy Florida Heir x Working-Class Midwest Editor) • Secret Hotel Encounters & College Origins • Angsty 12-Year Reunion & Second Chance • Family Expectations & Midwest Homecoming (Pelican Rapids) • Explicit High Heat & Raw Intimacy ORIENTATION is an emotionally intense, standalone MM romance featuring a dual timeline, heavy angst, family reconciliation, and explicit, high-heat scenes. Guaranteed HEA.