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Coiled in Lies [Re-writing/editing]

• LQBTQ+
• Supernatural
• Mystery
• Action
• Comedy
• Drama
• Horror

A human begrudgingly joins forces with a mysterious shifter to protect his younger siblings from the vicious creatures that would harm them. 

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Monty the python + Tory asleep in bed = nightmare fuel. Coyote shifters breaking into their house and a rescuer wearing Tory's bathrobe and his bed sheet around his waist? Officially the worst night ever. With no choice but to work with their mysterious rescuer - anything to get back to his family's danger-free life - all the while putting up with the shifter's infuriating nature and his teenage brother's matchmaking.

Yosef vowed to protect Justin's children. Simple. Had Salvatore not been the most stubborn human he ever encountered. As if maintaining some form of professionalism hadn't been a struggle enough, Yosef fails horribly after Tory saves him. Intense emotions conflict with his vow, his own insecurities and the nagging fears that won't shut it and leave him be. Literally. 

Will the pair of them be able to work together to unravel Justin's disappearance while fending off the shifters hired to stop them or will they be torn apart in the process?

 

~ Dual POV ~

 

*Rated Mature for - Mental health topics, violence, gore, and strong language*

Acceptance || MxM

• BL
• LQBTQ+
• Romance

After getting away from his cruel father's tyranny, Randall has to learn how to live again,
and accept the person he was meant to be - with a little help of a local bartender...

*****

An empty shell is all what is left of twenty-five-year-old Randall now. After his 
homophobic father found out he was gay, he had to learn to act someone else in order
to survive through the years of abuse and humiliation. Now he has forgotten the 
person he once was. He refuses to remember the person he was supposed to be.

Emotionally detached, and unable to create any kind of relationships, Randall's 
lonely days repeat themselves in the same destructive pattern: go to work, 
work out, watch TV, and drink, with no way out of that dark, miserable corner 
he has built for himself.

When a gay bar opens doors in his neighborhood, the fragile balance he has created 
with himself is in danger of being destroyed when his true self is trying to break free.

And to make things worse, there is a new guy at his gym. A kind guy who has a nice 
voice and loves talking people's ears off. A guy who can see his suffering and is 
willing to do whatever it takes to help him. 

A guy who is making Randall feel once again.



(Warning, this novel contains verbal and physical abuse!)