Some Place Like Home
Book 2 in the Southern Awakenings Series
Out now on KU and wide release
The Southern Awakenings series carries the following content warnings: cheating, drug and alcohol use, discussion of addiction, depression and suicidal ideation, discussion of violence and sexual assault, major character injury, discussion of character death, scenes of suspense and violence.
Three weeks of playing taxi shouldn’t have him tied up in knots…
Everett says he owes him for his help at Foxland, but Carver has long been comfortable in the shadow of his unknown past. He doesn’t need the former detective to search through his life for family. No sense in holding space for something he’ll never get.
With his auto shop scraping by, he’s back to bartending to pay the bills—and while he doesn’t want to admit it, the perk of easy company is losing its shine. Too broke to refuse the work, he gets a tip about a sedan off the highway. But the man behind the wheel quickly becomes more than he bargained for.
Daniel Henning may look like some bumbling academic, but when he brushes off the dig dirt, the man is downright gorgeous. He’s in town for three weeks and absolutely running from his baggage. Just like another college-boy that Carver used to know.
Maybe he hasn’t learned a thing if he’s willing to make this mistake twice, but it’s not just Daniel’s talent with rope that keeps pulling Carver back in. Daniel looks at him like the best parts of what he lost. If they could each escape the weight of their pasts, might they have a future together?
Only more time would tell. But Carver’s never been the kind to ask.
From Bad To Worse
Book 1 in the Southern Awakenings Series
The Southern Awakenings series carries the following content warnings: cheating, drug and alcohol use, discussion of addiction, depression and suicidal ideation, discussion of violence and sexual assault, major character injury, discussion of character death, scenes of suspense and violence.
There’s different kinds of dangerous—the obvious threat you clock on approach, and the one you never see comin’…
Colt Harkan’s not much of a laughing man, or he might better appreciate the biggest joke of his life. Fresh from his time undercover, his first day at Mason PD finds him partnered with Everett Kane—a man determined to stumble through life and still come up the golden boy.
Makes it all look so easy, talking to people with his sun-bright smile. Everett just…cares. It’s like the man can’t help it.
But even in Mason, Colt sees darkness at the fringes, and catching that State Rodeo case starts two unexpected obsessions—proving Patrick Combs’ death was a murder, and screwing around with Ev in the backseat of their car. Seems to work out fine for them both, when Ev isn’t busy with his women or his wife.
One of these days, Everett’s going to find the rock bottom he’s digging for, and Colt can’t help but push him along. The bosses won’t admit it but there's more to Combs than meets the eye, and that bigshot Richard Edwards knows something for sure.
Ev would say it makes him a pessimist, but Colt just has that feeling, an ice-sharp truth learned in days spent dodging death.
Getting honest words from Edwards and Everett both? Might be what kills Colt yet.
About The Series
The Southern Awakenings series carries the following content warnings: cheating, drug and alcohol use, discussion of addiction, depression and suicidal ideation, discussion of violence and sexual assault, major character injury, discussion of character death, scenes of suspense and violence.
Southern Awakenings is a five-book series of murder mysteries and family secrets that weave through M/M and MMF romances.
Set in fictional Mason, Louisiana and surrounding towns, the characters navigate religious upbringings, family expectations, Southern culture, and their own internalized truths to make space for their chosen relationships.
Recurring themes of the Southern Awakenings series are compulsory heterosexuality, toxic masculinity, bisexuality, coming out, addiction, coping with mental illness, neurodiversity, trauma, nontraditional relationship structures (polyamory, BDSM/kink), and chosen family. The main characters of each novel make appearances throughout the series, though each can be read as a stand-alone story.
Southern Awakenings is written in third-person from multiple points of view and features nonlinear storytelling, dynamic plots, and explicit, character-driven intimacy.