A stylized graphic featuring a flame, a heart, and a hockey puck, representing themes of heat, love, and hockey.
ASHLYN KANE
Illustration featuring a flame, a heart, and a circular object on a black background.
Ashlyn Kane
Writer of queer romcoms

Homecoming for Beginners


It’s just a house until you fill it.

When Ollie Kent arrives on the front steps of the Morris mansion, heโ€™s six months out of the military and the brand-new single parent of an eight-year-old cancer survivor. Now theyโ€™re starting over back in Ollieโ€™s hometown, where heโ€™s lined up a job as a live-in caregiver for old man Morris.

So itโ€™s kind of a downer when a very hungover, mostly naked man about Ollieโ€™s age answers the door and tells him old man Morris kicked the bucket.

Tyler Morris left town at sixteen as a pariah. Since then, heโ€™s built a good life for himself as an EMT. But even in death, his father has to get in one final screw-you: Ty can either return to his hometown and act as executor of the family fortune, or let it all go to a hate group.

Between an unexpected job offer and unexpected roommates, coming home doesnโ€™t go the way Ty expects. But Ollie and Theo bring the cold, lonely mansion to life, and golden-boy Ollie provides good cover for the townโ€™s scorn. The only problem is, Tyโ€™s falling head over heels for the worldโ€™s sweetest and most stubbornly independent single dad, and if he wants to keep Ollie around, heโ€™ll have to convince him to let Ty help.


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