Straight Roommate, Queer Problem

Nine years of loving my straight best friend was manageable—until his apartment flooded and he landed in my only bed.

Nico Sutton has spent nearly a decade surviving on small, load-bearing lies. Evan touched his shoulder because the kitchen was narrow. Evan fell asleep against him because of the beer. As long as Evan remained straight, oblivious, and safely out of reach, Nico could protect both his own heart and their unbreakable friendship.

Then a burst ceiling leaves the broad, six-foot-three general contractor temporarily homeless. Nico’s loft has six hundred square feet, zero internal doors, and exactly one platform bed.

Evan Cole fixes structural problems for a living. He understands joists, blueprints, and clean measurements. What he can’t calculate is why sharing sheets with his best friend suddenly feels like the only solid ground he’s ever stood on. Every morning narrows the inches between them. Every borrowed shirt, shared shower, and quiet glance turns up the volume on a frequency Evan has spent his entire life tuning out.

When nine years of restraint shatter under a single question in the dark, the shift is seismic. But Nico has been someone’s dirty secret before, and he refuses to be an experiment hidden behind closed doors. Now Evan has to figure out if he has the courage to dismantle the safe life he built—and choose love in broad daylight.

Straight Roommate, Queer Problem is an emotional, high-heat MM contemporary romance featuring the only-one-bed trope, an authentic bisexual awakening, heavy domestic pining, and two best friends learning that the hardest renovations are the ones you make on yourself. Complete standalone with a guaranteed HEA.