The 8th Seat

Seven rowers move as one. The eighth seat belongs to a ghost.

As stroke, he has built his life around discipline: clean catches, measured breath, and a rhythm no one is allowed to break. Then Rylan returns, carrying the memory of a shared suite, a shower, and a love that ended without ever truly leaving. Distance has changed them both, but the body remembers what pride tried to erase.

Back on the water, every stroke forces the past closer to the surface. Off it, forgiveness demands a different kind of strength—the courage to admit that healing is not a straight line and home may be the man rowing beside you again.

The 8th Seat is an emotional, high-heat MM second-chance romance about competitive rowing, buried hurt, and finding the rhythm back to each other.