Separate Rooms

Separate rooms were the rule. Falling in love wasn't in the contract.

Owen Brooks builds other people's big moments for a living. As production director and co-owner of Brooks & Lane Events, he's the man behind the stages, the ballrooms, and the flawless keynote reveals. He's also spent too many years in a relationship that never once said his name out loud. At thirty-five, he has exactly one rule left: he will never be another man's secret again.

Then Brooks & Lane lands the biggest client it has ever had.

Stephen Grant is fifty-three, a widower of seven years, and the acting chief executive of the association Owen's team is producing for. Reserved, meticulous, and unexpectedly funny, he's in the middle of the most public job interview of his life, fighting to make his leadership role permanent.

He has also never let himself want a man.

Nashville. Denver. Savannah. Hotel bars after load-out. Late-night run-of-show meetings. Two keycards to two separate rooms at the end of the same quiet corridor. Every city blurs the line between client and producer a little more, until one night it disappears completely.

For Stephen, it's an awakening thirty years overdue. For Owen, it's the one thing he swore he'd never do again.

Because Stephen has a board to win, a grown daughter to face, and a reputation he has spent his entire career protecting. And Owen already knows how this story ends when the man he loves won't stand beside him in the light.

One of them is going to have to decide what he's willing to lose, and which door he's going to walk through.

A steamy, emotional age-gap MM romance featuring an 18-year age gap, a later-in-life bisexual awakening, a widower finding love again, business travel, a secret relationship, hurt/comfort, and a hard-won happily ever after.