The Spare Key

Patrick Ellis has had Simon Brooks's spare key for eight years. He uses it every Thursday, usually carrying Thai food and fixing something Simon never asked him to fix.

Then he walks in at exactly the wrong moment.

At thirty-eight, Patrick has spent his life certain he knows himself. But watching another man touch Simon shatters that certainty. Suddenly, he wants the best friend whose door has always been open—and he's terrified of what wanting him might mean.

Simon has loved Patrick in silence for eight years.

Now his kitchen-design showroom is closing, Charlotte is offering him a fresh start, and he's done being the easy, available friend who never asks for more. Patrick's feelings might be real. But Simon refuses to be anybody's experiment—or another problem to solve.

Their first kiss turns twelve years of friendship into something fierce, tender, and scorching.

Building a future together, though, takes more than a spare key.

Patrick has always expressed love by fixing things. Simon has spent years pretending he doesn't need anything. When Patrick's instinct to solve every problem threatens Simon's independence, both men must discover that loving someone doesn't mean making their decisions.

Sometimes it means asking what they want.

And being brave enough to hear the answer.

The Spare Key is a steamy, emotionally satisfying standalone MM romance featuring best friends to lovers, a bisexual awakening, years of secret pining, irresistible chemistry, chosen family, and a hard-won happily-ever-after.


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