He spent three years filing Brian Turner under "unclassifiable." The file just broke open.
Peter Chen is a journalist who notices everything. The way a room shifts when someone walks in. The way a story hides in the silence between answers. The way Brian Turner — quiet, focused, impossibly still — has been sitting across from him in a podcast closet for eighteen months without Peter once figuring out what Brian is thinking.
Brian Turner doesn't do feelings. He does systems. Routines. Controlled silences that keep the world at a distance he can manage. He played college football like a machine and he lives his life the same way — everything monitored, nothing exposed. His friends know him. His family knows him. Nobody knows the thing Brian has been hiding since a supply closet with egg-crate foam on the walls and a voice in his headphones he can't stop listening to.
Peter is the voice. Brian is the silence. The distance between them is exactly four and a half feet, and Brian measured it on purpose.
When a career-making assignment threatens to take Peter three states away, the space Brian built between them starts to collapse. The filing system fails. The thermostat breaks. And Brian Turner, who has never once in his life said the hard thing, is going to have to decide whether the silence is protecting him — or keeping him from the one person who already knows what the silence means.
Press Coverage is the second book in the Game of Inches series — a slow-burn M/M contemporary romance about a man who pays attention to everything except his own heart, and the journalist who has been paying attention for both of them. Full open-door heat. Standalone with series connections. HEA guaranteed.
Genre: Gay Romance
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