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Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, 1987.

At Shepherd’s Timber Ranch & Refuge, boys sent there to be fixed learn to confess, to kneel, and to forget who they were.

Seventeen-year-old Max Miller arrives with a duffel bag and a mixtape of forty-three songs.

By morning, there is ice on the swamp.

In May.

It isn’t weather. It is something the land...

In the hallways of Rosenberry High, a cast list has the power to rewrite everything.

For Elliot Maypedal, the spring musical was supposed to be his final bow — a triumphant send-off before trading high school spotlights for a full scholarship to the University of Michigan and a future already neatly scripted: prestigious conservatory, new city,...

One viral video. Two different lives. Four words that could burn it all down.

Jesse Valentine has the life everyone dreams of—or at least, the one thirty million people fell in love with online. As the assistant manager of a charming Detroit bookstore, he’s just said “yes” to a Pinterest-perfect proposal from Ezekiel Hendricks, a successful,...

He watches. He classifies. He allows. The system has been watching him for much longer.

By day, he moderates content for a platform that never sleeps — reviewing, annotating, classifying an endless feed of bodies and behavior, deciding in fractions of a second what gets to exist and what disappears. He has learned to observe without...

The night Ian Mitchell finally told the truth about himself, his family forgot his birthday.

So when his friends drag him to Menjo’s to celebrate — his first night out, his first taste of a world that finally fits — he isn’t expecting much. He definitely isn’t expecting Derek Lawson.

The collision is an accident. Everything after isn’t.

Derek is...

Some love stories begin with a kiss.

This one begins with a secret.

Days before Gavin Mitchell’s wedding, Derek Lawson and Ian Mitchell are falling hopelessly, recklessly in love. Every stolen glance, every late-night phone call, every moment together feels like a miracle.

It also feels dangerous.

Because Gavin is Derek’s best friend.

Because...

It was supposed to be the perfect rehearsal dinner — a celebration of love, family, and the future Gavin Mitchell and Hillary Beauchamp have spent years building together. But when a ghost from the past crashes through the doors of the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, the carefully constructed walls around Ian Mitchell and Derek Lawson come crashing...

BOOK ONE IN ”THE GYM” TETRALOGY

They called him Detroit’s Little Heartbreaker.

He wore it like a crown — because once, it was one.
The night Jimmy Davidson walked into Threshold at eighteen and a rhinestone crown touched his head, the city named him. And for a while, being named was enough.

Then came Joey Reeves.
Young. Beautiful. Damaged in ways...

After walking into the impossible industrial cathedral hidden at 123 Industrial Way, Jimmy Davidson ceases to exist in any recognizable sense. The boy once crowned Detroit’s Prettiest Little Heartbreaker is stripped apart piece by piece inside a machine that does not merely rebuild bodies, but rewrites suffering itself. Memory becomes...

In another life, they called him Detroit’s Prettiest Little Heartbreaker.

Now the ones who helped destroy him are learning what survived.

James Drake has spent months transforming himself into something colder, sharper, and impossible to control. Beneath Detroit’s glittering nightlife and abandoned industrial cathedrals, he begins executing a...

They called him Detroit’s Prettiest Little Heartbreaker.

Then they called him James Drake.

Now the city whispers his name like prayer, like warning, like prophecy.

As James’s terrible transformation nears its final purpose, Detroit begins to orbit him. Beautiful men abandon their lives for the chance to stand near him. Nightclubs become...