Partners in writing and life, Rach and Terry met in a Jane Austen text-based RPG and now live in Philadelphia with a musical teenager, too many cats (four!), and a passion for crafting stories about queer joy in challenging circumstances.
The ‘too many cats’ (left to right): Pierre, Snax, Basil, Beans
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“And now here we are—two guys who should’ve died but didn’t.”
Genre: dual POV, upmarket, cozy dystopian, queer romance
Word count: 96,000
Months after a virus wipes out much of humanity, Silas Turner—a 25-year-old gay law student—is just trying to survive in a desolate Philadelphia. Blocks away, former firefighter Alex Stanton scavenges supplies for the community he secretly plans to leave. Farmland to the west sings a siren song of independence—if he can stockpile enough and bide his time through the winter, he’ll be ready to go.
But when muggers descend on Silas, Alex intervenes, and suddenly Silas is Alex’s problem. In quarantine, a friendship sparks, complete with inconvenient feelings for each other. After a series of mishaps strands them on a stranger’s farm in Lancaster, Alex struggles to reconcile his repressed sexuality with his growing feelings for Silas. Their undeniable attraction is tested by miscommunication, emotional baggage, and a catastrophic fire that forces Alex to finally confront his fear of vulnerability and choose what—and who—he truly needs.
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