For I Have Sinned: Bastian and Rob 1 (Southern Sin)
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Also by Julia McBryant
Julia McBryant’s interconnected series chronicle the lives of a group of well-off, high society young adults in Savannah, Georgia, most of whom have known each other since kindergarten. Their complicated relationships (and unconventional sexcapades) form the meat of the series, along with a careful attention to chronology, character, and prose. More than romantic erotica, they detail a fully realized world of drama, theme, and most of all, memorable characters.
While they can be read in any order, and may be best read by series, chronologically, the books take place in the following order: For I Have Sinned, Something Wild and Perfect/If You Believe/What We Owe/I Wish I Were Special, Beautiful Boys, All the Little Lights, and What Christmas Means/Learning to Love Christmas/Christmas Cousins.
Note that Something Wild and Perfect takes place over three years, and If You Believe over about a year. Something Wild and Perfect starts first; If You Believe begins second. While If You Believe, What We Owe, and I Wish I Were Special all overlap with Something Wild and Perfect, the order within it is as follows: If You Believe, What We Owe, and I Wish I Were Special. All the Christmas books are contemporaneous.
If You Believe (Wills and Crispin 1)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1674509014
Southern Seduction, #1
Wills and Crispin have been best friends since kindergarten and lovers since eleventh grade. They’ve had to hide their relationship from their upper-class Savannah parents all through high school. Now, as Wills heads off to the University of Georgia for law school, and Crispin stays in Savannah to become a carpenter like his father, Wills decides he can’t stand a long distance relationship — no matter how much it hurts them.
But after a momentous Christmas break, they decide to try. Two teens are trying to negotiate growing up, growing together, and growing a relationship. It’s hard work, the kind of work where a hand-holding might mean more than a night of sex. But Crispin and Wills are determined to make it.“It’s Enough,” “Like Sunshine,” and “Slow Dance,” collected into one volume with a new prologue, “If You Believe” is a best-friends-to-lovers story filled with passion and heartfelt emotion. Gay Book Reviews called “Like Sunshine” “a tone poem to first love” and gave both “It’s Enough” and “Like Sunshine” 5/5 stars and 5/5 heat level; both books hit the top of Amazon’s gay erotica list.
What Christmas Means (Wills and Crispin 2)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZKT7J52
Southern Seduction, #2
Wills and his twin Henry decide to throw a massive, three-day Christmas blowout at their beach house on Tybee. But a Christmas party needs decorations. And cookies. And pie. Wills decides it’s his sworn duty to provide them all — including Santa hats with everyone’s name fabric-painted onto them — and drags Crispin along in his tinsel-strewn wake. But Christmas is more than sticking black Santa in the corner and baking (obscene) sugar cookies. And Wills has to figure that out before his party goes to hell.
Part of the Southern Seduction series, the novella “What Christmas Means” will hook you with the comedy and give you that warm Christmas glow you’re looking for in a holiday tale.
“What Christmas Means” tells story of the same holiday party, from a different perspective, of the one in Low Country Lovers’ “Learning to Love Christmas” and Southern Scandal’s “Christmas Cousins.” The stories can all be read as stand-alones in the context of their series, but differ enough in details to be read together.
Something Wild and Perfect (Audie and Calhoun 1)
Low Country Lovers, #1; Available Jan. 2020
A compilation of Hurricane Dreams (ranked #1 in LGBT Literary Fiction, #1 in Bisexual Romance, #1 in LGBT 90-Minute Short Reads, #2 in Gay Erotica, #2 in US Short Stories, and #2 in Bisexual Erotica, all on Amazon’s free rankings) and Neon Saturday Night, Something Wild and Perfect tells the story of 19 year-old Audie Currell, the only son of one of the richest families in Charleston, who spent a childhood brutally abused for his sexuality. During his parents’ wine tasting, he runs off into the night with another teenager, Calhoun Chatterton, and the two begin dating in secret. But Audie’s abusive past stands in the way of an authentic relationship — as does The two naive teenagers have to hide their romance throughout college while coping with Audie’s trauma.
But Audie’s history leaves feeling that he has little to offer a committed relationship, and stuck in an inescapable narrative: he hurts, and Calhoun saves him. He tires of always playing the drama queen, the traumatized boyfriend. He wants something real to give Calhoun — if only he can figure out what that is. And if only Calhoun will let him.
An insta-love romance filled with lyrical prose from Julia McBryant, author of I Wish I Were Special and Beautiful Boys, this expanded compilation is a coming-of-age, first-love story with plenty of hurt/comfort, high heat, and angst.
The Low Country Lovers series is a spin-off of the Southern Seduction series and takes place in the same universe; Low Country Lovers can be read on its own.
All the Little Lights (Audie and Calhoun 2)
Low Country Lovers, #2: Available Feb. 2020
Audie’s finally escaped the hell of his parents’ homophobic home in Charleston to build a real, lasting romance with Calhoun in Savannah. But Charleston suddenly shows up on his doorstep when the couple are forced into playing parents to Audie’s gay cousin, beaten bloody and disowned for his sexuality. Audie has to confront his demons head-on — with a misbehaving, committed hedonist of a cousin in tow. Calhoun’s tired of acting like the mean dad. Audie’s breaking into pieces. For the sake of Audie’s cousin, their relationship — and some very unwelcome news from Audie’s father — they have to untangle this miserable knot. Somehow.
Another true-love romance filled with lyrical prose from author Julia McBryant, All the Little Lights brings the angst, hurt/comfort, high heat, and eventual HEA Audie and Calhoun deserve.
Learning to Love Christmas (Audie and Calhoun 3)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZKX4NFS
Low Country Lovers, #3
Note: this has been released before Low Country Lovers #2. It contains no spoilers, and the books can be read out of order.
Audie Currell hates Christmas, which he’s always spent with his abusive family. But his boyfriend Calhoun drags him to the Culliver twins’ three-day Christmas blow-out at their beach house on Tybee, where “it looks like Macy’s holiday department has vomited its entire contents.” While the stockings are hung by the chimney with care, the hot tub bubbles, and the Goldschlager passes from hand to hand, Calhoun has to teach Audie that Christmas isn’t all bad — in a big way.
Full of hilarious moments, tenderness, and the touch of angst you’d expect from Audie, the novella “Learning to Love Christmas” will leave you with the warm holiday glow (literally) that’s the real reason for the season.
Low Country Lovers’ “Learning to Love Christmas” tells the story of the same party featured in Southern Seduction’s “The Meaning of Christmas” and Southern Scandal’s “Christmas Cousins” from a different perspective. Each novella can be read separately in the context of its series, or all three fit together to create a full picture of everything that happen
s at one party.
I Wish I Were Special (Quinn and Ellis)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XWT4MN9
Southern Scandal, #1
The youngest of five, Quinn is known throughout Savannah as the Rutledge oops baby and an inveterate party boy — but his wham, bam, thank you, ma’am philosophy covers a deep well of loneliness. Architect Ellis Ashford has shunted his daddy kink off onto a “savior complex” for years. Can they resist the magnetic pull between them, despite their age difference? Or will the Greek chorus of Savannah gossip tear them apart?
Part of the interconnected Southern Seduction and Low Country Lovers universe, this spin-off series stands alone.
Beautiful Boys (Quinn, Ellis, and Amory)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y8HNGGC
Southern Scandal, #2
Quinn and Ellis have settled into a happy daddy boy relationship when they find themselves smitten with talented, smart-mouthed — and sexy — actor Amory Reed. Amory has a daddy kink. Amory wants a boy. Quinn and Ellis want Amory. But Amory’s lower-class background makes him wary of these rich Savannahians, as does a scary secret he’s keeping. They want to make the romance work. But their jealousy threatens to leave them with nothing but empty arms and broken hearts.
Full of memorable characters, including a bratty boy, a smart-mouthed switch, and a strict-but-indulgent daddy, Beautiful Boys will hook you with a good plot — and keep you reading for the high heat.
A spinoff of the Southern Seduction and Low Country Lovers universe, the Southern Scandal series can be read on its own.
Christmas Cousins (Quinn, Ellis, and Amory)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZTNBH84
Southern Scandal, #3
The Rutledge family Christmas always sucks, but Quinn has his beloved cousins, Delia and Baylor: all three same-age, look-alike blond partners in crime who always have each other’s backs, whether it’s saving Baylor from Grandfather’s ire or telling off the roving gang of brats. Baylor once chopped off her hair to make Quinn feel better. Delia punched people in the face for him. Quinn picked Delia up from parties at 3 am. They’re tight as tight can be.
Quinn, Ellis, and Amory are all settled in for the Hallmark family Christmas before the boys leave for the Culliver twins’ three-day Christmas party on Tybee — Quinn’s cousin Baylor in tow, and Delia soon to meet them. Ellis only tells his boys one thing: BEHAVE WHILE YOU’RE GONE.
The beach house looks like pipe bomb of tinsel and fake snow exploded. The hot tub has multi-colored blinker bulbs strung up and set to disco. As the liquor passes from hand-to-hand, Delia and Baylor turn from Quinn’s staunchest allies to terrible teases who embarrass him at every turn. As Quinn’s misery reaches a Scrooge-ish rock-bottom, something has to give. Christmas is about family. But what happens when your family sucks?
A holiday story about the power of family and the special bonds between the people who grow up together, Christmas Cousins shows the real tangles, trouble, and most of all, the special love that binds cousins together.
Southern Scandal’s novella Christmas Cousins tells the story of the same party detailed in Southern Seduction’s What Christmas Means and Low Country Lovers’s Learning to Love Christmas. All three novellas should be read in the context of their series, but differ enough in details and perspective to be read together.
Remember All the Things You Don’t Want to Forget (The Prequels)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081K6Z1ZG
Southern Scandal, #4
Ellis, Quinn, and Amory have a happy relationship. It took them a long time to get there — and they’re still healing from their journeys. Quinn used sex to cover up his deep well of loneliness. Ellis had lost himself. Amory had his home and his god ripped away.
This collection of short, impressionistic vignettes tells the story of how they got there. Told in McBryant’s lyrical, almost dream-like prose, Remember All the Things You Don’t Want to Forget shows how small events in Quinn, Ellis, and Amory’s lives — and sometimes not-so-small-events — shaped them, and brought them, almost inevitably, to each other.
These short snippets show their lives before they came together, and offer a glimpse of how the three fit together. Rather than short stories, these are small moments in the lives of three people who came to love one another — three people who were waiting for each other all along.
Full of the lyrical prose and attention to detail you expect from McBryant, these character studies offer a different perspective into Quinn, Ellis, and Amory in many events that are hinted at, but never detailed, in other Southern Scandal books.
What We Owe (Henry and Jax)
Bisexual Henry Culliver has never been a guy for one night stands. So when he sees Jax Littleton at a bonfire the night before the Georgia-Carolina game, he says: yes. That one.
But Jax comes with a host of mental health issues: ADHD, OCD, and probable PTSD. He screwed his way through high school. This brilliant student and champion swimmer’s convinced he’s good for one thing only: as a sex toy.
Henry’s determined to change that. But in the meantime, Henry has to confront his own intimacy issues. A novella about how love, despite what we’re told, can’t fix everything, What We Owe takes the reader into the realistic tangle of a relationship with someone who’s mentally ill — and shows how, despite significant obstacles, love and intimacy can grow, even flourish, in the most difficult conditions.