Afire
by Sarah Masters
Gay Lit Ryan and Lee have been in love since their teens. When they get together as adults, life doesn’t run as smoothly as they would like. After keeping in touch via email and telephone while they’ve been apart, Ryan and Lee find themselves back together again after a tragic event. Lee must come to terms with his childhood—bullied by his mother and youths—and Ryan wants t help his lover through that. However, life has a strange habit of throwing curveballs. Ryan and Lee must face the past in a way they hadn’t envisaged—the bullies of Lee’s childhood coming back to haunt them in the form of gang members wielding guns. Together, Lee and Ryan stand tall, and despite some dangerous and frightening events, where both men could lose their lives, they survive the odds.