Always and Forever Series by J. August (Books #1-2)
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Overview: J. August is an author of Always and Forever gay romance series.
Genre: Fiction > Romance MM
Everything (#1)
“Jesus. Is that… JJ?”
Josh recognised the voice immediately; felt it right down to his toes and his flushed with sudden heat, as though he’d just stepped out into the sun. He took a breath, trying to still suddenly shaky hands, and turned to face the man who’d addressed him.
“Danny.”
The name was as familiar to him as his own, his mouth remembering how it felt to have the name on his tongue.
He shook his head, raking his fingers through his too-long hair as he regarded his old friend from across the fence separating the two houses. Danny had grown up right next door to him. For a while they’d been closer than brothers… and then everything had gone to hell in a hand basket and that was that.
Except that forgetting Danny was basically impossible, no matter how much he might have tried.
Six years is a long time. JJ doesn’t know what to expect when he returns to his home town to settle matters after his father dies. All he knows is that he really, really doesn’t want to be there. Doesn’t want to leave the safety and familiarity of the new life he’s carved out for himself in London, a place where no one knows his past. He just wants to get matters settled so he can get back there – that is, until he finds out his childhood friend Danny has moved back home. He definitely didn’t expect that. Nor did he expect to feel the same embarrassing feelings he’d had as a teenager the moment he claps eyes on him. The problem is, he was in love with Danny for most of his life. Guess six years doesn’t change that much after all.
Danny can’t believe his eyes when he sees his former best friend JJ standing outside his house. He hasn’t seen the man in six long years, and now here he is, just standing there like nothing’s changed. At first, Danny’s just glad to see his old friend and catch up, although there are parts of his own life he isn’t necessarily too keen on sharing. But the more time he spends with JJ, the more clear events from the past are starting to become. Danny knows he can’t deny the past for long, and even though JJ doesn’t want to acknowledge what happened between them – yet alone discuss it – Danny’s determined that this time, JJ isn’t going to run away. Six years apart was more than enough. Danny isn’t going to let things go, even if it changes everything. Because everything is exactly what he wants.
Stay (#2)
Caleb could still remember what it felt like; being part of something. All of them together, driving around town in Evan’s beat-up red car. They’d play loud music and roll the windows all the way down, and hang their arms out, smoking cigarettes and weed, and feeling like kings.
Everything changed after Jonny died, and not just the things he would’ve expected.
People looked at them differently. Before the accident they were just ‘those boys’; the kind who’d get an eye roll and the occasional tut as they drove past with music blaring, and their faces flushed with the excited joy of being young and alive and free.
After the accident, they were ‘those poor boys.’ The eyerolls were substituted for sympathetic smiles, and the tuts for long sighs. Everyone felt sorry for them, and especially for Cal. Jonny’s brother. The one left with permanent brain injury. The pretty one with the ugly scar. The one who was driving.
It’s been five years since the accident that killed Cal’s brother. It seems like everyone else has moved on and is getting on with their lives. Everyone except for Cal, who can’t seem to move forward. Can’t stop feeling guilty, because he knows the accident was his fault. Knows everyone else thinks it too, even if no one will say it.
The five year anniversary of Jonny’s death means seeing people Cal hasn’t seen since the funeral. People who vanished from his life just as suddenly as Jonny. People he really wished had stayed.
Evan was his brother’s best friend. Evan was his friend, too, right? Maybe more than that, once upon a time. Now Evan’s back, and the feelings Cal thought he’d shut off have all come flooding back. The problem is, with everything that’s happened, is Evan going to stay… and does Cal even want him to?
Evan doesn’t know what he wants when he comes back to town. Maybe to reconnect with old friends. Maybe to reconnect with himself, too. All he knows is that nothing has been the same since Jonny died. Nothing has felt right. And it isn’t just because he lost his best friend that night, but maybe something even more precious… if he could just convince Cal of that fact. Cal Summers is as stubborn now as he was five years ago, and trying to get through to him isn’t going to be easy. But he’s all Evan’s thought of for five years, and he isn’t going to give up easily. If he can just get Cal to listen to him… if he can get Cal to admit how he feels before it’s too late… because as much as Evan wants to stay, this time, it looks like Cal might be the one leaving.
Reckless (#3)
The double doors opened. Despite his resolute decision to absolutely not give a damn, Cooper couldn’t help his eyes from flickering upward. Two burly guys with matching blank expressions came first. Behind them came Eleanor Rose, the terrifying President of the London team. She was immaculately dressed, as always. Her thin lips were pressed into what probably passed for a smile, sharp eyes darting about the office to check everything was in order. Following Eleanor were three others Cooper didn’t recognise.
And then Cooper saw him. Tall, intimidating, stupidly good-looking, his gold-coloured hair flopping over his forehead like it wanted to escape. He was wearing a suit that must have cost more than the rent on Cooper’s flat. Mr. Levinson-Clarke’s shrewd, slate-grey eyes were trained straight ahead. Flat, emotionless. No one would have been able to tell what he was thinking, not unless he wanted you to. His face was beautiful in a way that was almost cruel. His lips were thin; his chin was stubborn.
Cooper’s gut did a horrible twist. His brain couldn’t seem to connect, and he couldn’t help his eyes from widening as he gripped the edge of his desk hard. This could not be happening… this couldn’t be true. His brain refused to acknowledge it, but his body knew. The fresh beads of sweat that broke out on his forehead and along his spine had absolutely nothing to do with the unrelenting heat of the office, and everything to do with the man who’d just walked into the room.
"Here you see, Mr. Levinson-Clarke, our financial analysts." Eleanor gave a little smirk, "we’ve recently hired a number of promising new staff."
Mr. Levinson-Clarke only nodded. His unreadable eyes swept the office.
Cooper saw the exact second the man noticed him. He saw the almost imperceptible widening of the eyes. The hard swallow. The lips pulled tight. It was a split-second reaction, gone as soon as it had appeared. Mr. Levinson-Clarke’s eyes moved on as though nothing had happened. But Cooper knew. He’d felt that look in every bone of his body.
Isaac.
The new CEO was Isaac.
Cooper used to hate Isaac, or at least, that’s what he told himself. The Golden Boy of their elite boarding school, Isaac was arrogant, proud and self-assured. Cooper hated everything about him, perhaps especially how everybody else thought he was something special, whilst Cooper himself was constantly getting into trouble. No one though the scholarship kid was anything more than bad news, a reckless waste of space, and he was pretty sure Isaac was the same as the rest of them. Thinking he was better than him, that somehow his money made him better, more important.
Except that he didn’t, actually. Somehow, Isaac wasn’t anything like that at all, not really. And somehow, Golden Boy went from being a person Cooper despised to being his best friend. More than his best friend, though he wasn’t really sure what.
Except Cooper messed everything up. Cooper betrayed him, abandoned him… and tried to forget about him.
Now, Cooper’s four months into his new job when the new CEO from their recent take-over decides to take a tour of the London office… and the past comes crashing back. He didn’t know Isaac was his new boss. He didn’t know Isaac would still look at him the way he did when they were kids. And he didn’t know that he still felt the same way about his old friend that he had when they were at school.
As Cooper and Isaac slowly grow closer once again, will the past mess things up once more? And this time, can Cooper actually be honest with his Golden Boy, before he ruins things for good?
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