Duncan Gaye – författare

Part of The Long Shadow Series by Duncan GayeBenny Cerone has always felt like the odd one out. Sensitive, artistic, and adopted into a powerful Chicago family with secrets darker than they let on, he's spent his life playing it safe—until now. At nineteen, he's finally free, starting fresh at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, surrounded by music, freedom, and the promise of becoming who he really is.Then he meets Ox.A towering, quiet presence with a haunted past and a job that keeps him firmly tethered to Benny's family, Ox is everything Benny shouldn't want—and everything he can't stay away from. As their connection deepens, Benny is pulled between two lives: the one he's creating on his own terms, and the one he thought he left behind.Set in the vibrant heart of 1980s Chicago, Enter the Ox is a tender, slow-burn romance about chosen identity, first love, and the quiet ways two people can change each other forever.

Part of The Long Shadow Series by Duncan GayeDominic Fournier knows how to carry weight. He's done it all his life—on the farm, in the gym, in the spotlight. But nothing has ever felt heavier than the things he's never said. Especially now, with his marriage crumbling, his career on edge, and a soft-spoken fan named Ryan asking questions he's not ready to answer.What begins as an autograph becomes something deeper: an unexpected spark, a fleeting moment of warmth in a life built on pressure. As competition looms and emotions rise, Dominic must decide what kind of strength truly matters—the kind that lifts stones… or the kind that dares to be held.Carry Me Gently is a tender, slow-burn queer romance about power, vulnerability, and what happens when the strongest man in the room finally lets go.

Part of The Long Shadow Series by Duncan GayePatrick Callahan comes to Cape Breton expecting easy money from a quick and lucrative timber deal. Instead, he only finds humiliation. Swindled out of his inheritance and stranded in a windswept fishing village, he is left with nothing but a single suitcase and a future that has collapsed overnight. At seven and a half feet tall, Angus MacAskill is a gentle giant with his own past. In St. Ann's, he is known for his silent kindness as much as he is for his stoic nature. He offers Patrick a bookkeeping job in his mercantile, and a place by the fire. What begins as simple arrangement blossoms into a profound connection neither man could have ever imagined. Set within the wild beauty of nineteenth-century Nova Scotia, Finding Harbor is a queer historical romance about survival, finding home, and a love that takes root slowly but with unshakable strength. Perfect for fans of Annie  Proulx (Brokeback Mountain, The Shipping News), Cat Sebastian (We Could Be So Good) and KJ Charles (The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen).

Brian Dunleavy comes to the North Woods to write a serious novel. Instead, he falls in love with a kitschy paper towel mascot.It begins with a whistle in the trees and the unmistakable sense of being watched. A bootprint the size of a bathtub. Then a muscular, 43-foot-tall lumberjack steps out of the forest.Mighty Max is handsome. He is kind. Broad-shouldered and blue-eyed, he lives in permanent flannel. He claims he was born from tall tales and campfire legends—back when giants were needed, and believed in. But giants fade when they are mocked. Legends disappear when they're forgotten.As solitude turns to intimacy, myth turns warm and very, very tangible. Brian finds himself lifted in the careful palm of the colossal man whose shadow stretches across the meadow like dusk itself. Beneath cold stars and beside impossible bonfires, he discovers that loving a giant means choosing to believe in him even when belief bends reality.Reality is definitely bending. And when Max is reclaimed by the forest, Brian may be the only one who can write him back into being. If stories invent their tellers, who is keeping whom alive?Strange, tender, playful, and proudly queer, The Strange and Unbelievable Tall Tale of Mighty Max is a mythic romance about loneliness, longing, and the radical act of loving something larger than life.For readers who cherish the mythic queer devotion of The Song of Achilles, the tender whimsy of The House in the Cerulean Sea, and the wistful magic of Puff the Magic Dragon.

A queer Anthology that explores the romantic life and happy ever afters of gay men navigating the LGBT landscape. All stories are written by Own Voice gay authors! From small towns to big cities, each story shows that love is love, no matter the season. Stories by Blake Allwood, Kelvin Young, Brent Archer, J. Scott Coatsworth, RJ Peterson, Derek Puddester, David Gray, Andrew McQuinn, Duncan Gaye, and M.D. Neu.