Forbidden Goals

coming august 1, 2024: Choke up

Ellis Hope has one goal for his first year at college: be his own person. He’s determined to break free from his brother Elliot’s shadow, and get over the soul crushing attraction he has for his brother’s best friend. The campus meetup app provides an effective distraction from Gabe and Elliot making waves as the new star players for Huntston University’s baseball team.

Gabe Rodgers is loyal to his best friend to a fault, but his thoughts toward Elliot’s smaller, softer twin are anything but brotherly. When he finds out Ellis is meeting hook-ups on a campus meetup app, protectiveness, or maybe possessiveness, drives him to make an anonymous profile. Pretending to be someone else, he finds himself drawn to Ellis more than ever before.  

But will their connection be as strong when Ellis finds out that his secret meetups have been with the very guy he’s been trying to avoid? And when the blindfold is removed, will either of the brothers be able to forgive Gabe for his deception?

CHOKE UP is a standalone dark contemporary MM sports romance. It does contain dark/taboo themes and the relationship is toxic. Please keep the following tropes and triggers in mind while deciding if this book is for you:

Content warnings may include spoilers.

Trigger warnings include but are not limited to: dubious consent and coersion, lies and betrayal, hidden identity/lying about identity, sexual intercourse without protection or discussion about safe sex first, traumatic loss of virginity, scenes that may contain questionable or dubious use of proper lubrication, pain or injury during sex, discussion and/or imagery of depression and mental health struggles, mention of suicide and/or suicidal ideation, codependency and/or inappropriate/toxic attachment, and of course strong language and graphic sex acts.

 
Instances of sexist, homophobic, and ableist language may be present throughout the book. This language does not reflect the author’s beliefs or ideals, but are a realistic portrayal of lived experiences.