
Waiting for the Flood
From the acclaimed author of BOYFRIEND MATERIAL comes a deeply moving romance about losing the life you always thought would be yours…and finding something beautiful in the wreckage of the past.
Quietly heartbroken, Edwin Tully lives alone in the house he used to share with the man he once loved. He tends to damaged books and faded memories, trying to build a future from the fragments of the past. Then the weather turns, and the river spills into Edwin’s quiet world, bringing with it Adam Dacre from the Environment Agency. An unlikely knight, this stranger with roughened hands and worn wellingtons offers Edwin the hope of something he thought he would never have again.
As the two men are drawn together in their struggle against the rising waters, Edwin slowly lets down his guard as he comes to accept he can’t shield his heart from everything—and perhaps he doesn’t even need to try. Because love doesn’t only leave scars…sometimes, it heals them, too.
This lyrical, moving LGBTQIA+ romance contains never-before-seen content and exclusive bonus material—including a NEW novella, Chasing the Light, following Marius as he rediscovers love and the complicated joy of being truly alive.
The World of SPIRES:
Glitterland, book 1
Waiting for the Flood, book 2
For Real, book 3
A new edition of Waiting for the Flood (which will be available in ebook and paperback) is coming in 2024, and will contain exclusive bonus content―including a brand new novella, Chasing the Light. Preorder links will be added when available. You can still buy the current edition but only for a limited time.
A FAQ about the audio edition of Waiting for the Flood.
Please note: this is not intended to be exhaustive and may contain spoilers.
Waiting for the Flood: One of the MCs has a stutter alongside mild internalised ableism (that is overcome) and remembered experiences of ableism, there is a brief mention of a past parental death (heart attack).
Chasing the Light: A character suffers from Retinitis Pigmentosa, a character has disordered eating and there are some internal thoughts about purposely not eating and the way his body looks, a character was incarcerated and briefly talks about it, a character slips on ice and gets injured (this happens on page and you get his thoughts about the pain/how it feels, as well as what his injured foot looks like), characters fall into a freezing canal but are okay, use of ableist and misogynistic language, graphic on-page sex, talk about sexual health (this includes: practicing safe sex; unprotected casual sex; being on PReP), talk about emotionally unavailable parents, a mention of past drug use, a secondary character sells some weed (off page).