Alexis Hall knows his way around a love story, and this fabulous duet of stories, Waiting for the Flood, and the companion bonus novella Chasing the Light, are some of his best work.
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. Additional bonus material includes:
The World of SPIRES:
Glitterland, book 1
Waiting for the Flood, book 2
For Real, book 3
Pansies, book 4
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).
The audio of Waiting for the Flood has been re-recorded (with narration by Will Watt) and now includes the same bonus content as the ebook and paperback.
If you own the ebook of Glitterland/Waiting for the Flood/For Real/Pansies that I self-published, it will not update to include the bonus content because it’s an entirely different edition. You also won’t lose your copy from your cloud/library when the new edition is published.
If there’s a new audio publishing alongside the ebook and paperback, you will not lose the version you have, but it also won’t update to include the bonus content.
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).
The audio of Waiting for the Flood has been re-recorded (with narration by Will Watt) and now includes the same bonus content as the ebook and paperback.
If you own the ebook of Glitterland/Waiting for the Flood/For Real/Pansies that I self-published, it will not update to include the bonus content because it’s an entirely different edition. You also won’t lose your copy from your cloud/library when the new edition is published.
If there’s a new audio publishing alongside the ebook and paperback, you will not lose the version you have, but it also won’t update to include the bonus content.
Alexis Hall knows his way around a love story, and this fabulous duet of stories, Waiting for the Flood, and the companion bonus novella Chasing the Light, are some of his best work.
for Waiting for the Flood
