The Paradise of Avalon (The Paradise #1)

Welcome to Avalon, where the nights taste like freedom, everyone carries secrets, and two broken boys choosing each other might burn the whole island down.

Tom

My family calls it vacation. I call it exile. I was sent to this tropical paradise to recover. Sunsets. Salt air. Yoga before sunrise. Lies after sunset.

I’m in Avalon because my heart gave out, and the scandals needed to do the same. Then there’s Yosh. Calm. Patient. Watching me like he can read the parts of me I’m trying to hide.

That should annoy me. Instead, it makes me want him. But the island has rules. He’s my therapist. My family is watching. And the past I ran from isn’t done with me yet.

Falling for Yosh could destroy everything I have left. The problem is… leaving his side might destroy me even more.

Yosh

I’ve spent years carrying other people’s pain so I wouldn’t have to face my own. Then Tom McKenna walks into Arcadia, and suddenly I’m standing in a room full of mirrors. I see past his little act.

The loneliness. The fear. Trying not to fall apart. Guiding him is my job. Wanting him isn’t. The longer he stays on the island, the harder it becomes to keep my distance.

Every conversation, every look, every stolen touch takes us closer to a line we should never cross. And outside the walls of Arcadia, forces far more dangerous than desire are closing in.

Because Tom is fighting the people who think they own him. And choosing him means choosing war.

Tropes:

MM romance Rockstar x Alternative Therapist Tropical Heat Caribbean island setting with dark secrets Bi awakening Forbidden attraction Us against the world.