The Single Life

a MM+ Why Choose Romance

by Will Forrest

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Part of the The Dealmakers series:

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Where do you turn when the place you called home isn’t safe anymore?

My first gay relationship is now my first heartbreak. I didn’t think I was the sort of person who hides from his problems, but when I stumble into a chance to disappear—to escape my past and my ex and live the wild single life I’ve only fantasized about—I take it.

Even if it means keeping a secret from everyone that matters to me. A great big secret that could mess up everything between me and my best friend, and all these men I’m starting to care about too much, who welcomed me into their home and into their lives.

A secret that could ruin me for good.

Too many hearts, too many ways to break them. Too many people who deserve the truth, and not enough of me to go around. Too much to hope that I can have it all, this love I don’t deserve, when every day I live here is a lie.

A MM+ Why Choose for lovers of savage queens, short kings, showing off, and sacrifice

Published: December 1, 2025
Genres:

Contemporary

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Pairings: M-M, Includes NB
Heat Level: 5
Romantic Content: 5
Ending: Click here to reveal
Character Identities: Bisexual, Gay, Non Binary, Questioning, Polyamorous
Protagonist 1 Age: 18-25

About the Author

Will Forrest (they/he) is a transmasc nonbinary author, poet, and general nuisance who writes happy ever afters for disaster queers. An AuDHD genre gremlin, they serve up big dollops of Found Family with a side of Finding Your True Home, disability rep, tenderness, adventure, and every kind of spice from first kisses to five alarm fires.

Will grew up on a steady diet of Douglas Adams and classic ’90s bodice rippers, and has a diploma of fashion design, a degree in social theory, and a bad habit of changing careers, life goals, and continents. Currently they live in a very warm part of Canada with three lovely humans and a succession of martyred houseplants.

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