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  Gavin Goode, a promising high school athlete with good grades, forfeited his future when he joined a brutal street gang called the Cold Bloods. The gang’s leader, Apache, discovered Gavin is gay and framed him for murder. Now in prison, Gavin faces rape and abuse on a daily basis as gang members there attempt to break him. When his father is critically injured and Gavin reaches his lowest point, a mysterious ally appears. Cato is much more than the guard he seems. He has come from the future, and he possesses the technology to undo everything that’s gone wrong in Gavin’s life.

  But meddling in the timeline has dire consequences, and Gavin faces an impossible decision: sacrifice himself and his father, or let thousands of innocents die instead.

  Is there such a thing as caring too much?

  Geordi never thought so. He knows he’s lucky to have progressive parents who support him after they discover he’s gay, but when his dad gets overzealous, things go downhill. Geordi’s friend Toff is not only hurt that Geordi hid his sexuality from him—he’s also been in love with Geordi for months. Rather than further damage their relationship, Geordi goes along with a romance he doesn’t feel. When things start to get physical, though, Geordi knows it’s time to be honest with himself and his friends, no matter what the consequences. A tragedy is about to strike, and Geordi, Toff, and their friend Jess will need each other more than ever. For Geordi to find his strength, he’ll have to first find the courage to chart his own course in life—outside the control of his parents or the pressure of his peers.

  Reeling from his parents’ divorce, trying to care for his alcoholic mother, and ridiculed at school for being biracial, Brodie cannot afford to lose the only two people he has in his corner: his girlfriend, Fawn, and his best friend, Abel. But a family emergency takes Abel to another city, Fawn decides she needs time to herself, and Brodie is alone.

  In his attractive new English teacher, Mr. Dakota, Brodie finds an unexpected ally. The young teacher is no stranger to betrayal and loneliness, and what begins as friendship soon becomes something deeper and more dangerous. Brodie’s new desires scare and confuse him, even if they’re not reciprocated. Overcome, he makes a choice that may ruin more lives than his own… if he cannot find the courage to stand on his own when doing so is the most difficult.

  Is opening your heart to the possibility of love worth the risk of more pain?

  After bouncing around the foster system since being removed from his neglectful mother, fourteen-year-old Linus Lightman is reluctant to trust or bond with his latest foster family, the Nelsons. He’s sure they’ll reject him as soon as they find out he’s gay. He finds a kindred spirit in Kevin Mapleton, and their friendship quickly evolves into romance. But then someone posts a video of Linus and Kevin having sex on the Internet, and experience has taught Linus that the scandal will cost him both the Nelsons’ acceptance and Kevin’s love.

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  GENE GANT graduated from the University of Memphis. He has worked with the poor as a counselor for the state of Tennessee and as a corporate writer. He lives on a country lane outside Memphis.

  By Gene Gant

  Always Leaving

  The Battle for Jericho

  Bender

  Borrowed Boy

  If You Really Love Me

  In Time I Dream About You

  King Geordi the Great

  Lessons on Destroying the World

  A Love Song for Mr. Dakota

  Lucky Linus

  The Supernaturals

  NEEDS

  Everything We Shut Our Eyes To

  The Thunder in His Head

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of author imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Borrowed Boy

  © 2018 Gene Gant.

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  © 2018 Adrian Nicholas.

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  Digital ISBN: 978-1-64080-598-9

  Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-64080-599-6

  Library of Congress Control Number: 2018901972

  Digital published November 2018

  v. 1.0

  Printed in the United States of America