Author: Debbie McGowan
Language: English
Published: 1st December, 2016
Publisher: Beaten Track
Edition: 1
ISBN: eBook: 9781786451040
ASIN: B01M3VFCF7
Length: 10,100 words (approx.)
Category: Fiction
Genre: LGBTQ+, Romance and Relationships, Short Stories, New Adult, Pure Romance - M/M, Pure Romance - Contemporary, Slice of Life, Bi, Pan, other non-mono orientation
Series: Hiding Behind The Couch
ADVISORY: This book contains mature content and is intended for adult readers.
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About the Book:
Simon is young and handsome. To the people around him, he looks like he's got it all - money, looks, a future with a wife...All mapped out by his parents.
But Simon is gay.
And Simon is high.
And when Simon sees his fake girlfriend Jess alongside a boy called Taz, suddenly all the choices explode.
Will Simon follow his orders?
Or will he follow his heart?
* * * * *
A fully stand-alone short story - part of Hiding Behind The Couch. For readers of the series, this coincides with Ruminations.
Part of Take a Chance Anthology.
[Link to Hiding Behind The Couch suggested reading order]
About the Author:
Debbie McGowan is an award-winning author of contemporary fiction that celebrates life, love and relationships in all their diversity. Since the publication in 2004 of her debut novel, Champagne – based on a stage show co-written and co-produced with her husband – she has published around fifty further works. She is the author of two ongoing series: Hiding Behind The Couch (a literary ‘soap opera’ centring on the lives of nine long-term friends) and Checking Him Out (LGBTQ romance)... Read More
Other Publications by Debbie McGowan:
- Meredith's Dagger
- Play On...
- The Great Pretendo
- Seasons of Love
- The Great Village Bun Fight
- Never Too Late
- So Long, Little Black Diamonds
- Of The Bauble
- Take A Chance Anthology: A Collection of Gay Romance for New Adults
- And The Walls Came Tumbling Down
- Love Unlocked
- Cherry Pop Valentine
- Coming Up
- Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday Anthology
- Sugar and Sawdust
- Champagne
- Double Six
- No Dice
- Time to Go (in Story Salon Big Book of Stories)
Checking Him Out (Series)
- Checking Him Out (Checking Him Out #1)
- Checking Him Out For The Holidays (Checking Him Out Novella)
- Hiding Out (Checking Him Out / HBTC Novella)
- Taking Him On (Checking Him Out #2)
- Checking In (Checking Him Out #3)
- Checking Him Out Box Set One
- The Making Of Us (Checking Him Out #4)
Gray Fisher (Series)
- The WAG and The Scoundrel (Gray Fisher #1 / HBTC Spin-Off)
- Tabula Rasa (Gray Fisher #2 / HBTC Spin-Off)
- Distractions (Gray Fisher #3 / HBTC Spin-Off)
- Gray Fisher Trilogy (HBTC Spin-Off)
Hiding Behind The Couch (Series)
- Beginnings (HBTC Novella)
- Ruminations (HBTC Novel)
- Class-A (HBTC Short Story)
- Hiding Behind The Couch (HBTC #1)
- No Time Like The Present (HBTC #2)
- The Harder They Fall (HBTC #3)
- Crying in the Rain (HBTC Novel)
- First Christmas (HBTC Novella)
- In The Stars Part I: Capricorn-Gemini (HBTC #4)
- Hiding Behind The Couch Box Set One (HBTC Box Set)
- Breaking Waves (HBTC Novella)
- In The Stars Part II: Cancer-Sagittarius (HBTC #5)
- Chain of Secrets (HBTC Novella)
- A Midnight Clear (HBTC Novella)
- Red Hot Christmas (HBTC Novella)
- Two By Two (HBTC #6)
- Hiding Out (Checking Him Out / HBTC Novella)
- Those Jeffries Boys (HBTC Novel)
- The WAG and The Scoundrel (Gray Fisher #1 / HBTC Spin-Off)
- Reunions (HBTC #7)
- Breakfast at Cordelia's Aquarium (HBTC Short Story)
- To Be Sure (HBTC Novella)
- Hiding Behind The Couch Novellas & Short Stories (HBTC Box Set)
- Hiding Behind The Couch Box Set Two (HBTC Box Set)
- What A Scorcher! (HBTC Flash Fiction)
- Tabula Rasa (Gray Fisher #2 / HBTC Spin-Off)
- Goth of Christmas Past (HBTC Novel)
- The Lost Mitten
- The Advent of Reason (HBTC Novella)
- Not My Christmas (HBTC Novella)
- Distractions (Gray Fisher #3 / HBTC Spin-Off)
- Gray Fisher Trilogy (HBTC Spin-Off)
- Perfect Tenor (HBTC Novella)
- Reverberations (HBTC Novel)
- Alumni: Reverberations (HBTC Novel)
- Alumni: Resolutions (HBTC Novel)
Seeds of Tyrone (Series)
- Leaving Flowers (Seeds of Tyrone #1)
- Where the Grass is Greener (Seeds of Tyrone #2)
- Christmas Craic and Mistletoe (Seeds of Tyrone #3)
- Seeds of Tyrone Box Set
When Skies Have Fallen (Series)
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