The Lost Brothers - La série

Can coping mechanisms piece you back together and keep you whole? The Randall brothers escaped their father, but not the trauma haunting them deep into their marrow. No matter how agonizing, their coping mechanisms are how they survived. Unwilling to relinquish them, they let the world move around them rather than moving to suit the world. They are the enchained, the abandoned, and the unloved. The family they built through strife is all they need. Julius Vincenzo, famous ballet dancer, moves to town after a horrific assault ends his ballet career. Wyatt Reeves wanted to hide from everyone after the cutthroat life as a marine spit him out. When these men collide with the Randalls and disrupt the fragile balance of the house, old wounds bleed to the surface and spill out raw. “Nothing buried stays buried and comes to life as a molting parrot zombie to suck out your brains—or something like that,” Darius said—yeah, he said that. Love is claustrophobic. Love is responsible. Love binds us whether we like it or not. But it’s also the only thing that means anything. Is healing real? Or is it another socially constructed illusion? If it’s all an illusion anyway, maybe it’s best we manufacture our own. * Lost Brothers is a dark LGBTQ+ romance trilogy featuring age-gap, second chances, brother bonds, found family, a sizzling dancer duo, a taciturn marine man, and the special love and care dynamics that Mock is known for. Please see the introduction for the advisory and additional information about this book.

A Dark Dysfunctional Family Story. THEN 1984 When Mama got sick, Father crumbled with her. It was as if they depended on each other to be a whole person. I like to tell Oliver that Father placed him in my arms when they got home from the hospital, but in truth, he was an afterthought. Oliver didn’t have parents, he had me, his fifteen-year-old brother who had never held a baby before let alone looked after one. Watching Mama wither should have been the worst of it, but what came after that shadowed her death like a cold mountainside. I was never the same. NOW 2009 It’s natural for Oliver to be curious about our past, but watching him cry as he flips through the pages of my journal triggers all my protective instincts and I want to stuff him in my ’73 Monte Carlo and head for Canada. It stirs the punishing emotions I wanted to keep long buried. Butterfly. Butterfly. Butterfly. I had to leave with Oliver. Leaving was the only way to save him. “Nothing will ever hurt you again, Eaglet. I’m not much, but I’ll become something for you.” But I left something behind. Something so forbidden, all it’s done is burn me from the inside for twenty-one years. I have been running from this moment ever since. It has found me. More accurately, it has always been watching me. * This is a dark story with dark themes. There is horror and terror and very, very, bad things. Also forbidden things. There is love within the pages, but this is not a romance story. There is also a beautiful found family of men. Beautiful gay husbands and boyfriends. Brotherly fortitude. And as always, the caretaking dynamic Mock (S. Legend) is known best for. NOTE: This is the "friendly" version of this book. Please see the inside information about the extended version.