Boys of Denver: Book 1

What he doesn't count on is Anthony Reis.

Anthony is the kind of person people write legends about. Basketball captain. School royalty. The boy whose name opens doors and whose silence turns heads. He's also the boy who made Lorenzo's freshman year a nightmare — who sparked the cruelty that sent Lorenzo to a therapist, who walked away unscathed while Lorenzo learned to disappear.

Now they share a homeroom. And Anthony, for reasons he can't name, can't stop looking.

Neither of them wants this. Lorenzo knows better than to trust the person who once used him as sport. Anthony knows better than to want someone who already sees through the performance he's spent years perfecting. But some glances linger too long to be called accidental — and the hallways of Denver Academy have a way of cornering people whether they're ready or not.

Book One is where everything begins. A slow burn about guilt and second chances, about the violence of who we used to be and the terrifying mercy of who we might still become.