Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue

North Carolina, 1953 Billy Reardon's spent the past five years trying and failing to keep his teammate Luke Novak at arm's length-or at least a normal, friendly distance. Or, failing that, he'd like to not make a fool of himself. But a month after getting seriously injured by a wild pitch and disappearing off the face of the earth, Luke shows up at Billy's isolated house in the mountains just as a storm's about to roll in. Now that they're stuck together in the middle of nowhere, Billy can't even pretend not to have feelings that go beyond what he ought to feel for a teammate. Meanwhile, Luke's acting strange and Billy doesn't know why. And Billy can't seem to fight the urge to make Luke sandwiches and hot cocoa, lend him cozy sweaters, and watch him play with the dogs. It's all pretty terrible, and the one thing Billy's sure of is that things between them are going to be different after all this is over. This novella is about 25,000 words

Cat Sebastian writes fluffy, steamy historical romances about queer people. When she isn't writing, she's reading. She lives in the U.S. South but also on twitter @catswrites. Check out her Turner Series for trope-driven Regency-set romances (The Soldier's Scoundrel, The Lawrence Browne Affair, The Ruin of a Rake, and A Little Light Mischief). Her Seducing the Sedgwicks series is also set in the Regency period and contains pharmaceutical quantities of hurt/comfort (It Takes Two to Tumble, A Gentleman Never Keeps Score, and Two Rogues Make a Right). Books in the Regency Impostors series each feature a character with a secret (Unmasked by the Marquess, A Duke in Disguise, and A Delicate Deception). Hither, Page is a romance between two men trying to solve a murder in a 1940s village.