Heartthrob

Central Oregon Muscle Encounters #2

by Sean Reid Scott

Heartthrob

by Sean Reid Scott • Book TWO in the Central Oregon Muscle Encounters series

KAI is a 19-year-old guy trying to find his career path. While he’s doing that, he’s living with his grandma in Bend, Oregon, and working at Home Depot. He’s also hopelessly in to muscle—big, jacked, rippling muscle. And it doesn’t hurt if the dude is Black. Weird fetish, he knows, but it is what it is.

A customer of breathtaking muscular proportions asks Kai for directions to the paint department, and Kai immediately falls in lust with the gorgeous Black man. Will it lead to true love?

JULIAN is an Emergency Room doctor. And, oh, he’s Big, gorgeous, insanely-defined pro-level bodybuilder muscle that belies his M.D. Education. He’s just moved to Bend and has been working on renovating his house.

When he spots a strikingly beautiful guy in one of the checkout lanes at Homo Depot, he just can’t help himself. He sidles up and—despite having just walked past the paint department—asks the kid where the paint is. Close-up like this, the dude is even more stunning. Smaller, lithe, and full of enthusiasm, Kai is exactly Julian's type.

Heartthrob is a romantic M/M muscle novella that is full of passion, deep connection, and muscle (and not necessarily in that order). It is light on angst and plot twists. I hope you will enjoy this little summer romp through the Central Oregon High Desert. Kai and Julian are waiting for you to discover them! If you haven’t yet visited Bend and Riverwood, please enjoy Brain Freeze on Kindle. It’s not necessary, but you might enjoy this book a tad more, as some of those characters are mentioned here.

179 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2025

About the author

Sean Reid Scott was born at a very young age (like, about nine months gestation), Before he even knew the word “gay,” he realized he was attracted to men. His attraction was specifically toward very muscular, ripped, buff, and jacked men. When he got old enough to write decent material, he started writing about his fantasy men. Needless to say, back then his English teacher was not impressed.

But Seanny persevered.

When he started fiddling around with websites, he built one to feature his appreciation for muscle men. He also started sending his stories to https://www.nifty.org, a site that holds a few of his stories.

Sean is a proudly “afflicted” with Sthenolagnia, which is defined as, "sexual arousal from the display of strength or muscles." His writing reflects this "malady." (And FYI, we're not talking about muscular women here.) Many of his books are written with the obvious bent toward very muscular (and lean) men. Some of his stories feature the muscular male more subtly (maybe?) but you can bet if you're reading a Seanny book, it'll involved a bodybuilder type dude. (Maybe Sunriver Surrender doesn't have a really huge muscle character, but it's still a great gay romance!)