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Light Gets In #2
Say My Name Again
Say My Name Again is Book 2 in the Light Gets In duology. It contains major spoilers for Tell Me Anything and is intended to be read as a sequel.
John almost ruined Isabel’s life. Now his own is collapsing.
Five months ago, John Buchanan’s unforgivable choices burned down his personal life, badly hurting the only woman he’s ever truly loved.
Then everyone at the hospital where he works found out what he’d done.
Finishing his second year of residency with most of his colleagues freezing him out is grueling, but all John has left is medicine. He has to hold on. Work hard. Keep to himself. Stay invisible.
Enter Ember Kincaid. Nurse. Veteran. Out bisexual man. Getting assigned to a project with the outcast of his department wasn’t on Ember’s professional agenda. Yet as a tentative connection forms between him and a guilt-wracked John, Ember starts to see the man beneath the pain. And he likes what he sees.
John knows he doesn’t deserve Ember’s warmth and kindness, but he can’t force himself to walk away. He never expected to end up in Ember’s arms, or in his bed, but during those hours, John feels like he can almost breathe again. As his career starts to crumble, though, the darkness that’s haunted him for years starts to get the upper hand.
If John wants any kind of future, he’ll have to find a way to let light in.
SAY MY NAME AGAIN is a slow emotional burn, high-heat, hurt-comfort bi4bi M/M romance novel with a tentative but hopeful Happy for Now ending.
Content warnings are available via link in the book's front matter and on the author's website.
50% of profits from the Light Gets In duology will be donated to the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT), the largest statewide, BIPOC trans-led, trans-focused policy, education, and advocacy organization in the author’s home state.
Cover Artist: Sarah Waites
John almost ruined Isabel’s life. Now his own is collapsing.
Five months ago, John Buchanan’s unforgivable choices burned down his personal life, badly hurting the only woman he’s ever truly loved.
Then everyone at the hospital where he works found out what he’d done.
Finishing his second year of residency with most of his colleagues freezing him out is grueling, but all John has left is medicine. He has to hold on. Work hard. Keep to himself. Stay invisible.
Enter Ember Kincaid. Nurse. Veteran. Out bisexual man. Getting assigned to a project with the outcast of his department wasn’t on Ember’s professional agenda. Yet as a tentative connection forms between him and a guilt-wracked John, Ember starts to see the man beneath the pain. And he likes what he sees.
John knows he doesn’t deserve Ember’s warmth and kindness, but he can’t force himself to walk away. He never expected to end up in Ember’s arms, or in his bed, but during those hours, John feels like he can almost breathe again. As his career starts to crumble, though, the darkness that’s haunted him for years starts to get the upper hand.
If John wants any kind of future, he’ll have to find a way to let light in.
SAY MY NAME AGAIN is a slow emotional burn, high-heat, hurt-comfort bi4bi M/M romance novel with a tentative but hopeful Happy for Now ending.
Content warnings are available via link in the book's front matter and on the author's website.
50% of profits from the Light Gets In duology will be donated to the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT), the largest statewide, BIPOC trans-led, trans-focused policy, education, and advocacy organization in the author’s home state.
Cover Artist: Sarah Waites
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Published December 31, 2025
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Skye Kilaen
19 books376 followersSkye Kilaen is a bi author who writes contemporary & science fiction romance that is sometimes polyamorous, focusing on sapphic stories, queer M+F, and bi and pan main characters.
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Skye currently lives in Austin, Texas because it has so many libraries and breakfast tacos.
She also sends out a monthly newsletter highlighting new & recent self-published and small press queer romances that look particularly promising but might fly under the radar. Sign up on her website, your TBR will thank you!
Skye currently lives in Austin, Texas because it has so many libraries and breakfast tacos.
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January 19, 2026
Multi-faceted gay romance
Although it is not necessary to read the first book in this duology, a lot is made clearer by having read it than not. In the first book John is king of the jerks when he does what he does to his girlfriend Isabel. I spent the whole first book hating John. Then he becomes the main character in this book but a much more humbled and demoralized man. The entire hospital knows what John did and they make a point of reminding him daily of his insensitivity. It has taken its toll on his health and psyche. He meets a new male nurse named Ember on his floor and John is stunned when the nurse actually talks to him. John wonders if Ember knows about his prior thoughtless behavior. Thus begins a sensitively told story about John, a hospital resident and his fall from grace but what can happen when you have a “family” that pulls you through the worst of it. Loved many of the secondary characters who helped John do this.
This is a multi-faceted gay romance touching on many subjects: closeted rainbow spectrum; family issues; transgender identifier; political commentary; fear of rejection; suicidal ideation and cognitive constriction. Expect lots of angst, painful situations (honestly, I became teary a few times) and finally finding a found family. Beyond the great story though, I found the continual insertion of politics annoying; I almost stopped reading the book because of it. Well-written but heavy-handed in some respects. I volunteered to review an ARC of this book.
Although it is not necessary to read the first book in this duology, a lot is made clearer by having read it than not. In the first book John is king of the jerks when he does what he does to his girlfriend Isabel. I spent the whole first book hating John. Then he becomes the main character in this book but a much more humbled and demoralized man. The entire hospital knows what John did and they make a point of reminding him daily of his insensitivity. It has taken its toll on his health and psyche. He meets a new male nurse named Ember on his floor and John is stunned when the nurse actually talks to him. John wonders if Ember knows about his prior thoughtless behavior. Thus begins a sensitively told story about John, a hospital resident and his fall from grace but what can happen when you have a “family” that pulls you through the worst of it. Loved many of the secondary characters who helped John do this.
This is a multi-faceted gay romance touching on many subjects: closeted rainbow spectrum; family issues; transgender identifier; political commentary; fear of rejection; suicidal ideation and cognitive constriction. Expect lots of angst, painful situations (honestly, I became teary a few times) and finally finding a found family. Beyond the great story though, I found the continual insertion of politics annoying; I almost stopped reading the book because of it. Well-written but heavy-handed in some respects. I volunteered to review an ARC of this book.
January 25, 2026
Say My Name Again is one of the best books I’ve ever had the pleasure to read. It’s heartbreaking, beautiful, and delivers a masterclass in character redemption. John & Ember’s story is going to be with me for a long time. Kilaen once again gives hope in the darkness.
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