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On Your Soft Knees: An Emotional Age-Gap MM Hurt/Comfort Romance
Noah Vale has spent most of his life making himself smaller.
Smaller for his wealthy parents. Smaller for people who treated his art like a phase. Smaller for a world that only seemed to love him when he was quiet, obedient, and easy to control.
Then one storm changes everything.
After a construction accident leaves Noah injured and stranded, he ends up under the roof of Elias Ward — a rough, tattooed construction foreman twice his age with scarred hands, a ruined boxing past, and enough emotional walls to keep the entire world out.
Elias only agrees to let the younger man stay for one night.
One night becomes weeks.
Weeks become stolen glances across midnight kitchens, trembling hands during panic attacks, and charcoal sketches drawn on hardwood floors while Noah kneels at Elias’s feet searching for beauty in all the places the older man believes are broken.
Because beneath Elias’s hard exterior lives something
Tenderness.
And Noah is becoming addicted to it.
But when family pressure, old guilt, and fear of ruining the one soft thing in his life begin tearing them apart, Elias must decide whether he’s brave enough to be loved… before he loses Noah forever.
On Your Soft Knees is an emotional age-gap MM hurt/comfort romance featuring a possessive blue-collar protector, a soft artistic boy with anxiety, emotional healing, forced proximity, found family, high heat, and a deeply tender happily-ever-after.
Smaller for his wealthy parents. Smaller for people who treated his art like a phase. Smaller for a world that only seemed to love him when he was quiet, obedient, and easy to control.
Then one storm changes everything.
After a construction accident leaves Noah injured and stranded, he ends up under the roof of Elias Ward — a rough, tattooed construction foreman twice his age with scarred hands, a ruined boxing past, and enough emotional walls to keep the entire world out.
Elias only agrees to let the younger man stay for one night.
One night becomes weeks.
Weeks become stolen glances across midnight kitchens, trembling hands during panic attacks, and charcoal sketches drawn on hardwood floors while Noah kneels at Elias’s feet searching for beauty in all the places the older man believes are broken.
Because beneath Elias’s hard exterior lives something
Tenderness.
And Noah is becoming addicted to it.
But when family pressure, old guilt, and fear of ruining the one soft thing in his life begin tearing them apart, Elias must decide whether he’s brave enough to be loved… before he loses Noah forever.
On Your Soft Knees is an emotional age-gap MM hurt/comfort romance featuring a possessive blue-collar protector, a soft artistic boy with anxiety, emotional healing, forced proximity, found family, high heat, and a deeply tender happily-ever-after.
353 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 28, 2026
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June 21, 2026
Good premise for the book, some parts seemed confusing when Elias' boxing coach and brother knew who noah was even tho elias hadnt told them about him yet
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