Sleeping Rough: Four Seasons on the Streets

Sleeping Rough #1-4

by Thomas Carver

The Chicago streets are no place to be homeless on your eighteenth birthday. The summer sun burns with sweaty humidity, and the winter wind drives stinging sleet. Brandon, thrown out of his father's house for being gay, must find a way to survive, alone, in this strange new world. Or not completely alone: because those who live on the street form a sort of community, untrustworthy and always shifting, but better than nothing. And the men who pay to touch his body, taste his skin, are a source of pleasure and profit. But it's Cray, the mysterious and troubled freight-jumper, who makes survival worthwhile. With Cray by his side, in his arms, he can not only survive but thrive on the hard cracked streets of Chicago.

But survival is rarely so simple, and never so romantic, because Cray has some cracks of his own, and those city streets are stalked by a killer with a hatred for rentboys like Brandon. He must find a way to use his wit and sexuality as a weapon, or succumb to the forces that want to grind him down and wash him away in the cold lakeshore rain.

This novel contains all four parts of the Sleeping Rough series in one volume.

Genres: Romance, Erotica

313 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 14, 2016

About the author

Thomas Carver lives the dream, with one foot in the midwest and one on the west coast. He's been seen at the opera and at the biker bar, a cocktail party and the alley behind the dumpsters. He's worked in the hot sun and the air-conditioned office, and knows all the gradations of pleasure between caviar on his tongue and sand between his teeth.

Reviews

[Chiara D'Agosto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh wow. This is a hard one.

I don't know what I was expecting, but surely NOT THIS. This book is really harsh. It's a discompassionate read, gritty and brutal at times. But in the end there's hope, and love, and a journey to rebirth of some sort.

Outstanding, and not easily forgotten, which is the biggest compliment I can pay in my current mood.

[J · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow, this was really a hard book at times. Carver really delves deep into the world of street hustling kids and all the sleaze that goes along with it. At times, one finds his two protagonists repelling, but then they're completely compelling and wonderful. Carver writes about dirty, dirty sex very well, and this book was a punch to the gut in its depravity. Loved it.