The Only Edge

by Teya Martin

[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative, M/M, public exhibitionism, HEA] Bram Lahti came to school to train and to escape his abusive past. He's going to make the Olympics, and maybe, when he's an established athlete, maybe then he'll come out. He has a girlfriend, who doesn't know she's his beard, and one-night stands for sex. Then he meets Jared Walker--a one-night, then two-night stand--who turns out to be the T.A. for one of his courses. As they get to know each other and, when Bram realizes that his best friend and girlfriend have fallen for each other, he takes a risk and starts a relationship with Jared. But he won't come out, can't come out, no matter how much it hurts Jared to hide their relationship. When Jared leaves him to think things through, can Bram step up, overcome his fears, and be the man he wants to be, for Jared and for himself? ** A Siren Erotic Romance

216 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 2016

About the author

My mother likes to boast that I was reading at the age of three. I'm not sure if that's strictly true but my childhood memories are mostly of being indoors with a book of some description. I distinctly remember having a Ladybird copy (English young children's books) of Dracula so I think my tastes were set quite early. Like a friend once said, while other young girls wanted to be ballerinas, I kind of always wanted to be a vampire.

I grew up in Belgium and went to a multi-national school before moving back to England to get my first degree. Microbiology and Virology... what was I thinking? Naturally I didn't do anything with it, in fact the thought of real life was off putting enough that I went and did another degree straight away. Medical herbalism this time, much better although it was in my final year of this degree that I rediscovered writing. Not sure why I ever stopped because once I started again it became a compulsion.

Once the second degree was finished I was stuck, I didn't want to practice herbalism, I wanted to write... only write. So I got a job in a health food shop and that was the first in a long line of short term jobs to pay the bills while I wrote. Some of them were brilliant though. I met some of my best friends ever when I was a barista in a coffee shop and I got many wonderful books and ideas when I worked in a sex shop... okay not technically a sex shop as we didn't sell porn but still an adult 'toy' shop. During this time I lived with my sister which was also brilliant but made me incredibly lazy. It took nearly five years before I actually wrote a full length, complete novel.

Moving to the other end of the country to live with one of my best friends, and I would go as far as to call her my muse, really kick started the novel writing and now I have several that are complete, although again it took me a while to actually start sending them out. I don't know if other writers feel the same but they're my babies and rejection is extremely painful.