After Hours at Dooryard Books

1968 New York City News about the war might be keeping Patrick up at night--news in general might be keeping Patrick up at night--but he's doing fine. He's sure of it. He gets to spend his days selling books in the gayest neighborhood on the East Coast and his nights merrily sleeping his way through the rare book community. But when he takes in a drifter who seems to be hiding something, and his best friend and her newborn move into the apartment upstairs, his life gets turned on its head. A sleepy little bookstore should be the perfect place for Nathaniel to lie low, waiting for his past to catch up with him, but it turns out Dooryard Books is full of political radicals and anti-war agitators. If the FBI isn't actively surveilling this place, it will be. Nathaniel should go anywhere else. The last thing he expects is to like these subversives. There's a grieving folk musician and her baby--a demon of a child who will only sleep if Nathaniel, of all people, holds her. There's a pair of rabble-rousing teenagers who, upsettingly, seem to be right about everything. And then there's Patrick, who can't walk past anyone who needs his help--and who is perplexingly determined to help Nathaniel. As the world balances on the precipice of something new and scary and maybe even hopeful, Patrick needs to decide what he's willing to risk for this chaotic new community he's accidentally created. And Nathaniel needs to figure out whether he has a place in this messy, flawed world--and whether he can believe he deserves it.

Cat Sebastian writes fluffy, steamy historical romances about queer people. When she isn't writing, she's reading. She lives in the U.S. South but also on twitter @catswrites. Check out her Turner Series for trope-driven Regency-set romances (The Soldier's Scoundrel, The Lawrence Browne Affair, The Ruin of a Rake, and A Little Light Mischief). Her Seducing the Sedgwicks series is also set in the Regency period and contains pharmaceutical quantities of hurt/comfort (It Takes Two to Tumble, A Gentleman Never Keeps Score, and Two Rogues Make a Right). Books in the Regency Impostors series each feature a character with a secret (Unmasked by the Marquess, A Duke in Disguise, and A Delicate Deception). Hither, Page is a romance between two men trying to solve a murder in a 1940s village.