Tommy Cabot Was Here (The Cabots)

Massachusetts, 1959: Some people might accuse mathematician Everett Sloane of being stuffy, but really he just prefers things a certain way: predictable, quiet, and far away from Tommy Cabot-his former best friend, chaos incarnate, and the man who broke his heart. The youngest son of a prominent political family, Tommy threw away his future by coming out to his powerful brothers. When he runs into Everett, who fifteen years ago walked away from Tommy without an explanation or a backward glance, his old friend's chilliness is just another reminder of what a thoroughgoing mess Tommy has made of his life. When Everett realizes that his polite formality is hurting Tommy, he needs to decide whether he can unbend enough to let Tommy get close but without letting himself get hurt the way he was all those years ago.

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.