Pieces of Home - Paperback

by Becca Neil (Author)

All he'd ever wanted was to go home.

Ryan Davis has lived in hell for the last fifteen years. Kidnapped at age eight, then beaten, broken, and forced into silence, Rye managed to exist, to survive. When a chance phone call gives him an opportunity to escape, he takes it. But escape doesn't mean safety, and freedom doesn't mean happiness. And even if he can manage to find home, the pieces of what used to be may never fit back together.

Jacob Wright has adapted. In fact, Jake would probably say he loves his life-living in a beautiful home on a secluded beach on the Northern California coast. It wasn't the life he'd planned. But accidents happen. And an accident was what stole his livelihood and limited his mobility six years ago. He's happy now, if not still living carefully, avoiding things that used to make him happier.

When Rye shows up on Jake's beach, lost, fearful, and on the verge of death, Jake has to become a caretaker for a man who can't seem to speak, and Rye has to put his trust in a stranger to survive. An unexpected and tenuous friendship grows, forming a deep bond full of possibilities that neither of them had imagined.

But even as they start to recognize what's in their hearts, the past seems intent on reminding them both how truly broken they are . . .

Pieces of Home is a slow burn, hurt/comfort MM romance that focuses on the growth of a deep friendship and how two broken men find each other, help each other, and heal each other. It's a story of strangers to friends to lovers, featuring a small town setting, forced proximity, PTSD/cPTSD trauma and healing, demi rep, and a hard-fought happily-ever-after.

Content warnings: kidnapping (of a minor); verbal and physical abuse (off page but referenced), including that of a minor; cPTSD; PTSD; trauma-induced selective mutism; trauma-induced dissociative amnesia; life-threatening injury (off page but referenced) resulting in chronic pain (shown on page); death of a side character (off page); death of a parent (in the past, referenced); references to drinking and smoking. See inside preview for additional content warnings.