6 Months with John — A Love Story (Sort Of)

Why Gay Relationships Don't Last?Some love stories end with a wedding. This one starts with an ambulance.Parker makes coffee for a living, studies nursing at night, and has spent most of his twenties waiting for someone to choose him. He is twenty-seven, deeply single, and quietly convinced that everyone else received a manual for adulthood that he never got.Then he nearly kills his crush with a cinnamon heart.What follows is six months with John - a firefighter with an easy smile, a complicated family, and the unsettling ability to make Parker forget every reason he had for being careful. John is charming. John is warm. John is everything Parker spent years telling himself he was waiting for.Falling in love was never the hard part.The hard part is everything after: the questions Parker doesn't ask, the people from John's past who keep turning up in his present, and the slow, uncomfortable discovery that wanting something badly enough does not make it real.A gay contemporary novel about love, friendship, and the difference between being wanted and being chosen. For readers of queer fiction who want something funnier, messier, and more honest than the usual love story.What's inside- A messy, funny, painfully honest gay protagonist- Queer found family - the friends who show up when everything falls apart- A Chicago coffee shop, a firefighter, and one very bad decision involving cinnamon- Sharp humor sitting right next to real emotional weight- An eight-year-old nephew who threatens grown men over french fries- A love story that refuses to end the way you expect6 Months with John is for anyone who has ever mistaken hope for evidence, defended someone they shouldn't have, or looked back at a relationship and realized they were the only one building it.Not every love story is about the person you loved. Sometimes it's about the people who stayed. Like life itself, nothing in this book is perfect-but it can be fun.