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author of spicy queer romance novels

The Embrace of Evergreen

Unexpected Love - book two
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Now available for pre-order!
Paperback, hardback, book boxes, and ARC info coming soon.

Ethan
I’ve been in love before. It's a fact that I cling to with frighteningly intense desperation as I try to convince myself that I’m normal. Ok, so I’ve only been in love once, but I know that for at least one brief, shining moment, the world and everything in it felt like magic. I know love exists. I know it does, because when I’m lying in bed alone at night, I can still feel it. I know deep in my soul that I’m capable of love. I have to be.
I don’t know why I continue to subject my broken, hollowed out shell of a heart to the idea of falling in love again, but I don’t have it in me to quit just yet. I’ll give it one more try. One more attempt to build a real life for myself before giving up, because some part of me is still holding on to hope, no matter how dangerous that is.

Blue
Love and romance aren't for me. When I was young and naïve I dreamed of them, just like everyone else I suppose. Then I fell in love, only to end up hurt. I fell in love again, only to get hurt again. Eventually, I learned my lesson. Love, romantic love at least, isn't usually real, and when it is, it never lasts. Every time I’ve fallen it’s been fast and hard, and every time I’ve ended up patching the broken, tattered pieces of my body and soul back together on my own. Love and I just aren’t compatible.
So why can't I stop watching the beautiful auburn-haired man that's recently become a regular at the coffee shop? I know what the result of indulging this hormone induced fascination will be. I’ll end up hurt, and alone, and wondering yet again how something that once seemed so good could have gone so desperately wrong.

 

 

The Embrace of Evergreen is a 90000 word, MM, slow burn, contemporary romance filled with loss, found family, longing, forest hikes, glass blowing, sweet road trips with only one bed, friends to lovers, demi-rep, quirky best friends, and of course a HEA. There is also just the tiniest bit of unexplained magic that is deliberately open to reader interpretation.

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Unexpected Love

A Trilogy

current estimated release dates are

fall 2024 - spring 2025

This contemporary romance series will consist of three novels. Each book will follow a different couple, but there will be cameos/minor overlapping plots. They are meant to be read as a series rather than as stand alone books.

While each couple will get a hard-earned HEA, there will be plenty of angst and heartbreak along the way.
As each couple is unique, the levels of angst vs. humor will vary with each book.

My Books

To Love: Wherever it Finds You

Beneath the Indigo Sky

Consorting with Romance

The Embrace of Evergreen

My Books

Consorting with Romance

It. Is. Stunning. I cannot begin to tell you how a book between a consort and his lover works when he still sleeps with other people. Or how it isn't seedy, dirty, makes it feel taboo. Or even how you as a reader look over what Ash's job actually is because these 2 are all that matter in this. Them and their unwavering love for each other is the heart of this book and I loved it. Read it in a day, I just couldn't put it down and will definitely stay in my head & heart for a long time.

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