num_pages: 228
description: LAMBDA Finalist 2017Ex-surfer-turned-businessman Liam Mallaney moved back to Holkham Norfolk to mourn the loss of his husband. Grief and loneliness keep him a solitary figure and he likes it that way. Theres no room in his broken heart for anything else.Rentboy Zac Payne left London and most of his demons behind but he still only knows one way to make a living. When he spots Liam in a club one night it seems hes found his mark. But Liam proves nicerand their connection far deeperthan hed bargained for. Their arrangement quickly becomes too complicated for Zac who has other things on his mind: namely his BFF and wayward flatmate Jamie. Zac owes Jamie the world and even as Jamies drug addiction destroys all they have Zac wont leave him behind.Besides Liam knows nothing of Zacs home life too caught up in his own head to think much beyond the crazy heat he and Zac share. But when trouble comes to Zacs door putting his life in danger Liam must set his grief and anger aside to pick up the pieces of Zacs shattered heart and his own.
language: English
title: Rented Heart
publisher: Riptide Publishing