num_pages: 376
description: The most important things in Simon Murrays life are football friends and filmin that order. His friends despair of him ever meeting someone but despite his loneliness Simon is cautious about looking for more. Then his best friends drag him to a party where he barges into a football conversation and ends up defending the honour of star forward Declan Tylerunaware that the athlete is present. In that first awkward meeting neither man has any idea they will change each other's lives forever.Like his entire family Simon revels in living in Melbourne the home of Australian Rules football and mecca for serious fans. There players are treated like godsuntil they do something to fall out of public favour. This year the public is taking Declan to task for suffering injuries outside his control so Simon's support is a bright spot.But as Simon and Declan fumble toward a relationship keeping Declan's homosexuality a secret from well-meaning friends and an increasingly suspicious media becomes difficult. Nothing can stay hidden forever. Soon Declan will have to choose between the career he loves and the man he wants and Simon has never been known to make things easyfor himself or for others.
language: English
title: Tigers and Devils
publisher: Dreamspinner Press, LLC