Hateful Love

Silas feels trapped. He lives in a cramped trailer with his mother, sleeps on the couch so his sister-in-law and niece can have his bed, and has a father and a brother in jail. Blaine is the golden boy: the star quarterback, the model student and the son of the town's mayor, with a future his father has already planned for him and panic attacks he hides from everyone.

The two cannot stand each other. Yet in secret, Silas finds in Blaine the one thing that makes him feel something, and Blaine finds in Silas the one place where he can stop performing and feel alive. What begins as a physical relationship neither will name grows more serious, while possessive streaks, prying friends and the shadow of Blaine's father and local politics press in on them.

Hateful Love is a self-published, explicit m/m romance by T. Ashleigh and Addison Beck, and the first book in the Kings of Aces series. It leans on enemies-to-lovers, opposites-attract and secret-relationship dynamics.