Ripe & Ready (Friction Fiction #1)

Elliot Kyle

Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
4.13 · Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings · 77 pages · Published: 24 Jun 2025
Ripe & Ready by Elliot Kyle
Derek and I have been best friends since we were kids. Now we’re halfway across the world on a gorilla-watching expedition in the Congo, and I’m finally working up the nerve to admit what I’ve been feeling for years. Somewhere amidst the jungle hikes, one bed, and far too many lingering touches, the lines between us start to blur and things start getting a little... slippery.

The jungle is wild, but admitting my feelings for him? That might be the real adventure.
Ripe & Ready is a friends-to-lovers, low-angst, 19k-word novella with a HEA and the wildly questionable use of a banana. It is the first novella in a series of queer love stories full of big feelings and extremely unconventional lube choices. Because who says silicone and water-based are the only options?
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    queer · m-m · erotica · length-novella · contemporary · explicit-open-door
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