King of Dirt
Holden Sheppard
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
4.39
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 12 ratings · 384 pages · Published: 03 Jun 2025
Giacomo Brolo, aka Jack, is a mess. He works piecemeal construction gigs in remote WA, drinks himself to oblivion and is estranged from his family and friends. He's consumed by a self-loathing all too common for closeted men who have grown up in a world of hate and shame.
But then Jack returns to his regional hometown of Geraldton for a family wedding. He hasn't been back since he fled at the age of eighteen, and his past soon catches up with him.
Turns out Jack's deeply conservative Italian family would prefer he remained in the closet. Then he finds out he may have conceived a son with his teenage girlfriend, and now Jack needs to convince her and her new husband that he's fit to be a father figure. And whatever happened to Xavier, the former schoolmate who Jack was in love with and whose rejection spurred him to leave Geraldton in the first place?
Is Jack doomed to live a dead-end life – or can he open himself up to the possibility of love, found family and connection?
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- contemporary 2
- queer romance 2
- hurt/comfort 2
- angst 1
- friends to lovers 1
- second chances 1
- anal sex 1
- gay romance 1
- small town 1
- western 1
- grumpy/cold hero 1
- dad-bod hero 1
- working class hero 1
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- content warnings
- queerphobia 1
- suicide / ideation 1
- self harm 1
- mental illness 1
- abuse between mcs 1
- substance abuse 1
- geography
- australia 1
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- standalone 1
- first person pov 1
