Silverbourne: Restraint: Literary Love and Lust as a Gay Couple (Silverbourne British Gay Romance #9)
Alexander Paul Burton, Bradley Conrad
What happens when two gay men try to have a quiet weekend away and fail spectacularly?
Finn and Aly escape to a luxury Cotswolds spa for the New Year with one rule: no complications. Within hours, their borrowed Corgi, Braveheart, has staged a miniature protest, a stranger in a red Speedo has issued a reprimand at the pool, and two older men from Bristol have arrived for dinner with a very good bottle of wine and absolutely no intention of behaving themselves.
Set across a candlelit retreat, the elite rowing clubs of West London, and a fifteenth-century Oxfordshire manor house sitting on Roman foundations, Restraint follows four men across a series of weekends that none of them will quite be able to explain afterward.
Funny, frank, and written with the raw authenticity of a world most fiction only guesses at, this is gay literary fiction that explores the fine line between rivalry and desire. It is a story about the "almost"—which turns out to be considerably more interesting than the "did."
Revised Second Edition – Enhanced March 2026 with original hand-drawn illustrations. Previously published as: A Gay Romance in the Cotswolds under the pen-name Bradley Conrad.
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The 'Silverbourne British Gay Romance' series
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- Silverbourne: Desire at Henley Gay British Rowing Romance: Third Edition by Alexander Paul Burton Book #4
- Silverbourne: First Shot: A Gay British Rowing Literary Romance (Third Revised Edition) by Alexander Paul Burton Book #5
- Silverbourne: Between London and Toronto: A Silverbourne Short Gay Story by Alexander Paul Burton Book #7
- Silverbourne: A Gay Romance in the Cotswolds: A Silverbourne Short Gay Story by Alexander Paul Burton Book #8
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