Can coping mechanisms piece you back together and keep you whole?
The Randall brothers escaped their father, but not the trauma haunting them deep into their marrow. No matter how agonizing, their coping mechanisms are how they survived. Unwilling to relinquish them, they let the world move around them rather than moving to suit the world.
They are the enchained, the abandoned, and the unloved. The family they built through strife is all they need.
Julius Vincenzo, famous ballet dancer, moves to town after a horrific assault ends his ballet career.
Wyatt Reeves wanted to hide from everyone after the cutthroat life as a marine spit him out.
When these men collide with the Randalls and disrupt the fragile balance of the house, old wounds bleed to the surface and spill out raw.
“Nothing buried stays buried and comes to life as a molting parrot zombie to suck out your brains—or something like that,” Darius said—yeah, he said that.
Love is claustrophobic. Love is responsible. Love binds us whether we like it or not.
But it’s also the only thing that means anything.
Is healing real? Or is it another socially constructed illusion? If it’s all an illusion anyway, maybe it’s best we manufacture our own.
Lost Brothers is an MM dark romance trilogy featuring age-gap, second chances, brother bonds, found family, a sizzling dancer duo, a taciturn marine man, and the special love and care dynamics that Mock is known for.
Please see the foreword for the advisory and additional information about this book.
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Found Family
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Dark, Dark, Family Drama
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Possessive Love
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Polyamory
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Daddy Kink
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Professional Ballerinas
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D/s
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Spanking & Domestic Discipline
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Codependency Galore
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Thriller & Suspense
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Tragedy
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Hurt/Comfort (Dark)
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Brats & Banter
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Brother-Dads (Brothers who are your guardian & love you like you’re theirs
THEN 1984
When Mama got sick, Father crumbled with her. It was as if they depended on each other to be a whole person. I like to tell Oliver that Father placed him in my arms when they got home from the hospital, but in truth, he was an afterthought. Oliver didn’t have parents, he had me, his fifteen-year-old brother who had never held a baby before let alone looked after one.
Watching Mama wither should have been the worst of it, but what came after that shadowed her death like a cold mountainside. I was never the same.
NOW 2009
It’s natural for Oliver to be curious about our past, but watching him cry as he flips through the pages of my journal triggers all my protective instincts and I want to stuff him in my ’73 Monte Carlo and head for Canada. It stirs the punishing emotions I wanted to keep long buried.
Butterfly. Butterfly. Butterfly.
I had to leave with Oliver. Leaving was the only way to save him.
“Nothing will ever hurt you again, Eaglet. I’m not much, but I’ll become something for you.”
But I left something behind. Something so forbidden, all it’s done is burn me from the inside for twenty-one years. I have been running from this moment ever since. It has found me. More accurately, it has always been watching me.
This is a dark story with dark themes. There is horror and terror and very, very, bad things. Also forbidden things. There is love within the pages, but this is not a romance story. There is also a beautiful found family of men. Beautiful gay husbands and boyfriends. Brotherly fortitude. And as always, the caretaking dynamic Mock (S. Legend) is known best for.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The Unholy Version doesn’t hold back and can only be found on Smashwords or Eden Books and right here in my shop.
Tropes
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Found Family
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Dark, Dark, Family Drama
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Forbidden Love
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Polyamory
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Daddy Kink
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Professional Ballerinas
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D/s
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Spanking & Domestic Discipline
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Codependency Galore
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Thriller & Suspense
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Tragedy
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Hurt/Comfort (Dark)
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Brats & Banter
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Brother-Dads (Brothers who are your guardian & love you like you’re theirs)
WARNING, please check out the Story of You Resource Page for more information on this book
Is There Freedom in Captivity?
Silas
When he died, I couldn’t pull breath into my lungs. It wasn’t supposed to be like that. His death should have released me. All it brought me was a fractured soul.
Many long nights after his death were spent wishing for one more night, one more day. One more second of the profound control Aleksander held. Begging was ignored. Refusing him wasn’t an option.
I loved every heart-pounding second.
He pulls me under like a dense fog. I’m not going down the rabbit hole, I live there now. Only Oliver can guide me out for short doses of reality. But I’ve sipped Aleksander’s viperous cocktail again, and I’m hooked. I don’t want to face the days without him anymore.
We had a horrible beginning, and an even worse middle, what are the chances that we could have an amazing end?
Oliver
I didn’t have parents. I had Silas, my brother-dad. He’s been my world and he gave me the world. I want the same for him, even if what he wants is dangerous. I’ve always been his compass, his strength, and his kryptonite. Thank God for that. Those might be the only things saving him from being ripped away from us.
But the happily-ever-after for all, including Dad, depends on how much I let him go. Letting him go means that I risk losing him forever.
Can I let him go without sacrificing him to the devil he loves?
Darius
Well, dayum. Looks like I could get out of hell before either of my brothers, who woulda thunk it? But I’ll never leave them behind. First, though, show Asher where he belongs with the major’s help—I think we all know what that means. Then, make sure my ex-dad doesn’t take everything that kept me hanging on for nearly two decades.
Are we enough to take on the force that almost destroyed us?
The captivating final pages of this part of the Randall Brothers heart-wrenching trilogy. Join the brothers of heartbreak for tears, tenderness, and some of the steamiest moments Miss Mock (S. Legend) has ever written.
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Forbidden Love
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Spanking
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Found Family
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Hurt/Comfort
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Age Gap
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Trauma
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Polyamory
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Daddy Kink
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Dom/Sub
Hot Pink Peaches verified.
Several times over.