End Line

This edition of End Line (LA Comets #1) features sprayed edges.

Orion “Ori” Harper lost everything when the Los Angeles Comets failed to renew his contract. Months later, his savings are running low, his friends and family are halfway across the country, and he has ghosted his former teammates. In an attempt to crawl his way out of the hole that depression has dug for him, Ori takes his therapist’s advice and begins to pour his darkest thoughts and heaviest feelings into a journal.

Julian Tate, setter for the Comets, has been plagued by nightmares since the day he confessed everything only to watch Ori walk away. A well-timed distraction arrives in the form of Look Up, an organization focused on bringing volleyball to queer teens. With their expansion to LA, Julian is tasked with heading up the project.

When visiting the valley overlook that he and Ori frequented the previous summer, Julian finds an abandoned journal. It isn’t long before he realizes the notebook belongs to the friend he’d made the mistake of falling in love with. Guilty over reading words that he was never meant to see, Julian does the only thing he can think to do: he writes back.

As Ori and Julian begin to reconnect through their written journal entries, they’re no longer able to ignore the events of the previous summer. The hookups, the feelings, the hurt. While Ori spirals further and further into his depression, Julian tries desperately to be nothing more than the friend he promised he would be. But neither hurt nor hope will stay hidden in the dark, not as long as the sun continues to rise…