Last Chances Academy Series

When it's a crime for your bully to be that hot...   Stryker:   I've partied a little too hard a little too often.   Now I'm locked behind these cold iron gates.   A cool roommate would make things easier.  Only they've stuck me with this scholarship kid.  This so-called good influence.  Guess the dean didn't notice the roomie's hot body.  It's going to be so much fun putting this goody-two-shoes in his place.  Kingsley:  Being a hacker was cool.  Being on the FBI's Twenty Most Wanted Under Twenty... not so cool.  So I've changed my name to hide out behind the ivy walls of this college for the rich and the spoiled.  Funny thing.  My cocky roommate thinks he's such an outlaw.  Dude even thinks he can bully me. Another funny thing. He's hot enough to make me want to play along.   "Hot Roommate Blues" is a full-length gay bully romance novel that explores the early days of Stryker & Kingsley's young relationship. The Happy For Now ending includes some dangling threads. Their complicated romance concludes in "Hot Mafia Blues," a full-length gay romance with mafia themes.

When he can't keep pretending... Gray's social-climbing parents have a plan for their son. The same plan that worked perfectly well for his father before him. Law school, socialite wife, millions of dollars in the bank. It's all planned out for the next thirty years.   The plan doesn't allow for art school. Much less kissing boys.   This young adult coming-of-age novel contains some language.   

From hot bully to hot boyfriend to hot mess...  Kingsley:  How do you walk back the lies when your whole life is a lie?  You tell even more lies.  My new boyfriend thinks he's the outlaw.  A bad boy son of a billionaire.  Then he digs deeper.  And finds out who the outlaw really is.    Stryker: King's such a sweetheart.  Maybe even a little bit innocent.  There's something wrong with the story of how his parents died.  I'm going to solve the mystery and set things right.  I'll be his forever hero.  He's going to be so surprised.  Except I'm the one who gets the surprise.  Turns out there's no such person as Kingsley Blake.  So who the hell is the man in my bed?    Hot Mafia Blues is a full-length new adult gay romance with mafia and academy themes. There is no cheating, no deep angst, and a guaranteed Happily Ever After. Stryker & Kingsley's complicated romance started in Hot Roommate Blues, a full-length 76,000-word gay bully romance that explores the early days of their relationship. While the books are written to be enjoyable as standalones, you'll get the most out of them if you read in this order:  *Hot Roommate Blues  *Hot Mafia Blues

As long as nobody knows how you feel, they can't take it away. Grayson: My parents don't believe I was born this way. They think I'm gay to peeve them off. But I'm not about to change my truth. So they ship me off to the all-male academy to get turned into their idea of a real man. At first, I'm pretty burned up about it. Then I meet the rookie quarterback. The sparks between us light up the sky for miles. Where are we if my folks yank me out of the academy?   Sparky: I was meant to be a star. Then I fumbled the ball, and I don't mean the football. That senior year arrest lost me my scholarship and my first pick for college. So now I'm stuck here. The worst team in the southeastern conference. No future. Or so I thought. Turns out Gray and me together... we've got something special. Both in and out of the spotlight. The "in the spotlight" part is what causes all the problems.   Kickoff Blues is a full-length new adult gay romance with sports and academy themes. There is no cheating, no deep angst, and a guaranteed Happily Ever After. This book is a complete standalone romance in the Last Chances Academy series. Other books include Hot Roommate Blues, Hot Mafia Blues, and Freshman Blues.

Revenge comes first in this enemies-to-lovers gay romance.   Matt "Can Matty be saved?" Yeah, that's me. The infamous teen burglar who supposedly vamoosed with a multi-million-dollar art object. I'm nineteen now. The scholarship's meant to give me one last chance to turn my life around. Never thought of myself as a college boy, but I've got nothing left to lose but my freedom. Turns out life in the freshman dorm has a lot to recommend it. Starting with that hottie from California. Hunter I'm enrolled in this last chances college for rich eff-ups for one reason and one reason only. In the name of publicity and a higher social media profile for the college, they gave a scholarship to the wrong dirtbag. Matt McCoyn sucked my Dad into a disastrous heist that ended in my Dad's arrest. So my Dad's got a monitor on his ankle, and the mastermind skates? No way I'm sitting still for that. I'm bringing Matt down, and if the school goes down with him, too bad, so sad. Fate's on my side. Matt has no idea who my father is. And it's so easy to get close when you both live in the same freshman dorm. Getting close to a criminal can be dangerous, though. Especially when the feels start to kick in. Freshman Blues is a full-length new adult gay romance with revenge and academy themes. There is no cheating, no deep angst, and a guaranteed Happily Ever After. This book is a complete standalone romance.

       Matt: My foster home is all right, I guess. But I've got bigger places to be than down on the farm with the chickens. Tonight's my night to break free.          *** Matt's enemies-to-lovers gay romance can be found in the full-length novel, Freshman Blues: A Gay New Adult College Romance, but this short story prequel gives you a peek into his teen years. Rest easy. The story doesn't spoil the novel, and the novel doesn't spoil the story, so you can read either one first.   The Great Escape Blues and Freshman Blues take place in the world of the Last Chances Academy series--an all-male elite college for bad boys where gay romance thrives. Related full-length novels in the Last Chances Academy series by Parker Avrile include: * Hot Roommate Blues * Hot Mafia Blues * Kickoff Blues * Freshman Blues Shorter works in this series include: * Storm Sky Blues (a Young Adult short novel) * Bully Crush Blues (a short story)