Against the Autumn Pines

““To my fellow eldest daughters—swing hard baby girl. You never know when a crash out will lead to your biggest breakthrough.

What happens when two workaholics meet on an anonymous sex app? Chaos.

Character art by Jess Whetton

Ember
The bakery is the only thing in my life that truly matters—at least that’s true until I let a man I don’t know chase me through the woods in an act of defiance. The rules are simple. The masks stay on and the word ‘no’ doesn’t exist. Now my life is spiraling out of control and the only thing that makes sense is the man in the mask. But eventually when the mask has to come off, where will that leave us?

Wyatt
The job is simple; set up security on this high-end club’s new app. Or at least, it was simple until my boss told me to create a profile and participate. It was supposed to be one night, but one night wasn’t enough. Anonymous fun wasn’t enough. I needed more, and I didn’t care what it costed me. She’d be mine, no matter who tried to stop it.