Three weeks before his wedding, Cal Mercer walked away from the perfect woman, and he can't explain why. Now Lantern Bay's favorite marine mechanic is sleeping in the spare room above his best friend's bookshop. He's dodging sympathy casseroles and nosy questions and trying to ignore what his ex said on her way out the door: 'You never looked at me the way you look at him.' Theo Lindqvist has loved Cal since they were sixteen. He has survived Cal's girlfriends, Cal's engagement and Cal's terrible taste in music by keeping his heart locked in the back room with the rare first editions. But sharing a bathroom with a heartbroken, shirtless Cal is testing every rule Theo has ever made. Then a storm knocks out the power, and Cal crawls into Theo's bed 'like when we were kids.' Nothing about waking up tangled together feels like childhood. Cal is twenty-nine and suddenly questioning everything. Theo refuses to be anyone's experiment, least of all for the one person he can't afford to lose. And in Lantern Bay, slack water never lasts long. The tide always turns. SLACK WATER is a 25,000-word best-friends-to-lovers MM romance novella with a bi-awakening hero, a grumpy-sweet bookseller, a coastal town full of meddling neighbors, only one bed and a guaranteed HEA. It is Book 1 in the Lantern Bay series.