Meet the Characters
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Meet the Characters: Jeremy
“Rock stars can’t be gay,” was the mentality of Jeremy. His only dream was to be a musician, but fame came with certain expectations. Even in his high school garage band. One of those expectations involved the girls that were constantly throwing themselves at him. He wasn’t interested, but he had to keep the illusion that he was. Until he met Miles. Miles and Jeremy almost make the perfect couple because of the way they both need each other.
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Meet the Characters: Charlotte
Sometimes, Charlotte really hates her life. Raised by a single mother, she spends most of her free time babysitting her younger siblings while their mother works countless dead-end jobs or searches for the perfect man to be their next step father. Of course, all those relationships do is leave them poorer than they were before. Along with her best friend Quinn, Charlotte is constantly bullied in school. Her biggest tormentor is Quinn’s brother’s girlfriend. One day, Charlotte and Quinn stumble across the Warehouse. It is just your average smelly old wrestling gym, but they fall in love with the business. One of the wrestlers, Kai, becomes one of Charlotte’s best…
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Meet the Characters: Miles
Miles was first mentioned in Out on the Ice, but his story wasn’t really revealed until Dying to Fit In. Honestly, when I first created him, I never really planned on doing much with him other than making him the villain. At first, he seems like he is very much the villain of the story. His actions when Cam‘s brother came out were directly responsible for Tristan’s suicide. However, like all villains, there are layers to Miles that aren’t revealed until later books. Why did he have such a reaction to Tristan’s kiss? Yes, Miles has his faults, but deep down, he is just doing what every teenager does. He…
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Meet the Characters: Landon
Landon had his life figured out. With just over a year of high school left, he already had offers for scholarships and even the opportunity to skip college altogether to play professional baseball. He was the most popular guy in school. His girlfriend was the most popular girl. Life was perfect. But was it? Lana runs Landon’s life, and she is horrible to his nonbinary sibling Quinn and their best friend Charlotte. After yet another fight with Lana, Quinn and Charlotte decide he needs a night away from all the high school drama, so they take him to their favorite place in the entire world. The Warehouse opens new opportunities…
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Meet the Characters: Ethan
Ethan technically makes his first appearance in Time Heals, when Gabe learns he has a child with Rachel. Other than playing hockey and being friends with Gavin at an early age, he doesn’t really make an impact until Out on the Ice. He is the goalie of Gavin’s championship hockey team. Gavin is his best friend, and they are literally closer than brothers. Ethan is even the one responsible for setting Gavin up with his first girlfriend (before Cam comes out, of course). Ethan’s father is severely homophobic, so Ethan was brought up thinking it was wrong. When Jace and Gavin get together, Ethan is horrible to them. Eventually, he…
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Meet the Characters: Cam
Cam was first introduced as Cami, Gavin’s shy girlfriend in Out on the Ice, but her story really takes shape in One of the Guys. She recently moved to Wisconsin, living with her aunt, uncle, and cousin Abby after needing to escape her old home after her brother committed suicide. Cami isn’t even that upset when she discovers her first boyfriend is more into Jace. Instead, she vows to make sure he feels more supported than her brother did. She immediately launches a Gender/Sexuality Alliance at their school, where they find support in places other than each other. When Ethan finally realizes the possible repercussions of how he has treated…
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Meet the Characters: Jace
Jace is just your typical star athlete. I mean, is typical for a teenager to hide some life-altering secrets, isn’t it? The only person in his life that knows about the abuse he deals with regular is his best friend Alex. Instead of treating him differently for it, Alex goes out of his way to make sure Jace doesn’t have to be home more than absolutely necessary, but while spending so much time together, Jace develops feelings for his best friend. But a championship athlete can’t be gay, right? Jace spends over a year of his life hiding who he really is. He forces himself to date girls so he…
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Meet the Characters: Gavin
Gavin is first introduced as Rory and Erik‘s son in Self Inflicted, and he has small roles through Scars Fade and Time Heals before really beginning his story in Out on the Ice. Gavin developed a love of hockey from a very young age, thanks to his Uncle Gabe. Despite the fact that Gabe couldn’t help out on the ice, Gavin spent every spare minute of his childhood at the rink with his cousin (and best friend) Ethan and quickly became a star of the team. It wasn’t until junior high that Gavin realized he was different from other teen boys. While his teammates were obsessed with getting girlfriends, Gavin…
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Meet the Characters: Trent
Trent is definitely one of my darker characters, especially when he first appears in Summer Love Autumn Goodbye. He is introduced as a former friend of Chad‘s turned enemy. While dealing (and using) drugs, Trent is the reason Chad is arrested initially when he pulls the alarm when the boys break into the liquor store. Trent is a fighter. He attacks Chad leaving him fairly injured. He attacks Marissa leaving her terrified. But everything he does, he does it for love. Trent truly believes he loves Tamara and would do anything for her. Including helping her win custody of her child, even knowing the small boy would be much better…
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Meet the Characters: Gabe
As a teenager, Gabriel Olson only cared about two things: hockey and girls. Hockey became his focus at a young age because it kept him away from the world of drugs that claimed his parents and younger brother. Girls, because well, they were there. As captain of the varsity hockey team, girls were always throwing themselves at him, until he met Rachel. The only girl to turn him down, Gabe became obsessed with her. She was everything he never wanted, but he couldn’t stay away. She couldn’t resist him for long. When he graduated high school, he turned down a hockey scholarship so he could stay close to her while…
