Metastable: Book One of Two · English

Metastable · Book 1

Metastable: Book One of Two

A controlled physicist. A chaotic lab assistant. One stolen year.

Reading optionsSample in English

About the story

Carter Brent understands unstable systems. He would prefer Tan Naiya not to be one of them. Years of friendship have left the two men with habits, dependencies and an arrangement Carter has not been entirely honest about. Now Tan wants his time, attention and answers. Between a London laboratory, a riverside flat and queer nightlife, their friendship becomes an intense negotiation with desire and control. This explicit contemporary romance begins Carter and Tan’s two-book story. Read Book Two for its conclusion.

What to expect

Carter and Tan’s explicit, emotionally intense love story in two books.

Ending and reading order

Hopeful; continues in the next volume.

Content notes
  • Explicit sexual content
  • Public sexual settings and power dynamics
  • Consent difficulties and controlling behaviour
  • Self-harm
  • Physical danger and injury
  • Parental absence and abandonment

In reading order

  1. 1
    Metastable: Book One of TwoYou are here
  2. 2
    Metastable: Book Two of Two

Read next

Metastable: Book Two of Two

Choosing each other was only the beginning.

Questions about this book

Which language is this edition?

English · Metastable: Book One of Two

Where should I start?

Book 1 · Metastable. New to this series? Begin with Metastable: Book One of Two.

Can I read a sample?

Sample in English

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