Lanta: A bittersweet MM Romance
On a hushed shore beneath a moonlit sky, where the tides steal away memories etched in sand, a kiss changes everything.
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“I write stories about love, memory, and the places we carry inside us. My fiction often follows queer characters navigating identity and intimacy across cultures, years, and silences. I’m drawn to moments that don’t shout — only linger.”
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On a hushed shore beneath a moonlit sky, where the tides steal away memories etched in sand, a kiss changes everything.
Silom is nineteen, a fisherman’s apprentice with calloused hands, a battered wetsuit, and questions he’s never dared voice aloud. Lester is older, from a colder world—an Englishman adrift in a life that no longer fits. When their paths cross on the island of Ko Lanta, a brief, impulsive kiss stirs something neither of them is ready to name.
What begins as a fleeting connection becomes something deeper—tender, quiet, and inescapably real—in a place where duty weighs heavy and words come second to glances, gestures, and shared silences. But paradise cannot shield lovers from the weight of the world. As the tides shift and lives drift apart, Silom is left with only memory—and the ache of a promise unkept.
Spanning decades of longing, distance, and quiet resilience, Lanta is a lyrical, bittersweet love story set against the lush, salt-soaked beauty of southern Thailand. It is about the boy who kissed a stranger, the man who never forgot, and the lives that unfold between one impossible moment and its long-awaited echo.
For readers of André Aciman (Call Me by Your Name), Madeline Miller (The Song of Achilles), and anyone who has ever carried a memory like a flame in their chest.
Also for fans of
Foxes by Suki Fleet,
Glitterland by Alexis Hall,
In the Absence of Light by Adrienne Wilder,
Like Real People Do by E.L. Massey