About the Author

Wendy Hawthorne is a MM romance author who brings the spice and everything nice: star-crossed lovers, soulmates, and second chance romance. Whether you're looking for earned happy endings or swoon-worthy steam, Wendy's writing is sure to sweep you off your feet!Learn more >

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The Rival

The Rival is a MM rivals to lovers short story featuring a second chance romance, basketball, and a dom x sub power dynamic.

Available now on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.

Cover for "The Rival" by Wendy Hawthorne. "The Rival" is Book One of the At Last MM Romance series. Cover features a shirtless man holding a towel around his neck with a small smirk. Cover image is in black and white with a yellow complementary color.

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At Last Series

At Last: An MM Romance Series by Wendy Hawthorne follows stories featuring second chances at love, long-lost loves, pining, angst, and longing. Whether the forces keeping characters apart are internal or external, rest assured, these characters are full of gay longing and desire.

The Rival

Competition runs through my veins. I work hard, I play hard. Maybe I’m not headed for the NBA anytime soon, but I take my local basketball league seriously.So when the final game of the season is a rematch between my team and our cross-town rivals, I’m not going to let us experience another heartbreaking loss. Tonight’s game is about revenge.It doesn’t matter if Jason Alvarez, the other team’s captain, is sexy beyond belief and a little bit my type. He’s been my rival in every sense of the word since I started playing in this league.And it’s going to stay that way.The Rival is a MM rivals to lovers short story featuring a second chance romance.

Cover for "The Rival" by Wendy Hawthorne. "The Rival" is Book One of the At Last MM Romance series. Cover features a shirtless man holding a towel around his neck with a small smirk. Cover image is in black and white with a yellow complementary color.

Available now on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.

Cover for "The Reunion" by Wendy Hawthorne. "The Reunion" is Book Two of the At Last MM Romance series. Cover features text stating Cover Reveal Coming Soon.

Will be available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.

The Reunion

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About The Author

Wendy Hawthorne is a California native who has spent her whole life writing. Wendy considers herself a fan of life's small pleasures, especially enjoying the view of sunsets from her writer's room window.She writes all manner of romance, but she prefers to write M/M relationships. She focuses on developing characters as much as the chemistry between them. Characters may go through the ringer over the course of a story, but Wendy specializes in earned happy endings. Readers will laugh from witty dialogue and then have their heartstrings pulled only a few pages later. Her stories often feature requited unrequited love, mutual pining, soul-crushing angst, humor, and emotional hurt/comfort. Wendy isn't afraid to experiment with her style and genres to subvert reader expectations.Wendy often battles with her torbie cat named Penny who enjoys sitting on keyboards and head-butting phones while her owner is trying to write.

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