Uplifting Sports Romance

Three compelling novelettes featuring accomplished college athletes developing their attractions and feelings for other passionate men.

Each young man must strip away his inhibitions and apprehensions to realize his full potential to authentically love the person he desires.

Book 1

Baseball Star's Gift: Intimate Awakening

Darius, an Italian-American gay actor with smoldering good looks, studies Brett, the down-to-earth and straightforward captain of the collegiate baseball team, to help him perfect his upcoming theatrical role as a sports star.

Book 2

Uncovering Machismo: Virile and Tender Men

The naked bike ride event on the summer solstice, brazenly and colorfully celebrating enlightenment and fertility with nude body painting, brings divergent college sport stars together. Giovanni, a straight wrestling champion, is reeling from an unexpected defeat and brutal disgrace and humiliation in the media. Pablo, a gay goalkeeper on the university's soccer team, can share shrewd insights and profoundly help Giovanni, but he has challenges of his own and resists intimacy.

Book 3

Antonio's Mask

Antonio must strip away his inhibitions to grasp his feelings for another player on the college football team.  His friends and teammates, Joe and Kelvin, are similarly devoted to their athletic careers, not their paths of individual self-discovery. But each of these young men may be brave enough to follow their hearts if they can overcome challenges to their identities.

These three MM novelettes, comprising Jaylen Florian's Uplifting Sports Romance series (and totaling more than 31,000 words), feature gay, bisexual, and straight characters and contain mature romantic themes.  Join these sincere and sexy men as they overcome their challenges to personal growth and find love and passion.