This Is My Church (Contested Possession)

“Church boys don’t come out of the closet to marry cocaine snorting dudes who like to take it up the—”

Mates with everyone and beholden to none, Lacy is a twenty-seven-year-old football superstar who parties as hard as he plays. It makes no sense for him to become best mates with their new ruckman, the bible reading, softly spoken celibate, Thaddeus Clay.

But from the moment the freshly traded twenty-three-year-old walks into the locker room, they do everything together.

Well, almost everything.

When Thad stumbles upon Lacy’s extracurriculars—a drug-fuelled gangbang where Lacy loses consciousness to the number of men who take him—he knows they can’t do that together.

But what Thad does next will change the course of their relationship in irreversible ways. Except Lacy doesn’t remember. And Thad is left with a secret that threatens his friendship and his faith.

Lacy knows he never stood a chance with a church boy, but when Thad avoids eye contact he’s left with one question—what the hell happened on the weekend?

This Is My Church carves a path through gangbangs, benders and a whole lot of praying to find out what it means to be truly loved.