Our Secret Wedding: Our Secret Christmas

Two books under one cover. A friends-to-lovers, feel-good gay romance. Contains a whole lot of man-on-man love action, preparations for Christmas and an elopement to Gretna Green.

Impulsive and romantic, Connor is set to take over the family business, Sky High Scaffolds, with his siblings. But he might be ruled out as possible CEO because, even though he's almost thirty, he's still single. Connor makes a life-changing discovery about a member of his construction team.

Lee is gay, but no one at work knows. The macho scaffolding crew isn't known for gay-friendliness. At twenty-nine years of age, sexy scaffolder Lee is looking for love and commitment. He’s not about to hook up with any straight guy who’s going through a gay experimental phase. Especially not his work colleague and boss. Lee fears rejection if and when Connor wakes up and realizes he’s not bisexual and not into guys.

Connor fears losing the love of his life if he can’t prove he’s serious about him and win Lee’s heart.

Christmas is a really big deal in Britain. The parties and preparations begin in November, at the latest.

In the construction industry, it means two weeks off work for Connor and Lee. Yes, two weeks. They've only been dating since September. In secret. They just want to spend the holiday time together, like any other gay guys in love. Alone and mostly naked.

And we all know the true meaning of Christmas is explaining and justifying to friends and family how you are spending the holiday and who with.

HJ Perry lives by the English seaside BUT is learning to accept having words translated into American for an international audience. Based on the advice, write what you know, HJP writes books about men falling in love in England where, for the most part, LGBT people are treated with the same respect as anyone else. Having worked in the construction industry for years in real life, the fictional characters also often work in that macho, male dominated environment. HJP has also been a political activist campaigning around LBGT issues since the 1980s.