Where We Belong: Step One | LGBTQ YA Romance | Paper Moon Bay

This is a tender LGBTQ YA romance about the family you choose, not just the one you're born into.

Sometimes the family you're looking for isn't waiting at the end of the road, it's riding right beside you.

At fifteen, Blue has learned to carry things quietly. A stutter that gets worse when he's scared. A mother he lost too soon. An adoptive home where he's never quite fit. And a secret he's barely admitted to himself, that the boy behind the coffee shop counter makes his chest feel strange in ways he doesn't have words for yet.

When an argument pushes Blue past his limit, he makes a decision that changes everything. Armed with a motorcycle, two helmets, and an envelope full of hope, he sets off in the middle of the night to find the birth father who left him behind.

He doesn't plan on company. But Harry, charming, warm, impossibly easy to be around, ends up beside him anyway.

What follows is a summer of open roads, late nights, new friendships, and the terrifying, beautiful realisation that belonging isn't something you find at the end of a journey. Sometimes it finds you first.

Where We Belong is a tender, emotional coming-of-age story about identity, found family, first love, and the courage it takes to let people in, even when everything in you is screaming not to.

Genre & trope tags: YA coming-of-age · LGBTQ+ YA · gay YA romance · found family · road trip · slow burn

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