Where He Was Found

He learned to lie before he learned to live.

Julian Mercer survived his childhood by lying - beautifully, constantly, to everyone. It kept him alive in a house where the truth was punished, and it followed him to Colton, where Zirah, the magnetic matriarch of the Hearth, collects lost boys the way other people collect debts: with open arms and a ledger.

Inside the Hearth, Julian was fed, praised, and kept - drugged, surveilled, and sold by a faith that called it love. Escape was never a door he was allowed to see.

Then Noah Vale, a friend from the hometown Julian fled, walked into the Halcyon bar and refused to leave without him. What follows is a rescue years in the making: a rehab that teaches him to tell the truth in the plain words, a courtroom reckoning with the woman who kept him, and a love fierce enough to build a life - and a refuge for lost souls still sleeping in tunnels - on the other side of the country.

Where He Was Found is a searing queer thriller about the price of being believed, and the man who learned that being found is only the beginning.