Elsie Street: Volume 1

Name: Elsie Street: Volume 1
Rating: 4.315789699554443 (19 reviews)

Gabriella West

Jan 2016 · Elsie Street Book 1 · Gabriella West

4.3

19 reviews

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Boston native Dave Madden has just been fired from a dead-end bartending job in San Francisco. His long-suffering girlfriend helps him get a job at a nearby art museum as a guard. But what Dave finds there will challenge his whole sense of identity. For despite a fling with a college roommate that ended too soon for his liking, he considers himself straight.

When Dave encounters woozy young Aaron Andersen at a work event--openly gay, with a house of his own in SF's hip Bernal Heights neighborhood--he at first sees the 24-year-old techie as a harmless nerd and offers to drive him home. But Aaron soon has a seductive hold on Dave, and as the men's lives become more intertwined, Dave finds himself falling into an unexpected and passionate relationship, one that will require all his loyalty and commitment, and his faith in love.

Both men are damaged characters, and Dave really wants to be a good influence on Aaron. But as an old flame suddenly re-emerges from Dave’s past and new revelations about Aaron’s addictive tendencies raise doubts in Dave’s mind, can their life together on Elsie Street really work out?

Keywords: gay, gay for you, straight to gay, gay romance, LGBT, bisexual men, contemporary romance, monogamy, addiction, abuse, san francisco, free, open relationships

Ratings and reviews

4.3

19 reviews

RUPERT

January 24, 2019

Straight to gay or even gay to straight does not exist! your born with your sexuality you may deny your true sexuality like Tom Cruise but if your gay your gay books like this help the homophobic Southern Baptist etc to claim you choose to be gay and not born gay that makes them HARMFUL! DON'T BUY!

2 people found this review helpful

C w

April 27, 2016

Superbly written, beautifully drawn characters, totally addictive & absorbing. Must read more from this author.

1 person found this review helpful

Riley Yocum

April 21, 2016

One of the best I have read!

1 person found this review helpful

About the author

Gabriella West was born in Santa Barbara, California. Her parents moved to Ireland in 1969, and she grew up there, graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, with a degree in English Literature. She moved to San Francisco directly after college, and earned an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 1995.

She's the author of eight LGBT novels, includingThe Leaving, Time of Grace, and Elsie Street. Her work has been anthologized in books such as Alyson Press's "Early Embraces," and Cleis's "Hot Ticket: Tales of Lesbians, Sex, and Travel" and "Best Women's Erotica 2004." She never expected the Internet to play such a big part in her publishing career—but she's riding the wave of self-publishing nonetheless.

Her latest is Once You Are Mine, a pandemic love story set in West Marin, California.

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