Six young men yearning to find their place in the world.

One unshakable bond forged in the crucible of a Swiss boarding school.

Many years ago, a group of misfit boys made a heart-wrenching pact in the dead of night.

Now, seventeen years later, a long-forgotten wish is about to come true.

They’re about to find out – love happens even to those who have lost hope.

For these six young men are about to meet their destiny. Ready, or not.

What if you got to see a glimpse of the “happy” your future holds. Would you believe?

LIAM O’SHEA did. Unconditionally. Once upon a forever ago.

All I knew was pain – a childhood filled with cruelty and villains who used and abused.

Until Éolie.

I first heard her sweet, angelical voice in the dark of night, when I lay bathed in my own impending death. Seventeen years later, it’s not the nightmare she pulled me out of that haunts me, but the glimpse of Happily Ever After she revealed just before disappearing.

They said she was a figment of my boundless imagination. A wish. A dream. Until I had no choice but to believe them, cherishing my imaginary savior the only way I knew how – in fiction and lore.

But fantasy has a way of transforming reality. When I finally tire of being a citizen of the world, I take an impromptu sabbatical as a professor at a small college on the coast of Maine. And there I see her, the girl with the sea-green eyes and angelic voice.

My world turns upside down. Turns out my girl is for real, and the pull between us is anything but imaginary.

Happily Ever After has a story … and this one is mine.

ZAC Di FIORI’s life is about to turn one-eighty degrees North.

I lived my life one thrill at a time, never setting down roots, never believing I’d ever find a place to call Home.

Until Magali.

The moment those silver eyes blaze right through me, I’m a goner.

The way she sees past my defenses, her passion for helping others, the gentle touch she has with children … Everything about her tells me I’ve finally done the impossible. I’ve found my forever.

But after an entire lifetime of being alone, orphaned under suspicious circumstances and shipped off to boarding school by a pathetic excuse for family, forever seems too good to be true. And I know all too well how quickly it can be taken away.

But Magali has a way of drawing me out of the past, and looking toward a future filled with family.

Turns out finding Home isn’t so impossible after all …

All I have to do is believe in it.

PHILIPPE-OLIVIER TISSEROT’s caffeine addiction is about to land him in uncharted territory and one hell of a ride. One that’s about to go viral.

Current status: Computer whiz to hacker to penpal.

Upgrade status: Lover.

Well, I’m still working on the lover part.

I’m just a computer geek studying at MIT. And now I’m in two places at once – the geek and the lover battling it out to get the girl.

The only problem is, my dream girl doesn’t know she knows me in either one of them.

Now I have to win her in both.

Please wait. Upgrade in progress.

It’s not like I really thought I could get both peace and quiet by staying over at Leo’s quack farm with the rest of the gang. But still.

“I’ll kill him slowly and painfully first thing in the morning,” I mutter, shoving my pillow over my ears if only to wipe out the fact I’m not getting any and haven’t for a while. But no dice. The mute factor on Aurèle’s whimpers and P.O.’s grunts is quasi nil. Not to say, the squeaks of the old bed springs and the increased banging of the metal headboard against the wall only add to the ambiance.

I’d congratulate P.O. on a job well done but the current racket is enough to give me a bad case of envy—not to mention blue balls by default—and drives me batshit crazy.

Not even Leo’s loud snoring coming from the other bunk bed in our shared bedroom can obliterate the unmistakable sounds of unleashed passion in the other room. Jesus. If I wasn’t sure before, I am now. Leo can sleep through anything, even an earthquake. And tremors coming from the other side of the wall are living proof.

With not one, not two, but three couples crazy in love living here for now, what the hell was Leo thinking by choosing the middle bedroom for himself? And by extension, me. And the rest of the single ones. Meaning Yann. Still at MIT. Missing in on the fun.

Riiight. Like this is my idea of fun.

Well, not while I’m on the other side of the action that is.

By Design. Theo and Anaïs, coming up next. 

INDIGENOUS  

(Leo’s story)

2020

GRAVITY  

(Yann’s story)

2021