Home Advantage

Author(s): Rose McKittrick

Location(s): Nottingham, Chicago, Exeter

Genre(s): Romance

Era(s): Contemporary

While Adam King and Cari Baker are finding their fresh start, Dylan Baker has a relationship of his own under perfect control.

Ryan Calahan is exactly the sort of man Dylan usually avoids for his own good: a Canadian hockey player learning to live openly after years of hiding in plain sight. Within days, Ryan has slipped past every defence and made himself at home in Dylan’s house, Dylan’s bed and Dylan’s head.

Dylan gives him a key, clears him a drawer and learns exactly how he takes his coffee. Ryan follows Dylan’s routines, accepts his rules and returns each night, happy to be fed, looked after and kept close.

For six months, it works. It feels enough like love that Ryan can almost ignore how little of Dylan he is allowed to see.

Then Ryan starts asking for more.

A game. A night at his flat. Proof that their relationship can survive outside Dylan’s carefully managed world.

With Ryan rehabbing a potentially career-ending injury and growing in confidence, Dylan begins to wonder if he can continue calling Ryan his boyfriend while refusing to let himself be fully known.

Ryan came to Nottingham to stop hiding and build a new life, not disappear into one built entirely on someone else’s terms.

Home Advantage is a funny, tender British opposites-attract ice hockey rom com about control, commitment, healing old wounds, and the terrifying business of being truly seen.

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