The Sky’s Waiting

Larak Calloway and Cedar Shaw weren’t looking for a life together. Building one will ask more of them than either expected.

Into the Open Sky trilogy follows their story through an unlikely connection, dangerous secrets, and the complicated work of making a home. Intimate, sharp-witted, and threaded with suspense, these queer novels explore identity, survival, and the people we become when we finally have room to choose.

Begin with How Far the Sky, continue with The Shattered Horizon, and follow them into The Sky Beyond.

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How far the sky cover, found family, lgbtq, suspense, thriller

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When Larak Calloway meets Cedar Shaw, the connection between them opens up possibilities Larak has struggled to imagine for himself. But a past shaped by abuse doesn’t stay neatly behind him, and letting Cedar close means deciding how much he’s ready to share. Their story begins with attraction, sharp humor, and the tentative trust of two men discovering what they might mean to each other.

January 2027

Larak and Cedar are building a life together, but unanswered questions about Reed draw the people they love into an investigation with dangerous consequences. As separate trails begin to converge, the threat reaches beyond anything they expected. Protecting each other will take more than the two of them—and moving forward will mean facing truths neither can leave buried.

2028

With a wedding ahead and a home taking shape, Larak and Cedar finally have space to consider their future. But unfinished business in Hadley Lake brings old wounds and new dangers into that future, alongside the difficult possibility of reconciliation. The final chapter of Into the Open Sky trilogy follows them as they decide what—and whom—to make room for in the life they’re building.

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