Hadrian's Lover

What if you lived in a world where homosexuality was the norm and all forms of heterosexual behavior were illegal? Hadrians Lover is set in the near future at a time when the human population has grown to such excess that the earth is no longer able to sustain humanitys astronomical numbers. Poverty starvation and disease are rampant. Only the country of Hadrian seems able to defend itself against the ravages of an overpopulated planet by restricting its population growth and encasing its country behind a defensive wall. Procreation does not happen by chance in Hadrian. There are no unwanted pregnancies. No accidents. All pregnancies occur through in vitro fertilization and every citizen of Hadrian is responsible for rearing one of Hadrians children. Heterosexuality is deemed the ill that has led humanity to the dire conditions mankind now faces. In Hadrian no one dares to express interest in the opposite sex and if discovered acting on heterosexual instincts one is either exiled to the outside world or subjected to reeducation. Hadrians Lover tells the story of Todd Middleton a teenage boy struggling to keep the secret of his heterosexuality. Watch and feel with him as he suffers the indignities of a society determined to cure him of his plight. Patricia Marie Budd is a high school English teacher living in northern Alberta Canada. Having taught for over twenty years she has been a safe zone for LGBT* students over the decades. Hadrians Lover is her third novel.