Sex Drugs and Spiritual Enlightenment (but mostly the first two)

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(103 104 106 1)>COLORADO INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER ASSOCIATION 2023 EVVY AWARD SILVER MEDALIST IN LGBTQ FICTION (NO GOLD MEDAL AWARDED THAT YEAR)</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(103 104 106 1)>and</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(103 104 106 1)>INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD 2024 DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE IN NEW ADULT FICTION</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(103 104 106 1)>On the cusp of turning eighteen it's time for Drew Lovell to become a man.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(103 104 106 1)>But deep within Drew has questions-ones he doesn't know how to phrase-about what that means and how to go about it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(103 104 106 1)>During three intense stretches between 1985 and 1993 taking him into his mid-twenties Drew undergoes a series of profound experiences-often wild sometimes painful and always revealing-that force him to rethink his current assumptions. Only after nearly dying from trying to conform to conventional models of masculinity does he begin to become the man he wants to be and not the one he thought the world required him to be. Still he's unable to live with full integrity until interaction with a pair of awakened humans inspires new awareness that helps him at long last embrace the truth of who he is.</span></p><p></p>