The Thirty-Year Pact: A Contemporary LGBTQIA+ Romance

What if the person you've loved your entire life has been hiding in plain sight?At sixteen, Adrian Vale and Luca Moreau made a pact under the stars: if they were both still single at thirty, they'd marry each other. It was supposed to be a joke—a safety net wrapped in laughter and teenage bravado. Except neither of them was joking.Fourteen years later, Adrian is a rising corporate attorney with a corner office and a carefully curated life that looks perfect from the outside. Luca is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker capturing everyone else's love stories while their own remains un-filmed. They've maintained their friendship through Sunday brunches, midnight phone calls, and the unspoken agreement never to name what's always existed between them.Then comes their thirtieth birthday. The pact is due.Both are single. Both have spent years dating people who were measured against an impossible standard—each other. And both are terrified that finally admitting the truth might destroy the one relationship that's ever felt like home.When a photograph capturing an unguarded moment between them goes viral, their private truth becomes public speculation. Suddenly, Adrian and Luca must decide: continue performing the careful distance that's been slowly killing them, or risk everything for a love that's been waiting sixteen years to be chosen.But choosing love means confronting years of fear. It means disappointing families, risking careers, and standing in front of everyone who matters to say the words they've been too afraid to speak. It means Adrian must decide whether to go through with a wedding to someone appropriate—or walk away from the altar toward the person they've loved since before they had language for it."The Thirty-Year Pact" is a devastating and hopeful story about the courage it takes to stop hiding, the cost of choosing safety over truth, and the transformative power of finally being brave enough to love out loud.For readers who believe that some loves are worth waiting for—and that it's never too late to choose the life you actually want over the one that just looks right. Read more