Three men who built their safety in different rooms. One bar where the found family notices everything, documents it in the group chat, and roots for them anyway.
The Pour Decision is a Manhattan bar with regulars who function as found family, a group chat that misses nothing, and a habit of hosting love stories its principals are always the last to recognise. Three books. Three slow burns. A queer artist who outbids his own better judgment. An architect who knows load-bearing structures when he sees them. And the bar’s owner himself, nine years into a rule he made after Garrett—right up until the moment someone arrives and makes the rule impossible to keep.
Each book is its own love story. Each one costs more than the last. And in all three, the hardest thing isn’t the feeling—it’s choosing to stop hiding it.
Book One
GOING, GOING, GONE
Nico & Graham
A queer artist outbids everyone at a charity auction—including his own better judgment—and wins a week of dinners with Manhattan’s most private CEO. Neither man expects the arrangement to cost them everything they’ve built to stay safe.
Nico Reyes doesn’t do reckless. He does bar shifts, studio hours, and Thursday nights with his found family at The Pour Decision. Then Theo issues a dare and Nico walks into a charity gala with a paddle and a bad idea.
Graham Whitfield is the kind of man who has a publicist, a protocol, and twenty-three months of deliberate solitude behind him. He runs a $340 million acquisition like a man who has never once been surprised. The charity auction changes that.
What begins as a single dinner becomes Thursdays, then mornings, then a jacket left on a chair and a name never said in public. When the city starts printing what they’re trying to keep private, Graham will have to choose between the architecture he’s spent forty-two years building and the first honest life anyone has ever offered him.
Alternating First Person (Nico & Graham) • HEA
Book Two
SIT, STAY, FALL
Eli & Soren
A methodical architect brings his impeccably behaved Rottweiler to a tightly controlled vet and asks one unnecessary question about kibble. Neither man is prepared for what follows.
Eli Cross runs a perfect clinic. He charts everything, feels nothing in public, and has refined the art of professional distance into something almost architectural. His system has no leaks—until Soren Park walks in with a ninety-pound Rottweiler named Douglas and an unnecessary question about dietary fat.
Soren designs spaces for a living. He knows load-bearing structures when he sees them, and Eli Cross is one. The problem is, Eli’s walls have no handles on the inside. What follows is twelve weeks of wellness appointments that are not about the dog, a charity auction that changes the terms of everything, and the slow, specific business of two very competent men discovering that their professional vocabularies are entirely insufficient for what is happening between them.
Eli has a door. Soren has time. The question is whether one of them will install a handle before the other stops waiting.
Alternating First Person (Eli & Soren) • HEA
Book Three — Series Finale
LAST CALL, LAST CHANCE
Reid & Felix
The guarded owner of The Pour Decision hires a bartender who immediately makes every room better—and every one of his nine-year rules harder to keep.
Reid Calloway has owned The Pour Decision for eleven years. He knows every regular, every bottle, and every protocol—including the rule he made after Garrett, the one about not dating staff, the one that has held for nine years without exception.
Then Felix Okafor arrives for a trial shift, folds his bar towels in perfect thirds, builds an Old Fashioned like someone who actually respects the whiskey, and makes the whole room better just by being in it. Reid notices. Reid also has a rule.
What follows is a slow-motion collision between a man who has built everything around certainty and a man who is entirely certain that the rule is wrong. With a supplier interference play threatening the bar’s future, a found family who notices everything and documents it in the group chat, and a compressor that has been running flat since October—Reid is going to have to decide what he is actually protecting, and whether it is worth the cost of keeping it.
Alternating First Person (Reid & Felix) • Full Series HEA
Series Tropes
Book 1 — Going, Going, Gone
Book 2 — Sit, Stay, Fall
Book 3 — Last Call, Last Chance
Throughout All Three Books
Series Details
Series: The Pour Decision Series — 3 Books
Book 1: Going, Going, Gone — Nico & Graham — HEA
Book 2: Sit, Stay, Fall — Eli & Soren — HEA
Book 3: Last Call, Last Chance — Reid & Felix — Full Series HEA
Genre: Contemporary Gay Romance / Queer RomCom
Heat Level: High-Heat, Open-Door (explicit intimate scenes)
POV: Alternating First Person — all three books
Setting: Manhattan — The Pour Decision bar and its regulars
Format: Interconnected standalones — found family ensemble appears across all three; each romance standalone readable
Ending: HEA in every book; full cast convergence in Book 3
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