Practice: A Steamy MM College Romance

By Bella Vasquez

For two years I have listened to my roommate through the wall. I have never knocked.

Book 1 of a two-book story.

WIN

I am the captain of the Penhallow eight, the heir to a Boston bank, and one half of the most photographed couple on campus. Clementine and I have kissed for the cameras for almost two years. Mouth closed. Never in private. We both agreed to it over one family lunch. Nobody is being lied to.

On Christmas Eve, in front of my father's guests and his photographer, I am supposed to ask her to marry me.

I need to know what I am before December. So I ask the one man on campus who might tell me. Teach me.

LANG

Win Talbot wants lessons. Fine. I run the oldest society on campus, and I've been somebody's secret before. I didn't love who I was inside it.

So I write the terms on the back of the save-the-date for his father's Christmas Eve party. Eight rules. Only in this room. Nobody knows. No marks. No kissing on the mouth. Never lie to me. A rule can fall, but he has to say its number out loud, I have to say yes, and in the morning, sober, with light in the window, we both cross it out and initial it.

He says the numbers. I keep saying yes. Nowhere on that card does it say I've wanted him since sophomore year.

His father is about to be vetted for an ambassadorship. The rules are falling faster than December is coming.

InsideRoommates to lovers, through one shared wallA bisexual awakening, said out loud, in his own words"Teach me" lessons, rules, and a card they both have to signA secret relationship, and a staged one on the other side that both of them agreed to (no cheating)Old money, an elite New England campus, a rowing captain and a squash championTouch-starved heir, and he falls first

PRACTICE is part one of a continuing story. It ends on an emotional cliffhanger, and Win and Lang's story concludes in Book 2 of The Penhallow Rules. Steamy, explicit and emotional. For readers 18+.

The pressure comes from a family, a nomination and a story someone else is writing about them. Between these two men, nothing happens without a yes. Content warnings are at the front of the book, and in full at the back.

One-click, and say the number.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HNRHNJQ5
• ISBN13: 9798164025465
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"