Crosswind

Name: Crosswind
Author: Noah Laurent

120 pages

This is the second book in the Amsterdam Hearts series, a five-book romance following the same couple. While Book 1 ends with a Happily Ever After, Patrick and Jan are only beginning to discover what comes after choosing each other.

You don’t need to know anything about aviation to enjoy this story — but you may end up with a soft spot for Boeing 787s.
Loving each other was the easy part. Building a life together? That turns out to be considerably more complicated.

PATRICK
Three months ago I was trying to convince myself I wasn’t in love with Jan Novák. Now we’re together. Which should make everything simple.
Instead, I find myself navigating something I’ve never had before: a relationship where I don’t have to pretend. No carefully managed version of myself. No keeping parts hidden. Just Jan — seeing all of me, somehow liking what he sees, and quietly rearranging my entire understanding of what love is supposed to feel like.
The problem is that real life doesn’t stop just because you’ve fallen in love.
There are families to meet. Christmases to survive. Careers to balance. Apartments to share. And every day I discover another way Jan has worked himself into my life so completely that I can no longer remember what it looked like before.

It’s terrifying.
It’s wonderful.
And I think I might be all in.

JAN
For years I built my life around independence.
A good career. A carefully organised apartment. Routines. Plans. A future that depended entirely on me.
Then Patrick Sutton arrived with his impossible smile, his emotional honesty, and a talent for turning every carefully constructed certainty upside down.
Now he lives in my apartment.
My mother adores him.
My friends have adopted him.
And somehow the man who waves at strangers through gym windows has become the person I want beside me for every ordinary Tuesday and every extraordinary moment after that.
The problem is that love is easy in the abstract.
Real life requires compromise. Vulnerability. Trust. And Patrick has a habit of making me want things I never planned for.

Crosswind is an M/M romance featuring established relationships, found family, domestic intimacy, emotional growth, Christmas in the Czech Republic, long-haul pilots, airport lounges, quiet declarations of love, and a deeply earned Happily Ever After.

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