Luca Gray Hart I have everything I could ever want - a great family, awesome friends, a girlfriend, and I’m headed off to my dream college. But the past is always there, lurking like a shadow in the night… Branson Joseph Adler I love men. I love everything about them. Their feel. Their smell. Their taste. It’s no secret to my friends and family that I’m gay. But I do have one secret… What happens when you give in to the temptation and your world turns upside down? It’s forbidden. But it’s ours. *Barred Desires is the first book in The Deepest Desires interconnected series. It is a forbidden MM stepbrother romance, and it is angsty, emotional, and steamy.